All Stories for Korean Films
Revisiting Memories of Murder, which put the Golden Globe-winning Parasite director Bong Joon-ho on the map
Baradwaj Rangan • 5 years agoParasite 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
Baradwaj Rangan • 5 years agoIn 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
Bhaskar Chattopadhyay • 7 years agoSteel 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
• 8 years agoKorean 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.