August 29, 20214 yr Author On 7/13/2021 at 2:14 PM, AngryDragon said: Called Peninsula. Huge disappointment. Skip it. On 7/13/2021 at 2:16 PM, Zepol87 said: Yea it sucks I just watched the trailer and it looks awesome. how does it suck so bad?
October 1, 20214 yr Updating my S Korea rankings Oldboy- 10/10 The Handmaiden- 10/10 Burning- 10/10 The Wailing- 10/10 Parasite- 10/10 Memories of Murder- 10/10 A Bittersweet Life- 9.5/10 The Man from Nowhere- 8.5/10 I Saw the Devil- 8/10 Lady Vengeance- 8/10 Train to Busan- 8/10 JSA- 7.5/10 Age of Shadows- 7.5/10 Mother- 7.5/10Tale of Two Sisters- 7.5/10 Cut (the S Korean segment from Three Extremes)- 7/10Okja- 6.5/10 Sympathy for Mr Vengeance- 6/10 Chaser- 6/10
October 8, 20214 yr I am a big Korean film buff. Lots of good ones listed here. I saw a mention of New World which is one of the most intense films I've ever seen. Between that film, A Bittersweet Life and A Company Man, 70% of Korea's male population must be dead. If you like gangster films, Don Lee is in a ton of them. He plays the same guy in every movie but he plays it really well and they're always entertaining If you like drama/suspense. Joint Security Area is great and The Berlin File is really good (spy stuff). The Thieves is entertaining as well (Ocean's 11 type movie). The Brotherhood of War is pretty great (Korean war) Twenty is a decent comedy about guys trying to lose their virginity and if you can find Welcome to Waikiki, that's the funniest k drama I've ever seen. Season 1 is better than season 2 but the ongoing saga of Rebecca the car kills me Koreans also do the best melodrama out there so if you can find Ode to My Father, that is fantastic. More Than Blue is the saddest movie I've ever seen. Sunny is phenomenal. There are some great romance dramas that aren't cheesy like The Classic, My Sassy Girl (anything with Jun Ji-hyun is typically really good like Il Mare and Windstruck), A Moment to Remember, Christmas in August... If you like k dramas at all, there are too many great ones to mention but Netflix should still have Live, about rookie cops in Seoul and Misaeng, which convinced me to never ever work for a Korean company. They just dropped Reply 1997 which is an all time great IMO. There are dozens of great dramas though Edited October 8, 20214 yr by Zhorn96
April 11, 20223 yr On 5/3/2020 at 7:21 PM, BNB said: I saw the devil Chaser The Man from nowhere Memories of murder PSA: Memories of Murder is on Hulu at the moment. I watched it this weekend. I saw it recommended on tiktok and it was worth the watch and read (subtitles.) I don't really know much about Korean history but I had forgotten that South Korea was effectively a dictatorship/military rule even as late as the 80s. While not a plot point, it is set in that environment and you see it in the context. Great film and the last shot, very chilling.
April 11, 20223 yr 2 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said: PSA: Memories of Murder is on Hulu at the moment. I watched it this weekend. I saw it recommended on tiktok and it was worth the watch and read (subtitles.) I don't really know much about Korean history but I had forgotten that South Korea was effectively a dictatorship/military rule even as late as the 80s. While not a plot point, it is set in that environment and you see it in the context. Great film and the last shot, very chilling. They caught the killer a few years ago too. Definitely preferred this over Parasite. Edited April 11, 20223 yr by AngryDragon
May 6, 20223 yr Semi-related to the thread, Pachinko has been a good watch on Apple tv. Multi-generational story of a Korean family starting in Japan-occupied Korea. I believe the showrunner is actually Korean-American.
March 17Mar 17 Watched a few Korean flicks over the weekend. all have already been mentioned ITT Mother: pretty good 7.5/10 Yellow Sea: long, 7/10 Bittersweet Life: 8/10 Chaser: i liked this one 8.5/10 not a lot of happy endings (no inuendo intended) in K Movies. Memories of Murder is one of my favorite movies of any kind
August 10Aug 10 6 hours ago, kingkoopa6 said: Decision To Leave. anyone catch it? Hulu It's pretty good 6 hours ago, kingkoopa6 said: Same dude that did Oldboy and handmaiden And Lady Vengeance, and Stoker Stoker is his english movie, and is fucking amazing
August 10Aug 10 That actress is hella fine. Caught the first hour before bed, left myself a cliffhanger. Had to stop because it was almost 2 a.m., and finishing would’ve put me at 3. (I’m an insomniac with sleep apnea and 2 kids under 2, not an issue. But gotta sleep sometime.) And why is it that I hate having subtitles on when I understand the language, but love them for international films/TV? With foreign stuff, it feels like reading a book but in movie form. Which is probably why I like reading… I visualize what I’m reading like it’s a movie.
August 10Aug 10 40 minutes ago, dogbreath said: And the actress was awesome in Lust, Caution. She looked super familiar . But now that you mentioned it. It’s cuz of the main guy in that movie was the same main guy in 2046 ( that I recommended earlier in here, but researched and realized it was Chinese) I saw lust and caution because of him and remember her. long time ago tho. Couldn’t tell you what it was about. But maybe it needs a rewatch Edited August 10Aug 10 by kingkoopa6
August 10Aug 10 29 minutes ago, kingkoopa6 said: She looked super familiar . But now that you mentioned it. It’s cuz of the main guy in that movie was the same main guy in 2046 ( that I recommended earlier in here, but researched and realized it was Chinese) I saw lust and caution because of him and remember her. long time ago tho. Couldn’t tell you what it was about. But maybe it needs a rewatch Now upon further research. The main guy is also the evil dad in Shang chi lord of the rings or whatever it was called. and a whole bunch of other movies but I’m rambling on, cuz I watched 2046 way back when blockbuster was sending out dvds in the mail before Netflix, yall remember ? It was like $5 a month and you could order 3 or 4 dvds at a time But anyway. I watched it cuz I read them two hot chicks from memoirs of a geisha was in it. zhang ziyi and gong li. Sexy to me back in 2005. was living in Okinawa then, but yea, I might have maybe been bit with the yellow fever Edited August 10Aug 10 by kingkoopa6
August 11Aug 11 Decision to Leave is good, but pretty mid for Park Chan-Wook, which says more about him than the movie. He makes great movies. Decision to Leave is beautiful looking and that ending is wild.
August 11Aug 11 A company man- on the South Korean cinema depravity scale of The Man from Nowhere to Oldboy, this is very close to the former. Solid action flick with a short runtime, streaming on prime
August 11Aug 11 7 hours ago, Stringer said: Decision to Leave is good, but pretty mid for Park Chan-Wook, which says more about him than the movie. He makes great movies. Decision to Leave is beautiful looking and that ending is wild.
August 11Aug 11 I didn't see Concrete Utopia mentioned yet, or maybe it was discussed in another thread somewhere. I saw it at a film festival back in 2023, so hopefully it is streaming somewhere. It's great- I recommend it. "When an earthquake reduces almost all of Seoul to smoking ruins, miraculously one building remains standing. Surrounded by destruction, the survivors try to restore order but as outsiders begin to seek refuge at Hwang Gung Apartments, the residents soon realise that the real disaster is yet to come. South Korea's entry for the 2024 Oscar for Best International Feature."
August 12Aug 12 Author On 8/10/2025 at 11:49 AM, kingkoopa6 said: I’m an insomniac with sleep apnea and 2 kids under 2, not an issue. what you are is a champion.
August 12Aug 12 Author On 8/10/2025 at 11:50 AM, kingkoopa6 said: Ok maybe not hella fine. But she easy on the eyes that girl looks pretty goddamn good to me.
October 10Oct 10 Wish we could change this thread to Asian movies. I want to talk about Cure (Japanese). Holy shit I’m not sure I’ve ever felt like that after a movie. I felt hypnotized.
October 10Oct 10 If we're broadening to Asian (totally cool by me), I saw a couple fun ones at Fantastic Fest last month. Road to Vendetta The Curse
October 11Oct 11 On 10/9/2025 at 8:10 PM, wutang75 said: Wish we could change this thread to Asian movies. I want to talk about Cure (Japanese). Holy shit I’m not sure I’ve ever felt like that after a movie. I felt hypnotized. Cure is amazing. His new movie Cloud is now available to rent. Haven't found the time to watch it yet though
October 11Oct 11 If you want an insane but kind of awesome and unique asian movie, check out Love Exposure Caveat is the movie is four hours long, but it's one of the more unique movies I've watched
November 5Nov 5 Author On 5/3/2020 at 6:44 PM, Uncle Boobs said: This is a great one. having just watched bugonia, what do y'all think of this one?
Friday at 08:05 PM5 days Rewatched past lives. Still a great movie for a 3rd time watch. also finished crash landing on you show on Netflix. It’s got everything. Drama. Romance. Comedy. North vs South would rec this one to anyone looking into k dramas
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