The 50 Best S. Korean Films

Submitted by grantica on Mon, 01/01/2007 - 06:33
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  1. Git [Feathers in the Wind] (Il-gon Song, 2004)
  2. Green Chair (Cheol-su Park, 2005)
  3. 3-Iron (Ki-duk Kim, 2004)
  4. The Hotel Venus (Shuta Takahata, 2004) [Is this 'Korean' enough?]
  5. A Tale of Two Sisters (Ji-woon Kim, 2003)
  6. My Beautiful Days (Jong-jae Im, 2002)
  7. Oldboy (Chan-wook Park, 2003)
  8. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (Ki-duk Kim, 2003)
  9. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (Chan-wook Park, 2002)
  10. The President's Last Bang (Sang-soo Im, 2005)
  11. Public Enemy (Woo-Suk Kang, 2002)
  12. Joint Security Area (Chan-wook Park, 2000)
  13. Tale of Cinema (Sang-soo Hong, 2005)
  14. Failan (Hae-sung Song, 2001)
  15. The Power of Kangwon Province (Sang-soo Hong, 1998)
  16. Classic (Jae-young Kwak, 2003)
  17. This Charming Girl (Yoon-ki Lee, 2004)
  18. Crying Fist (Seung-wan Ryoo, 2005)
  19. Turning Gate (Sang-soo Hong, 2002)
  20. Memories of Murder (Joon-ho Bong, 2003)
  21. Il Mare (Hyun-seung Lee, 2000)
  22. Taegukgi (Je-gyu Kang, 2004)
  23. A Bittersweet Life (Ji-woon Kim, 2005)
  24. Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (Chan-wook Park, 2005)
  25. Samaria (Ki-duk Kim, 2004)
  26. Woman Is the Future of Man (Sang-soo Hong, 2004)
  27. Antarctic Journal (Pil-Sung Yim, 2005)
  28. My Sassy Girl (Jae-young Kwak, 2001)
  29. The Isle (Ki-duk Kim, 2000)
  30. Marathon (Yoon-Chul Jeong, 2005)
  31. Someone Special (Jin Jang, 2004)
  32. Rules of Dating (Jae-rim Han, 2005)
  33. Musa (Sung-su Kim, 2001)
  34. Flying Boys (Young-Joo Byun, 2004)
  35. ...ing (Eon-hie Lee, 2003)
  36. Faceless Beauty [Hypnotized] (In-shik Kim, 2004)
  37. Spring Bears Love (Yi Yong, 2003)
  38. White Valentine (Yun-ho Yang, 1999)
  39. The Twins (Heung-Sik Park, 2005)
  40. Please Teach Me English (Sung-su Kim, 2003)
  41. Romance of their Own [Temptation of the Wolves] (Tae-gyun Kim, 2004)
  42. Windstruck (Jae-young Kwak, 2004)
  43. A Moment to Remember (John H. Lee, 2004)
  44. Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors (Sang-soo Hong, 2000)
  45. Barking Dogs Never Bite (Joon-ho Bong, 2000)
  46. Some (Yoon-Hyun Chang, 2004)
  47. Spider Forest (Il-gon Song, 2004)
  48. Mr. Hong (Seok-beom Kang, 2004)
  49. Uninvited (Su-yeon Lee, 2003)
  50. The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well (Sang-soo Hong, 1996)
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The 50 Best S. Korean Films
hinterland01/01/2007

I am honored =). Always nice to see someone else interested in Korean movies.

I haven't updated that list in a while though. Some time I'll go through it and re-arrange some of them and make additions/removals. I need to add some of the good Korean movies I've watched over the past year and remove some of common genre pieces. Especially toward the bottom of the list, there are too many of the romance/melodramas that are so popular in S. Korea.

grantica01/02/2007

i bumped into bin jip (iron 3) by coincidence and since seeing that movie i couldn't stop...like you i think that in the last years they produced some amazing movies... of course my top director without competition is kim ki duk, but i appriciate others too.