By Pierce Conran Yoo Ha returns to gangster cinema and knocks it right out of the park with his latest, an evocative and immensely ent...

Part of  MKC's coverage  of the 11th New York Asian Film Festival. Korean cinema is filled to the brim with genre offerings and o...

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 ...

Kang Ji-hwan and So Ji-sub in Rough Cut (2008) The gangster film has been a staple since the early days of cinema.  It's heady, l...

For the second part of my analysis of gangster films at the Korean box office I'm going to be a little more thorough and look past the t...

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...

Questions of Masculinity and Beauty in the Jopok Films A Bittersweet Life (2005) and The Man From Nowhere (2010) (contd.) ...

By Kieran Tully I must admit, I probably approached Born to Kill (1996) in the wrong manner, one in which I thought it would be a goo...