By Pierce Conran In the smash hit Exhuma , four people dig a hole. Things don't turn out well - digging up corpses can do that - so they...

By Pierce Conran Following the record-breaking success of Roaring Currents , Choi Min-sik returns to screens in another big-budget pe...

By Pierce Conran Chinese court thriller Silent Witness gets a sober and effective Korean update with Heart Blackened , a polished new o...

By Pierce Conran Lee Su-jin's Han Gong-ju has been named the Best Korean Film of 2014 by the Korean Film Reporters Association. Th...

Part of MKC's coverage of the 19th Busan International Film Festival By Pierce Conran When making films based on significant mile...

By Pierce Conran Just shy of midnight on Friday, August 15th, period blockbuster Roaring Currents surpassed Avatar (2009) to become ...

By Pierce Conran When making films based on significant milestones in a country’s history, nationalism can be a great asset in a filmma...

By Pierce Conran Roaring Currents has turned the Korean opening weekend record to rubble with 3.34 million admissions ($25.65 million) ...

Part of MKC's  Revenge Week  (July 8-14, 2013). Amour noir as a genre in film has always been popular with Korean audiences. Fro...

Part of MKC's Revenge Week (July 8-14, 2013). By David Bell Released the same year, Jang’s Bedevilled offers a more delicate a...

Part of MKC's  Revenge Week  (July 8-14, 2013).  By David Bell Spectacles of violence are an important aspect of modern cinema....

Part of MKC's coverage of the 15th Udine Far East Film Festival. Ever since I discovered Korean cinema, I’ve been a fan of the in...

Ever since I discovered Korean cinema, I’ve been a fan of the industry’s frequent experimentations with genre. Almost every film that c...

Plenty of news this week so dig in! PiFan is just around the corner by the way, get started next Thursday! PIFAN Check out the follo...

Part of  MKC's coverage  of the 11th New York Asian Film Festival. Biography In discussing the life and works of South Korea...

Part of  MKC's coverage  of the 11th New York Asian Film Festival. Korean cinema is filled to the brim with genre offerings and o...

Vulgaria (低俗喜劇 - Hong Kong, 2012) Nameless Gangster (범죄와의 전쟁, Bumchoiwaui Junjaeng) 2012 War of the Arrows (최종병기 활, Choi-jong-byeong-...

Though not as slick as later works like Shiri (1999) and Joint Security Area (2000), No. 3 was a presage of things to come in Korean c...

Big news week for Korean cinema, a good portion of it for the incoming Busan Film Fest and the controversy surrounding new film The Crucibl...