Korean Cinema Retrospective
The Bamboo House of DollsNear the point of death, a resistance soldier tells his wife where some gold is hidden. The wife is sent to a camp for female POWS, where blatant acts of cruelty and sexual abuse a...
Korean Cinema Retrospective
The Black HairSince 1963, when Shin Films started co-producing with Shaw Brothers, actors and directors from Shin Films also started to forge careers in Hong Kong, in the form of providing prope...
Korean Cinema Retrospective
Duel to the DeathMade via co-production with locations provided by Korea, Duel to the Death is the theatrical debut of Ching Siu Tung, a master of Hong Kong martial arts films such A Chinese Ghost ...
Korean Cinema Retrospective
The Goddess of MercyThe King Myojang is a violent, belligerent tyrant that destroys neighboring countries. His third daughter, Princess Myosun converts to Buddhism and helps prisoners of war escape. w...
Korean Cinema Retrospective
Hand of DeathHand of Death, an authentic martial arts film with a revenge plot, is the second Korea-Hong Kong co-production from John Woo, after The Dragon Tamers. Shin was once an apprentice o...
Korean Cinema Retrospective
The Last Woman of ShangA wide, endless field. Hundreds of horses and thousands of extras fill the screen. The music is equally grand and the cameras move about as if they′ re flying. This is the battle s...
Korean Cinema Retrospective
The RescueA resistance force that wants to see the Song Dynasty resurrected has gathered around Moon Sung-ju. When he′s arrested by Won Dynasty loyalist Daewonsa, the others plot his rescue ...
Korean Cinema Retrospective
SchoolmistressSchoolmistress is a film starring Li Ching, the Shaw Brothers Princess,′ who was the most popular Hong Kong actress in Korea after Susanna was released in 1967. This co-production ...
Korean Cinema Retrospective
When Taekwondo StrikesIn the 1970s, Golden Harvest attempted co-productions with Korean film companies in their search for the next Bruce Lee. Their search took them to the nation of taekwondo and turne...
World Cinema
AftermathHow does one bear the unbearable? That is the essential question for Claes and Britt, a couple in their mid-thirties. Britt is a social worker specializing in inadequate families a...