Title says it all. Been interested in Korean Cinema despite seeing so little, I just remember seeing Parasite and thinking “Fuck are Korean movies always this good?”. Wanted to know if you libs have seen any other good ones.
Title says it all. Been interested in Korean Cinema despite seeing so little, I just remember seeing Parasite and thinking “Fuck are Korean movies always this good?”. Wanted to know if you libs have seen any other good ones.
Memories of Murder (think Zodiac but the cops are portrayed realistically ie mostly bumbling idiots) and the Host (monster/pandemic movie) are by the same director as Parasite, and both rock. The Handmaiden is a lesbian romance/thriller and is wonderful. Burning is incredible, and is a good companion film to Parasite (deals with a lot of the same themes). Poetry is a more introspective drama by the same director as Burning, and it's also great. Oldboy and The Man From Nowhere are both awesome action films. And I'm totally in love with the filmography of Hong Sang Soo, who makes like three movies a year and they're all the same (just like, people talking and vibing but they're all on kind of different wavelengths and nothing really happens) but I love each and every one of them. He's a great auteur just doing his own thing, and it works.
Mother, also by Bong Jun-ho, is also amazing.
Seconding The Man Fron Nowhere, that's like the best action movie I've seen in 10 years. I still think about the knife fight from time to time.