Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2011
• 118min

Five marines volunteer for a special mission ? destroy a North Korean ammunition storehouse. This film tells their personal stories. Newly appointed platoon commander Oh Suk-man who is on bad terms with his father, the battalion c...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2011
• 114min

During a brief respite in the Korean War, a North Korean officer Jang Il-goo defects to South Korea in order to find his lover. But she has already married a South Korean lieutenant. This is a war melodrama about the tragic relati...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2011
• 112min

Kim’s famous boxing film stars Kim Gi-su, who was a famous champion at the time. Long takes of boxing scenes are vivid and real as two sets of fists cut across the screen. However these realistic action scenes take up only a small...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2011
• 96min

Yoo Bong-Eun, a widowed hospital dormitory matron, has a younger boyfriend. In order to keep him by her side while maintaining a respectable front, she insists that he marry a nurse who lives in the dormitory. We can predict what ...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2011
• 80min

The very first Korean monster, Yonggari is born from a nuclear explosion test carried out by a foreign country. As his destruction commences in the midst of Seoul, the city declares martial law and some people flee while others ge...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2011
• 92min

This is a story about three new brides born in the year of the horse. They are all familiar with the saying,‘ women born in the year of the horse have a rough fate,’which has proven true in their lives. Afraid to give birth to dau...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2011
• 115min

Doo-su, an orphan and a minion in a smuggling ring, dreams of the high life, but is fated to live the rest of his life in the city alleys. There is no future for him, as he drifts in and out of prison for swindling passersby in th...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2011
• 110min

The family of Wang Bal-san, a businessman based in Busan, has never seen a peaceful day. While Wang Bal-san has earned the respect befitting a prominent man of character, he has never been understood by his sons. The film follows ...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2011
• 81min

The shabby and desperate daily lives of three families unfold against the backdrop of Haebangchon village, where people from North Korea who have crossed the border to the South live together. Their hopefulness is buried by the in...