Kim Jee-Woon Interview: The Devil’s Advocate
December 5th, 2011 | by Matt McAllister
Along with Park Chan-Wook and Kim Ki-Duk, Kim Jee-Woon is one of the leading lights of New Korean Cinema. Moving
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The Sword With No Name
February 25th, 2010 | by Mike Barnard
Historic Korean politics are combined with dramatic swordplay and a dash of fantastical CGI backdrops for an entertaining epic. Centred
Mother
September 20th, 2009 | by Paul Gallagher
New to dvd this week from Joon-ho Bong, director of The Host and Memories of Murder, Mother defies pigeonholing, beginning
Thirst
January 29th, 2009 | by Mike Barnard
Park Chan-wook’s themes of family, guilt and obsession come together in a marvellous spurt of vampirism in Thirst. Loosely based
Park Chan-wook Interview: Revenge is Sweet
October 2nd, 2006 | by Matt McAllister
Park Chan-wook, the softly-spoken figure behind such deranged Korean classics as Oldboy and Sympathy for Mr Vengeance, has little doubt
Brotherhood (Taegukgi)
June 3rd, 2006 | by Michelle Thomas
‘Tae guk gi’ is the name of the South Korean flag, and Taegukgi is an epic tale of the Korean
A Bittersweet Life
January 20th, 2006 | by Matt McAllister
Don’t be fooled by the innocuous title. This latest addition to the South Korean gangster movie comes brimming with enough
3 Iron
July 15th, 2005 | by Matt McAllister
After the international acclaim that greeted The Isle and particularly Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter…and Spring, there was always going to
JSA: Joint Security Area
March 1st, 2005 | by Matt McAllister
In the wake of the phenomenal international success of Oldboy comes the belated UK release of writer-director Park Chan-Wook’s second
Natural City
January 1st, 2004 | by Johan De Silva
Natural City is an ambitious Korean science fiction tribute to Bladerunner with a well managed budget of only 6 million
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