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Prince Yeonsan-gun turns into a tyrant out of grief for his mother's death. He orders beheadings of all the officials who displease him or who advised the previous king to depose the queen. He becomes crueler by the day. But in 10th year of his reign, he is kicked out of the throne and dies a tragic death.
An intellectually, aesthetically and politically challenging short film.
While filming an amateur horror movie, some of the members of the school's film club start acting a little odd.
Young-eun, an ornithologist living in reclaimed land along the waterfront, receives a phone call from Cheol-seung, the representative of the apartment one day. Cheol-seung asks Young-eun to perform an autopsy on the bird's body, and Young-eun finds out that the bird brought by Cheol-seung is a black-faced spoonbill, which is an endangered species.
The sclera is a sign that humans are social animals. We are born to empathize, but not all of that empathy converges into perfect empathy.
Ah Yeon looks sensual in those short tennis outfits she always wears. When Min Seok, a successful prosecutor encounters Ah Yeon in a parking lot of a tennis court, he happens to provide her with help unexpectedly. He later gets contacted by Ah Yeon frequently. Although Min Seok, the married man tries to refuse her excessive hospitality towards him, it’s not easy to refuse. One day, Min Seok receives a correspondence saying he is accused of bribery and then he realizes he might lose his position as a prosecutor. While his relationship with his wife has become unstable as well, he cannot stop thinking about Ah Yeon. He after all begins the relationship with Ah-yeon he should not have started.
Lee Suk-hui (Choe Eun-hui) lost her husband to the Korean War eight years ago. She runs a dressmaking shop that has fallen into debt. When Kim Sang-gyu (Kim Jin-gyu), the executive director of a publishing company, helps her pay off debts, she falls in love with him. He, however, is engaged to the daughter of his boss, Ok-ju (Do Geum-bong). His sister (Ju Jeung-nyeo) pushes him to marry the boss's daughter, hoping that will bring him rapid success. Meanwhile, Suk-hui's grown-up daughter Gyeong-hui, wanting her mother to be happy, urges her mother to marry Sang-gyu, but Suk-hui vacillates between social mores and her own happiness. Even though she and Sang-gyu truly love each other, she decides to leave him and heads for her country home after selling her house in Seoul. Hearing the news, he who is ill in bed hurries to Seoul station, but it is too late. All he can do is just to stand on the platform and to watch her train pulling away.
Have you ever had human blood?
In our 3-year marriage, we have fought on every holiday, on parents' birthdays, during ancestral rituals, and even on Christmas. We argue all the time. The tension between my wife and my mother is killing me.
The woman in the upper floor is getting crazy because of the cigarette smoke coming up from the under floor. She finally visits the house below, but the man there says something unexpected.
Caught up in the heat of the moment, three women plan a bank robbery that spirals out of control. Left with no way forward and no way back, they plot one final heist of a lifetime.
Lee Ba-duk, once called a Ba-duk prodigy, quit playing go. At the local Omok competition, where she played for the prize money, Lee meets with Omok genius Kim An-gyeong and goes to the national tournament. Finally, Lee confronts an inevitable battle with Kim with a terrible secret.
An execution scheduled to be carried out in 12 years creates a hostile and stifling atmosphere among guards in one jail. This has profound effects on the dehumanization of Jae-kyoung, a young, newly appointed guard who nonetheless happens to find that a cold-blooded colleague of his, Jong-ho, has some humane traits. Written by Pusan International Film Festival winning screenwriter Young Ok Kim.
A 13 year old girl who lives with her widowed mother in a town in Korea. Somewhat withdrawn and living in dreams, her main dream is that her real mother is a famous pop singer. Soo-ah falls in with a delinquent schoolgirl, and after a tense argument with her mother, blurts out that she is not her real mother. She runs away on a train to Seoul to see her "real mother" at a concert and be with her.
A documentary on the South Korean ferry disaster that claimed the lives of more than 300 passengers in April, 2014.
“When I’m sad, I go into the water. Then your tears turn into nothing.” Do-wan is happy when he is in the water. He doesn’t speak much, and has no friends and no mom. But when he is swimming, he feels peaceful. As far as he is in the water, he feels so comfortable as if he were in mom’s arms. Because Do-wan likes water and is talented with swimming, he keeps working hard to become a swimming athlete. His father, who hates water dreadly, objects to his son’s dream to become a swimming athelte. Due to the repeated conflict with his father, Do-wan drifts apart from his father gradually.
Korea is facing a population decline crisis, compounded by the emergence of a new virus called PT3 that destroys red blood cells. The only treatment is transfusion of young blood, but with only 11 million elderly patients eligible for donation and a mere 900,000 young donors, the price of blood has skyrocketed.
Seung-jin and Tae-yoon are friends with benefit, both of whom are drug addicts. When they take drugs, they experience utmost pleasure that can't be compared to anything in the whole world. However, as they experience this false pleasure, they also feel anxious in their relationship.
While attending a music seminar in the USA, Professor Jang has a one night stand. Eight years later, back in Korea, he receives a call saying that the woman has died but left behind a young child whom she claimed was his.
The collapse of a department store disturbs a local community, causing strife for some, and bringing some people closer than ever before.
Min-young fills in for her brother and drives the factory workers home. When she reaches her last stop, she finds Han Jong-do, one of the workers, was dead in her front passenger seat. Completely shocked, she leaves her brother to take care of the police and runs home.
Over 98 days from August 20th to November 25th 2013, 2821 people from around the world sent 11,852 video featuring many different faces of Seoul. 154 were selected, edited, and made into a movie.
A miserly father and his clever yet immature son live emotionally impoverished lives together. That life is interrupted when a beautiful widow moves in as a tenant. A battle between father and son to win the widow’s heart begins. No concession, No scruples, No rules.
A detective goes undercover to bust an underground organization responsible for illegally smuggling jewels.
Imagine a secret place that is reality! Famous wonnait Cafe obvious tightening of the Internet cafe has a reputable identity as a woman never unforgettable Having a bed once “foamed vitamins’ and men ID ‘Enzo’ are successful almost all members and wonnait have. They’ve never met each other are encountered in one day open cafe FRONTAL. ‘Enzo’ This is a seductive woman after a ryeotjiman eyes to go there is the temptation to intercepting she noticed that “Vitamin foam …
Er Woo Dong translates to "entertainer," a rough approximation of the duties of 14th-century Korean courtesan Er Yoon Chang. After a lifetime "in service," Er Yoon Chang retires to a faraway village. Meanwhile, her powerful father, ashamed of his daughter's lifestyle, dispatches an assassin to do her in. Er Yoon Chang is protected by her faithful deaf-mute bodyguard, but only up to a point.
Kim Chang-su, who participated in the Donghak Movement, escapes to Manchuria after being chased by the Japanese army, finally making his way home. Angered by the assassination of Empress Myeong-seong, he murders a Japanese lieutenant and is sent to jail. He escapes from prison turns his focus on the democratic movement by teaching civilians and organizing Sinminheo (a democratic organization), even changing his name to 'Kim Gu.' After he is imprisoned again, he gets out on parole and goes to China, where he participates in establishing a provisional government from which he can direct the anti-Japanese struggle. Kim Gu goes on to play a part in Yun Bong-gil's deeds in Shanghai, the events at Hongkou Park, the encounter with Jiang Jish, and the establishment of the Korean National Army, and leads the struggle for Korea's independence with warm fraternal love and clear national spirit. When Korea is liberated in August 15, 1945, he returns back to his native land.
A man wanders around the mountains with a bleeding leg, holding a rifle in his hand. Seemingly a fugitive, he runs from as-yet unknown pursuers, but he also seems to be following somebody who has already walked the same path. As he hides in a secluded cave, past memories sweep through his exhausted mind, memories of lifelong cowardice and evasion. And this recollection leads to a reconstruction of early 20th century Korean history. Winner of Best Picture (Nam-a Pictures Co., Ltd.), Best Actor (Ha Myung-joong), Best Art Direction (Kim Yoo-joon), Best Lighting (Son Young-cheol) at the 14th Grand Bell Awards. (source: Jiro Hong, koreanfilm.org)
A woman is tricked into betraying her lover and her father is slain. She throws herself into a lake, but the legendary spirit inhabiting the lake takes possession of her body.
Due to her father's debts, Yun Go-na marries Song Kye-nam but she is unhappy because of Kye-nam's self-indulgent lifestyle. Go-na takes her daughter, Min-hi, and goes to Seoul where she gets a job as a hostess. One day, Mun Byung-kil proposes to Go-na. Troubled by her situation, Go-na turns him down. But Go-na is touched by his sincerity and marries him. The three live happily as a family but then Kye-nam shows up and demands his daughter Min-hi. However, Ky0e-nam goes away when he realizes which is real happiness of his daughter.
The lover of a ruined actor announces that she is leaving him to marry someone else; while a young woman becomes the subject of various rumors after denouncing her boyfriend for violence.
Jo Yong-pil establishes a band and receives a lot of local support. His girlfriend helps him produce an album and distributes it to dj's across the nation to help Yong-pil achieve stardom.
A new wife is frustrated when her husband's job calls him away and she turns her attentions to her new step-son to help her deal with her new problem.
Hye-sung grew up poor but he has a gifted talent for baseball. Eom-ji has watched over him since they were young. Hye-sung falls in love with Eom-ji but when she transfers to another school, they don't see each other for years. Hye-sung and Eom-ji meet again at a baseball field but Um-ji is now the girlfriend of the exceptional hitter of high school, Ma Dong-tak. Hye-sung competes endlessly with Dong-tak over Eom-ji. But he ends up with a serious shoulder injury and gives up baseball. Then Manager Sohn Byung-ho gathers up dismissed baseball players and forms a team. Manager Sohn puts his team through extreme training and Hye-sung returns to the baseball world. He competes once more with Dong-tak, who is by Eom-ji's side.
Behind the scenes
Summer vacation of the last year of high school, Yu-na and He-yoon go to Incheon, deceiving their parents to go to a rock festival. However, the concert which they want to see is postponed until the following day. They have no choice but to book tickets for tomorrow and decide to spend one more day in Incheon. The next day, the tickets that Yu-na definitely held in her hand the previous day disappear. He-yoon contacts her cousin to borrow money…
Three young martial artists travel to the big city to retrieve a sacred statue that was stolen by ninjas for a criminal gang.
Ji-seok is a director. He has been struggling because of the money needed to produce films. Song PD, Ji-seok's colleague, introduces him to an actress, Hong Mi-ran. Hong, now with terminal disease, agrees to pay for all the production costs under the condition that she must be the lead. The lifetime project of the troubled souls—would this make it through to the end?
Real action between the real fighters of this generation! Fighter Yeong-tan challenges Moon-soo to a fight. They put their egos on the line in this battle. While betrayal and schemes surround them, who will win the fight?
A drama centered on brother-and-sister musicians trained to perform the epic Korean poems known as pansori.
Project to change the lover’s lover “Can you afford it?” Underground and Sungmin are long-time couple living together. Unlike the subterranean basement, Sungmin is not able to exert his talent as a writer and gets stressed. Jee-geuk makes another boyfriend called Gyu-gyu who is underground, who is disappointed with his boyfriend.
In a countryside town called Mulgeun lives a bohemian man named BAE Joong-dal. His goals in life are to get his younger brother BAE Joong-bum, now in his fifties, married and to thrive with his new start-up ostrich farm. Living nest door is a pain-in-the-neck named CHO Jin-bong who breaks apart the fence to the ostrich farm, resulting in a scuffle. Suddenly a beautiful and graceful woman - which is hard to find in Mulgeun - unexpectedly shows up in town. Her appearance starts to stir up troubles among the residents. Joong-bum, meanwhile, never appreciates his brother’s efforts to set him up on dates. One day after running away from a panned date, he returns home drunk late at night and confesses something shocking to his brother...
A corrupt detective infiltrates a gang and tries to save his daughter. One day he finds out the heart his daughter would receive as a transplant is from a magician he falsely accused.
A middle-aged man is so crazy about his mistress that he doesn't care about what happens to his family. The feud between his children by his wife and by the mistress gets worse until the family almost breaks apart.
The story of Jae-seung, who lost his father, a photographer, during the May 18 incident, follows in his father's footsteps and becomes a photographer. The story of the art of photography, conflicts with people, and love.
Confronting half of her mother’s life—her mother who had survived the Jeju April 3 Incident—the director tries to scoop out disappearing memories. A tale of family, which carries on from Dear Pyongyang, carving out the cruelty of history, and questioning the precarious existence of the nation-state.
On her way home during the holiday season, Jooyoung is called back to work. Having to work overnight is annoying enough, but then she gets stuck at a sobriety checkpoint.
Yoo-jeong got married due to difficulties in family circumstances even though she’s unwilling. Her hhusband Hyeon-sik who did his best is disappointed that Yoo-jeong did not open his heart, and cheated on him. Then one day, Hyeon-sik brought his mistress into the house.
A woman facing financial struggles becomes obsessed with a former classmate who seems to have the perfect life, blurring the line between admiration and identity theft.
A man wakes up in a tub and notices one of his kidneys is missing. In the search for his organ he finds out that he is a character in a screenplay that is currently being written.