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Tag Archives: South Korean Film
My Missing Aunt (2025) ☆☆☆(3/4): Her erased aunt
South Korean independent documentary film “My Missing Aunt” presents a modest but intimate personal story to tell. Looking into how one promising young woman was unjustly erased by her own family, it makes some sharp point on the sexist influence … Continue reading
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Tagged Documentary, Family, Real-life figure, Real-life story, South Korean Film
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The World of Love (2025) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4): How she is
South Korean film “The World of Love” is simply extraordinary for how it is about as well as what it is about. As gradually and sensitively conveying to us its heroine’s inner struggle along the story, the movie will make … Continue reading
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Tagged Coming-of-age drama, High School, High school student, South Korean Film
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Good News (2025) ☆☆☆(3/4): A South Korean disaster black comedy from Netflix
South Korean Netflix film “Good News”, which was released two days ago, is a disaster black comedy film loosely inspired by a real-life hijacking incident in March 1970. While it is clear from the beginning that most of its story … Continue reading
Journeys in Math and Genetics (2025) ☆☆(2/4): Looking for his biological father
South Korean film “Journeys in Math and Genetics” is so formulaic from the beginning to the end that I hardly cared about its story and characters during my viewing. While this is certainly intended to be an earnest coming-of-age drama, … Continue reading
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Tagged Family, Mathematics, Coming-of-age drama, South Korean Film, Prodigy
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Home Behind Bars (2025) ☆☆☆(3/4): Meeting the daughter of an inmate
South Korean film “Home Behind Bars” is a somber but touching human drama about one seasoned female prison guard gradually discovering that she does have a heart to feel. Leisurely following her emotional journey involved with one particular inmate and … Continue reading
The Nature Man (2022) ☆☆1/2(2.5/4): Two YouTubers stuck in a remote place
To be frank with you, the most impressive part of South Korean independent film “The Nature Man” is its end credits. You will instantly see that its director did a lot of stuffs during the production of the film, and … Continue reading
Red Nails (2024) ☆☆☆(3/4): Mother and daughter stuck with each other again
South Korean independent film “Red Nails” calmly but sensitively observes the strained mother and daughter relationship between its two deeply flawed human characters. Although we do not like these two people much even at the end of the story, the … Continue reading
No Other Choice (2025) ☆☆☆(3/4): Killing for employment
Park Chan-wook’s latest film “No Other Choice” is another dark and twisted genre piece you can expect from its director. Following its plain ordinary family guy’s murderous struggle for getting employed, the movie provides a series of morbidly humorous moments … Continue reading
The Ugly (2025) ☆☆(2/4): That face, that face, that face…
South Korean film “The Ugly” is willing to explorer the very, very, very ugly sides of the South Korean society during the 1970s, and I appreciate that to some degree even though I am not that sure about whether it … Continue reading
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