The Chaser Archive

  • This is Part two of a list of Fifteen Films of the New Korean Cinema – Part One of this list can be found here Friend (Kwak Kyung-taek, 2001) A good example of the type of Korean films that started to explode at the domestic box-office and helped encourage an...

    Film Recommendations – Fifteen Films of the New Korean Cinema (Part Two)

    Posted on March 6, 2012 | No Comments
    This is Part two of a list of Fifteen Films of the New Korean Cinema – Part One of this list can be found here Friend (Kwak Kyung-taek, 2001) A good example of the type of Korean films that started to explode at the domestic box-office and helped encourage an...

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  • Following last years very successful debut, Third Window Films and Coventry University East Asian Film Society are once again presenting East Winds: A Third Window Film Festival from 2nd – 4th of March. Last years event was a great success with six films screened including Confessions (Tetsuya Nakashima 2010), Kick the Moon (Sang-jin...

    The Return of ‘East Winds: A Third Window Film Festival’

    Posted on February 15, 2012 | No Comments
    Following last years very successful debut, Third Window Films and Coventry University East Asian Film Society are once again presenting East Winds: A Third Window Film Festival from 2nd – 4th of March. Last years event was a great success with six films screened including Confessions (Tetsuya Nakashima 2010), Kick the Moon (Sang-jin...

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  • Following the success of last years ‘Cinema On The Park’ – with over a thousand people attending – The Korean Cultural Office in Sydney have announced a second season of screenings. There’s a stack of amazing films to see, with a total of twenty-one titles (see below) making up the...

    Cinema On The Park 2 – Twenty-One Amazing Films

    Posted on January 22, 2012 | No Comments
    Following the success of last years ‘Cinema On The Park’ – with over a thousand people attending – The Korean Cultural Office in Sydney have announced a second season of screenings. There’s a stack of amazing films to see, with a total of twenty-one titles (see below) making up the...

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  • Sadly it’s been a quieter week on the site than I was hoping for – this time due to illness – but at least there’s been two new reviews posted: firstly a look at Park Chan-wook’s quirky rom-com effort I’M A CYBORG, BUT THAT’S OK and secondly a look from...

    News: Tales of two Kims, a birthday and some trailers…

    Posted on December 3, 2009 | No Comments
    Sadly it’s been a quieter week on the site than I was hoping for – this time due to illness – but at least there’s been two new reviews posted: firstly a look at Park Chan-wook’s quirky rom-com effort I’M A CYBORG, BUT THAT’S OK and secondly a look from...

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  • Jung-ho is a pimp with a problem – his girls seem to be running away. Struggling to maintain his ‘business’, he sends one of his remaining girls to see a client. Realising that there’s something not quite right about the situation and that this client may be involved in the...

    Review: The Chaser (Na Hong-jin, 2008)

    Posted on December 3, 2009 | 2 Comments
    Jung-ho is a pimp with a problem – his girls seem to be running away. Struggling to maintain his ‘business’, he sends one of his remaining girls to see a client. Realising that there’s something not quite right about the situation and that this client may be involved in the...

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