Living a torturous life of poverty and barely able to survive, Hwa-yeon decides to offer herself as one of the king’s concubines. Once inside the royal palace, two men are immediately seized by the woman - the Grand Prince Seong-won, a megalomaniacal ruler drunk with power and lust, and Kwon-yoo,...
Min-jeong lives a simple but happy life until it's in ruins because of the man that moves in next to her. The man is Deok-man, someone she wants to erase from her memories. She knows what he's up to next and she plans to take revenge on him.
A young girl is caught up in the 1980 Gwangju massacre, where Korean soldiers killed hundreds, if not thousands, of protesters who opposed the country's takeover by the military the year before. Flashbacks show the girl seeing her mother shot to death in the massacre. The film spurred the Korean...
Detective Cho, a cop on the edge, is mourning his mother's recent death while under investigation for graft; on top of that he is suddenly put in charge of a seemingly-impenetrable mystery.
A serial killer is burning away the flesh of his victims with acid, leaving only the bones behind. The police turn to Hyun-min, a former forensic sculptor adept in reconstructing faces by examining and interpreting skulls. With the victim's bones in his house, Hyun-min's daughter begins to...
When Dean a young detective, falls for a woman who seems to appear only in his dreams. When Dean discovers his amour is the real-life daughter of a Dr. Jang and that the been trapped in a time warp, he journeys back in time to save her. But first he must fend off a few hordes of superhuman...
In order to inherit his grandfather's fortune, an incorrigible playboy agrees to teach high school for two years in Mr. Wacky, a bland, mostly irritating comedy from newbie director Kim Dong-Wook. To its credit, the film improves considerably in its second half, but by that time, some will likely...
Joon-woo is a passionate fireman who always pursues danger. Hyun believes rational judgement is the only way to save people in danger. The first day at their work place, Joon-woo jumps into the fire to save stranded people in the building in spite of an evacuation order and Hyun tries to stop him....
A middle-aged man who has recently lost his wife to cancer indulges in fantasies about a young woman at his work, in the new film from Korean master Im Kwon-taek.
26 years ago, state troops were ordered to open fire on civilians in the city of Gwangju who were demonstrating as apart of a democratic movement. Thousands of civilians were killed. Now, a shooter from the national team, a gang member, a policeman, CEO from a large company and director of a...
A failed writer given to plagiarism gets a buzz at the door from a bright young working girl with a highly original approach to life and sex and his life and work is totally thrown off balance.
When her father has a terrible accident a girl is forced to work as a hostess in a popular disco bar owned by a powerful gangster. Her brother tries to free her, but the gangster refuses and instead sets the brother, a bad dancer, an impossible challenge: if he wants to free his sister, he must win...
An intricately put together story that brings to the screen Korea's most sensitive issues. Through the lives of various Seoulites, the film features an unfettered look into Korea's modern society by presenting them into four chapters - Moratorium, Amorality, Moral Hazard, and Y2K.
A couple fall deeply in love. Unfortunately, they are both already married to other people. The resulting affair leads to the man losing his job. Both divorce their spouses, but while travelling together, they decide that the only way for them to be perfectly happy is for them to commit double...
The church is the body of Christ. In Greece, the church embodied a philosophy. Then in Rome, it became an institution. Spreading throughout Europe, it became one with the culture there. Traveling to the US, the church became a business. And when it arrived in Korea, it became a conglomerate. The...
Kim Sunmyung, a man with communist beliefs who refused to recant his ideals, would ultimately serve more than 42 years in prison. Based on a true story, the film tells of personal conviction and dignity.
