Christmas in August (1998)

In a quiet corner of Seoul, Jung-won runs a small photo studio. A humble shack passed down from his widower father, the studio is a space where Jung-won goes about his daily routine of dealing with fussy customers, enlarging photos of class heartthrobs for the neighborh...

Die Bad (2000)

Die Bad is a hard-boiled action movie in four parts about violence: school violence, a ghost’s violence against its murderer, violence between a cop and a gangster, and an appalling fight among gangsters. Suk-whan and Sung-bin, both teenagers, rumble with Hyun-soo’s...

Hahaha (2010)

Filmmaker CHO Moon-kyung plans to leave Seoul to live in Canada. So days before his departure, he meets his close friend BANG Jung-shik who is a film critic, at a nearby mountain to drink ‘makgeolli’, a Korean traditional alcoholic beverage made from rice. After a f...

Revivre (2014)

Mr. OH, who is in his mid-fifties, loses his wife after a four-year battle with cancer and proceeds with the funeral arrangements. His daughter’s long and unrelenting weeping has Mr. OH recall the same kind of outburst his wife let out when she was informed of a rela...

Hill of Freedom (2013)

Kwon, a language school instructor, stops by her old workplace and receives a thick envelope addressed to her. A Japanese instructor named Mori had proposed to her two years ago but she had turned him down. Mori had immediately gone back to Japan, but now was back in Ko...

In the Name of the Son (2020)

The background of the film era is Seoul 2019. The traumas and their revenge that victims and perpetrators of the May 18 Democratic Movement 40 years ago are experiencing are presented in the form of revenge thriller. The main character Chae Geun, age 65, is a surrogate ...

My Sister Is A Hussy (1961)

Dal-su, an owner of a judo school, taught his daughter Sun-ae judo so that she could defend herself. But she uses her judo skills on her husband whenever she is displeased with him. Knowing this, Dal-su summons her to the gym. And he completely beats her in a match, tea...