Discoveries from South Korea World Cinema

Sun-yeong strikes a man on a bicycle on her way home from work. Terrified, she flees the scene of the accident but is witnessed by Yeong-pyo who devises an ambitious blackmail scheme.

Myeon-hwa is sold by her family to a wealthy man as his concubine, but she runs away with his servant. The servant does not treat her any less cruelly than his master had and Myeon-hwa is forced to weigh her options.

Popular singer, Hun, falls in love with Oh Su-mi. She is extremely jealous of other women and demands that Hun give up singing so she can have him for herself.

Xdinary Heroes’ DEAD AND Mood Film for their 8th Mini Album set to release 17.04.2026 1PM (KST). This Mood Film may explore topics of grief, troubled relationships, and the emotions that come with it. Some further interpretations include: rebirth, the afterlife, love, the idea that ‘pain’ and ‘fear’ are necessary to create music, as well as losing yourself during hardships.

‘Siot’ is an animal experimental researcher and vegan, ‘Dalyeon’ is an animal liberation activist and an animal tested pill taker. What do the two different worlds say to each other?

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?

In the void where it is written, the ink slowly seeps away. Looking back, there is nothing: only emptiness. Here, where there is neither coming nor going, neither up nor down, I untangle the dark threads of Avidyā.

It's a scorching summer. The girl and the boy cannot attend the festivities on the eve of the school festival. Then Kali says to the wandering children: “You know, where the festivities are taking place, as far as the shadow of the sacred tree reaches, young spirits are gathered under it.”

A kid buys back his old childhood dolls, but he slowly finds out that they are not what he expects.

In the wake of climate change and depletion of natural resources, eco-friendly bio-fuels have become the main energy source. In Busan, Surisol Underwater Lab, which manages biomass fuels, is established. Sohila, a researcher, hears bad news from AI Surisol and goes out to conduct reconnaissance in the waters in question.

Getting out from the jail, Young-kwang comes back to his hometown. In the meantime, his mother diedand the family do not welcome his visit. With the money, his mother has bequeathed to him, he buysthe real estate, gets married to a widow and starts a fish-peddling. But both the anxiety for theredevelopment and the doubt about the fidelity of his wife lead him to an extreme choice.

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.

Unknown actors Chung-gil and Won-seon are close friends. Chung-gil introduces Won-seon to a director he knows, but something unexpected happens.

To film a documentary of a journey to India, Byeongtae travels to India with cameraman Director Choi.

While visiting Korea from Australia, Woori seeks to borrow money from her older brother, her only remaining family. But first, he takes her to a place where memories from over twenty years ago still linger.

My family has lived in a house across from the Blue House, the presidential palace, for 50 years. During the era of military dictatorship, the Blue House was a place of fear and inaccessibility. But as South Korea democratized, more and more people were allowed to approach it. I had grown up surrounded by countless protests, but it was the first time their sound followed me home. The never-ending noise made the house where I was born and raised feel unfamiliar. But the place they now stood was the very spot where I had held a candle to protest just months before. My right to raise my voice also guarantees theirs.

A film about a husband's struggles to save his wife who was kidnapped by a loan shark.

Lee, Seon-ok is murdered while her husband is performing in a play. Detectives investigating the case, learn that their are several reasons why someone might want him dead.

Dong-kyu has a truly curious job: collecting proof to denounce the free distribution of plastic bags. In a take-away restaurant he is caught off-guard by Sinae, an employee who runs after him and hits him on the head. Dong-kyu comes to and pretends he's amnesic. Si-nae takes him to her home, marking the beginning of a strange company of five.

Seung-hee returns to her mother's hometown, Geoje Island, after having put an end to life in Seoul. Time had passed, grandma has become weak and feeble, uncle and his lover were trying to sell the house. Seung-hee, feeling uncomfortable, stays in the container where mom's belongings are kept.

Soo-min, a bookstore owner entering menopause; Eun-young, a homemaker already in the midst of it; and Hyun, a corporate manager who has not yet experienced it — each faces her own struggles, from work and love to changing bodies and fading confidence. And just when life feels overwhelming… even their friendship begins to fall apart. Can they ever return to the way they once were?

A little boy and his uncle are playing loudly in a cold bath on Sunday morning.

When a young hare and her baby encounter a lost bear cub, they are soon hunted by a relentless wolf pack. As danger closes in, the mother makes a heartbreaking sacrifice to save both children. Told entirely through expressive animation, cinematic visuals, and immersive sound design, the film explores universal themes of survival, sacrifice, and unconditional love.

CHA EUN-WOO CONCERT: MEMORIES in cinemas — A Journey of Emotion and Romance We don’t know what genre your life was before this moment—but after today, it becomes a Romantic Fantasy. And in that story, the leads are CHA EUN-WOO… and you. Experience a journey through love, heartbreak, and lingering memories. With deeply emotional acting and heartfelt performances, CHA EUN-WOO amplifies every feeling, while music seamlessly flows through each moment, enhancing the cinematic immersion. Moments when you dreamed, loved, and hurt, within a breathtaking fantasy world—where CHA EUN-WOO delivers the final chapter of your story, written just for you.

'Daughter of the wind' depicts a story after World War II between a Korean girl who lost her mother to Japanese force and a Japanese orphan girl who had no one else to turn to.

A young man leaves his rural home to join a voice phishing ring in the city. As he becomes entangled in crime, his older brother seeks to save him, leading to a confrontation with their past and the criminal underworld.​

Su-hyun, a courier who stopped acting, had a contact accident with Ji-young, an acting student, while delivering at a university. Ji-young, who had rejected Su-hyun's offer to take her to the hospital, asks for another request. In that way, the two go to Ji-young's audition in Su-hyun's truck.

A senior in highschool becomes determined to enter a certain university because of her infatuation with a self-centered baseball player who attends there.

In-young (18), who suffers from a congenital respiratory disease, is haunted by nightmares following her mother"s death. To cope with the pain, she steals other people"s belongings, eventually ending up in a juvenile detention center. After her release, In-young transfers to a school in the countryside and moves in with her aunt. There, she meets Eun-ha (18) and feels a subtle, magnetic attraction toward her.

Born bully, Kim Chang-sik, while cleaning everything up to live a normal life again, he meets a sad girl, Kim So-hee. A story where Kim Chang-sik had no choice but to participate in So-hee's situation, more than his own.

A corrupted campus movie that surpasses 2002's "Sex Is Zero". Sexy University students round up a project to make boyfriends! Ho-kyeong, Joo-yeong and Yeon-hee are students of an American university who are all pretty and sexy. They either know too much or know too little so they decide to find men who can satisfy them. A lean man who was a former nude model, a younger man who has perfect techniques and a man who thinks very highly of women; these guys start the project.

Young men and women enter a small studio, sit, respond to off-screen questions from the crew, and leave. But it turns out that one female subject has a prior, broken relationship with a member of the crew – which brings submerged tensions to the surface.

The Park family(A 3-generation family) recently lost their grandfather. They find out later that their grandfather left a building and go to check it out. However, they end up facing things that they did not expect at all.

The documentary production team, which was tracking the connection between Gutenberg and Goryeo metal types, finds the "Pope´s Letter to King of Goryeo" in the Vatican archives. In the face of opposition from scholars for lack of relevant evidence, they leave for Europe in search of historical traces to complement it.

After injuring her arm at work, Miju fights for industrial accident compensation. Yet she also endures sleepless nights, haunted by screams from her neighbors that only she can hear due to her hypersensitive hearing.

Sooin, a piano teacher, decides to attend a debut concert at her professor's request after a long absence. As she prepares for the concert, she reflects on her memories and feelings.

Follows a group of twenty-somethings in their pursuit of education, honest work, and love.

Anna thinks Ava is the best actress in her class.

Korean guerrillas fight against the Japanese as the latter try to invade China through Manchuria.

One boy battles his own personal tsunami of nose-water.

During the 1996 Gangneung Armed Forces Infiltration Incident, secret agents from the North Korean People's Armed Forces secretly installed a nuclear weapon, Phoenix, in Seoul, the capital of the Republic of Korea. Once caught in the vortex of war. The North Korean coup d'etat forces set off a nuclear bomb in Seoul to take over the entire North Korean regime, wreak havoc in South Korea, and then try to start World War III. At that time (1996), Lee Myung-cheol, the son of Dr. Lee, the developer of the nuclear weapon Phoenix, who learned this fact, secretly infiltrated South Korea and struggled to prevent World War III with the National Intelligence Service of the Republic of Korea. What will be the fate of Korea...

Screen adaptation of the ancient legend 'The Story of Pak Mun-su'.

One woman. One racist lie. One lawsuit that shook Japan. Korean Japanese entrepreneur Shin Sugok takes on major media in this electro-shock legal thriller about refusing to be silenced.

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Man Kyeong Bong Ho, the North Korean ship, appeared in Yokohama port, Japan in 1974. Hearing this the headquarter of North Korean residents union of Japan was wrapped in tension.

Bongsik, a man left destitute after a betrayal, drifts into a remote mountain region and encounters a seductive wandering woman. Their bond forms amid hardship as they attempt scams and survival. When tragedy strikes, they must choose between illusion and a chance at happiness.

Love Spoiler is a Part of the 2021 O'PEN/Drama Stage series. The analog love story of two wounded men and women in Dystopia where genetic testing shows the expiration date of love.