By Pierce Conran In addition to becoming the year's biggest film, Jang Hoon's Gwangju drama A Taxi Driver will now be hoping ...

By Pierce Conran Korean theatres have become inundated with films set during the Japanese Colonial period over the last few years but ...

By Pierce Conran Jang Hoon's Gwangju drama A Taxi Driver drove past the 10 million viewer mark ($69 million) this morning (August...

By Pierce Conran History and commerce combine to terrific effect in the protest drama A Taxi Driver . Song Kang-ho is remarkable in his...

By Pierce Conran Snowpiercer is finally getting a stateside release. The internet is saying June 27th but CJ Entertainment is tellin...

Part of MKC's coverage of the 64th Berlin International Film Festival. By Pierce Conran Cinema is a medium of motion and if ...

By Pierce Conran Deadline has just broken the news that Bong Joon-ho and The Weinstein Company have finally reached on agreement on Sn...

By Pierce Conran The combination of politics and cinema has led to some of the most incendiary films the medium has ever produced. Tho...

Though absent from Korean marquees this year until now, the period Korean film makes a big comeback with the release of Han Jae-rim'...

Cinema is a medium of motion and if anyone understands this, it appears to be Bong Joon-ho, whose visionary new work is a demented and s...

In Korea, genre is a dish almost never served by itself. Rather than use tried and tested formulas, local cineastes tend to concoct more...

Not a huge amount of news this week though my tie to go digging for it is also a bit limited as I'm on site covering the 26th Fribourg I...

A few days ago, I saw Lee Hyeon-seung’s new film Hindsight and as I’m sitting at my computer, trying to gather my thoughts on it, I’m ...

My third review of 1997’s important Korean gangster films is actually on the first one that was released (February) during the year.  L...

Though not as slick as later works like Shiri (1999) and Joint Security Area (2000), No. 3 was a presage of things to come in Korean c...

Lots of news stemming from the Busan International Film Festival, which is currently underway and will wrap up on Friday.  Also a number of ...

“The recovery of the self remains as the objective in these films, but … the subjectivity reconstituted or denied in the end is the man’s al...