Tag Archives: Korean movies

bloody horror (film: Project Wolf Hunting / Neugdaesnyang – Kim Hong Sun, 2022)

Posted on April 19, 2024 by admin

Those who will dare to watch ‘Project Wolf Hunting‘ (the original title is ‘Neugdaesnyang‘), the 2022 film written and directed by Korean director Kim Hong Sun will have a good chance to see the bloodiest movie or one of the … Continue reading →

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a fine bilingual and multicultural romantic drama (film: Past Lives – Celine Song, 2023)

Posted on September 20, 2023 by admin

The Chinese zodiac (and the Korean one that is derived from it) has a 12-year cycle, with each year under the sign of one of the animals that successfully passed the legendary test of crossing the river challenged by the … Continue reading →

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cold passion (film: Decision to Leave – Park Chan-wook, 2022)

Posted on August 4, 2023 by admin

We always expect surprises and extremes from the Korean director Park Chan-wook. ‘Decision to Leave‘ (Korean title is ‘Heojil kyolshim‘) seems to deviate from this rule. There is no complete lack of shocking shots, but we are far from the … Continue reading →

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non-conventional families (film: Broker – Kore-eda Hirokazu, 2022)

Posted on July 11, 2023 by admin

Families are the main theme of most of the films of the Japanese master director Kore-eda Hirokazu, but these are no ordinary families. Traditional families do not work well in his films, and are never happy, as Tolstoy had observed. … Continue reading →

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beautiful, bold, captivating (film: The Handmaiden / Ah-ga-ssi – Chan-wook Park, 2016)

Posted on June 26, 2020 by admin

A beautiful, perverse, absorbing film. I have noticed on other occasions that many of the Korean films refuse easy categorizations. This is also the case of ‘The Handmaiden‘, the film made in 2016 by Chan-wook Park. It is a mature … Continue reading →

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love at first frame (film: Right Now, Wrong Then – Sang-soo Hong, 2015)

Posted on May 16, 2020 by admin

How many times have you fallen in love with the creation of a hitherto unknown director from the first frame of the first film of his you watch? I confess that it happens to me quite rarely. This is what … Continue reading →

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wars of the classes (Film: Parasite – Joon-ho Bong, 2019)

Posted on August 9, 2019 by admin

We’ve only been through the middle of 2019, but I think that I can mark the fact that I experienced the cinema event of the year, or at least one of the important events of the year in movies. This … Continue reading →

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a drama thriller in rural Korea (film: A Girl at My Door / Dohee-ya – July Jung, 2014)

Posted on July 23, 2019 by admin

Many of the Korean films defy categorization or combine cinematic genres. I think one of the viewers who contributed to IMDB has found a very accurate description of this type of amalgam calling it ‘genre twister’. ‘A Girl at My … Continue reading →

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life as a thriller (Film: Burning – Chang-dong Lee, 2018)

Posted on January 19, 2019 by admin

The cinematographic style of Chang-dong Lee reminds me the works of the Japanese master Yasujirô Ozu. Their films have the same pace that reflects a mode of life in which time flows differently than in our ‘Western’ civilization. The setting … Continue reading →

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moral ambiguilty (Film: The Bow, Kim Ki-duk, 2005)

Posted on June 2, 2013 by admin

‘The Bow’ comes in the work of prolific Kim Ki-duk immediately after a series of three wonderful films – ‘Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter … and Spring’, ‘Samaritan Girl’ and ‘3-Iron’ and a few year after his other masterpiece ‘The Isle’. … Continue reading →

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