Yu Hyun-mok, a master of Korean cinema known for his realist masterpiece Obaltan (1960, also titled A Stray Bullet), was sentenced by the court for his 1965 film An Empty Dream. He was found guilty of...

In Korea, the portrayal of superheroes in film and television was largely absent until the 2000s. The genre gained momentum with films like Haunters (2010), Psychokinesis (2018), and The Witch series,...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of Heavenly Homecoming to Stars, directed by Lee Jang-ho, one of the landmark movies that defined the 1970s. Half a century later, is the movie still relevant? Star-crossed...

If one had to pick a film that inspired the cycle of films known as Korean Noir, it would be John Woo’s A Better Tomorrow (1986). When it was first released in Korea in 1987, it didn’t attract much...