Korean Films

Aimless Bullet

Yu Hyun-mok · 1961

Two brothers—Chul-ho, an accountant with a toothache and a pregnant wife, and Yong-ho, an unemployed ex-soldier wounded in battle—navigate life in post-war Korea.

Mist

Kim Soo-yong · 1967

Yun Gi-jun has become the executive director of a pharmaceutical company by marrying the widowed daughter of the company CEO. With the general shareholders’ meeting coming up shortly, his wife suggests that he visit his hometown of Mujin and he takes her advice.

A Young Zelkova

Lee Seong-gu · 1968

Suk-hee's mother is remarried to a man who has a son a year senior than Suk-hee. The two don't get along well first, but soon they grow intimate. Suk-hee learns, though, that she needs to give up her love for her mother's happiness. One day she leaves her mother and her new family, and goes on her way to her hometown, where she sees a Zelkova tree.

A Day Off

Lee Man-hee · 1968

One Sunday, a penniless unmarried young South Korean couple meet, as they do every Sunday; while the pregnant young woman believes they are not ready to bring a child into the world, the young man decides to go visit his friends to borrow money for delivery.

Starting Point

Kim Soo-yong · 1969

Sang-hun, a painter, and Yeong-hun, a doctor, are brothers. Sang-hun's girlfriend left him for another man, and he draws her portrait everyday. Yeong-hun, the older of the two, makes a medical mistake, and his young patient dies. Because of the guilty conscience, he abandons the career as a doctor and devotes himself to writing a novel. However, the brothers have high self-esteem and finally overcome their weaknesses to make a fresh start.

Father and Sons

Kwon Yeong-sun · 1969

There is a happy family of a father and four sons. In this comedy, the four sons find love one after another and have a joint wedding in the end.

The Hole

Han Ok-hee · 1973

One of Han Ok-hee’s renowned pieces called The Hole uses the flicker, oblique angles, the cross-cutting of reality and fantasy to express inner entrapment and the desire for liberation. Han Ok-hee’s The Hole, The Rope and Untitled not only experimented with cinematic forms of expression, but also played an important role in the protest against forms of expression in experimental films and the artistic protest against the social suppression and censorship in 1970s Korea. (Art Cinema OFFoff)

Yalkae, a Joker in High School

Seok Rae-myeong · 1976

Nicknamed Yalkae, notorious high school prankster Du Su (Lee Seung Hyun) is always up to no good with his buddy Yong Ho (Jin Woo Young). Both of them have been held back a year, but instead of studying they continue to cause trouble for their teachers and classmates. Du Su gleefully pulls a prank on his tattling classmate Ho Cheol, but he has a change of heart when he finds out Ho Cheol gets injured as a result.

Untitled 77-A

Han Ok-hee · 1977

The film contains the despair of an artist’s desire for creation on ruthless censorship, rebel, and anxiety in the mid-70s when it was politically and socially depressed.

Night Journey

Kim Soo-yong · 1977

A bank employee dissatisfied with the casualness and secrecy of her relationship with her boyfriend, a superior at work, is suddenly given a few days of vacation.

Ieoh Island

Kim Ki-young · 1977

A company hopes to open a spa hotel named after Ieodo, a mythical island inhabited by the souls of drowned sailors. During a study trip to the proposed location of the hotel, a journalist disappears under mysterious circumstances. One of the contractors goes to Ieodo's neighboring island, populated by widows of the dead sailors, to unravel the mystery.

Daydream

Lee Jung-gook · 1984

Gilsodom

Im Kwon-taek · 1986

A middle-aged woman in Busan searches for the son she lost in Gilsodom during the Korean War.

Sanggyedong Olympic

Kim Dong-won · 1988

When it was decided that the 88 Olympics would be held in Seoul, the residents of Sanggye-dong were forced from their homes and they struggled against the government to at least guarantee them new residences.

Chilsu and Mansu

Park Kwang-su · 1988

An aimless young man and his sign-painter friend draw a crowd when they climb to the top of a high-rise billboard.

You Know What? It's a Secret

Jo Geum-hwan · 1990

Jun-hyoung is a training teacher who meets Hye-na, a very outgoing student. She always acts freely with out any restriction. As time as goes by, she slowly starts to interfere in his life. Sun-shul, who is very lonely, loves Hye-na. Jun-hyoung feels that it's hard to put up with Hye-na, but his mentor insists and tells him to take care of her. Jun-hyoung does not understand and feels as though this situation in unfair for him. Soon after, he finds out Hye-na's secret...

The Sleeping Buddha

Lee Yong-bae · 1991

A vivid story of a reclining Buddha buried in Unjusa Temple in Hwasun, Jeollanam-do.

The Moon Is... the Sun's Dream

Park Chan-wook · 1992

A gangster in Busan is caught having an affair with his boss' mistress and the two run off with their organization's money.

Marriage Story

Kim Eui-suk · 1992

This film is a social comedy which depicts women's endeavor to get the right to live free from men's violence in a male dominated society. This Film begins with a newly married couple. They wed against the wishes of family and friends, who thought they weren't a good match. As their marriage progresses, the young couple realize that marriage is not what you see in movies or read in books. They find that love, sex and marriage are very different from what they had dreamed. They also understand why people disagreed with the marriage from the beginning.

Our Twisted Hero

Park Chong-won · 1992

Han Byung-tae, who teaches at a private after-school academy in Seoul, receives word that his old teacher has passed away and sets off to the rural village where he attended elementary school. In the train, he reminisces about the tough fights he used to get into back in the day.

Sopyonje

Im Kwon-taek · 1993

A former pansori performer travels across South Korea in search of the student he studied with.

The Fox With Nine Tails

Park Hun-soo · 1994

A half-human/half-fox girl falls in love with an honest young man while trying to become a human-being.

The Memories in My Frame

Bong Joon Ho · 1994

A young boy struggles with the loss of his beloved dog.

White Man

Bong Joon Ho · 1994

A white-collar South Korean man discovers a severed human finger and keeps it.

Incoherence

Bong Joon Ho · 2025

Over three episodes, three respectable middle-aged men find themselves behaving badly. A teacher hides his pornographic magazine from a female student. A jogger steals milk and blames it on a newspaper delivery boy. A drunk man desperately searches for a public toilet late at night.

The Young Man

Bae Chang-ho · 1994

A young male model twists and manipulates people around him in his unending quest for money and pleasure. He is convinced that he is untouchable and can bend anyone to his will, so not even murder is an obstacle to his ambitions.

301/302

Park Cheol-su · 1995

Two obsessive-compulsives, a chef and an anorexic writer, are neighbors in an apartment building. The chef (301) tries to entice her neighbor to eat with fabulous meals. The writer (302) refuses to eat, and this refusal begins a turbulent relationship that forces both women to delve into their pasts of torment.

Dr. Bong

Lee Kwang-hoon · 1995

Dr. Bong is a dentist and a carefree ladies' man whose son decides to play matchmaker and get his father to date their next-door neighbor. But their first meeting gets off to a bad start with a traffic accident, and Bong's son must work overtime to make the couple work out.

The Terrorist

Kim Young-bin · 1995

A tough cop goes vigilante to rid the streets of a vicious gang boss after his friend is murdered. But along the way he discovers that his brother may also be mixed up in the hooliganry.

Who Drives Me Mad?

Koo Im-seo · 1995

Lee Jong-du, a salesman who believes that luck will change when he becomes a famous writer. However he is forced to give up after his story failed to win at a spring literature contest. Added to this is the fear that his girlfriend Joo-young will leave him. After Joo-young gets a job Jong-du realizes his mistakes that knows that she will never leave him.

A Single Spark

Park Kwang-su · 1995

Activist and law school graduate Kim is being persecuted by the mid-’70s Park regime for trying to write a book about Jeon Tae-il, a union activist who immolated himself at age 22 to protest government hypocrisy.

Run Away

Kim Sung-soo · 1995

Video game producer Lee Dong-ho and freelance artist Choi Mi-ran are both young, ambitious people who are passionate about their life and work. They meet by chance one night on the road, and end up spending the night together. On their way home, they witness a gang-related murder, and from that day on their lives take a dramatic turn as they become the perpetrators' next targets.

The Gingko Bed

Kang Je-kyu · 1996

Soohyun is an artist who teaches at a college. His girlfriend Sunyoung is a surgeon. A strange and mesmerizing reincarn ated love story begins when Soohyun buys and old gingko bed at a market. In his earlier life Soohyun was a musician for the royal family one thousand years ago. He and Princess Midan Were deep ly in love. However, General Hwang, who was also in love with the princess, kills Soohyun. And Midan's spirit hides insi de the gingko bed. Midan appears in front of Soohyun after one thousand years but the spirit of General Hwang, still in love with Midan, does not allow them to meet. Soohyun's present girlfriend, Sunyoung, decides to prove the existence of the spirits by risking her own life. Midan makes her last choice in order to save Sunyoung from General Hwang.

A Petal

Jang Sun-woo · 1996

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.

Born to Kill

Jang Hyeon-su · 1996

Kil is a professional hitman, who leads a very lonely life composed of a pack of Marlboro, instant noodle, cash in the freezer, a knife, a motorcycle and Chichi, a pet monkey. But when he bumped into a beautiful call girl Suha, his life could never be the same.

Festival

Im Kwon-taek · 1996

While awaiting the publication of his fairytale about his dementia-stricken octogenarian mother, an acclaimed South Korean novelist receives news that she has passed away, so he leaves the city and returns to her village to take part in the funeral.

Albatross

Lee Hyuk-soo · 1996

A mixed group of prisoners in a concentration camp in North Korea struggle for survival and dignity as best the can, enduring the cruelty of the guards and of their fellow inmates.

Ambiguous Man

Kim Yong-tae · 1996

A well-known womanizer is set to marry the daughter of wealthy business man. However, on the day of the wedding, he goes missing. The police are called and begin an investigation, only to see some surprising witnesses come forward.

Umbrella A

Lee Sung-gang · 1997

A painter who has lost the meaning of life due to war recalls a story from his childhood in a brief moment when he tries to commit suicide. The child picks up the doll that was left in the field and hides it at the base of a tree by the river. However, the doll is swept away by a flood, and the child who is trying to find the doll loses even an umbrella. After the flood stopped, the child went to the stream... He found a small fish in an umbrella hanging from a tree branch, took the fish in his hand, and released it to the stream...

Change

Lee Jin-suk · 1997

Kang Dae-Ho, a naughty boy used to be an academic failure, could not be more different than Ko Eun-Bi, a prim girl and model student. On one stormy day, lightning strikes both of them and knocks them unconscious.

Firebird

Kim Young-bin · 1997

A man aids his friend by assisting him in disposing of the body of his ex-girlfriend.

Green Fish

Lee Chang-dong · 1997

Returning home and finding his town drastically changed, a former soldier falls in with gangsters.

Beat

Kim Sung-soo · 1997

Min, a tough guy whose widowed mother is a drunk. The story traces his journey from high school to the underworld as one of his friends introduces him to life in the mob. Complicating Min's life further is his romance with Romi, a girl from an upper-class family with dreams of going to a prestigious college.

No. 3

Song Neung-han · 1997

Tae-joo manages to rise in rank in a gang for saving the boss's life. However, prosecutor Dong-pal appears in front of him as his sworn enemy. Meanwhile, Jo-pil wants to get rid of Tae-joo's gang, training for revenge. The three men's goals intertwine.

The Contact

Chang Youn-hyun · 1997

The male radio presenter Dong-hyun and the female TV home shopping phone operator Soo-hyun are both lonely. While Dong-hyun is focused on getting back to his ex-girl-friend Young-hae who has sent him a special LP, Soo-hyun is crazy for her friend's boy-friend. Via Internet and music Soo-hyun and Dong-hyun get together in a special way.

Motel Cactus

Park Ki-yong · 1997

The film consists of four episodes, all of which take place in Room 407 of Motel Cactus, a love hotel in Seoul.

The Hole

Kim Sung-hong · 1997

Newlywed, Su-jin, believes that nothing will interfere with her happiness or come between herself and her husband, Dong-woo. That is, until she meets her mother-in-law. Dong-woo is devoted to his mother and now that they are all living together, it isn't long before Su-jin notices something unnatural about the amount of affection between the two. When confronted, Dong-woo promises his new wife that she will be his priority. However, he must spend a lot of time away from home because of his job granting the mother-in-law sufficient time to plot how to eliminate her rival.

Memorial Photographing

Chung Yoon-chul · 1997

A woman, who barely escaped from the Collapse of Sung-soo Bridge 3 years ago, remembers her high school friends who died in the tragic accident.

Circulation

Park Dong-hyun · 1998

This film is a Movies strip that consists of 365 frames. The actor is actually moving in one direction but appears to swing like a pendulum on the screen. Sporadic booms of the soundtrack reveal the relationship between the human pendulum movement, the rhythm of the soundtrack and its perforations, and the object split into individual frames.

Echoed Silence

Lee Jangwook · 1998

This film is an experiment on editing, deconstructing and reconstructing, a game of collision between frames. As a narrative body disintegrates, it gradually becomes possible for viewers to pay attention to the phenomena of intra-frame intervals.

Christmas in August

Hur Jin-ho · 1998

It's a sweltering summer, but Jung-won, a terminally ill, thirty-something photographer, is already in the winter of his life when he begins a tentative romance with a young traffic cop who doesn't know about his condition. Is their relationship doomed before it even begins?

The Quiet Family

Kim Jee-woon · 1998

A family decides to buy a lodge in a remote hiking area. Their first customer commits suicide and the distraught family buries his body to avoid the bad publicity. But their luck gets worse, the bodies start piling up, and the family becomes frantic to rectify the situation.

Whispering Corridors

Park Ki-hyung · 1998

The ghost of a student who died at a Korean school comes back to seek vengeance and protect her friends.

Seventeen

Jeong Byeong-gak · 1998

First story. Ye-jin is a high school junior from a wealthy family who also does very well in school. But her secret aspiration is to be a back dancer. Although her boyfriend Sang-rok is the class president and a good student, he is very passive. Ye-jin gives up her dreams of back dancing and decides to leave for Canada. Before she does, she gives Sang-rok a farewell kiss. Jun-tae is a problem student with a heart of gold. He quits school for good after he gets into a fight with the Dae-gon the top student at school. Second story. Jun-tae becomes a street kid hustling customers for a local bar. He develops a crush on a fellow street kid named Gigi. Jong-su, born poor and illegitimate, carries a giant chip on his shoulder. He is part of a motorcycle gang and is going out with Titi who works at the local gas station. The two couples take off to the East Sea for a getaway but are tracked down by men sent by Jong-su's father.

An Affair

E J-yong · 1998

Seo-hyun is an ordinary housewife in her late thirties with a ten-year-old son and a successful architect husband. For her, life is a series of banal routines. Her sheltered life is suddenly threatened with the appearance of Woo-in, her much younger sister's attractive new fiancé.

The Picnic

Song Il-gon · 1998

In early winter, a business man who has drown in debt gives his family a ride to commit a joint suicide. His child asks mom where they are going to and she answers they are going to a picnic…

First Kiss

Kim Tae-gyun · 1998

Song Yeon-Hwa, a reporter of a weekly entertainment magazine, is 27 years old. Though she is almost kissed by her boy friend several times, she has refused without particular reasons. Then she lost her boy friend. Now knowing her shilly-shally is the reason of her lost love, Song Yeon-Hwa loses daily rhythm all in a furry. One day Han Kyeong-Hyeon, who seems to be a playboy, came to work with her as a photographer. Seating next seat Kyeong-Hyeon nags her chattering all kinds of things and wedging in every occasion. Yeon-Hwa, who suffers from aftermath of lost love, submits resignation with a burst due to nagging and scolding of editor-in-chief.

A Promise

Kim Yoo-jin · 1998

When she met him at the first time, he was a wounded person. However, she saw him through his clear eyes hidden in the bandage. She, Chae Hi-Ju, is a doctor and he, Kong Sang-Du, is a boss of a bandit. The pair seemed not to love each other in terms of their position, but they were closed to each other giving up their own world. However, he was not a common man...

Bye June

Choi Ho · 1998

As three friends prepare to enter adulthood with their high school graduation only a few months away, they lose one of them in an accident that will change their life forever.

If the Sun Rises in the West

Lee Eun · 1998

The classic love story between the famous actress and the plain ordinary man.

Art Museum by the Zoo

Lee Jeong-hyang · 1998

Through a misunderstanding, Chul-su arrives on the doorstep of Chun-hi. Having nowhere else to go, he forces her to allow him to stay until they can contact their mutual friend to solve the problem. Their initial contempt for each other gradually softens.

Doctor K

Kwak Kyung-taek · 1999

Terminally ill patients are magically cured by a neurosurgeon who transfers their tumors to his own brain.

City of the Rising Sun

Kim Sung-soo · 1999

Do-chul is a boxer who never wins a game. While trying to make some money, he gets involved with Hong-ki, a small-time crook. They somehow make friends and hang around together, but their views toward life and the world are almost opposite.

White Valentine

Yun-ho Yang · 1999

A girl named Jung-min writes to a young man named Hyun-jun, who is serving in the army. She lies about her age and claims to be a teacher. As Jung-min turns twenty, a 30-year-old man, who has eyes filled with sadness moves into her village. Every night, he sends letters through a pigeon to a deceased woman he loved dearly. He sends them high up in the sky, knowing that he will never get a reply. Then one day, like magic, he receives a letter. The letters sent through pigeons reveal someone's loneliness and sadness. And the two people meet each other by sheer chance..

Shiri

Kang Je-kyu · 1999

North Korea's 8th Special Forces hijack a shipment of CTX, a potent new liquid explosive, and threatens South Korea as part of a plot to re-unify the two countries. Ryu and Lee, special agents of O.P., South Korea's secret intelligence service, attempt to track down the terrorists and find the CTX. Meanwhile Hee, the 8th's ultra-bad female sniper, resurfaces to wreak havoc and haunt Ryu.

Girls Night Out

Jeong Jae-eun · 1999

Seung-Jin and Ji-Seon are high school students who sneak out at night and play. They are friends but what they want is different. Seung-Jin is ashamed of having a father who is too old and Ji-Seon is bored with her daily routine and her family. Seung-Jin wants to be a photographer, so she carries around a camera and one day…

The Harmonium in My Memory

Lee Young-jae · 1999

Hong-yun is a high school girl in little mountain village when she falls head-over-heels for a handsome new school teacher, Mr. Kang. What with taking care of her youngest baby brother for her widowed mother and the impossible age difference, it is a roller-coaster ride for her as she tries to become someone special for Mr. Kang while he seems interested in the other new teacher at the school, Miss Yang.

A Great Chinese Restaurant

Kim Eui-suk · 1999

Han-kook starts to work as an apprentice chef at a Chinese restauraunt belonging to his father's friend, but rather than follow the painstaking process of preparing the food by hand, Han-kook begins to use pre-processed ingredients.

Phantom: The Submarine

Byung-chun Min · 1999

Korea's first nuclear submarine and a crew with no record of existence embark on a do-or-die mission into the deep waters of the Pacific.

Nowhere to Hide

Lee Myung-se · 1999

Detective Woo is on the trail of the mysterious gangster Sungmin, a master of disguise who always manages to elude his pursuers. Eventually, the cop tracks down and confronts the master-criminal in the suburbs of a coal-mining town.

Ghost in Love

Lee Kwang-hoon · 1999

A battle is on to save the soul of a woman who must decide whether or not to become a vengeful spirit.

Love

Lee Jang-Soo · 1999

A would be marathon runner falls in love with a orphan girl from Korea.

Calla

Song Hae-sung · 1999

Seon-woo receives calla every morning and wants to find out who the secret admirer is. One day, he goes to a nearby florist's where he meets Ji-hee. He falls in love with her at first sight, thinking she is the one who is sending him flowers. Seon-woo asks Ji-hee to go on a date and she agrees. He arrives at the rendenvous only to find that Ji-hee is held hostage and, to his horror, killed before his eyes.

Judgement

Park Chan-wook · 1999

At the identification of a dead body, a couple and a morgue employee both claim to be related to the deceased, and therefore the rightful recipient of an indemnity of at least 520,000.

Attack the Gas Station!

Kim Sang-jin · 1999

A quartet of disaffected Korean youths have robbed a Seoul gas station. After taking the gas station over, their wacky antics ensue; forcing the manager to sing, kidnapping customers that complain about the service, and staging fist-fights between street gang members and gas station employees; all of these reflect their own gripes against society.

Tell Me Something

Chang Youn-hyun · 1999

Detective Cho, a cop on the edge, is mourning his mother's recent death while under investigation for graft; on top of that he is suddenly put in charge of a seemingly-impenetrable mystery.

Drift

Lee Hyun-jin · 1999

This film is a journey taking the audience to the places that contain their memories. It may be the memory of being born or being in childhood. It may be anxiety, or loneliness of nights. It may be separation, brokenhearted, or other sadness like illness or death of loving people.

End of the Century

Song Neung-han · 1999

An intricately put together story that brings to the screen Korea's most sensitive issues. Through the lives of various Seoulites, the film features an unfettered look into Korea's modern society by presenting them into four chapters - Moratorium, Amorality, Moral Hazard, and Y2K.

Happy End

Jung Ji-woo · 1999

When a wife becomes the breadwinner of her family after her husband loses his job, adultery becomes part of her life.

Memento Mori

Kim Tae-yong · 1999

The ghost of a lesbian high-school girl takes revenge on the people who used to bully her. And another young girl finds her old diary detailing her love and rejection when she was alive.

Happy Funeral Director

Jang Moon-il · 2000

Three teenagers from different backgrounds, each for different reasons, accept positions as undertakers. There's only one problem, no one in their town has died for over a decade! With no chances to get in any practice, it all comes down to the line one day when a widow commits suicide, and the three undertakers are put to the test!

Love Bakery

Park Hun-soo · 2000

Ju No-myeong is very happy in his work as a baker. He is content with his simple life but his happiness is shattered when his wife reveals that she is anything but content.

Chunhyang

Im Kwon-taek · 2000

A courtesan's daughter's fidelity to her husband, the governor's son, is tested when he and his family leave for Seoul and the new governor attempts to possess her.

The Foul King

Kim Jee-woon · 2000

A timid and extravagant bank clerk, Dae-ho is considered inefficient at his workplace. As he tries to be recognized by his superior, his efforts only cause more bad situations. But he has an explosive energy that nobody knows about. One day, after yet another day of suffering at work, he goes to a wrestling gym to persuade its owner to become his bank’s client. And, by accident, he starts to learn how to wrestle. From then, he starts to live a new life. And his personality starts to change…

Barking Dogs Never Bite

Bong Joon Ho · 2000

An idle part-time college lecturer is annoyed by the yapping sound of a nearby dog. He decides to take drastic action.

The Promenade

Lee Jung-gook · 2000

The sullen owner of a music store employs a strange young woman in his small corner shop, while he deals with a conflicted past with his father. His friends experience similar life changing experiences as well, which they bring to light in their music.

Black Honeymoon

Na Hong-Kyun · 2000

Newlyweds Jun-ho and Eun-jin join six other couples as they all embark on a honeymoon excursion to Cheju Island. But the trip takes a tragic turn when Jun-ho's eyeless corpse is discovered the next morning and detective Pyun-shik must find the killer.

Interview

Byun Hyuk · 2000

A story of a filmmaker who falls in love with a woman he interviews for his film. The film presents the evolution of a relationship which shifts from the objective to the subjective, and from lies to truth.

The Isle

Kim Ki-duk · 2000

Mute Hee-Jin is working as a clerk in a fishing resort in the Korean wilderness; selling baits, food and occasionally her body to the fishing tourists. One day she falls in love with Hyun-Shik, who is on the run from the police, and rescues him with a fish hook when he tries to commit suicide.

The Anarchists

Yu Young-sik · 2000

Set in 1920s Shanghai, the film recounts the activities of a group of young Koreans trying to destabilize Japanese control of their penninsula. Through an anti-occupation terrorist campaign, the five men hope to inspire a resurrection throughout their penninsular homeland.

Umbrella

Yoo Cheol-won · 2000

One morning, the wife hands her husband an umbrella as he goes to work and tells him to go to the hospital, but he only responds rudely. The wife buys an orchid in bloom on the street and goes to the hospital alone. The pregnancy she wanted does not occur. That afternoon, it rains. The wife and husband meet by chance at the entrance to the subway station.

Ditto

Kim Jeong-kwon · 2000

In this endearing supernatural love story spanning two decades, a university student finds himself communicating with a female classmate from the same school through an antique ham radio.

The End of April

Choo Chang-min · 2000

I heard from my wife that there was a man she loved. I sent a letter to that man. In my wife's name... At the train station, there is a man waiting for my wife without knowing anything. He is the man my wife loved. Now, I start observing him while hiding my identity.

Die Bad

Ryoo Seung-wan · 2000

Die Bad is an inventive feature made up of four distinct episodes, each with their own style. With their criss-crossing characters and themes, they add up to a fairly comprehensive account of the causes and effects of male aggression, both tribal and individual.

Nightmare

Ahn Byeong-ki · 2000

Hye-jin's homecoming should have been a joyous occasion. She was especially happy to see her childhood friend again, the shy Eun-ju. However, when a secret is revealed, harsh words are exchanged. These words deeply affect Eun-ju and,in the next scene, we see her plummeting from a 30-story building. In a flashback provided by Seon-ae, we learn that the ghost of Eun-ju is hunting down all of Hye-jin's friends and killing them. Is this possible or is a more worldly force at work? What is this mysterious tape that everyone is asking about?

The Record

Gi-hun Kim · 2000

A group of students attempt to make a phoney "snuff" film but accidentally kill an innocent peer. They dispose of the body without anyone learning of the incident. A year later, comeuppance is provided by a mysterious man with murderous intent who hunts down everyone complicit in the cover up of the prank gone wrong.

Il Mare

Lee Hyun-seung · 2000

In the year 1999, a young woman leaves her quaint seaside house and returns to the city, leaving in the mailbox a card for the next owner, with instructions to forward any mail of hers to the new address. In the year 1997, a jaded young architect moves into the same house and finds the letter. His reply, which he slips into the mailbox, finds its way to her, beginning a parallel-time love story separated by a span of two years.

Joint Security Area

Park Chan-wook · 2000

Two North Korean soldiers are killed in the border area between North and South Korea, prompting an investigation by a neutral body. The sergeant is the shooter, but the lead investigator, a Swiss-Korean woman, receives differing accounts from the two sides.

No Guitarists on Koong Koong Ttack Planet

Choi Hwajin · 2000

Seung-gil, a repeat student who wants to be a guitarist, but is not very good at playing the guitar. One day, Seung-gil is caught imagining himself playing the guitar his father hid in the attic. The guitar is broken, and while Seung-gil is in despair, a strange ball enters his room window, and all the sounds around him become music.

Just Do It!

Park Dae-Yeong · 2000

Drowning in debt and evicted from their house, a family of four comfort themselves with a few drinks at a food cart. The drunken father stumbles off to take a leak and gets hit by a truck. Their saving grace? Insurance! They find themselves with a slightly injured father, a handful of insurance money, and an ingenious new way to get rich quick. One by one, they find new ways to hurt themselves, making enough money to buy their dream house. Their luck almost runs out when an insurance investigator finds out the truth, but with a beautiful daughter and a very loose dressing gown, the family traps him and forces him to marry her. All five of them are determined to get one last big payoff… life insurance. The only question is, who dies?

The Legend of Gingko

Park Je-hyun · 2000

Caught in between an ethnic war, Bee struggles between love and death.

Libera Me

Yun-ho Yang · 2000

An arsonist is terrorizing Seoul and the fire investigators are hot on his trail.

Asako in Ruby Shoes

E J-yong · 2000

Asako in Ruby Shoes succeeds in providing yet another challenge to views of a homogeneous South Korea by presenting to us the Asian side of modern globalization. The film jumps back and forth from Korea and Japan, with each main character feeling out of place in their respective homes.

Dachimawa Lee

Ryoo Seung-wan · 2000

Hwa-nyeo and Chung-nyeo, two country girls who have come to Seoul with big dreams. They are thrilled just to see the wondrous Seoul landscape, but a group of thugs, including Shanghai Park, appears before them. Just as they face a terrible fate, a man by the name of Dachimawa Lee appears like a comet. He suavely fights off the thugs and rescues Hwa-nyeo and Chung-nyeo. The two girls become infatuated with his manly image, and Hwa-nyeo and Dachimawa Lee fall in love. Meanwhile, the head of the thugs, the Nameless Man of the East, hears that his underlings have been harshly beaten and decides to make Dachimawa Lee pay. Finally, there is a battle between Dachimawa Lee and the gang of the Nameless Man of the East.

Jakarta

Zeong Cho-sin · 2000

A heist movie about three groups of thieves who independently plan to rob the same bank on the same day, which causes no end of pandemonium and confusion, or does it?

For the Peace of All Mankind

Lee Suk-hoon · 2000

A witty and heartwarming portrayal of humanism during a life-threatening crisis, the film tells the story of a soldier set against a little girl on the enemy's side during a war.

Peppermint Candy

Lee Chang-dong · 2000

In the spring of 1999, a group of old friends gather to celebrate their 20 year reunion. Among the group is Yeong-ho, a cold, unhappy man, whose demeanor puts a damper on the festivities. The seriousness of Yeong-ho's depression becomes apparent when he climbs a railroad bridge and looks like he might jump. At this crucial moment, memories of seven crucial episodes from Yeong-ho's past flood his mind.