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Battle Royale (2000)

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Drift (2023)

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Three Colors: White (1994)

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Family Life (1971)

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Love Eterne, The (1963)

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Seven Winters in Tehran (2023)

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Joyland (2022)

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Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (2022)

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Tag / Hong, Sang-soo

February 15, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Tale of Cinema (2005)

  • Hong, Sang-soo
  • 2005, Hong, Sang-soo, South Korea
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A more melancholic piece than some of Hong’s breezier offerings as he explores fictive ideals and sad realities through the idea of cinema as a mirror image. 

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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March 29, 2022November 13, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Novelist’s Film, The (2022)

  • Hong, Sang-soo
  • 2022, Hong, Sang-soo, South Korea
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Rather underwhelming and at best a minor effort, Hong’s latest explores the nature of being an artist, be it writing, filming or performing, while also functioning as a genteel love letter to his star and muse Kim Min-hee. 

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Rating: 3 out of 5.

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March 16, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Hahaha (2010)

  • Hong, Sang-soo
  • 2010, Hong, Sang-soo, South Korea
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One of Hong’s longest films but certainly one of his finest as two friends share over drinks the bittersweet details of their own separate trips to the seaside town of Tongyeong, as the uncertainties of love and conflict control the narrativisation of their memories.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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February 25, 2022March 29, 2022 by Eternality Tan

In Front of Your Face (2021)

  • Hong, Sang-soo
  • 2021, Hong, Sang-soo, South Korea
  • 1 Comment

Structured like a diptych, Hong’s work here is more meditative than usual as his protagonist tries to find the grace and psychological clarity that have eluded her all her life.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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July 31, 2020March 18, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Woman Who Ran, The (2020)

  • Hong, Sang-soo
  • 2020, Hong, Sang-soo, South Korea
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A minor work from Hong, though this time he shifts his primary focus to women-centered conversations which act as a collective bubble that shields them from the annoying intrusions of men. 

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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February 16, 2019July 22, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Woman Is the Future of Man (2004)

  • Hong, Sang-soo
  • 2004, Hong, Sang-soo, South Korea
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Hong’s fifth feature is all about seeing what lies beneath the surface: life is empty and unfulfilling, but his film lets us peel the layers to reach into something deeper—and something elusive.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.
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February 16, 2019July 22, 2020 by Eternality Tan

In Another Country (2012)

  • Hong, Sang-soo
  • 2012, Hong, Sang-soo, South Korea
  • 1 Comment

Hong’s work about love, lust and life is hilarious and oddly touching insofar as one finds an English-speaking Isabelle Huppert trying to communicate with awkward Korean men funny.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.
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February 5, 2019July 22, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Hill of Freedom (2014)

  • Hong, Sang-soo
  • 2014, Hong, Sang-soo, South Korea
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A light-hearted, even breezy drama centering on two lovers, told in random fragments by South Korean auteur Hong Sang-soo.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.
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February 5, 2019July 22, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Yourself and Yours (2016)

  • Hong, Sang-soo
  • 2016, Hong, Sang-soo, South Korea
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Another light and whimsical entry into the Hong Sang-soo canon, and as usual, musing on the intricacies of romantic relationships.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.
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February 3, 2019July 22, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Hotel by the River (2018)

  • Hong, Sang-soo
  • 2018, Hong, Sang-soo, South Korea
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A more melancholic work by Hong than usual, shot in beautiful black-and-white.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.
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