Ju-bong Gi

Joint Security Area is the "Apocalypse Now" of the Korean War -- a shimmering, hyper-real epic that charts the spiritual fallout of international politics. (Subway Cinema)

A team of police hunt down a villain.

Save the Green Planet is a tilt-a whirl genre-blender from Korea that turns film history against itself to create one of the most savage, affecting and inspired anti-violence movies ever made. This is a movie that defies all marketing labels and is exactly what it wants to be: like nothing you've ever seen before. (Koch Lorber Films)

In Seoul, the deaf and dumb worker Ryu is very attached to his sister, who needs a transplantation of kidney. He tries to donate his own kidney to his sister, but his blood B type is not compatible with her. When Ryu is fired from Ilshin Electronics, he meets illegal dealers of organs and the criminals propose Ryu's kidney plus ten millions Won per a kidney suitable for his sister. Ryu accepts the trade, but he does not have money to pay for the surgery... (imdb)

An ex-cop now working as a security guard in a shopping mall tries to uncover the secret behind a series of mysterious deaths linked to mirrors (imdb)

Ruthless cop Chul-joong and a merciless killer in raincoat run into each other in a small alleyway and form a fatal bond... (imdb)

During the Vietnam War, a squad of South Korean soldiers encounter strange happenings on a haunted island. Full Metal Jacket meets The Shining in this atmospheric Asian horror (Channel 4)

A sweeping, epic tale of a martial arts warrior who attempts to defy a kingdom to be with his love. (imdb)

Two different families claim the body of a woman killed in a catastrophe.

The story deals with two men of different ages. Choi plays an Asian Games silver medalist whose health and family is in a downward spiral and Ryoo Seung-beom plays a careless young man with crime chasing tendencies and a small family that stands behind him no matter what. (IMDB Comments)

A young girl is asked by strangers to impersonate a prodigal daughter to fulfill a father's dying wish, and in doing so tests the fragility of family bonds. (imdb)

A teenage girl suffering from amnesia discovers that she is somehow connected to a group of people who are being killed off one by one by a vengeful ghost. (imdb)

Two close friends, medieval Korean swordsmen, face each other (imdb User Comments)

U-in, a young and awkward young Korean man, is unlucky in love. Enamoured with a prickly redhead, he finds someone who matches her description online. Aya, a Japanese girl who recently has had to move back in with her parents after the death of her grandmother, dreams of getting away from her life, and puts money to achieve this goal.

Centered around the mixed emotions found in traveling. Characters in the film are Sung-nam Kim, an artist selected by the Korean government that escaped from Seoul and currently resides in Paris, student Yoo-jung Lee studying painting in Paris, Sung-in Han waiting for her husband Sung-nam Kim, and North Korean Kyeong-su Yun also studying in Paris. (imdb)

A 30 year old mystery resurfaces and takes over the lives of the people living in an eerie apartment complex. (imdb)

The film stars Cho Jae-hyun as a detective who works his way up the hierarchy of a gang that is suspected of smuggling drugs in the port city of Mokpo. Cha In-pyo plays the gang leader who takes the detective under his wings. (asianjunction.com)

After unfairly losing his title, Tae Kwon Do World Champ Kim Seung-Hyun (Lee Dong-jun) winds up cage fighting in Vegas. At the same time, his wife dies while giving birth to a girl in Korea, so Kim returns to raise his daughter and finds works as a cop. Years later, he loses his job and returns to illegal fighting -- but this time, he's blackmailed, his daughter's life is at stake, and a woman from his past reappears.

Yoon-hee is so harassed by her husband's obsession and frantic love, that even breathing is painful to her. One day, her sudden suicide attempt is foiled when someone takes her in his arms and saves her. Hyung-jun is a rough-looking detective. He asks nothing, but maybe he knows that for some people, just being alive is hard enough. Yoon-hee goes looking for Hyung-jun, and from the moment she sees him, feels that he already loves her deeply. (hancinema.net)

Filmmaker JO Munkyung plans to leave Seoul to live in Canada. So days before his departure, he meets his close friend BANG Jungshik, who is a film critic. (cannes)

A compilation of episodes from the lives of the 'bad teens' and the homeless of Seoul. (imdb)

A Japanese man arrives in Korea to find his old lover. While he stays at a guest house, he encounters various people.

Hae-shik and Hae-chul may be twin brothers, but that is pretty much where the similarities begin and end. Operating on opposite sides of the law, Hae-shik has a high-ranking position as a senior police officer while Hae-Chul falls in with a pretty tough crowd. When one of the brothers chooses to end his own life with his sibling's gun, a tense investigation involving shifting identities and questionable motives finds him traveling a dangerous road on which death may be the only escape. (rottentomatoes)

A 36-year old detective falls in love with a nihilistic 19-year old shop-lifter and wonders if the relationship which develops can last. (imdb)

AKA Who Saw The Dragon's Toenails;

Two detectives investigate a string of horrific murders in Seoul and zero in on a sadistic gang leader who carries an actual ball and chain. (imdb)

A traditional Korean fairy tale about a young boy: Geun-tae. During the journey towards masculinity, he is forced to go from cowardice to full-fledged hero.

Hyo-jeong, a 69-year-old woman, is raped by a male nurse aide. But few people, including the police, are willing to believe her words. Most people question whether that handsome young man really would have done so. The male nurse aide claims that it was a consensual sexual relationship. Only Dong-in, who loves Hyo-jeong dearly, is cooing to free her from her injustice.

A female novelist takes a long trip to visit a bookstore run by a younger colleague who has fallen out of touch. Then she goes up a tower on her own and runs into a film director and his wife. They take a walk in a park and meet an actress, after which the novelist tries to convince the actress to make a film with her. She and the actress get something to eat, then revisit the bookstore where a group of people are drinking. The actress gets drunk and falls asleep.

A sheep farmer whose remote and quiet life is disturbed by the arrival of both his lover and his twin sister. (imdb)

The story follows Do Hyun a college student majored in Physical Education at University and his dreams of becoming an action star but coincidentally becomes a Taekwondo master at his old school while teaching three out of six troublemakers whom the school gave up on and the other three who don't even have the slightest talent in this sport.

Oh-wol, the train deputy head of railway construction and Dong-hoon, a passenger on the Kyeongchun Line meet on a train and do each other a favor. Later, they coincidentally run into each other once again and they eventually fall in love. Oh-wol attends to the Kyeongchun Line which is not far from being closed from Seoul to Chuncheon and she likes Dong-hoon's warmth and consideration but is nervous when he can't be reached for no reason.

Chan Soo is a detective with a daughter whom he loves dearly. One day, she disappears and one of his closest friends Joon Shik is arrested as a suspect. Will Chan Soo stay still?