By Pierce Conran Following his trip From Seoul to Varanasi in 2011, arthouse filmmaker Jeon Kyu-hwan took a bigger leap overseas with...

By Pierce Conran For his live-action debut Train to Busan , indie animation director Yeon Sang-ho, whose films The King of Pigs and T...

By Pierce Conran Following the record-breaking success of Roaring Currents , Choi Min-sik returns to screens in another big-budget pe...

By Pierce Conran Buff and lovable star Ma Dong-seok takes on his best leading role to date in the gritty crime tale The Outlaws , which ...

By Hieu Chau Writer-director Lee Jeong-beom made a big splash in 2010 when his confidently made action feature The Man from Nowhere ...

By Pierce Conran Thinking back to Shiri (1999) and Secret Reunion (2010), North Korean spies have a history of success at the Korean ...

By Pierce Conran Following the recent hits Masquerade (2012) and last year’s The Face Reader , period films are set to make a big pus...

Korean cinema has gotten very good at staging impressive onscreen spectacle in recent years. Though $10 million budgets used to be a rare...

In an era of oversaturation at the cineplex, with countless retreads and follow-ups dominating the marquees, sometimes a gimmick is just ...

Part of MKC's coverage of the 15th Udine Far East Film Festival. The most anticipated Korean film of the year, with its dazzling ...

Part of  MKC's coverage  of the 3rd Korean Film Festival in Australia (previously published). One of the aspects of Korean cinema whic...

Part of  MKC's coverage  of the 3rd Korean Film Festival in Australia (previously published). It’s about time I threw my hat into...

The most anticipated Korean film of the year, with its dazzling cast and international locations, opened late last month and has since ...

Part of  MKC's coverage  of the 11th New York Asian Film Festival. It’s about time I threw my hat into the ring and chimed in on ...

Since the days of the New Korean Wave of the late 80s and early 90s men in Korean cinema have frequently found themselves on the road i...

Bikes Having more or less caught up with all of the this past summer’s major Korean releases, the first thing that comes to mind is th...

Straight off the bat I can say that the most anticipated Korean blockbuster of 2011, aside from Christmas’ war epic My Way from Jang Je-gyu...

Great production values Song Hae-sung’s A Better Tomorrow is a flashy remake of John Woo’s seminal 1986 classic which tries hard to re...

As I previously mentioned, I wasn't very exited about The Man From Nowhere at first but the quiet popularity it has earned gradually ma...