High school girls are punished in class Whispering Corridors ( Yeogo geodam , 1998) was released during a key time in the modernization...

"Either physically handicapped or psychologically traumatized (sometimes both), many of the characters emblematized the period's f...

My work has been keeping me on the road recently and I am somewhat distressed to see that I have not added to this blog in over a month. Tha...

Darcy Paquet’s book on Korean cinema may be short (from intro to conclusion it runs just over 100 pages) but it is easily the clearest pictu...

"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...