The elderly captain (Jeon Seong-hwang) of a fishing vessel plots his marriage to the beautiful teenage virgin (Seo Min-Jeong) he’s raised on the boat since she was a child. Renting his vessel out to fishing parties the captain proves a nifty shot with a bow and arrow when it comes to dissuading any contact between randy male visitors and his … Read the rest
Category: South Korea
Confession of Murder (Jeong Byeong-gil, South Korea, 2012)
15 years after the expiration of South Korea’s Statute of Limitations, after which a criminal can no longer be legally charged with his crime, the handsomely boyish Lee Du-seok publishes his autobiography in which he confesses to the murder of 10 teenage girls in such detail his guilt appears unarguable. Watching with impotent rage is Detective Choi (Jeong Jae-yeong), the … Read the rest
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
Train to Busan (Yeon Sang-ho, South Korea, 2016)
A hard-hearted Seoul businessman (Gong Yoo) accompanies his 9 year old daughter (Kim Soo-an) on a train journey to meet his estranged wife in the city of Busan. Unfortunately for them the victim of a zombie attack boards the train seconds before departure and before you can shout ‘All aboard!’ the zombie virus spreads like wildfire and isolated pockets of … Read the rest
The Housemaid (Kim Ki-young, South Korea, 1960)
A music teacher (Kim Jin-kyu) with a crippled daughter and a young son succumbs to his materialistic wife’s request for a housemaid (Lee Eun-shim). But the new arrival soon turns the quiet, ordered life of the family upside down and when the teacher sleeps with the housemaid and makes her pregnant her demands push the family to the brink of … Read the rest
Sori: Voice From The Heart (Lee Ho-jae, South Korea, 2016)
A U.S. spy satellite receives a distress call from a female soldier in Afghanistan and plunges back to Earth intent on a rescue mission. Landing in the sea the satellite is recovered by Hae-gwan (Lee Sung-min) a distraught father who has spent the last decade searching for his missing daughter. Together the odd couple come to an agreement; the satellite … Read the rest
