The world of teen rom-com is a gift that keeps giving and giving, even when we’re not really asking for it. I could say it feels like the genre has become oversaturated, but that would feel like an understatement because of the rate at which Ott platforms keep churning these out. But as I complain, I’m reminded of the comfort that some of these shows provide. While high school dramas can focus on many different subjects, most of the content revolves around teen romance. Specifically, there’s an entire list of shows that involve a very intelligent and organized girl (can’t relate) with multiple (perfectly handsome) love interests. Maybe this is a fantasy of the millennials writing these books (since TV isn’t ever original anymore), the ones who grew up watching shows that emulated the line “If he tugs at your ponytail, he likes you,” or...
- 12/10/2023
- by Ruchika Bhat
- Film Fugitives
In the years at the start of the Korean New Wave, a number of titles from the country broke out that showed the wider audience what the cinema of the country was capable of in an all-round fashion. One genre that the filmmakers there have always been rather proficient at is the romantic melodrama and works like “Christmas in August” reiterated the same at the start of the New Wave. However, in 2000 came “Ditto”, a “science-fiction” romance that was unlike something the South Korea had produced before, a feature that went on to be a big hit with the audience. The story, a high-concept romance which connects two people in different eras through a ham radio, resonated with and is much loved by audiences and storytellers alike, so much so that 22 years later, we get a modern day namesake retelling from “Go Back” director Seo Eun-young.
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- 11/3/2023
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
By Charlotte Remes
When it comes to the thriller genre, South Korean cinema does not disappoint. Some might even say it dominates. And Kwon Oh-seung’s directorial debut, “Midnight” (2021), is no exception. Fleshed in spine-chilling tension, the film features Jin Ki-joo (Little Forest), Wi Ha-joon (Squid Game), and Gil Hae-yeon (In Her Place) cast in a heart-stopping game of cat-and-mouse. The film’s 2020 premiere was delayed given the Covid-19 pandemic before being made available in theatres and on online streaming platforms on 30 June 2021. Nevertheless, in spite of its subdued release, ‘Midnight’ proved a critical and commercial success, placing third at the Korean box office with a gross of 796,540 as of December 12, 2021. Additionally, it clinched the ‘Silver Audience Award for Best Asian Film’ at the ‘25th Fantasia International Film Festival’.
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The film begins by introducing us to Kyung-mi (Jin Ki-joo...
When it comes to the thriller genre, South Korean cinema does not disappoint. Some might even say it dominates. And Kwon Oh-seung’s directorial debut, “Midnight” (2021), is no exception. Fleshed in spine-chilling tension, the film features Jin Ki-joo (Little Forest), Wi Ha-joon (Squid Game), and Gil Hae-yeon (In Her Place) cast in a heart-stopping game of cat-and-mouse. The film’s 2020 premiere was delayed given the Covid-19 pandemic before being made available in theatres and on online streaming platforms on 30 June 2021. Nevertheless, in spite of its subdued release, ‘Midnight’ proved a critical and commercial success, placing third at the Korean box office with a gross of 796,540 as of December 12, 2021. Additionally, it clinched the ‘Silver Audience Award for Best Asian Film’ at the ‘25th Fantasia International Film Festival’.
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The film begins by introducing us to Kyung-mi (Jin Ki-joo...
- 9/26/2022
- by Guest Writer
- AsianMoviePulse
Park Ri-woong received an Mfa from the Korea National University of Arts. He directed the short films Windowsill (2003), Family (2005), Let Us Go (2007), and Good Yeounha (2008), which were honored with awards at such festivals as the Seoul International Film Festival, Filmfest Munchen, and the Jeonju International Film Festival. His feature debut, The Girl on a Bulldozer, premiered at the 2021 Busan International Film Festival and was invited to the Osaka Asian Film Festival and Far East Film Festival in 2022.
On the occasion of “The Girl on a Bulldozer” screening at New York Asian Film Festival, we speak with him about the inspiration behind the film and the presence of the bulldozer in particular, the true nature of the film, the difficulties the production met, Kim Hye-yoon and other topics.
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The leap from Data Manager in films to Director is quite a unique one. How did that come about?...
On the occasion of “The Girl on a Bulldozer” screening at New York Asian Film Festival, we speak with him about the inspiration behind the film and the presence of the bulldozer in particular, the true nature of the film, the difficulties the production met, Kim Hye-yoon and other topics.
additional questions by Rhythm Zaveri
The leap from Data Manager in films to Director is quite a unique one. How did that come about?...
- 8/21/2022
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Janchivdorj Sengedorj’s ‘The Sales Girl’ picked up best feature film
Korean comedy drama ‘Perhaps Love’ and Coba Cheng’s Hong Kong family comedy Chilli Laugh Story took home the audience awards at New York Asian Film Festival (Nyaff), which wrapped its 20th edition on July 31.
Chilli Laugh Story was a box office hit in Hong Kong cinemas, having beaten out Thor: Love And Thunder, and screened in the Next/Now strand during the festival’s 17-day run.
Other Nyaff winners included Janchivdorj Sengedorj’s Mongolian coming-of-age comedy The Sales Girl, which took the Uncaged award for best feature given...
Korean comedy drama ‘Perhaps Love’ and Coba Cheng’s Hong Kong family comedy Chilli Laugh Story took home the audience awards at New York Asian Film Festival (Nyaff), which wrapped its 20th edition on July 31.
Chilli Laugh Story was a box office hit in Hong Kong cinemas, having beaten out Thor: Love And Thunder, and screened in the Next/Now strand during the festival’s 17-day run.
Other Nyaff winners included Janchivdorj Sengedorj’s Mongolian coming-of-age comedy The Sales Girl, which took the Uncaged award for best feature given...
- 8/2/2022
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
Tickets go on sale July 1 for the fully in-theater 20th anniversary edition of the New York Asian Film Festival (Nyaff), presented by the New York Asian Film Foundation and Film at Lincoln Center (Flc), running from July 15–28, 2022 at Flc, as well as on July 23 and July 28–31 at Asia Society, which will be co-presenting a selection of key films and a Hong Kong marathon day. International stars and acclaimed filmmakers will return in-person to grace the Nyaff red carpet at Flc, receive awards, speak at Q&a sessions, and impart wisdom during masterclasses and special talks.
Hong Kong cultural icon Josie Ho will headline Nyaff 2022 with her latest project as producer of the inspiring musical documentary Finding Bliss: Fire and Ice—The Director’s Cut, in which she travels with musicians and students from Hong Kong to Iceland for a transcendent collaboration. As a tribute to the acting superstar, the festival...
Hong Kong cultural icon Josie Ho will headline Nyaff 2022 with her latest project as producer of the inspiring musical documentary Finding Bliss: Fire and Ice—The Director’s Cut, in which she travels with musicians and students from Hong Kong to Iceland for a transcendent collaboration. As a tribute to the acting superstar, the festival...
- 7/1/2022
- by Grace Han
- AsianMoviePulse
The 20th edition of the festival will return as a full in-person event in July.
The New York Asian Film Festival (Nyaff) has unveiled the full line-up for its 20th edition, which will include honorary awards for Japanese horror director Takashi Shimizu, acclaimed Japanese actor Hiroshi Abe and South Korean rising star Kim Hye-yoon.
This year will mark Nyaff’s fully-fledged return to the big screen, following a virtual 2020 edition and a hybrid event in 2021. More than 60 new and classic titles from Asia, including six world premieres, will be presented as in-person screenings at Film at Lincoln Center (Flc) and the Asia Society,...
The New York Asian Film Festival (Nyaff) has unveiled the full line-up for its 20th edition, which will include honorary awards for Japanese horror director Takashi Shimizu, acclaimed Japanese actor Hiroshi Abe and South Korean rising star Kim Hye-yoon.
This year will mark Nyaff’s fully-fledged return to the big screen, following a virtual 2020 edition and a hybrid event in 2021. More than 60 new and classic titles from Asia, including six world premieres, will be presented as in-person screenings at Film at Lincoln Center (Flc) and the Asia Society,...
- 6/30/2022
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Hello, dear readers! With Indie Horror Month rolling on, we have a pair of reviews featuring two great recent indie genre releases that have come out in the last few days: Kwon Oh-Seung’s South Korean thriller Midnight and the vamp-tastic Let the Wrong One In from Conor McMahon (whose Stitches has been a movie that I’ve been singing its praises for nearly a decade now).
Check out my reviews below and be sure to check in with us throughout the entire month of April for our 2022 Indie Horror Month celebration!
Midnight: In writer/director Kwon Oh-Seung’s nail-biter of a thriller Midnight, a ruthless serial killer (played by Wi Ha-Joon), is stalking the streets of South Korea every night in search of helpless female victims he can kidnap and torture for his own amusement. While the premise of Midnight sounds a lot like many other films of the same ilk,...
Check out my reviews below and be sure to check in with us throughout the entire month of April for our 2022 Indie Horror Month celebration!
Midnight: In writer/director Kwon Oh-Seung’s nail-biter of a thriller Midnight, a ruthless serial killer (played by Wi Ha-Joon), is stalking the streets of South Korea every night in search of helpless female victims he can kidnap and torture for his own amusement. While the premise of Midnight sounds a lot like many other films of the same ilk,...
- 4/7/2022
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
Starring Squid Game's Wi Ha-Jun, Midnight will be released to VOD on April 5th, with a Blu-ray release to follow on May 10th. If you want an early preview of the film, we've been provided with an exclusive clip just for Daily Dead readers!
"Fear grips the country of South Korea as a serial killer,, stalks its residents. Kyung-mi, a deaf woman, is out late with her mother when she stumbles upon a young woman bleeding out in a dark alley. Now a witness to the killer’s brutal crime, Kyung-mi is being ruthlessly hunted down. Will she survive or become his victim?"
Written and Directed by Kwon Oh-seung and produced by Kim Hyun-woo, Midnight stars Jin Ki-Joo, Wi Ha-Jun, Gil Hae-Yeon, Park Hoon, Kim Hye-Yoon.
Available on VOD April 5 and Blu-ray May 10, 2022
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"Fear grips the country of South Korea as a serial killer,, stalks its residents. Kyung-mi, a deaf woman, is out late with her mother when she stumbles upon a young woman bleeding out in a dark alley. Now a witness to the killer’s brutal crime, Kyung-mi is being ruthlessly hunted down. Will she survive or become his victim?"
Written and Directed by Kwon Oh-seung and produced by Kim Hyun-woo, Midnight stars Jin Ki-Joo, Wi Ha-Jun, Gil Hae-Yeon, Park Hoon, Kim Hye-Yoon.
Available on VOD April 5 and Blu-ray May 10, 2022
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- 3/29/2022
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
As was the case for many western viewers, South Korean cinema was something I discovered in the early ’00s. For a few years afterwards, I tried to immerse myself in films coming out of Korea, keeping up with contemporary releases that made it to the UK, importing other titles that didn’t make the jump but looked interesting, as well as trying to look back, at least a few years, to the late 1990s and the beginnings of what was being called a South-Korean new wave. I have to confess that since then, some key titles apart, I’ve only intermittently kept up with the scene, and am yet to dig into any of their TV dramas, including Squid Game, with which Midnight shares actor Wi Ha-Jun.
In first time director Kwon Oh-Seung’s thriller, largely set across a single night, Wi plays Do-sik, a young man who is also...
In first time director Kwon Oh-Seung’s thriller, largely set across a single night, Wi plays Do-sik, a young man who is also...
- 3/14/2022
- by Sam Inglis
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Kwon Oh-Seung’s impressive debut cleverly uses social sexism to ramp up disbelief in his female characters
This twisty-turny thriller from South Korea is an impressive, auspicious debut for writer-director Kwon Oh-Seung; taut as a piano-wire garotte, it’s compelling as a genre exercise. But it also offers a (possibly accidental) critique of a culture that often treats women and disabled people as inferior to able-bodied men. That latter point is extremely well illustrated late in Midnight when heroine Kyung Mi (Jin Ki-joo), a young deaf woman, keeps trying to get help from the cops or onlookers in a crowded street only to find people usually inclined to believe her pursuer, serial killer Do Shik because he’s such a good actor, skilled at implying she’s “hysterical” or “damaged”.
Unlucky Kyung Mi just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time when she interrupted Do Shik...
This twisty-turny thriller from South Korea is an impressive, auspicious debut for writer-director Kwon Oh-Seung; taut as a piano-wire garotte, it’s compelling as a genre exercise. But it also offers a (possibly accidental) critique of a culture that often treats women and disabled people as inferior to able-bodied men. That latter point is extremely well illustrated late in Midnight when heroine Kyung Mi (Jin Ki-joo), a young deaf woman, keeps trying to get help from the cops or onlookers in a crowded street only to find people usually inclined to believe her pursuer, serial killer Do Shik because he’s such a good actor, skilled at implying she’s “hysterical” or “damaged”.
Unlucky Kyung Mi just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time when she interrupted Do Shik...
- 3/8/2022
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Guardian - Film News
"You're dead if you touch it." Epic Pictures has revealed an official trailer a Korean serial killer thriller titled Midnight, marking the feature debut of a filmmaker named Oh-Seung Kwon. This played at the 2021 New York Asian Film Festival, Fantasia Film Festival, and Fantastic Fest last year, and also won Best Feature at Grimmfest in the UK. A deaf mother and daughter interrupt a serial psychopath as he attempts to claim his next victim, only to find his wrath redirected toward them instead. Now a witness to the killer's latest brutal crime, Kyung-mi is being ruthlessly hunted down. Will she survive or become his victim? Starring Wi Ha-Joon (best known as Detective Hwang from "Squid Game"), Jin Ki-Joo, Gil Hae-Yeon, Park Hoon, and Kim Hye-Yoon. Korea really loves movies about killers, there have been so many of them over the last few decades. This looks like a good spin on the usual,...
- 3/4/2022
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
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