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Korean Movies: Beyond ‘Old Boy’ and off the Charted Path Posted by Tony Kitchen on Aug 6, 2015
Korean film is more than the modern classics like Old Boy (올드보이 2003), The Chaser (추격자 2008), and Taegukgi: The Brotherhood of War (태극기 휘날리며 2004). Those titles are internationally acclaimed Korean movies–quirky, disturbing, powerful. Film Festivals in Cannes, Venice, Berlin, among others, represent a steady stream of nominated Korean films from independent to large studios. (In a future post, I…