this was on discovery channel asia a couple nights ago:
Chinese New Year Special: Gateway Asia: Cinema Asia: South Korea
Since the late 1990s, South Korea’s film industry has undergone an amazing transformation.
i wrote out a list of some of the korean movies that they mentioned in hopes that someday i'll be able to find atleast a couple of them. i've only seen two of them (oldboy and jsa).
here's the list and the accompanying imdb.com link for each:
shiri - north korean plot to assassinate the prez
sympathy for mr. vengeance / old boy / sympathy for lady vengeance - chan-wook park trilogy
jsa - assasination at the dmz
silmido - president of korea's secret hit squad
the president's last bang - assassination of president by his intelligence leader
two cops - police bribery
memories of murder - serial killer satire
girls' night out - new generation of korean women take the forefront
singles - modern women; Korea's "sex in the city"
a good lawyer's wife - older woman has affair, challenges traditional conventions
green fish - breakdown of family ties
my brother - relationship between mother and two bros who have taken different paths in life
peppermint candy - korean stock market crash in 1997, man kills self
crying fist - koreans down on their luck, two men who seek meaning through boxing
marathon - handicapped autistic youth runs, runs and runs some more
the duelist - low-budget historical martial arts epic
i wrote out a list of some of the korean movies that they mentioned in hopes that someday i'll be able to find atleast a couple of them. i've only seen two of them (oldboy and jsa).
here's the list and the accompanying imdb.com link for each:
shiri - north korean plot to assassinate the prez
sympathy for mr. vengeance / old boy / sympathy for lady vengeance - chan-wook park trilogy
jsa - assasination at the dmz
silmido - president of korea's secret hit squad
the president's last bang - assassination of president by his intelligence leader
two cops - police bribery
memories of murder - serial killer satire
girls' night out - new generation of korean women take the forefront
singles - modern women; Korea's "sex in the city"
a good lawyer's wife - older woman has affair, challenges traditional conventions
green fish - breakdown of family ties
my brother - relationship between mother and two bros who have taken different paths in life
peppermint candy - korean stock market crash in 1997, man kills self
crying fist - koreans down on their luck, two men who seek meaning through boxing
marathon - handicapped autistic youth runs, runs and runs some more
the duelist - low-budget historical martial arts epic
