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A typical employee, Goo Jaepil is on the verge of a breakdown. His wife files for divorce and his boss demands that he perform an absurd task. He agrees to the task in order to keep his job, but a mishap spawns a new predicament and soon Jaepil is suspected of murder.
The storyline is about a manager who pushes a young female talent to enter a reality TV show contest in the U.S. Some background information involves the manager having to get married to attain a legal visa and ends up having to raise six children when his wife dies.
Shot in Busan, Shadow Island is the name of a location as well as the main character’s name. The film explains the legacy of violence passed down through three generations. The lives of a murderous father, a son addicted to violence, and the victims of violence intertwine into a surprising finale. As the film shifts through the past and present, it reveals a painful family history that eats away the soul and leads to a burdened fate of self-destruction.
A middle-aged lady, Myung-ja becomes one of the candidates for an amateur swimming competition. Myung-ja doesn’t want to let a teenage girl, Ji-gyu get the chance.
Hong-chae has never been in a relationship before and she's tired of the man who has been coming into her flower shop everyday for the past 2 years. She's scared of Jeom-dong who shows obsession and one day tells him that she's got a fiance so to stop coming through her co-worker Hae-wook. Jeom-dong stabs her and runs away. A year later, Hong-chae was living a normal life, without a thought about Jeom-dong when she meets him again. This time, he approaches her through her childish mother, Seon-ae, as her boyfriend. He starts showing crazy love towards them, desperate and violent...
Lee Junghyun's 2013 music video directed by park chan-wook
When a man loses his job, he slowly descends into car theft and serial murder. A dark, unflinching look at the darkness of a soul on the edge.
As darkness of empty house deepens, the man's imagination gets brighter.
Since 2 years ago, Haneul has been teased by Chiwoo who is a delinquent in his school. In the opening day of third grade, Haneul meets his middle school friend Myeongho who was moved from other high school. From that time, his school life had changed. He gets close with new friends, goes out with a girlfriend, draws cartoons, and enjoys summer time. While he enjoys a new happy life, things are suddenly getting wrong. Chiwoo prepares revenge on Myeongho and Haneul’s other friend Minsik who falls in love with Myeongho’s girlfriend. They provoke Hanuel into a fight because he is an easy mark.
The rise and fall of love-starved three youth's shoegazing band
After being discharged from the service, Jae-min scrapes by working part-time jobs. Meanwhile, he left for Ulleung Island in search of his father, who broke up 10 years ago due to his mother's stomach cancer. Chanhee and Yeonwoo, close friends of Jae-min, get involved in the journey….
After the business collapsed, a married couple goes camping to get some fresh air. When they arrive at the campsite, they find out that the campsite is closed permanently. The husband suggests they spend the night in the campsite, and the wife reluctantly agrees. And then, another couple arrives at the site. As the night deepens, the mysterious and unfriendly couple reveals their true colors.
An ex-con enters a house without being invited to live with a married couple with intellectual disabilities and their seven-year-old daughter.
The festival atmosphere is in full swing with a contest to choose the best pets in the village! But the winning animals in the contest are disappearing one by one... Will The Kamihama Kirumins be able to save the missing pets? Juroring animal detective, go out to catch the culprit!
In the dead of winter, a screenwriter travels to his friend's closed cabin resort in the mountain with the intention of working on his script. Instead of being alone, he finds himself in the company of annoying strangers, from intrusive townsfolk who welcome themselves in to vacationing skiers who won't take no for an answer. On top of that, mysterious sounds at night hint of something sinister in the woods. He realizes that he may have opened the door to a killer when dead bodies begin to turn up. Five years after his acclaimed debut Daytime Drinking, indie director Noh Young Seok returns with his second indie feature Intruders, applying dark comedy and satire to an unsettling cabin-in-the-woods suspense thriller.
One blazing summer day, Ja-gyung, a sixteen-year-old girl, is pissed off with her dad's affair. She barges into her dad's mistress' house and encounters her two little kids.
Sung-jae decides to sell over 1000 DVDs he has collected. A middle school girl, Min-ji comes to his house to buy his DVD in the morning.
After working as a guide in Vietnam, Seok marries a Vietnamese woman and returns with her son to his hometown in Busan for the first time in a long while. The buried past he has tried to forget resurfaces when he meets his older brother.
Tae-seong (Baek Seong-hyeon), who dreamt of a fancy life as a martial arts fighter, goes to Thailand with his brother Tae-gi (Lee Si-gang) who has no hopes or dreams and causes trouble wherever he goes. On Working Street where there are drugs and prostitutes, they meet Jenna (Lee Song-i) and their lives turn upside down. Escape, roam and sex...the passion of youth erupts!
During the Japanese Invasion, Father Joo Ki Cheol was tortured for his opposition to the shrine of worship. He resisted for the sake of his country and people which made him known as the most symbolic character in Korean Christianity as well as the most renowned martyr. He died in prison at the young age of 47 and the only thing he left behind are the words "一死覺悟". Here we introduce the faith and life he lived fighting against the Japanese powers in a realistic and touching story. What is the basis of ' faith ' and what is 'belief'?
A TV station follows a daily life of a young ‘wanna-be filmmaker’.
Korea's leading modern literature writers Kim Yu-jong, Lee Hyo-seok and Hyun Jin-geon revive literature with pictures. "Spring", about the youthful romance of the 20s, "A Lucky Day", about the terrible sadness of the 40s and "Buckwheat Flower" is about the lingering memories of the 60s.
Kang-Ho is a famous cop in town because of his braveness. One day, a battered body floats on the river and Kang-Ho goes out to meet the murder suspect alone. Unlike his confidence, he gets badly beaten up, falling into a coma. His younger brother Poong-Ho, bursting with rage, tracks down the man asking for a battle, only to find out that he is no match for this guy. Afterwards, Poong-Ho bumps into a mysterious guy Mr. HWANG, who appears as a skinny old man but possesses the power and techniques of the drunken master. Poong-Ho begs for his teaching and begins his training for revengeful final battle. Will Poong-Ho get his payback?
Bong-yong Kim is one of a modest Korean dad who struggles to survive from the work place without any time to get along with his family. He has to work over than he had to, since the boss treat him like his servant – drink late every night, drive the boss to his home. His wife, Hwayeon, blames him for his indifference to family, and twins in puberty, Woo-joo and Dal-nim, also in trouble with their father. The late child ‘Byeol-nim’ is his only one who acts charm and shows cuteness to him.. MY LAST LOVE, when every family member starts to share with caring each other at last…
So-Eun is a safe breaker planner. She plans a heist with expert safe breaker Jang-Choon and thief-actor Cheol-Soo. They dream of changing their lives with this job. Meanwhile, Gyu-Cheol is former elite prosecutor, but he lost his memory in a mysterious accident. Nowadays he does foolish acts.
The practice of female genital mutilation (FGM) is still widespread in parts of Africa despite innumerable concerns about and objections to it. Taking an exhaustive look into FGM, this film hopes to impart greater awareness about a practice that is often excused as being merely a part of “culture.”
There are 'dogs' that target Koreans while they're on vacation abroad. Hyeong-sin and Ji-hoon kidnap and kill these people without a drop of guilt. While they are in Korea for a period of time, the family of the people kill chase after them like dogs that never let go once they bite. Doo-jin, who is abandoned by Hyeong-sin's gang, kidnap a new victim alone. A middle-aged woman tracks down Hyeong-jin's gang to find her son who went missing during his vacation. However, the victim and kidnapper are tangled in many complicated ways...
Focusing on Mrs. Kang Sang-hee’s life, she lost her husband in the Jeju Uprising (March 3rd, 1948). The film views the dark-side of Jeju Island, a huge grave, which is completely opposite of the other side of the island, the famous tourist attraction. It says that the tragedy has been going on about the recent Gang-jeong village situation.
Gayoung, a director, expects to hear a farewell confession from her boyfriend, who's an actor. (Part of "100인 X 100초영화 프로젝트", a project dedicated to celebrate 100 years of South Korean cinema.)
Gain visits her hometown to see her critically ill father only to find an awkward tension between them. She gets to know a man named Dokyung who came from Seoul and becomes close to him. As Gain sees who he really is, though, she feels her life is being threatened.
Jin-soo and Soo-jin visit the mountains on their day off. However, Jin-soo falls for the cabin owner Yoo-ra. While his girlfriend takes a shower, he approaches Yoo-ra. He witnesses her dancing sexily and seducing them and he falls even more deeply into her. After going home with Soo-jin, Jin-soo returns to the cabin and spends a night with Yoo-ra. The next morning, Jin-soo is about to say bye to Yoo-ra and leave when something unexpected happens to him.
A documentary that scientifically analyses and tracks down the route of the Sewol Ferry that sank on the 16th of April in 2014 using its AIS to discover the cause of the unconfirmed sinking.
Saeyoung is a new employee who eventually stands against Leesun, her stubborn team leader. Leesun is upset by Saeyoung's behavior, but she soon learns about ominous stories about Saeyoung. As the stories about Saeyoung are revealed one after another, she becomes a source of fear to Leesun. Saeyoung's stalking-like bullying continues, and Leesun tries to run away from her.
The boss and his subordinates came to a remote province on a business trip. I didn’t like the female boss, who was usually full of mistakes and was bursting with her subordinates. After all I made a mistake on this business trip, I finally spilled coffee on my boss’s clothes. I got angry all the way to my head, and when I was annoyed, a dirty passion for sex suddenly came up to the subordinate’s ignorance. They start to take off their clothes one by one…
"Drama Special - Understanding Dance" is a romantic comedy about Byeong Hyeon's love for Soo Ji, whom he meets at dance class. (Source: Han Cinema)
A boy finds an unconscious woman by the sea and brings her home.
There is a rumor that a private LEE reported the irrational incident in his platoon.
Yeon-su, the police officer, is dispatched to an island and starts to witness strange situations. Yae-un, who lives in the island after she lost her parents when she was young, and the others´ behavior terrifies Yeon-su. Film director Park who constantly focused on stories related to human greed and collapse, deeply explores the guilt of human and the possibility of redemption again.
Hyoung-suk visits her daughter Hyun-seo’s room to give her some Kimchi and there she encounters Min-jin, her daughter’s friend. Hyoung-suk gets displeased with Min-jin living off at her daughter ‘s house as if it is her own. But as she talks to Min-jin a while, she becomes to open her mind and cooks a meal for her. And then, Hyun-seo comes into the room drunk…
Based on a shamanic song “Gujiga”, myths, symbols and glimpses into the natural phenomena of turtles are interwoven throughout this film, revealing violent human interventions into the life of this reptile. This film is an ode to the turtle and a reminder of the connection between animals and humans.
A little boy Seung-gu thinks his dad has become a zombie after losing his job. So he arranges an anti-zombie commando with his schoolmates whose dads seem zombies too. They try every possible means to banish zombie fathers from their own sweet home, but it fails all the time. Whether their grand plan to save their family would be accomplished is in the question.
Yeon-yi and Sun-jae are divorced and now just work together on writing a script. One day, Yeon-yi’s alumni and their spouse move in next door and their relationship takes a new turn. A warm story about the positivity of people.
A Vietnam War veteran, Ki Gwang is an old bus driver. One day, he faced that his son had committed suicide and met his granddaughter at the funeral. However, he founds that some friends of his son has been using as his granddaughter as their need, This was the beginning of his vengeance for the world…
Jeong-tae, who was sleeping late, wakes up when his daughter brings a friend. But Jung-tae looks familiar to his daughter's friend. Jung-tae tries to get out of the house to avoid her. But he can't get out.
In this anime fantasy, Kanglim is a 5th grade Ghost Messenger on a supernatural mission. When he finds himself trapped in a Soul Phone, Kanglim, who has the power to see mystical spirits, must successfully capture one of them to free himself from the trap.
The First Issue is composed of five short films created between 2016 and 2018: "The Designated Driver", "Let's Get Divorced", "Ambivalently Yours", " Sorry", and "The Congressman".
On Jihwan’s journey for his next novel, he encounters Hansung, his old friend and novel writer. Jihwan followed Hansung into a strange valley only to fail to catch Hansung, a place where he came across a black covered note. Jihwan refers the novel and mimic one. After that, revealing intricate connection between Hansung and Jihwan.
Novelist Jeong-seok is looking for his missing wife. A woman appears in front of him and suggests that she can find his wife. Meanwhile, some people approach him and ask him to find missing people. They find themselves becoming chased at some point.
A Christian documentary about a German missionary Elisabeth Johanna Shepping also known as the Joseon Teresa; her beautiful life, sincere service and sacrifice to life.
After 17 years that Chang-ryeol has spent watching French movies in his room out of his love for French films, he (finally) became a real French. His parents worry about their son so they decide to call in a French doctor, Truffaut for help.
The story begins with Tae-seong (Choi Won-yeong) and Yeon-hee (Ryoo Hye-won) heading for the child care facility with the hope of meeting the child they lost 6 years ago. They are divorced now but they were a married couple and had a child. They should have been happy but Tae-seong and Yeon-hee weren't. Min-goo (Kang San) is also confused about this situation. He's happy that he found his parents whom he thought never existed but he's also very careful about the situation. The three of them spend a night at a motel around the center. Tae-seong suggests to Yeon-hee, now that they found Min-goo, to forget about the past and live together again as a family. However, Yeon-hee refuses. Not only that, the next morning, she leaves without a word to Tae-seong and Min-goo. Tae-seong isn't sure he can take care of Min-goo so he returns the child to the child care center and runs back to Seoul. Can these three become a family again?
The Korean church cannot forget the sermon of Pastor Ok Han-heum, which was proclaimed at the 100th anniversary of Daebuheung in Pyongyang on July 8, 2007.
"A Journey with Korean Masters" is an omnibus film compiling four shorts created by directors who once dominated Korean cinema: Park Chul-soo, Lee Doo-yong, Lee Jang-ho, and Chung Ji-young. This modest project is the product of collaboration between professional and amateur actors of all ages and the masters. The aim was to promote the city of Seoul and the harmony of old and new. The project began as a promotional event, but its cinematic quality is equal, if not superior, to any Korean films officially invited to BIFF this year. That is by no means simply being polite. This special screening is the perfect opportunity to enjoy the unique characteristics of masters experiencing a cinema renaissance in their twilight years.
Dae-ho, Man-soo and Jae-kyeong gathered for a friend's wedding. The groom says he's buying so they drink their night away at a street stall. However, the groom doesn't show up and the other three talk about their sex fantasies while they wait...