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Showing 23 Films from South Korea
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9 at 38
Juilliard-trained violinist Hyungjoon Won is about to realize a dream seven years in the making: a joint concert by North and S...
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A Brand New Life
A Brand New Life
When her father offers to take her on a trip, nine-year-old Jin-hee happily sings him a love song, the bittersweet notes inaudi...
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A Dirty Carnival
A Dirty Carnival
Low-level gangster Byung-doo takes on a high-risk mission to pay the bills for his widowed mother and siblings. But when he suc...
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Alive
Alive
A 100-meter sprinter faces challenges around the end of his career and his life
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An Obituary
An Obituary
A young man travels alone deep into the countryside to pay his respects after hearing of a friend’s untimely death. Upon his ar...
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A Tale of Two Sisters
A Tale of Two Sisters
After a long illness, two sisters return home to a distant father and a cruel stepmother. Dreams about their late mother awake...
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Chupachups
Chupachups
After passing the civil service examination Sung-joo returns to her hometown to spend the day with her friend, Shin-hee, who st...
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Fish Eyes
Fish Eyes
Set during the 2008 Olympics on the outskirts of Beijing, first-time filmmaker Zheng Wei's beautiful and poetic portrait of mod...
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House of Hummingbird
House of Hummingbird
In 1994 Seoul, quiet eighth-grader Eunhee (Ji-hu Park) spends her time consumed by love and friendship, shoplifting, and karaok...
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House of Hummingbird
House of Hummingbird
In 1994 Seoul, quiet eighth-grader Eunhee (Ji-hu Park) spends her time consumed by love and friendship, shoplifting, and karaok...
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Interview
Interview
Mr. Sungman Kim has a job interview on a hot summer day.
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Milky Way Liberation Front
Milky Way Liberation Front
Writer's block may be the least of rookie filmmaker Ryu Young-jae's problems. His girlfriend ditched him, his first feature pro...
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My Dear Enemy
My Dear Enemy
Lee Yoon-Ki's (This Charming Girl) deadpan comedy trails a pair of former lovers—he's a romantic and she's a realist—who bump i...
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Paju
Paju
Joongshik and Eunmo live in Paju: a gray town where the urban landscape is as bleak as the fate of its residents. In writer/dir...
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Planet of Snail
Planet of Snail
Deaf and blind, Young-Chan lives in a quiet, isolated world in his small apartment. But when Soon-Ho, an empathetic woman compr...
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Possessed
Possessed
In this eminently creepy horror show, college student Hee-jin returns home in the wake of her younger sister's disappearance, o...
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Rikidozan - A Hero Extraordinaire
Rikidozan - A Hero Extraordinaire
This compelling bio-pic reveals the true story of Rikidozan, the "Father of Japanese Wrestling." Rikidozan introduced America...
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Roads of Kiarostami
Roads of Kiarostami
Abbas Kiarostami has recently been exhibiting his black-and-white landscape photographs at venues around the world, and Roads o...
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Smoke-flavored Life
Smoke-flavored Life
Seven-year-old Younghee smokes out of curiosity, while her mother puffs for composure. One day it’s discovered that Younghee’s ...
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The Journals of Musan
The Journals of Musan
Park Jungbum's stunning and much-lauded debut is the story of a North Korean defector forging a life in capitalist South Korea....
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The Last Mermaids
The Last Mermaids
In The Last Mermaids, a story swims beneath the surface about generations of women divers.
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Three Kingdoms: Resurrection of the Dragon
Three Kingdoms: Resurrection of the Dragon
A conscript into the faceless war among China's ancient kingdoms, Zhao (Andy Lau, House of Flying Daggers) earns his stripes in...
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Walk on a Little More
Walk on a Little More
A woman leaving Seoul sets out to leave her children in her mother-in-law's care. During her journey, she stops to rest by the ...
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