Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 1999
• 113min

Jang Sun-Woo is always poking at the Achilles′ heels of Korean society and Lies is no exception, as he once again crosses the line of taboos. Due to its frank depiction of a sado-masochistic sexual relation between a middle-aged ...

Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 1999
• 79min

Director Lee Ji-Sang, who made a croquis-like first film in Yellow Flower(1998), delves into sexual themes once again. Lacking in the energy for formal destructiveness, A Sudden Crash of Thunder still indulges in a compulsive pur...

Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 1999
• 90min

Veteran director Cho Moon-Jin confronts the pain of modern Korean history through the story of a dispersed family. In 1980, a North Korean soldier crosses the DMZ to seek his father, becoming wounded and losing his memory in the ...

Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 1999
• 108min

Her love: Choon-Hee is a wedding videographer who has a crush on In-Gong, a tidy aide she often runs into at weddings. His love: Chul-Su is on leave from military service trying desperately to stop his ex-girlfriend from marrying...

Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 1999
• 100min

Rainbow Trout is a drama of brutality, where an everyday moment turns into a bloodbath. Two incidents constitute such change. The main incident comprises a visit by Min-Su and company to a trout farm run by their friend Chang-Hyu...

Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 1999
• 103min

If growing up and the pain of a divided nation are the themes of Scent of Love and Until We Meet, L′Amour concerns morality and faith, two agents required to persevere through such situations. Lee Doo-Yong, who diversified Korean...

Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 1999
• 103min

Phantom, The Submarine features an assumption and a concern. Having received the code name 431, Lee Chan-Suk joins the crew of Korea′s first nuclear submarine, named ′Phantom′. For the crew members with erased pasts, ′Phantom′ is...

Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 1999
• 105min

The Uprising is Park Kwang-Su′s ambitious experiment on history and the cinema, deliberately reflecting the circumstances surrounding Korean cinema in the 1990s. In late 19th century Cheju Island, a small conflict between Catholi...

Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 1999
• 110min

A man commits a coldhearted killing Yet the backdrop to this bloody ′Forty-step Murder′ is a peaceful scene with a passing girl, A group of detectives hide out to trap the brutal criminal, but his lover′s residence is a rustic ap...

Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 1999
• 100min

The centerpiece for this year′s Korean Panorama is a group of three films from old-time directors, each breaking a long silence. These films are welcome additions to their film careers and unique interpretations of the 1990′s. Fi...