Lee Jung-hyun

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)

"Paranmanjang," which means a "life full of ups and downs" in Korean, is about a man transcending his current and former lives. He catches a woman while fishing in a river in the middle of the night. They both end up entangled in the line and he thinks she is dead. Suddenly, though, she wakes up, strangles him and he passes out. When the woman awakens him, she is wearing his clothing and he hers. She cries and calls him "father." (www.bloody-disgusting.com)

Korean director Kang Yi-kwan evokes such troubled-youth classics as Rebel Without a Cause, The 400 Blows and L'enfance nue in this beautifully rendered character study of a fifteen-year-old boy struggling to stay on the straight and narrow. (tiff.net)

The film mainly follows the famous 1597 Battle of Myeongryang during the Japanese invasion of Korea (1592-1598), where the iconic Joseon admiral Yi Sun-sin managed to destroy a total of 133 Japanese warships with only 13 ships remaining in his command. The battle, which took place in the Myeongryang Strait off the southwest coast of the Korean Peninsula, is considered one of the greatest victories of Yi. (imdb)

Su-nam has been good with her hands since she was young. Computers take over her job, but luckily she finds a new job in a small factory and gets married to a hearing-impaired man. Even with nine years of hard working they cannot afford to buy a house, and Su-nam finally decides to take out a loan and buys their home. Su-nam works hard to pay off the debt, but the situation is not getting any better. Then there comes an opportunity to pay off all her debt at once.

A man once called a bowling legend teams up with a bookie and an autistic genius bowling player. (imdb)

Through multiple story lines, amid graphic portrayals of actual births, caeseareans and a vasectomy, this satirical comedy-drama set in a women's clinic wages an all-out assault on contemporary Korean sexual and gender practices. (imdb)

During the Japanese colonial era, roughly 400 Korean people, who were forced onto Battleship Island ("Hashima Island") to mine for coal, attempt to escape. (imdb)

The Um family is about to leave for a family trip. However, at the house the family arrived to enjoy their break, fired employee, Kim was waiting for the family. He screams while holding the limbs of a family member who tries to flee from him, and Kim demands payment for his discharge. Suffering, the family screams out and asks Um to give him what he wants, but Um thinks differently. (imdb)

Jung-seok, a soldier who previously escaped the diseased wasteland, relives the horror when assigned to a covert operation with two simple objectives: retrieve and survive. When his team unexpectedly stumbles upon survivors, their lives will depend on whether the best-or worst-of human nature prevails in the direst of circumstances. (rottentomatoes.com)

A detective investigating a man's death in the mountains meets the dead man's mysterious wife in the course of his dogged sleuthing. (imdb)

A group of humans wage war against the rising evil of unidentified parasitic life-forms that live off of human hosts and strive to grow their power. (imdb)

So-hee enjoys her seemingly perfect life as a newlywed with her seemingly perfect husband. For being so perfect, she begins to suspect that her husband isn't as he seems. (imdb)