Korean Films

Revisiting Memories of Murder, which put the Golden Globe-winning Parasite director Bong Joon-ho on the map

Parasite director Bong Jon-Ho rose to international fame with his 2003 Korean crime drama Memories of a Murderer.

Park Chan-wook’s 2016 Korean thriller The Handmaiden shows how we react differently to physical and emotional violence 

In The Handmaiden, we actually see the emotional abuse, but we flinch more at the physical violence, when those fingers are chopped off.

Steel Rain movie review: This slickly crafted Korean action thriller on Netflix is well worth a watch

Steel Rain offers espionage, daring high profile assassinations, an unlikely camaraderie between two soldiers from warring nations — and a nuclear threat

Cannes 2017: The Villainness, Okja, and other Korean films that stood out

Korean films like The Mistresses and The Villainness are in competition at Cannes 2017 and are crime and action thrillers typical of the booming "Korean noir" genre.