The "new" Korean cinema.

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Kim Ki-duk seems to be falling in the category of "directors that always disappoint you, but not enough to stop you from watching their films". After The Isle I've seen three other films of his ("Birdcage Inn", "Adress Unknown" and "Coast Guard"), none of which reached the same brilliance. They all have their share of good moments, but it seems Ki-duk has too much raw energy and too little coherence. His new film is supposed to be a peaceful, Buddhist vision instead of the usual everyday violence, I hope he'll come through with that...

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 15:04 (twenty years ago) link

one month passes...

just a note to recommend "turning gate" aka "on the occasion of remembering the turning gate" to everyone

it's great

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 2 February 2004 22:32 (twenty years ago) link

some of the least pointless graphic sex scenes ever

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 2 February 2004 22:32 (twenty years ago) link

Funny how we think of those scenes as graphic -- they certainly are powerful scenes -- yet strict Korean censorship prohibits the display of pubic hair. We're seeing less, but it comes off as much more given the intensity of the scenes (especially the build up to them.)

Turning Gate is not only one of the best of the new Korean cinema, it is one of the greatest films I've seen in about ten years.

Come to think of it, ALL of Hong Sang-Soo's films are fantastic.

― BabyBuddha (BabyBuddha), Monday, 2 February 2004 23:04 (twenty years ago) link

i mean i was really impressed with how the particulars of the relationships between the characters were evident, and even developed, in the sex scenes. and it wouldn't have worked if the director had hedged and put them under covers, or shot it obliquely.

i was surprised honestly because i tend to think of asian cinemas, korea's especially, as notably chaste (even the japanese cinema if you except the subgenres of sadeian violence and sex, and of course porn) in what they can portray, but aside from the pubic hair thing, which is trivial as you note, these were some of the most forceful and almost discomfortingly realistic sex scenes i'd ever seen

― amateur!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 11:13 (twenty years ago) link

four years pass...

Woman on the Beach out on DVD today.

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 30 December 2008 15:08 (fifteen years ago) link

ten years pass...

NYC retro

https://www.filmlinc.org/series/relentless-invention-new-korean-cinema-1996-2003/#films

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 22 November 2019 01:50 (four years ago) link

Parasite
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― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Saturday, 30 November 2019 03:02 (four years ago) link

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