Movies: Park Chan-wook

South Korean cinema is in the throes of a creative explosion where mavericks are encouraged and masters are venerated. But from where has this phenomenon emerged? What is the culture that has yielded this range of filmmakers? With The Nine Lives of K...

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Eun-hee is an extravagant and selfish woman who lives a life of luxury. She constantly swears, acts extremely careless, and is unashamedly tactless. Yet she somehow manages to be loved by both her husband, Doo-chan, and Keum-sook, a childhood female ...

"Never Ending Peace and Love" (or "N.E.P.A.L.") is part of the South Korean omnibus film "If You Were Me" (2003). Comprising six short films directed by six prominent Korean directors and commissioned by the National Human Rights Commission of Korea,...

Buzz Salon which is run by Cho is known for its mysterious ambience. Gi-hyuk, one of Cho's best customers, falls for Hae-joo, a hostess at Buzz. Cho uses Hae-joo to kill gangsters who harass him with money he owes them. When Gi-hyuk discovers that Ha...

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I wanted to render an interesting depiction of how the extraction of a dead person's memory-a very sci-fi-esque musing-is used to solve the mystery of a woman's death, and is so doing, cautiously broach the injustice and indifference toward women's i...

The boy's mother packs her belongings and leaves her family for another man. The boy gets home only to see that his mother had left and decides to kill her man. He goes to find him with a knife, but gives up the idea as he sees that the man loves his...

Love story. Too hard to believe, and too much to bear....