— korean movie picks

1930s Korea, in the period of Japanese occupation, a new girl, Sookee, is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress, Hideko, who lives a secluded life on a large countryside estate with her domineering Uncle Kouzuki. But the maid has a secret. She is a pickpocket recruited by a swindler posing as a Japanese Count to help him seduce the Lady to elope with him, rob her of her fortune, and lock her up in a madhouse. The plan seems to proceed according to plan until Sookee and Hideko discover some unexpected emotions.

A story about a mentally ill man wrongfully imprisoned for murder and his relationship with his 6 year old daughter.

A gang of South Korean thieves team up with a Hong Kong crew to steal a diamond necklace from a heavily-guarded casino safe in Macau. As the cops close in, old betrayals — and misunderstandings — resurface.

When a zombie virus pushes Korea into a state of emergency, those trapped on an express train to Busan must fight for their own survival.

Tanto Gi Taek (Song Kang-ho) como su familia están sin trabajo. Cuando su hijo mayor, Gi Woo (Choi Woo-sik), empieza a dar clases particulares en casa de Park (Lee Seon-gyun), las dos familias, que tienen mucho en común pese a pertenecer a dos mundos totalmente distintos, comienzan una interrelación de resultados imprevisibles.

After barely surviving a brutal attack by a sadistic serial killer, crime boss Jang Dong-su is left humiliated. Determined to catch the killer known as K, he forms an uneasy alliance with Jung Tae-seok, a relentless and incorruptible detective who often disrupts his illegal business. However, while Jang Dong-su wants K dead, Jung Tae-suk is determined to bring him to justice. With a deal in place—whoever finds K first will decide his fate—the hunt begins, blurring the lines between crime and law.

Based on a Japanese manga, Kanna-San, Daiseikou Desu, this story revolves around Kang Han-na, an overweight phone sex employee and secret vocalist for Ammy, a famous Korean pop singer who actually lip syncs as she cannot sing. After getting humilitated publicly by an ungrateful Ammy, Han-na undergoes an extreme makeover to become a pop sensation herself.

Grieving the loss of a best friend she couldn't protect, an ex-bodyguard sets out to fulfill her dear friend's last wish: sweet revenge.

Love never hurt so good for two co-workers who enter a contractual relationship as partners in consensual play, pleasure and pain.

Woo-jin se despierta cada día dentro de un cuerpo distinto, con diferente edad, sexo o nacionalidad. Algunas veces es un hombre, otras una mujer; un anciano o un joven, incluso a veces un extranjero. Dentro es la misma persona, pero por fuera siempre es alguien nuevo, lo que es algo difícil de llevar. Lo único constante en su vida es la chica a la que ama, Yi-soo, que sabe lo que le ocurre y le quiere de todas formas.

The love story between a top actress and an airline director who each suffers an unusual phenomenon. He suffers from prosopagnosia, while every month she transforms into someone else for a week.

An expelled boxing champion, who now is a high-school teacher, witnesses intolerable violence and throws her first punch to build justice against it, while putting on a mask.

In 1999, a teen girl keeps close tabs on a boy in school on behalf of her deeply smitten best friend – then she gets swept up in a love story of her own.