South Korea
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The 31st Busan International Film Festival (BIFF), which closed on October 15, drew 277,027 visitors, roughly 40,000 more than last year and the highest since 2015. The 10-day event screened… Read More
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Shin Min-a is, for all intents and purposes, Korea’s first Disney Princess as she plays the titular royal in the lavish new K-drama The Remarried Empress. Adapted from Alphatart’s web… Read More
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Son Suk-ku and Eita Nagayama team up for the transnational crime thriller The Blue Road, Netflix’s upcoming K-drama in which they play rival detectives on the trail of a viciously… Read More
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In Dead-End Job, Lee Jae-wook (Alchemy of Souls) stars as a desperate loser who takes a series of dangerous, increasingly bizarre part-time gigs to escape crippling debt. Netflix’s latest high-concept… Read More
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An artisanal café in a quiet yet fashionable Seoul neighborhood provides the setting for a quartet of seasonal vignettes in Kim Jong-kwan’s romantic anthology “The Table: Day and Night.” Opening… Read More
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The Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) opens its 31st edition today with a renewed sense of relevance and prestige as it celebrates its newly minted status as an A-list festival… Read More
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With a budget reported to be closing in on 100 billion won (US$74.3 million), Hope, a white-knuckle action spectacular from South Korean genre specialist Na Hong-jin, is the most expensive… Read More
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The opening film at this year’s Tubi Frightfest London, Nervous is an ambitious psychological thriller set in the South Korean countryside. Irish actress Sarah Bolger reunites with director Abner Pastoll… Read More
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This week on RTHK Radio 3’s The Brew, I chat to Phil about season 4 of Ted Lasso, the Teochew romantic comedy Back to Love, Korean family drama Number One,… Read More
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Jang Hye-jin and Choi Woo-shik, stars of Bong Joon-ho’s Oscar-winning South Korean satire Parasite, reunite in Number One. This peculiar drama by Kim Tae-yong (Set Me Free) casts them once… Read More
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The second season of Disney+’s ultra-stylish action K-drama series A Shop for Killers picks up right where season one left off. The first two episodes immediately throw audiences back into… Read More
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Twenty-five years ago this week, Kwak Jae-young’s game-changing My Sassy Girl exploded into South Korean cinemas. A surprise blockbuster at home and across the region, it resonated with audiences by… Read More
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Marking its 30th anniversary, the Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (BiFan) in South Korea promises a typically raucous 11-day event from July 2 to 12. Staged in the bustling satellite… Read More
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Korean superstar Jun Ji-hyun makes her long-awaited return to the big screen in Colony, an action-packed zombie thriller that sees director Yeon Sang-ho revisit the undead mayhem that made his… Read More
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A trio of social outcasts unexpectedly develop superpowers in Netflix’s latest original K-drama series, The Wonderfools. Reuniting with her Extraordinary Attorney Woo director Yoo In-sik, Park Eun-bin takes the lead… Read More
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The Russian city of Vladivostok provides the setting for Humint, the latest globe-trotting thriller from South Korean action specialist Ryoo Seung-wan. Set in the high-stakes world of international espionage, the… Read More
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Wealth and good fortune are the twin engines of the Lunar New Year film season, and Hong Kong filmmaker Philip Yung Tsz-kwong’s The Snowball on a Sunny Day is the… Read More
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Hong Kong movie star and producer Louis Koo Tin-lok is currently rewriting history – and box office records – with the time-travel adventure Back to the Past. Taking in over… Read More
