Five men who lead the Korean musical society gathered for the tense first script reading of the musical "The Story Of My Life".
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Five men who lead the Korean musical society gathered for the tense first script reading of the musical "The Story Of My Life".
Chinese eel farmer Chen smuggles himself into Korea to prove that his eels are safe to eat.
Yeorum has lost her self-esteem, trapped in a cycle of failed job searches and constant comparisons to her friend Jimin. The only thing she is truly good at is doing cartwheels. Whenever feelings of inferiority begin to stir inside her, she turns to cartwheels for a small sense of comfort.
The first animation created by Yeon Sang-ho. It was worked on for six months starting with the simple information that animation is created by moving little by little and shooting one frame at a time, and it is a work that began with the idea of entering into the delusions of an artist obsessed with bizarre thoughts.
Ye-eun came up to Seoul to meet Sa-rang, who she met through chatting. Ye-eun still feels awkward about having sex with the same sex. While drinking, Sa-rang and Ye-eun have a conversation. The moment she tries to have sex, Ye-eun breaks the mood with futile words.
Grandma Baek predicted that Mirim would go blind before she turned 26. To prevent this, Mirim’s family adopted a son to take on her misfortune. As a result, Mirim didn’t go blind, but the son, Jinkoo died. Longing for Jinkoo, Mirim tries to reunite with him with the help of a pilgrim who unexpectedly visits her home.
In cargo handling areas where a lot of foreign employees work, the managers are always Korean. The class imbalance between Koreans and foreign workers causes inevitable conflicts.
An unpleasant, but delightful single round contest with the superior! Chairman Kim is an old man who treats his employees very badly. Meanwhile, his assistant, Chang-soo, has to suffer Kim's verbal abuse everyday in the car. One day, Chang-soo drives a drunk chairman Kim home. However, there is only so much Chang-soo can take and the suppressed anger inside him explodes!
A deserted factory. The last dying gasp of Euna, who is cruelly and slowly dying, can be heard by someone. Suddenly, Director Jun-seok shouts, "Cut!" At that moment, an incessant sound of rain can be heard, and it is raining invisibly. Is it someone's delusion or reality?
While her father remains in a vegetative state. His daughter carries around a robot that stored her father’s memory in her bag.
One late afternoon, a mysterious guy tries to hitchhike in the middle of nowhere. But nobody seems to give him a ride. It is getting quite dark, a small van driver suddenly stops his car because he saw a man standing in front of his vehicle and the strange guy gets in the car abruptly.
Join the vibrant live broadcast of NCT WISH's first concert in theater! Witness the stage where music, performance, and narrative combine to deliver a message of dreams and wishes.
While trying to solve a murder case, a cop starts to have doubts about his partner's involvement.
Hooked tells the story of Jaeseung trying to find an answer to his pain and unhappiness. After reminiscing with his wife over dinner, his world suddenly begins to fall apart as he is reminded of an unforgettable tragedy. Now desperate and in denial he turns to his friend for help who offers him a way out, to forget the sadness. However, it's not the answer that he's seeking and instead he finds himself trapped in a painful cycle.
“A powerful flicker film made from 35mm images of fashionable hats and hair.” (Pip Chodorov)
A young gay man faces arrest for burning his military-service draft notice.
It is about life of Princess Deokon who is the last princess of the Joseon Dynasty in 1837.
The 20 horses that the old man Kim cared for all his life have suddenly disappeared from his pasture on Jeju Island. Kim looks for them for more than a month, but to no avail. One day he hears that illegal immigrants are secretly butchering stolen horses and livestock in the forest to sell their meat. Kim puts together a crackdown squad to raid the forest.
In the latter years of the Korean Empire, Lee In Hwa, disguises herself as a man so she can join a group of young men determined to overthrow the colonial government. They fight together with young national activists presided by Hwal Min and supported by Daewon-gun, the Prince Regent, against Min Gyeom Ho and his peers. But Min and his team perform a surprise attack on Hwal Min and his peers.
Kim Chi-hwan, the magistrate of the Ok-ra county, wiped out the family and relatives of Lee Min-bu with his wicked tricks. In order to avenge her family, the spirit of Min-bu's wife, Yun, is reborn. Yun invokes the spirits of Jang-hwa Hong-ryon and coaxes them to take revenge upon their stepmother Heo. (The stepmother Heo had been called back to earth and presently living with the magistrate. She is his servant, carrying out his murderous crimes.) Jang-hwa Hong-ryon is reborn. Yun also calls upon the spirit of maiden Suk who had killed herself when Chi-hwan raped her one day before her wedding. The four reborn women take their revenge and then return to the spirit world.
From 1950 to 1953, one hundred thousand children were orphaned by the Korean War. With no resources to mend the wounds, the two sides, North and South, took different paths to find homes and families for the war orphans. While the children of South Korea were sent to Europe and the United States through ‘International Adoption’, the children of North Korea were distributed across Eastern Europe through a method called ‘Commissioned Education’. As a result, more than five thousand children from the North had to spend nearly a decade living in foreign lands across Eastern Europe. This story is a record of their lives, which used to be kept hidden from the rest of the world. There is a key to understanding how North Korea's closed political structure began and how the ‘Juche ideology’ was formed in this documentary movie. Understanding North Korea in the 1950s is an important way to understand North Korea at present.
A boy in early teens finds himself in danger of being demoted from his solo part in a choir due to his changing voice. He tries to fight against it, but to no avail.
The weak Dal-Ho lives in solitude isolated by the reality. His clinging to women is his struggle to escape from the sense of alienation. However, his simple and openhearted love affair fails all the time. Therefore, his neighbor considers him as a philanderer. The love with Seon-Hee is clumsy. Eun-Kyeong leaves him behind, because she thinks that he has no future. Mi-Na and Kyeong-Ja boycott his estheticism and pursuit of justice. However, Dal-Ho challenges for the pure future and his beloved Eun-Kyeong comes back to him.
In a typical rural landscape stands a pansori memorial hall, a place now ignored even by local residents. Eunsol, granddaughter of the once-renowned pansori master Park Manchun, has silently guarded this place, becoming like a relic of the past herself. Eunsol, who occasionally performs pansori for tourists, one day finds herself singing along to beats produced by Sijung, a hip-hop musician of similar age who has secretly snuck into the hall. This musical encounter gives Eunsol conviction that it might be the only hope to save the memorial hall from its impending closure.
Mirae gets an offer of a K-pop trainee contract. She looks back on her short life and finds her past that would ruin her future career and reputation, as she dreams of becoming a k-pop star. Most of all, her ex-boyfriend, Jaemin, is the most worrisome. She starts to clear her past and sets out to find Jaemin.
Byeon Geum-ryeon is once again kidnapped from her hometown by conmen who need her help in pulling off a huge land fraud that will make them all rich. Geum-ryeon transforms herself into the queen of high society to get financial backers while working on a way to cheat her partners out of their share of the take.
A personal consideration of the Korean cinema by director Jang Sun-Woo, looking at it’s history of outside influence and censorship.
Song Jin-Woo (Kim Dae-Gun) has worked as a non-permanent contract employee for the past 4 years at Moojin Girls' High School. He is a good teacher and dreams of a school where no one is left out. New contract teacher, Yoo Sung-Pil (Moon Yoo-Kang), comes to Moojin Girls' High School. When Song Jin-Woo was a high school student, he was bullied by Yoo Sung-Pil and other students.
Joon-young is a middle school student from an ordinary middle-class family. He meets Young-ok in the same school following an accident in which he gets his two teeth broken by the baseball bat Young-ok was swinging. The accident reveals that Young-ok is from North Korea. Nevertheless, they are drawn to each other. One day during a basketball game, Joon-young’s classmate find Young-ok and make fun of him for dating a North Korean girl, which Joon-young strongly denies. Out of guilt about being indifferent to Young-ok, he comes to her class to find that she is absent. The film deals with the level of awareness of people from North Korea among South Korean natives, and describes the delicate affection between humans beyond the background.
YU Wooseong who had been working as a civil servant is on trial for espionage following his sibling’s confession. A reporter who has been laid off begins following the traces of a spy story manipulated by a government agency. The clues lead to a confession and false evidence that society and the press have turned their back on.
In the mountainous region of Gangwon-do on South Korea’s eastern coast, wildfires, both small and large, recur year after year. In the spring of 2023, a wildfire that broke out in Gyeongpo, Gangneung, reduced 551 homes to ashes in the span of a few hours. This film tells the story of a family who lost their home in that fire. After the fire, the family of three moves to a village where their great-aunt lives. In this strange place, their days are tangled with worry, emotional scars, and an uncertain future. The mother struggles with insomnia, while the father tries to adapt, learning to cook at great-aunt's restaurant. Their young son, who has just started elementary school, begins to make up a story in his mind - a little tale born of mixed emotions and lingering anxiety.
What happens when subcontracted precarious workers turn into podcast DJ. Subcontracted precarious workers at the SK Broadband, Inc. began a podcast titled ‘Workers Have Changed!’ to broadcast the story about their strike for job security. The podcast studio becomes a theater of their life as they share their stories - daily hardshipsof subcontracted labor, coping with rude customers, and their futures and dreams.
Chang-sik lives strictly by the freeloader's handbook, doing the rounds of free samples in department store food sections and sponging off of his older brother. Mi-young nurtures grandiose dreams of becoming a TV actress but has failed every audition because she just can't act. The two unemployed with similar schedules and living in the same neighborhood are bound to run into each other, and they do. One day, Chang-sik and Mi-young are walking around distractedly when they end up in a head-on collision. Chang-sik's coins spill out from his hands and scatter all over the ground. His precious coins! He chases after every single one but ends up 10 cents short. He viciously turns to the Mi-young but she refuses to give him 10 cents...
A film producer is forced to go on a potentially fatal errand when zombies attack the set.
A girl works part-time at a bowling alley. She either cleans the bowling balls or waters the plants, and nothing more. There is not a customer here. The girl encounters three people: A Cheon, who has lost his job; Bo, who comes to pick up coffee cups at 2 everyday; and Eddy, who cannot play the cello anymore. Each of them has his or her story but the girl does not know why they are here and why they end up leaving. However, the reason is not important to her because just like them, she cannot tell why she is here.
Baji (Han Jae-Suk) is tops in his field for organizing underground fights with illegal wagers placed on the fights. The owner of the location for the underground fights is Boss Jang (Song Young-Chang). Baji is now in serious debt and Boss Jang recommends a way for him to climb out of his debt. Baiji lets gambler James (Jung Sung-Hwa) join in on the illegal wagers. James is very sharp and also wields considerable financial power. Baiji then puts together a 9 member team to manipulate the bets. Baiji's girlfriend Seon-Nyeo (Park Seong-Woong) joins the team. The fights progress as planned, but with 2 fights left Boss Jang and James comes to Baiji looking for a piece of the action. The betting has now completely changed. There is only one fight left and the battle of wits begin ...
After losing his son in the Itaewon disaster, taxi driver Seongjun endures a numb, hollow routine, estranged from his wife as well. Then, an unexpected connection with Min-ah, an aspiring actress, begins to gently unsettle his tightly closed heart, and ultimately breathes life back into the part of him that had stopped living.
Korean pop icon Lim Young-woong blends performance and storytelling to honor the songs and people who shaped him in this powerful concert film.
The tale of ordinary adults living their everyday lives who put everything into their baseball club and baseball.
The country house, the only inheritance from the grandfather, was bequeathed to the eldest grandson. Upon hearing this news, the mother cannot simply stand by and allow it to happen.
Roommates Sooyeon and Jinseong live in the same house. Suyeon has a different taste for sex.
Three highschool girls try to get money from their parents to help pay the hospital bills for a friend. They come up with a scheme where one of them pretends to be kidnapped in order to receive the ransom money. However, the plan is revealed and two of the girls are taken into police custody. When released, one of the girls jumps from the roof of the school out of shame and to call attention to the plight of their friend.
Jeong-hyo, an aspiring writer, comes across a room while looking for an inexpensive place to rent.
When Hyeon introduced his mother to an up-and-coming young movie director, he never imagined the torrid affair that would follow as his mother explores the true meaning of love.
Kyung-min is an English tutor who is often pressured by his lover Seon-hee about getting married. He starts giving lessons to a new student Young-won, a piano tutor, and they decide to exchange tutoring like barter. Unlike Seon-hee, she seems to be an untied person when it comes to relationships, which strongly attracts Kyung-min. But as he falls for her, he faces unexpected but familiar situations.
A restaurant delivery boy witnesses the murder of his crush during an internet chat session. He becomes the prime suspect and must catch the real murderer before the police catch him.
A young couple is having a hard time because of their poor circumstances. They are both desperately searching for work, but that is not easy, either. Meanwhile, the husband is about to lose the camera he has lent to his acquaintance, and the wife is cornered after borrowing private loans to take care of the household.
A story about the loss and hope of twenty-something movie lovers who take a rather unusual path. Those in their twenties can go anywhere like a bead. but they lack flexibility on ascension. The twenty-something friends in get a grasp on life and loss and grow through movies, building up the concept of the world.