Desperate for money Captain Kang (Kim Yoon-seok) agrees to smuggle Chinese immigrants into South Korea in his dilapidated fishing boat the Junjiho. But following a dangerous rendezvous at sea a burst pipe suffocates the travellers as they hide in the ship’s hold. So when the Captain discovers that a young female immigrant named Hong-mae (Han Ye-rin) has survived because the … Read the rest
Tag: Bong Joon Ho
Snowpiercer (Bong Joon Ho, South Korea, 2013)
In the near future the world has frozen and the remnants of humanity survive inside a train endlessly circumnavigating the globe. The richest live in luxury at the front, the poorest exist in squalor at the back. But one day those in the rear carriages decide to seize control.
A fascinating, stylishly executed and exciting tale with good performances across … Read the rest
