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Mulholland Drive
  • David Lynch
  • United States
  • 2001
  • 146min

Once again, David Lynch′s creative energies create a strange, dreamlike world that begins as a normal Hollywood film, but spirals into an increasingly absurd and confused jumble of...

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La Pianiste
  • Michael HANEKE
  • Austria,France
  • 2001
  • 130min

La Pianiste portrays Erika Kohut who teaches piano at the Vienna Conservatory. She lives with her tyrannical elderly mother in a hermetically sealed world of love, ha...

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Eunuch
  • SHIN Sang-ok
  • Korea
  • 1968
  • 94min

In the late 1960′s, the Korean film industry began to lose its vibrancy due to strict censorship by the dictatorial Park Jung-Hee government. Shin Sang-Ok, who had then the biggest...

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A Flower in Hell
  • SHIN Sang-ok
  • Korea
  • 1958
  • 87min

A Flower in Hell is director Shin Sang-Ok′s early masterpiece. The film demonstrates the director′s interest in social themes. Set in a devastated post-war Seoul, the film depicts ...

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Mother and a Guest in the Master′sRoom
  • SHIN Sang-ok
  • Korea
  • 1961
  • 102min

Before there were reevaluations of his filmography, this film was regarded as Shin Sang-Ok′s best work. It stills ranks high on the list of his major films. Choi Eun-Hee, who, othe...

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One Thousand Year Old Fox
  • SHIN Sang-ok
  • Korea
  • 1969
  • 89min

During his career as a filmmaker Shin Sang-Ok showed his talent with a strong box-office power, making films of many different genres; from historical films to musicals. One ...

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Phantom Queen
  • SHIN Sang-ok
  • Korea
  • 1967
  • 106min

When making historical pieces, Shin Sang-Ok seems to prefer visual brilliance and dynamic interpretation over accurate historical research. Phantom Queen portrays ...

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Salt
  • SHIN Sang-ok
  • Korea(north)
  • 1985
  • 96min

Another North Korean film, presented for the first time in Busan with Runaway. After 5 years of imprisonment, director Shin Sang-Ok directed 7 films in the span of 2 and a half yea...

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Vanished
  • SHIN Sang-ok
  • Korea
  • 1994
  • 110min

Shin Sang-Ok, along with his favorite actress and wife Choi Eun-Hee, made many controversial films. Often the couple itself was at the center of controversy. Their escape from Nort...

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Women of Yi-Dynasty
  • SHIN Sang-ok
  • Korea
  • 1969
  • 87min

Of this omnibus film, divided into four episodes, only 3 episodes remain, but nevertheless they are enough to deem Women of Yi-Dynasty an important film, both in a c...

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