Indie Colonial Era Biopic Seeks New Audiences On the heels of its successful release in Korea, LEE Joon-ik’s DONGJU; The Portrait of A Poet opened on April 1st in five locations in the United States. Cities with DONGJU showtimes include Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington D.C., Atlanta and Dallas. Based on the life of poet YOON Dong-ju, who wrote during the Japanese colonization of Korea (1910-45),...

The Third in the Omnibus Horror Film Series Horror Stories 3, the third in the omnibus Korean horror film series, has finalized the casting, with rookies for the main characters, and they are LIM Seul-ong, a member of K-pop boyband 2AM, KYONG Soo-jin of How to Use Guys with Secret Tips (2013), and PARK Jung-min of independent films like Bleak Night (2011) and Tinker Ticker (2014). Horror Stories i...

TINKER TICKER and Juror MOON So-ri Also Invited The Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) is gearing up to kick off its 26th edition next month which will run from October 17th to 25th. As with previous years, a few Korean films have made it into the lineup. Red Family, which features a group of North Korean spies posing as a family in South Korea, was written and produced by KIM Ki-duk. It w...