Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Kwon-taek IM
• Korea,South
• 2013
• 146min

In the mid-19th Century in Korea, the people of the Joseon Dynasty welcomed the new religion Donghak. After its founder was executed, Choi Si-hyeong succeeds as Donghak’s second-generation leader and successfully propagated the se...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea,South
• 2013
• 90min

Swordsman Iljimae travels to Japan in search of the CheonRyongGeom, a national treasure looted by the Japanese invader Kuroda. But two others are hunting Kuroda besides Iljimae: one-armed warrior Macheol, who lost his left arm to ...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea,South
• 2013
• 112min

Seopeonje unfolds in aback and fourth pattern, toggling between the past and present as we follow Dongho, an herbal medicine shop employee, on a visit to Sorijae pass. Years before a wandering singer called Yubong traveled around ...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Kwon-taek IM
• Korea,South
• 2013
• 122min

Soon-nyeo is a trainee Buddhist nun. Her father, out of guilt for the murders he committed during the Vietnam War, became a monk. As a high-school student, Soon-nyeo inspired a scandal with a teacher who had lost his wife during t...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea,South
• 2013
• 93min

Unmarried Soo-ock leaves Seoul to teach at an elementary school in a remote village. She gradually realizes that a local vagabond, Kkaechol, is engaging in all manner of sexual acts with the village’s women?something the men in th...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Kwon-taek IM
• Korea,South
• 2013
• 107min

In the 1930s, under Japanese occupation, Kim Doo-han wins a fight against a Japanese student while working at a theater in Jongno. He becomes a local hero. As Korean gang power grows in the Jongno business area, Hayashi the Japane...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea,South
• 2013
• 108min

Former policeman Song Kiyeol, now an old, sick tramp, is detained at a rehabilitation camp for the homeless, where he encounters Jjakko, a one-time communist partisan. Jjakko was also an object of pursuit during Kiyeol’s entire po...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• IM Kwon-taek
• Korea,South
• 2013
• 135min

Lee Mong-ryong, a local officer’s 16-year old son, loves Chun-hyang, the daughter of a former gisaeng, and promises her life-long companionship. After leaving home, Mong-ryong distinguishes himself in his studies and wins the titl...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea,South
• 2013
• 108min

Ji-sook, a teahouse owner in a seaside town, hires three ladies: Miss Hong has money trouble because of her father’s medical expenses; the frivolous Miss Yang is a would-be actress; and the innocent Miss Yoon is not only her famil...