Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2011
• 80min

Another ambitious low-budget 3-D drama distinctive from [A Fish], Persimmon spent the budget of $350,000. The project had started as a cable TV movie that aired last year under the title [Restroom]. The TV movie went through a com...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2011
• 120min

This is a tragic drama about a man whose family was destroyed because of a car accident and the married couple who caused the accident. The parallel narratives of the two families alternate and gradually merge in a bittersweet con...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2011
• 133min

It is February, 1953 and truce talks are not going well. Control of Aerok Hill, on the eastern frontier, constantly changes sides. As the director noted about his ambitious human drama set in the battlefield, the main character of...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2011
• 144min

[Glove] is a relatively under-rated film of the year along with [Hanji]. It can be said Kang Wooseok’s version of [Take Off] and baseball version of [Shilmido]. Although its box office score is far less impressive compared to thos...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2011
• 118min

This is a fictional drama and documentary about people who are trying to restore Jeonju Sago on Hanji paper, the only remaining annals of the Joseon Dynasty that were burned during Imjin-Waeran. The film crosses over between ficti...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2011
• 97min

Following on the success of [Leafie], which broke the box office record for Korean animation, selling over 2 million tickets, [The King of Pigs] offers yet another kind of meaningful film in Korean animation history. Director Yeon...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2011
• 95min

The title itself bespeaks for this movie. This is a human drama for the family, and a postideological drama that took 7 years to complete. Various episodes about boys and girls living in Bochunbori, a small village in Ryang Gang D...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2011
• 115min

2011 ACF Post-production Fund This is, in a way, a comprehensive anti-narrative film. The storylines are monumentally complex. Although the director was assistant director to Hong Sang-soo on [Tale of Cinema] and [Hahaha], his wo...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2011
• 98min

A [Fish] ranks, along with [The Passion of a Man Called Choe Che-u] of New Currents, among the truly great finds at this year’s festival. Shot entirely in 3D with a budget of about $70,000, the film is a ‘trans-mystery drama’ abou...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea
• 2011
• 98min

[Beautiful Miss Jin] is a well-made local film that emphasized the importance of ‘living together.’ The title, of course, is ironic expression of the reality. Miss Jin is certainly not beautiful yet her mind is. She is a homeless ...