Two families in Seoul, one barely scraping by in a dank semi-basement in a low-lying neighborhood, the other living in luxury in a modern architectural marvel overlooking the city, find themselves on a collision course that will lay bare the dark contradictions of capitalism with...
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"Isabella and Ha, identical twin girls born in Vietnam, were raised on opposite sides of the world, each having no idea that the other existed. Erika Hayasaki's deeply reported, intimate story of their journey back to each other upends common conceptions of adoption, family, and ...
Youngho (Shin Seokho) goes to see his father who is tending to a famous patient. He surprises his girlfriend, Juwon (Park Miso), in Berlin where she is studying fashion design. He goes to a seaside hotel to meet his mother and brings his friend Jeongsoo (Ha Seongguk) with him. In...
A trio of friends venture to the rocky shores of a large island to shoot a film together. The director, Seong-mo (Shin Seok-ho), recently gave up acting and has decided to make a film with his own money. His former classmate, Sang-guk (Ha Seong-guk), will operate the camera and N...
As the deceased soul Su-hong and his three afterlife guardians face the remaining trials to obtain their reincarnation, the guardians come face to face with the buried truth of their tragic time on Earth.
Junhee is a novelist who's grown disenchanted with her writing. On a trip to see an old friend, she runs into a film director who was set to adapt one of her novels before the project fell through. One chance encounter leads to another and soon she finds herself having lunch with...
"Disasters, accidents, and deaths abound in Bluebeard's First Wife. A woman spends a night with her fiancé and his friends, and overhears a terrible secret that has bound them together since high school. A man grows increasingly agitated by the apartment noise made by a young fa...
Lily, a young Jewish refugee displaced by World War II, keeps the tradition of making Rosh Hashanah honey cake as her family moves from Vienna to Shanghai and Hong Kong.
"At a train station in China, three people meet, only two of whom are actually alive. The first is Faron Jones, on his way to Hong Kong to interview an Iranian film director-cum-dissident holed up in the Japanese consulate. The second is Mildred Ha, a Hong Kong bookseller detaine...
A band of extreme martial arts fighters known as Kundo steal from corrupt officials and give to the poor. Dolmuchi becomes a member of Kundo and ultimately fights the men who killed his family.
A Vietnamese legend, how mosquitos exist. A husband uses his blood to save his wife's life from the death but she betrays her husband for a rich businessman. He asks her to return his blood, after the second death, she becomes a mosquito.
A miserable life of Huong who is forced to become a prostitute. She falls in love with Tung who later marries her younger sister. After many vicissitudes, Huong becomes a nun.
"Several years have passed since Ryang-Ha accepted Ethan Huang's invitation to join the Hong Kong Triad. Now a near-permanent fixture at the boss's side, he fits in well, but his mentor, Seung-Woo, still has much to teach him. Yet unbeknownst to his boss, Ryang-Ha is ready to bid...