WKR: Masquerade and Bounty of Recent Releases (09/15-09/21, 2012)

Lee Byung-Hyun's smash hit period pic Masquerade gets a number of reviews this week while a wide selection of recent Korean films gets covered all around the world, from DVD and cinema releases to TIFF, Zipangu and Yeonghwa: Korean Cinema Today coverage.

CURRENT FILMS

Masquerade

(Modern Korean Cinema, September 17, 2012)

(Seongyong's Private Place, September 14, 2012)

(The Los Angeles Times, September 20, 2012)

Pieta

(Film School Rejects, September 20, 2012)

RECENT FILMS

Architecture 101

(Modern Korean Cinema, September 19, 2012)

A Reason to Live

(Hangul Celluloid, September 18, 2012)

As One

(hancinema.net, September 15, 2012)

Bleak Night

(Sound on Sight, September 19, 2012)

Doomsday Book

(Asian Movie Web, September 16, 2012)

HaHaHa

(Asian Movie Web, September 19, 2012)

Helpless

(AsianCineFest, September 19, 2012)

Howling

(Asian Movie Pulse, September 16, 2012)

In Another Country

(Modern Korean Cinema, September 20, 2012)

(Next Projection, September 19, 2012)

Invasion of Alien Bikini

(Asian Movie Pulse, September 8, 2012)

Masquerade (2010)

(Modern Korean Cinema, September 13, 2012)

Moss

(AsianCineFest, September 17, 2012)

My Way

(Subtitled Online, September 20, 2012)

Quick

(Asian Movie Pulse, September 6, 2012)

The Day He Arrives

(Sound on Sight, September 19, 2012)

U.F.O.

(Modern Korean Cinema, September 20, 2012)

PAST FILMS

Angry Young Man, 1976

(Seen in Jeonju, September 19, 2012)

Mother and a Guest, 1961

(Meniscus Mag, July 27, 2012)

Searching For the Elephant, 2009

(Korean Grindhouse, September 19, 2012)

Somi - The Taekwondo Woman, 1997

(Eye For Film, September 19, 2012)

Zero Woman, 1979

(Seen in Jeonju, September 16, 2012)

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