The Korean Cinema

After being wrongfully convicted of kidnapping and murdering a young child, a beautiful young woman (Lee Yeong-ae) is imprisoned for 13 years and...Read more

"A Bittersweet Life," starring Lee Byung-hun from "Everybody Has a Little Secret" and Shin Mina from "Madeleine," portrays the desperate and...Read more

A man is inexplicably kidnapped and imprisoned for 15 years and his wife is brutally murdered. On his release, he is given a wallet full of money...Read more

Korean filmmaker Kim Ki-duk (Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...And Spring) dramatizes the schism between North and South Korea in The Coast Guard. ...Read more

One country. One family... divided by war. Seoul: 1950. Jin-seok (Won Bin) and his older brother Jin-tae (Jang Dong-kun) run through the streets...Read more

South Korean filmmaker Kim Ki-duk writes, directs, and edits Samaria (Samaritan Girl), an abstract drama told in three parts. In part one,...Read more

A crusty old man and his teenage bride-to-be find their secluded life at sea turned upside down with the arrival of a mysterious teenage boy in...Read more

A tiny Buddhist monastery floats on a raft amidst a breathtaking landscape, tended to by a solitary Monk. Into this serene setting comes a young...Read more

The Isle tells the tale of a beautiful woman who lives on an eerie, remote lake selling food to fishermen by day, and her body by night. When she...Read more

After catching her husband cheating with another woman, Sun Jae takes her young daughter and moves into a dilapidated old apartment building to...Read more

Min-Ah discovers a shared diary and is soon fascinated to learn that two people she thought to be very close friends have in fact begun a...Read more

When a young girl is snatched away from her father by a horrifying giant monster that emerges from the River Han to wreak havoc on Seoul, her...Read more

Based on the true story of South Korea’s first serial killer.
When women start turning up dead in a small town in S. Korea in 1986, two...Read more

Renowned Korean director Im Kwon-Taek (Chunhyang) tells the story of legendary iconoclastic Chosun Dynasty artist Oh-won (Choi Min-Sik). With...Read more

Four friends, four assassins. One problem! There's only one rule in business--don't get personal. So when freelance killers let the ladies get in...Read more

A sensitive, blue collar sad sack hopped up on conspiracy theories and sci-fi is convinced that aliens have infiltrated human society and are...Read more