Park’s breakthrough success feels like a cinematic page-turner, set in the context of an investigation on a shootout incident at the border separating North and South Korea.
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Joint Security Area (2000)
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Tag / South Korea
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Handmaiden, The (2016)
A sexually-explicit Korean lesbian film that proves to be invitingly perverse under the hands of visual master Park Chan-wook.
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Thirst (2009)
An outrageous stunner, Park’s ‘vampire’ movie exploring the sin of desire and the limits of religious faith is a genre-bending and unsettlingly beautiful work.
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Oldboy (2003)
Still one of the finest achievements of contemporary Korean cinema, Park Chan-wook’s psychologically complex and violent revenge mystery will consume you whole.
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Coachman, The (1961)
This Silver Berlin Bear winner is one of the great tear-jerking melodramas from the Golden Age of Korean cinema, depicting the struggles of a working-class family as they find their self-respect and dignity constantly being attacked.
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Woman Who Ran, The (2020)
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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Sea Knows, The (1961)
A solid WWII melodrama by the great Korean master Kim Ki-young about an impossible romance between a Korean soldier forced to serve the Japanese imperial army, and a Japanese woman with radical thinking of her own.
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Snowpiercer (2013)
Bong Joon-ho wildly entertains in this high-concept sci-fi picture about survival and class issues that features a high-speed train hurtling through an apocalyptic world.
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Tale of Two Sisters, A (2003)
One of the highest peaks of contemporary K-horror, this is a precise and complexly-layered piece of filmmaking, marked by unbearable suspense, effectively creepy scares and a poignant backstory.
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Iodo (1977)
Continue reading →A strange if beautifully-shot work by Kim Ki-young about how myths might operate in the modern world.
