Take Point

It’s the day of the US presidential election in 2024, and a Korean soldier called Ahab (HA Jung-woo) from the private military company Black Lizards leads his team into an underground bunker located 30 meters below Panmunjeom, where a secret conference is taki...

Swing Kids

The latest film from KANG Hyoung-chul, director of Sunny (2011) and Tazza-The Hidden Card (2014), this film is based on the Korean musical RHO Ki-soo . In 1951, at the height of the Korean War, a rebellious North Korean soldier named Ki-soo (DOH Kyung-soo) is ...

Unstoppable

A legendary gangster once upon a time, Dong-chul (Don LEE, aka MA Dong-seok) defeats villains with his bare hands to rescue his kidnapped wife, Ji-soo (SONG Ji-hyo) in this action film. After marriage, Dong-chul leaves his past behind and leads an ordinary lif...

Default

From A Taxi Driver (May 18th Democratic Uprising), 1987: When the Day Comes (the June Struggle) to The Spy Gone North (the intelligence war against North Korea during the 1990s), several Korean films have explored the modern history of Korea on screen. Default...

Intimate Strangers

Four childhood friends and their wives (a group of seven) sit down for dinner at the housewarming party of Seok-ho, a plastic surgeon who is married to a psychiatrist Ye-jin. During dinner, Ye-jin suggests they play a new game where they are to place their pho...

Rampant

Prince Ganglim (HYUN Bin), who has been held hostage by the Qing Dynasty in China, returns to the Kingdom of Joseon only to find ‘night demons’ (which are neither dead nor alive) plaguing his homeland. A man with excellent martial skills, Ganglim takes it upon...

Miss Baek

Popular actress HAN Ji-min gets a chance to shine as the titular character of the new independent drama Miss Baek. This indie drama is the feature debut of filmmaker LEE Ji-won, who previously made the short Talk to Her (2007), which earned the Best Short Film...

Dark Figure of Crime

Dark Figure of Crime is a crime thriller centered on a fierce battle of minds between a detective and an imprisoned murderer who confesses to six new murders. The term ‘dark figure of crime’ is employed by criminologists to describe crimes that remain undiscov...

FENGSHUI

Following The Face Reader (2013) and The Princess and the Matchmaker, FENGSHUI completes the “Korean divination” trilogy. Based on the fengshui theories, or geomancy, the film depicts a feud between ambitious men over a propitious grave site said to be destine...

Butterfly Sleep

Ryoko, a popular novelist in her 50s, begins working as a professor but has recently been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. While she still can, she wants to finish one more novel. One day, after meeting a handsome Korean exchange student during a night ...