Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2016
• 100min

Young police officer Choi Munoh is overworked and lousily paid. So bad in fact that his girlfriend threatens to leave him if he doesn’t quit his risky job, but he decides to stay. The chief of police, who is the dedicated and warm...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2016
• 110min

Jeongho, the son of a government official, and Jaok, a government minister’s daughter, are in love. Jaok’s father doesn’t approve of the relationship and sends her away to be a concubine for the king?a move that could all too know...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2016
• 100min

Gilrye, a young girl from an upper-class family that has fallen on hard times, marries a dying man for his money and immediately becomes a widow. To make her a “widow of virtue,” her mother-in-law controls Gilrye’s sexual desires ...

• Un Certain Regard at Cannes Film Festival

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2016
• 95min

In the first of Lee Doo Yong’s taekwondo films, Japanese karate instructor Sasaki, Chinese martial arts master Wang, and Korean taekwondo expert Lee fight over a chest of gold that’s earmarked for the Korean Independence Army. A b...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2016
• 115min

The head of technology development at a computer company tries to care for his parents after a flood forces them to move out of their hometown and into Seoul. Having long been concerned about his aging parents living alone, he pla...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2016
• 101min

Sodol, recently released from jail after serving 5 years for suspicion of murder, moves back to his island home following the death of his mother. Soon after his return, seaweed that’s being farmed starts to go rotten and a long-d...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2016
• 158min

While investigating the murder of brewery owner Yang Dalsu, detective Oh becomes embroiled in a case that dates back to the Korean War involving his mistress, Sohn Jihye, her husband, Hwang Bawu, and the commander of a guerilla un...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2016
• 93min

The country’s most revered shamans rush to Mr. Kang’s house to cure his eldest son’s life-threatening illness. Among them, Okhwa, who has extraordinary spiritual powers, discovers a gourd buried in the village. She explains that t...

• ISDAP Awards at Venice Film Festival