Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2009
• 117min

Jo Pil-seong, a rural detective, is an unrecognized husband, often blamed by his older wife for gambling. Despite her being hard on him, he steals money from her to bet on bull butting. Fortunately, he chalks up an unexpected win,...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2009
• 95min

A sister looking for her runaway younger sister, an animator wandering after leaving work, a reporter, and people who work on a highway rest area are featured in this film. Director Kim Jeong shows various frames materialized by t...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2009
• 121min

In Korean culture, the term ‘three generations’ was treated with much meaning. It signifies the change of the history and at the same time, the origin of an unchanging Korean society and culture. Director Park Dong-hoon took three...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2009
• 116min

Here are two islands. On Bam Island located on the Han River lives Mr. Kim, a suicide attemptercastaway. On the other island is Ms. Kim’s home. She casts herself adrift for some reason. One day, she discovers the castaway. She put...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2009
• 95min

Working at a theater in Daehak-ro as an actor, the husband has an affair with an actress. The wife, without knowing his affair, is busy housekeeping. The second feature by director Kim Dong Won shows typical pictures of Korean soc...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2009
• 83min

Working part-time at a mart, Soo-young sometimes steals inventory at the store and sells them. Her objective is to get a full-time job, and for that reason, she saves up to get plastic surgery. Meanwhile, her boyfriend, who was li...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea,Japan
• 2009
• 76min

Ryo, the lead singer of a band scheduled to perform in Seoul, is terrified of airplanes. So after sending the rest of the band off, he decides to take a taxi from Tokyo to Seoul. The road to Seoul is a non-stop series of surprises...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2009
• 110min

This is director Kwon Chil In’s fourth feature film, which deals with the struggle between work and love. At the fore, we see a married couple. One of the wife’s girlfriends unexpectedly starts living with them, and the wife makes...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2009
• 129min

A mother lives quietly with her twenty-eight-year-old son, Do-joon, providing herbs and acupuncture to neighbors. One day, a girl is brutally murdered, and Do-joon is charged with the killing. Now, it’s his mother’s call whether t...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2009
• 95min

A famous story by Kwon Jeong-saeng is screened. The original story is known for its lyricism and unique yet popular narrative. However, in the camera of Lee Jisang, Kwon Jeong-saeng’s bestseller is transformed into the portrait of...