Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 2000
• 100 min

"The beauty of digital cinema lies with its ability to bring out the natural acting from the actors who become less camera conscious. It′s an effective way to embody realism, much more effective than analog cinema." Tears is a dig...

Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 2000
• 96 min

One day, a magazine reporter receives a call from someone telling him take a woman, who works as a nude model, home. He takes this rain-soaked woman in and she becomes a part of his domestic life. But the woman runs away every nig...

Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 2000
• 94 min

The star of Bongja, Suh Gap-Sook, once claimed, "sometimes to have desires of starring in a porno film." With implicit lesbian tensions along with other risque elements, the star seems to have gotten her wish. But this is not an a...

Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 2000
• 106 min

Driving while intoxicated, Ku-Ho hits Mijo and takes her home in a flurry. Strangely enough, she has no bruises whatsoever and, the very next day, she is found to suffer from amnesia and is unable to speak. Ku-Ho′s guilty conscien...

Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 2000
• 103 min

Imagine Seoul at the turn of a brand new millennium: According to Song Neung-Han′s Segimal, Seoul is a filthy city, corrupted and rotten to the core. One doesn′t need any special rhetoric to describe such a city, just taking out t...

Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 2000
• 96 min

Il Mare is a time-crossing romantic story happening in the same physical space. The original title, Shee Wol Eh, means love beyond time. Director Lee Hyun-Seung remarks that making his third feature (his first in five years) was ′...

Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 2000
• 85 min

It′s not unusual to witness surrealistic images in Kim Ki-Duk′s films, as they often cross the line between reality and the imagination. Even with such a title as ′state of reality (the direct translation of the original Korean ti...

Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 2000
• 126 min

This third feature by Hong Sang-Soo is void of any colors. His reasoning behind this is that information contained within color may make characters′ emotions dull. This black-and-white film touches on the fine line between emotion...

Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 2000
• 114 min

It′s circa 1920. Sixteen year-old Soonie marries into a family with a 10 year-old boy as her husband. Later the now grown-up husband comes back from his studies with his westernized girlfriend and sets up a family. Driven out of h...

Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 2000
• 100 min

The 2002 World Cup Games and a serial murder... This unlikely pair gets entangled in Park Chong-Won′s brand new entry. Murders are committed in seven rooms during the 2-hour quarterfinal match between Korea and Japan. However, the...