"Korea's emasculated and traumatic men pour out onto the road. The characters are visually encased with overwhelming landscapes a...

The first scene of Family Ties is one of hope. A young man and woman meet on a train and strike up a conversation, they are both very nice ...

My focus on this blog is to deliver content focused on modern Korean cinema (which I would say began in the late 1990s) which is often refer...

Just got my copy in the mail today and have begun to tear my way through it. I'm a big fan of Darcy Paquet and have been an avid followe...

1 Introduction  “There is a sight of horror that invokes the loss of… …memory and sanity.” Kim Kyung-hyun, one of the foremost schola...

Post-traumatic masculine identity in contemporary South Korean cinema: Revisionism and the male id through genre in Memories of Murder. I ...

One of the genres that has gained traction over the last decade in the Korean peninsula is the sports film. In international cinema the spor...

I was saddened today to find out about the sudden passing of the great Satoshi Kon on August 24th. One of the foremost luminaries of animati...

Gangster comedies are something of a specialty in Korea and have been among the most popular films on the Korean box office charts for over ...

Since I'm only starting out here, I figure why not let you know a little bit more about my taste in Korean Cinema. So here is a top 10, ...

Possessed (also known as Living Death or Disbelief Hell ) is the first feature from former architect Lee Yong-ju. It is a supernatural hor...

A fair amount has been written about this film and very little of it is positive. At its core, Haeundae is a mawkish melodrama that serves ...