Sun-Woo Jang

Jang Sun Woo's highly controversial film chronicles the bizarre sexual relations of a 38 year-old man, J, and an 18 year-old student, Y, who is intent on losing her virginity before graduation. After the initial encounter, they embark on a sexual odyssey toward the realms of obsession and sadomasochism. No common love affair, theirs tests the limits of both body and mind. Intense desires drive them into a relationship that revolves around pain, pleasure and unavoidable lies. (back cover)

To Chinese restaurant delivery boy Ju, the only joy in life is spending time at the electronic game room. One day, he is advised to log-on to a game through which the match selling girl of Andersen's fairytale is revived. Ju is drawn into the little girl's virtual reality and, like in the famous fairytale, he is given the mission to save the little girl from danger and lead her to a peaceful death. However, the two are confronted by a gigantic force called the System, that attempts to stop them. (imdb)

A young girl is caught up in the 1980 Gwangju massacre, where Korean soldiers killed hundreds, if not thousands, of protesters who opposed the country's takeover by the military the year before. Flashbacks show the girl seeing her mother shot to death in the massacre. The film spurred the Korean public to demand the truth behind the incident, and their government eventually opened previously classified files on the massacre. (imdb)

R returns from studying in France and reunites with J, whom he used to live with in Paris. (Korean Film Archive)

A personal consideration of the Korean cinema by director Jang Sun-Woo, looking at it's history of outside influence and censorship. (BFI)

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

A melodrama about the love affair of a tailor from the countryside. (Wikipedia)

The Age of Success is a melodrama about lust for success and revenge at a company that makes sweeteners. (en.wikipedia.org)

Seon-Jae, a teenage boy mourns the death of his father and begins a quest to find his mother who abandoned him as a baby. He encounters many people on the way who quote Buddhist precepts: an eccentric monk, a girl who grows up into a young woman, a prison inmate, a foul-mouthed doctor, and the young son of a hard-drinking astronomer. Each of them tells the boy to seek someone to help him find the truth and his mother. (peter07)