A Letter from Kyoto, the debut film from Director Kim Min-ju, explores all the things that we keep “Out of sight, out of mind, but not from heart.” Set in Yeongdo, an Island within Busan harbour, the family drama focuses on a…
‘A Normal Family’ by Director Hur Jin-ho opened the 18th edition of the London Korean Film Festival on 2 November. Based on the novel ‘Het Diner’ (English Translation: The Dinner), by Herman Kock, this latest feature from Director Hur is a complex…
Concrete Utopia from Director Um Tae-hwa has been selected as Korea’s entry for Best International Feature Film at the 2024 Oscars, and with good reason. Inspired by a Webtoon titled ‘Cheerful Outcast’, Director Um uses this disaster thriller as a means of…
The premise for the film is simple: It focuses on A-Rui (Lu Hsiao-fen) who has been running a barbershop for forty years. One day, A-Rui receives a phone call from the family of a regular client who moved to the countryside following…
The premise behind Road to Boston was the desire to re-tell and pay homage to the inspiring real-life story of 3 national athletes: The trio forming two runners Suh Yun-bok (Im Si-wan) and Nam Sung-yong (Bae Sung-woo) and coach Sohn Kee-chung (Ha…
Killing Romance from Director Lee Won-suk is a riot. More specifically, it is a ‘Wes Anderson’ inspired 106 minutes of a story which gets weirder and more unpredictable as it unfolds. Straight from the start Killing Romance is bizarre and chaotic but…
The Boys is the latest feature film from ‘activist filmmaker’ and cinematic visionary Chung Ji-young. Through this film, Chung continues to push boundaries and tackle corruption within society, or in this case within the ranks of the Police. Blending fact with fiction,…