I've grown a special love for movies from South Korea this past year and I'm looking for some good ones I'm missing. I've been through lots of action/crime/thriller ones but not nearly as many dramas/anything else, except one horror (The Wailing). Here's a list of a couple I've seen:
Pic Related Joint Security Area The Handmaiden Confession of Murder I Saw the Devil A Bittersweet Life The Chaser The Man From Nowhere (Have the makers of the John Wick ever said anything about this being an influence on their movie?) New World The Host
I'm mostly listing these specifically since I always see people tend to rec the same few movies every time people talk about Korean cinema. I was hoping we could discuss and share movies that aren't the better-known ones I listed above. Any contribution is appreciated, whether it's a rec or just taking about their movies in general. Also, do you think, at least this century, that Koreans are straight better at crime/action/thrillers than the U.S.? At the very least they seem much more willing to go R-Rated (or whatever the Koren equivalent might be)
Good question OP. I haven't seen most of the movies you have posted, thanks!
Must see is the vengeance trilogy, pic related. Most people have seen Oldboy but the others are great too, I especially liked the first one a lot.
Also, The Host is a decent monster movie.
Dylan Martin
Youve already posted the best ones. Taegukgi is pretty good. Like JSA.
Liam Sullivan
Good list my fav one is The Chaser by far. gonna get the ones i havent watched yet: >The handmaiden >Confession of Murder >The Man From Nowhere
I'd recommend seeing Madeo
Brayden Parker
The Front Line (Go-ji-jeon) is a dope Korean War movie.
Carter Hernandez
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Nicholas James
I really liked Eungyo (A Muse). You know when you really like a actress that you actually don't want to see them naked?
Hudson Murphy
weeb
Hudson Sullivan
I like to call it Korino, personally.
Nathaniel Bennett
thumbnail looks likes the two normal-sized gooks are watching, amazed, as the tiny gook is bending over for a poo
Jack Butler
kek
korino, i dig it
Grayson Miller
This is great. I enjoyed it but still looked it up to find out more about it. The biblical references are interesting.
Jacob Powell
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Hudson Reyes
And I dont think the John Wick producers used The man from nowhere as inspiration desu,if you see their background they made things like the matrix who has a clear old school John Woo like The Killer or Hard Boiled influence
Nathaniel Collins
I hope some of you korean kino connoisseurs can tell me the name of a movie that I've really enjoyed. I watched it about 5 months ago on a korean air flight (the movie seemed fairly recent) and it was about a single father who had to get married/get a gf (dont remember exactly) to be able to send his daughter to school and eventually he tried paying a girl from some shady bar/club to be the mother in law. The father seemed a little retarded if that helps. Thanks in advance.
Justin Martinez
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
Noah Wood
>Must see is the vengeance trilogy This. Start with this.
Benjamin Murphy
great list OP
here are some of my recs:
A Company Man A Hard Day Cold Eyes Deep Trap Haunters Hide and Seek (2013) Hindsight Luck-Key Monster (2014) Mother
Adrian Barnes
There's a handful of good flicks from SK but you're better off just looking to Japan if you want a large catalog of pure kino
Lincoln Evans
Thirst
Blake Jackson
most of the ones i know have been mentioned but Thirst is another good one.
Sebastian Campbell
couple I can think of that are not action/thrillers >Castaway on the Moon (2009) A man gets stranded on an island in the middle of Seoul This one is comfy af. It used to be on netflix, I'm not sure it's still on it. >Secret Sunshine (2007) A woman's son gets kidnapped This made me depressed. Everything this director makes are solid, so check out others if you like this movie. >Breathless (2009) A man's whole life is fucked really truly fucked
action/thrillers not mentioned >Veteran (2015) >A Hard Day (2015) >Assassination (2015)
Also Every Frame a Painting did some videos about Bong's movies, they were nice.
Christopher Garcia
this. don't understand why teevee and reddit gravitate more towards korea. it must be all the genre shit.
I challenge ANYONE (annie wun) to watch this and come out of it unbroken
Justin Cox
>Please help me find some more good South Korean movies I have over 230 in my account. Tell me what you like
Ethan Garcia
>Secret Sunshine (2007) >Breathless (2009) This guy knows his kino. All of Lee Chang-Dong and Kim Ki-Duk's films are essential Korean kino kore. Not exactly the kind of films that get discussed on Sup Forums though.
Ryan Price
Also i know its not korean but you shouldnt limit yourself when it comes to asian kino
Also we've had really good asian film threads the past few days i think we should have a weekly general or something
Also just watched pic related last night, it was a good time
Levi Turner
also watched it yesterday. Agree it was decent although the mixed to much genres. Also the Nikita scene was too much
Nathan Sullivan
Based user
Austin Wilson
Why is it almost always the same 10 movies?
Wyatt Williams
its called the classic
Grayson Turner
Was I Saw the Devil his last vengeance film? I'd recommend it as well.
Ryder Lewis
The Vengeance trilogy consists of Oldboy Mr. Vengeance Lady Vengeance
Luis Richardson
The Korean film industry is relatively new and the only decent thing they output is edgy revenge thrillers
Asher Hill
More like the fact you guys are edgy hipster. If you wanted to talk classic you would talk about Attack the Gas station or Friends. It's not hard to pick out the theme in this threads.
Dylan Nelson
Nevermind I'm retarded, thought it was a Park Chan Wook film.
Daniel Taylor
Nameless Gangster, a movie about the Korean mob in the 80s The Good the Bad The Weird, a Korean western set in Manchuria in the 30s-40s
Justin Harris
this is me. A can talk about Attack the Gas station. Its a trash
Isaiah Reyes
Going By The Book
This one cop follows the rules to the tee. It starts off with him ticketing his captain and then the captain decides to put him in charge of a mock bank robbery. The bank robbery is supposed to be a PR exercise, but the cop does the best job he can, as always. Black Comedy.
Brandon Foster
>The Korean film industry is relatively new Nope >only decent thing they output is edgy revenge thrillers
I disagree. DESU I understand why this board who is mainly male only watched these types of films, but you are missing out on so much.
Alexander Johnson
>A can talk
Who the fuck is A? Also, you are wrong. You probably didn't enjoy because no one got raped or killed at the end.
Elijah Powell
It was a generic 90s gangsta comedy. A trash nowadays. Deal with it
Christian Robinson
>It was a generic 90s gangsta comedy
Expect there was nothing like it. So how was it generic?
Julian Scott
how it wasnt?
Jeremiah Gray
Thirst is underrated
Ian Powell
Show me any other movie with the same plot or plot devises.
Matthew Rivera
Two Korean movies I can think of that don't get mentioned THAT often: The Coast Guard by Kim Ki-duk. Really enjoyed watching the descent into madness of the main character. Oasis by Lee Chang-dong. Amazing performance by the two lead actors.
yeah this was great.
Cooper Miller
>could of shot the protagonist when he was killing underlings >saves the little girl >gets savagely stabbed to death after engaging in a fair duel
Evan Clark
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Kayden Perry
I havent watch many of south korean movies, just few. I liked Castaway on moon and that is not on list so you can try it...
Kayden Fisher
i dont know. maybe fucking everything from fucking Guy Ritchie
Adrian Mitchell
Minah was in a movie? I never knew
Dominic Cox
How often would you expect Kim Ki-Duk to be discussed on a board obsessed with superhero movies and complaining about interracial romance in kids shows?
Dominic Green
>everything from fucking Guy Ritchie
So you haven't actually seen attack the gas station, have you?
Robert Reyes
She isn't the main character or anything.
Wyatt Green
pic related is one of the greatest south-korean films, and also one of the most overlooked
Benjamin Price
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Nolan Ward
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Joseph Torres
Rough Cut is a good crime drama. Age of Shadows with based Song Kang-ho was surprisingly good. Secret Reuion, a nice action comedy. Cruel Winter Blues, Man From Nowhere director first movie. The ending man, it just hits you hard No Tears for the Dead, third film from the same guy. Nowhere near as good as his first two, but has some nice operator action scenes.
Brandon Sullivan
This movie is fucking great.
Christian Walker
Any japanese recs?
Carter Mitchell
Audition.
Sebastian Nguyen
Rise Up
Colton Brooks
Anyone seen this one? Watched it twice and still don't get what the fuck the movie was supposed to be about.
Juan Turner
Are the japs only good at making horrors?
Ryder Sanders
>so close to want but forbidden to love
Benjamin Lee
Yeah this dude my favorite part of the movie. I love it when the villain is just looking for a bad ass fight to go out with. Sword of the Stranger villain is the same way, that final fight is amazing too.
Charles Taylor
The ending to this one is crazy.
Connor Carter
She's underage and the she is the main character's sister in law. She is in love with here sister's husband.
Xavier Miller
>don't understand why teevee and reddit gravitate more towards korea because japan has been producing mostly pure shit for the last ~20 years (with notable exceptions, but nevertheless mostly shit). on the other hand, this same period was basically the golden age of korean cinema, especially the 00s.
Dominic Ross
The middle guy in your pic is a great actor. His face is very distinct as well.
Gabriel Jackson
Oldboy?
Lincoln Nelson
Check out "Mother".
Benjamin Long
>has anyone ever been as far as so close to want but forbidden to love accidentally the whole thing? Was someone getting the word "desire" from an under-detailed dictionary?
James Cruz
Veteran
Ryan Gutierrez
I kind of wish I hadn't gone into viewing this cold. Left me depressed for the rest of the weekend.
Easton Richardson
This was beautiful.
Lucas Myers
1/?
Hunter Bennett
2/?
Brandon Green
The Yellow Sea
Jackson Ward
That's about it. Korean cinema nowadays I feel is full of generic stuff and you might want to check out actors but mostly directors and films submitted to international festivals.
Check Jun Jihyun, Hong Sangsoo and Kim Kiduk since most of their work is worth watching.
pic related is a list with some edgy stuff
Easton Richardson
Stop watching Korean flicks
Bentley Jones
I liked breathless so much I had to translate the subtitles to my native language. It was directed, written and fronted by yang ikjune.
Josiah Green
my favorite korean movie next to mom.
Daniel Ross
Tell Hollywood to make good shit again first
Ayden Wright
it's a fantastic film but I never want to fucking watch it ever again
Jack Perry
What's with South Korea and depressing movies? I think they need him.
Brayden Evans
Guns and Talks was super comfy. Great blend of action and comedy.
Liam Edwards
Castaway on the Moon is an absolutely wonderful film.
Isaac Kelly
Memories of Murder was such garbage >kungfu kicking your suspects during interrogation Do chinks really do this?
Eli Hall
Why is Sunflower not on that list, this rustles my jimmies.
