Jang Kun-jae

In South Korea, the legal age of adulthood is 19. But what if you are 18 and eager to leave your youth behind? For Tae-Hoon, this is a painful transition, full of heartache, disappointment and rebellious angst. (mubi.com)

Jang Kunjae returns with a completely charming account of young married life, the polar opposite of Bergman's Scenes from a Marriage. It may well be rooted in autobiography (Jang's producer-wife Kim Woori is co-credited with the storyline) but the characters are fictional and have credible lives of their own. (viff)

Split into two chapters, Jang's film begins in black and white, as a Korean director visits Gojo to do research for his latest film. With the help of a city council member and an interpreter, he tours the area and meets the elderly locals. Switching to color, the film's second half presents a tale hatched in the filmmaker's mind of a burgeoning romance between a local man and a young Korean woman, on her last stop in Japan before returning home. (Twitch)

A giant Buddha statue is unearthed in a small rural town. The mayor believes that it will change the town into a major tourist attraction. However, a catastrophe starts to grow. A centuries-old curse is unleashed from the statue, and it starts to eat up people's souls and make them non-human. Jung Ki-Hoon, as archaeologist tries to seek the truth behind the paranormal phenomenon. (imdb)