Film The Korean Movies Thread

[Fortitude]

Thought I'd have a bit of a K-Cinema weekend and watch some of my favourite movies again.

Oldboy
The Man From Nowhere
I Saw The Devil
Lady Vengeance

And am about to watch The Gangster The Cop The Devil.

Clearly on a veneance theme, but still thoroughly entertaining movies. Will do a psychological thriller weekend next, I think.

Would be great to get a compendium of great Korean films across genres, if possible.

Could anyone recommend any dark comedies or thrillers, per chance?

 

[Handré1990]

Thought I'd have a bit of a K-Cinema weekend and watch some of my favourite movies again.

Oldboy
The Man From Nowhere
I Saw The Devil
Lady Vengeance

And am about to watch The Gangster The Cop The Devil.

Clearly on a veneance theme, but still thoroughly entertaining movies. Will do a psychological thriller weekend next, I think.

Would be great to get a compendium of great Korean films across genres, if possible.

Could anyone recommend any dark comedies or thrillers, per chance?

Castaway on the moon. Dark comedy, kind of. Watch it! I loved it! One of the first Korean movies I watched, and it’s amazing.

 

[choiboyx012]

Friend- gangster/friendship coming of age
Veteran- cop/gangster
New world- gangster
Chaser-Crime thriller
Handmaiden- japan-occupied era directed by park chaneook (old boy trilogy) very sexual
The outlaws- gangster/cop

 

[Fortitude]

Thanks. Added to the 'to watch' list.

 

[thepolice123]

The Wailing
Burning
Memories of Murder
A Bittersweet Life
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring

Was absolutely blown away. All of them.

 

[Tarrou]

Castaway on the moon. Dark comedy, kind of. Watch it! I loved it! One of the first Korean movies I watched, and it’s amazing.

I absolutely loved this movie

 

[Fortitude]

The Wailing
Burning
Memories of Murder
A Bittersweet Life
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring

Was absolutely blown away. All of them.

Seen.
Already queued.
Will add.

Ta!

Have you seen Kundo?

 

[OleBoiii]

Two movies that haven't been mentioned so far:

A Tale Of Two Sisters
I generally don't like horror, but this is the exception. It's a very good movie that just happens to have horror elements in it, rather than being a pure horror movie.

A Dirty Carnival
It's not a well-known movie like the other titles you'll see in this thread, but it's probably one of the most interesting gangster movies I've seen(and I've seen almost all the famous Korean gangster movies). Much more character/story-driven than gritty/violent(though it does have some of this as well)

 

[Sky1981]

New World

For The Emperor

Tazza 1,2,3

Divine Move

Once upon a time in highschool

 

[Jippy]

The Eye. I've also had Sympathy for Mr Vengeance on shelf for years without getting round to watching it.

 

[Ibi Dreams]

Peppermint Candy

Did the Memento "tell a story backwards" thing before Memento did, although not to the same extent. Really good film

 

[Vidyoyo]

In terms of thrillers and dark comedies:

The Handmaiden (sexy af)
Microhabitat
A Girl at my Door (more drama but tense)
3-Iron

BFI has a good list: https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/lists/10-great-modern-south-korean-films

If you're looking for Asian thrillers, might I suggest films by Sion Sono and Tetsuya Nakashima. They're Japanese but that's the same thing isn't it

 

[Dirty Schwein]

My favourites mentioned already. A few others:

Miracle in cell no.7
I'm a cyborg but that's ok
Fortress
The good, the bad and the weird
Train to Busan

 

[thepolice123]

Seen.
Already queued.
Will add.

Ta!

Have you seen Kundo?

No I have not seen or heard of it. Is it any good?

Peppermint Candy

Did the Memento "tell a story backwards" thing before Memento did, although not to the same extent. Really good film

TBF the flashback storytelling technique was used long before Memento.

Great film btw. Forgot about it

 

[sebsheep]

If Japanese films are okay to suggest then I feel I have to put forward 'The Happiness of the Katakuris', it's extremely crazy but a truly awesome film.

 

[Roosney]

H - serial killer / psychological thriller.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/H_(2002_film)

 

[Handré1990]

I absolutely loved this movie

Me too. Hadn’t heard a thing about it when a mate put it on. I’ve seen it twice since

 

[R.N7]

Hong Sang-soo all the way!

On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate
Right Now, Wrong Then
Night and Day
Hill of Freedom
Our Sunhi
The Day He Arrives
Nobody's Daughter Haewon

 

[Fortitude]

No I have not seen or heard of it. Is it any good?

Very enjoyable, but 'just' a run of the mill action romp with a period setting - no real depth or complexity to it. Still, well constructed, acted and deliciously evil - the villain really is a nasty piece of work!

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I'm trying to get a hold of some of these movies, but they're very hard to come by.

 

[Eckers99]

The Wailing
Burning
Memories of Murder
A Bittersweet Life
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring

Was absolutely blown away. All of them.

Yep, all great films. Only saw Burning lately and think that might be the best of the lot.

I'd also include Mother and I Saw The Devil, which was somewhere between absolute tosh and weirdly brilliant. I've not really decided!

 

[Fortitude]

Just watched Bedevilled. One of the most depressing films I've ever seen - and it's supposed to be a horror!

I guess that's more a living hell kind of horror, and if that's what they were going for, they certainly succeeded.