South Korea

Yadang: The Snitch

By Ethan Padgett | September 2025

Enter South Korea’s drug underworld in Hwang Byeng-Gug’s Yadang: The Snitch, a major box office hit in its native land. Lee Kang-soo…

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Enter South Korea’s drug underworld in Hwang Byeng-Gug’s Yadang: The Snitch, a major box office hit in its native land. Lee Kang-soo (Kang Ha-neul) is...

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The blood-swillin' lost boys of tomorrow can be found today in the ultra-stylized Vietnam vampire movie Daydreamers, directed by Timothy Linh Bui from the...

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Korea has established itself as an effect in the horror genre with works like Train to Busan and the superb unrated giant creature picture The Host....

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Green Night is writer-director Shuai Han's follow-up to her acclaimed debut Summer Blur. Whereas that film is an intimate coming-of-age tale, this is a...

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Crime may be universal, but it's fascinating to see how crime is approached in other countries. The way crime is investigated in South Korea is very...

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Tae-gon Kim, Yong-hwa Kim, and Joo-Suk Park all collaborated on the screenplay for Project Silence. Tae-gon Kim directs this sci-fi horror tale set in...

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NOW ON SHUDDER! Vengeance from beyond the grave comes forth in Jang Jae-hyun's supernatural horror film, Exhuma. Lee Hwa-rim (Kim Go-eun) is a spiritual...

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David Mitchell once did a comedy sketch about a lazy writer, proud of his latest hospital drama for not getting 'bogged down' by the jargon of healthcare....

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I suppose it is the very nature of a web of intrigue that it can be hard to follow. So it is with Kim Jee-woon's Cobweb, an intricate black comedy set in...

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After overcoming our fear of monsters under the bed, it turns out we need to watch out for the bed itself in South Korean writer-director Syeyoung Park's...

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