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Going to watch one of these three tonight, but can't decide.

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Don’t miss the epic finale of the Admiral trilogy, Noryang: Deadly Sea, where Yi Sun-sin fights his last and most decisive naval battle of the Imjin War. A must-watch for fans of Korean cinema and historical epics. #Noryang #Admiral #KoreanCinema https://thecinemanews.online/noryang-deadly-sea-the-epic-finale-of-the-admiral-trilogy/

"Oldboy," the genre-defying South Korean movie that paved the way for "Parasite," Snowpiercer," "Train to Busan" and "Squid Game," turns 20 this week. The A.V. Club's Richard Newby traces its influence.

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What a wild ride The Wailing is! Creepy, intense, gory and confusing in the best possible way! Even at just over two and a half hours, it keeps you engrossed. A brilliantly done horror. #Film #Filmastodon #KoreanCinema #Horror

#nowwatching #koreancinema #hirokazukoreeda

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New #BloodSplatteredVlog!

This week The Horror Guru & Count Jackula review #ProjectWolfHunting! A Korean action/horror/scifi/crime film that's basically Con Air meets Jason X!

It's a WILD and BLOODY ride! Currently available on the #ScreamBox!

#Horror #HorrorMovie #KoreanCinema #KoreanFilm #KHorror #Action #ActionMovie #FilmReview #MovieReview #Review #Vlog #BloodSplatteredVlog #BloodSplatteredCinema #HorrorGuru #TheHorrorGuru #CountJackula #Scifi #ScifiMovie

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Referenced link: https://watch.plex.tv/movie/please-dont-save-me
Originally posted by Plex / @plex@twitter.com: https://twitter.com/EchelonStudios/status/1636442862286979102#m

RT by @plex: 'Please Don't Save Me' (2020)

Directed by Jung Yeon-kyung & starring #ChoSeoYeon (#조서연), #ChoiRoWoon (#최로운), #YangSoMin (#양소민), #SunHoa (#선화), #LeeHwiJong (#이휘종) & #LeeSunHee (#이선희)

Watch now on @plex 👀 https://watch.plex.tv/movie/please-dont-save-me

#나를구하지마세요 #koreancinema

“Da-song is an artist by nature. Look at this painting.”
“It’s so metaphorical. It’s really strong. It’s a chimpanzee, right?”
“A self-portrait.”
“Sure enough. The perspective of a young artist eludes understanding.”

📷 Yeo-Jeong Cho and Woo-sik Choi in Joon-Ho Bong’s Parasite (B&W version, 2020).

#NowWatching #KoreanCinema #B&W

“This is so metaphorical.”

📷 Woo-sik Choi (and Seo-Joon Park) in Joon-Ho Bong’s Parasite (B&W version, 2020).

#NowWatching #KoreanCinema #blackandwhite

Mubi may be the only subscription I end up keeping. I am absolutely loving it right now. 🥰

Tonight’s movie choice is ‘Lady Vengeance’. I watched it at the Dublin International Film Festival when it was first released.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Vengeance

#KoreanCinema #Vengeance #trilogy

Mubi may be the only subscription I end up keeping. I am absolutely loving it right now. 🥰

Tonight’s movie choice is ‘Lady Vengeance’. I watched it at The Dublin International Film Festival when it was first released.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Vengeance

#KoreanCinema #Vengeance #trilogy

What I appreciate about #Hongsangsoo is not only his steadfast consistency in traipsing the stickiness of the human relationship but also his complete disregard for what he deemed unnecessary bullshit - namely excessive title sequence, dramatic music or coverage (hence the excessive used of funny, automated zooms). #RightNowWrongThen also doesn't really care much about the conventions of a do over/what if romantic comedy. The first take isn't an earth shattering catastrophe or anything and completely plausible as much as second scenario which is obviously more desirable. He plays with the notion of the games we play and certain inhibitions in our society on different occasions. It's also a delight to see reversing those roles fueled by alcohol. His jab at film critics and how to behave in front of them were also telling. All in all, the film is yet another great comedy from prolific Hong who continues building a great, unique body of work. #hongsangsoo #KimMinhee #koreancinema

Singular, prolific Hong Sangsoo graces us with Our Sunhi, soon after Nobody's Daughter Haewon. Another slight variation on the world of post-college entanglement soaked in soju & stained with cigarette butts. After getting a less than satisfying recommendation letter from her former professor, timid Sunhi (Jeong Yumi) confronts an old flame, Moonsoo and her former college senior and the professor in an attempt to define herself. The three men, all rekindled their interests in Sunhi, try to grapple themselves with their overwhelming attraction to the young woman who they find kind, smart and sometimes brave. Heavily inflected by alcohol and desire, their opinions of her overlap and get muddled. But in the end, after much digging, everyone reaches pretty much the same conclusion of that she is a good person. Hong concocts yet another delicious human comedy. #hongsangsoo #koreancinema #oursunhi

It's quite amazing that Hong's been making the same film with little variations for close to 20 years now with an unwavering consistency. Sure, as his reputation has grown as one of the leading Korean auteurs on the international film stage, and his films now feature European art house staples (this time around, Jane Birkin). But the scope of his films has remained pretty much the same. Nothing really new here- having an affair with older professor/movie director, drinking and smoking, and wrestling with that sinewy entanglement we call human relationship. But you can't not end up falling for Haewon (Jeong Eun-chae), a pretty college student who's about to be orphaned because her mom's permanently relocating to Canada. Her married professor/director wants to continue their 'secret' affairs and gets mad jealous and clingy at the same time, even though they both are tired of their predicament. Very enjoyable and endearing. #HongSangsoo #koreancinema

Yourself and Yours turns out to be perhaps the most poignant and romantic film of all the Hong's I've seen so far. Inebriated Minjung (Lee You-young) flirts with a film director she just met, over beer. When they meet, the director is convinced that he knows her from somewhere but she vehemently denies it. Over a short period of time before the encounter, she leaves Yongsoo and breaks up with an older man who also first thought she was Minjung but she tells him that she is her twin sister. Just to be in the clear, Yourself and Yours is nothing like Buñuel's or Kieslowski's. Hong's interest is not in identity crisis or duality of men. His double takes and alternate scenarios may seem manipulative (also delicious) but the movie is more to do with accepting a person for who that person is, with blemishes and all that. #yourselfandyours #hongsangsoo #koreancinema

Now watching The Witch Part 1

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#Cine #Cinema #Movies #Films #Películas #Cinemastodon #MastoFilms #KoreanCinema #KimKiDuk

🎬 Hierro 3 (3-Iron) - Kim Ki-duk, 2004 🏌️‍♂️

With a Girl of Black Soil takes place in a wintry small mining town in rural Korea. A miner finds out that he has a lung disease. He gets laid off. He has a mentally challenged boy and a young girl to look after & the coal company is planning to demolish their shack. Talk about bleakness. The bright eyed girl is adorable. She tries to make the best out of the poverty stricken life. After all, she's still a child and doesn't really know anything other than her surroundings, or does she? Things get progressively worse. Her brother does stupid things to make life more difficult & papa drinks to forget his troubles. The girl has to resort to stealing ramen and soju from a local convenient store. Even with little hints here and there, I was still surprised by the powerful, if not improbable ending. There are many amazing scenes of tenderness with beautiful, natural photography in this independent feature by Jeon Soo-il. #indiecinema #koreancinema

Jjacko is a slang for people with deformed nose. It's interesting to note that the communist is an ugly man with a deformed nose & the cop’s always wearing dark shades very much like the ones general Park (a military dictator who was assassinated in 1979)'s. Obviously intentional. But the film's all about how both sides suffered but no one really cares to remember. Through overly melodramatic flashbacks, we see how both Song and Jjacko are alike in suffering- Jjacko as a fugitive and Song as an obssessive pursuer. These are also very macho characters who never regrets anything. Remorse doesn't figure in their thoughts. And women are just there to be sacrificed &vaguely recalled. Im Kwontaek is a competent director who always provides some stunning compositions & energetic camera movements. He also weaves in two men's flashbacks as how their lives are connected in dramatic and bizarre ways. Jjacko is not a great film but an interesting one nonetheless. #koreancinema #jjacko #imkwontaek

South Korean Intelligence officers beat and torture and shoot their way through a plot to assassinate the president in Hunt (Lee Jung-jae, 2022). Outrageously violent and fast-paced spy thriller with shocking plot-twists. #FrontaalNaaktFilm #KoreanCinema