 | Prayer, meditation, and appreciation of nature are the sacraments by which two monks live a simple life in Korean director Kim Ki-Duk's SPRING, SUMMER, FALL, WINTER... AND SPRING. A wise old monk (Oh Young-soo) is master to a young student, and... |
 | It would be a sin to reveal too much about this riveting and bizarre thriller from Korean director Chan Wook Park, except to say that it's about a man named Dae-Su (Choi Min-Sik) who is locked in a hotel room for 15 years without knowing his captor's... |
 | This romantic fantasy is the story of an extraordinary relationship that literally spans time. It begins when Sung, a young woman living in 1997 receives a letter from Unju, who leaves two years in the future. Somehow, the two manage to continue a... |
 | The popular South Korean mini-series DAE JANG GEUM (aka JEWEL IN THE PALACE) earned that country's highest-ever television ratings with an epic blend of historical and personal intrigue. Based on a true story, the period-piece costume drama centers... |
 | Director Shinya Tsukamoto (TETSUO, A SNAKE OF JUNE) delivers an effectively haunting tale with VITAL, a macabre story in which life, death, love, and memory all interweave. When Hiroshi Takagi comes home following an auto accident that robbed him of... |
 | South Korean maestro Park Chan-wook concludes his Revenge Trilogy with the operatic, mesmerizing SYMPATHY FOR LADY VENGEANCE. Unlike the first two films in the trilogy--SYMPATHY FOR MR. VENGEANCE and OLDBOY--this time around, the hero is a heroine.... |
 | Part of the South Korean New Wave, NO BLOOD, NO TEARS is a stylish film-noir thriller that not only blends gangster crime-drama with martial-arts action, but subverts the male dominion of those genres with two tough-as-nails female protagonists.... |
 | Director Im Kwon Taek's ninety-seventh film, CHUNHYANG, is an adaptation of a popular Korean folk tale. The movie takes place in 18th century Korea, where Mongryong, the son of the Governor of Namwon, is studying before he goes to school in Seoul,... |
 | The most expensive film ever made in Korea, BICHUNMOO is the epic love story spanning years of medieval Korean history. The illegitimate daughter of a Mongolian warlord falls in love with a young man whose family was killed by the Mongols. As they... |
 | Acclaimed writer/director Woo-suk Kang (TWO COPS, HOW TO KILL MY WIFE) scored one of South Korea's top-grossing films of 2002 with his ultraviolent action thriller PUBLIC ENEMY. Cheol-jung (Kyung-gu Sol) is a corrupt police detective who uses his... |
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