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Showing posts with label jopok week. Show all posts
Showing posts with label jopok week. Show all posts
Monday, December 12, 2011

Jopok Week: Conclusion and Korean Gangster Films on the Horizon

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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...

Jopok Week: Marrying the Mafia IV (Ga-moon-eui Yeong-gwang 4 – Ga-moon-eui Soo-nan) 2011

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To wrap up the film reviews for 'Jopok Week', what better way than to take a look at the latest Korean gangster film to hit the...
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Sunday, December 11, 2011

Jopok Week: The Alice in Wonderland Trajectory and Other Thoughts on Lee Chang-dong's Green Fish (Chorok mulkogi) 1997

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My third review of 1997’s important Korean gangster films is actually on the first one that was released (February) during the year.  L...
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Jopok Week: Korean Gangster Films at the Box Office (2004-2011)

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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...
Saturday, December 10, 2011

Jopok Week: No. 3 (Neobeo 3) 1997

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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...
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Jopok Week: The Rise and Fall of the Korean Gangster Comedy

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By Darcy Paquet (This essay was originally published in Korean translation in the film weekly Cine21 , in January 2009.) Han Suk-ky...
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Jopok Week: Masculinity and Beauty in A Bittersweet Life and The Man From Nowhere – Part II

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