Everyone loves to sit with their family and friends, surround themselves with popcorn and soft drinks, and watch a movie that makes an impact. Follow this article if you’d like to know the names of some of South Korea’s best releases.
1. Miracle In Cell No.7
Lee Yong Gu is a single father with a not-so-sound mind. He lives alone with his daughter in a worn-out house. One day, Lee Yong Gu gets wrongly accused of the rape, murder, and abduction of a minor.
Based on the real-life case of a man who pleaded guilty to raping and murdering a nine-year-old girl in September 1972, in Chuncheon, after he was severely tortured. The man was falsely charged.
2. My Annoying Brother
Go Doo Young is an aspiring judo athlete with high potentials to win the national judo championship. But as luck wouldn’t have it, Doo Young lost his eyesight in an accident during a competitive match. Go Doo Shik, who had been in prison, makes a plea in front of the parole board to let him take care of his brother. Upon successfully persuading the parole board, Go Doo Shik makes an appearance in front of his younger step-brother. Even though the brothers both despise each other, they end up living together in their family home.
3. Innocent Witness
How would you, if you were a lawyer, try to get a young girl with Asperger’s syndrome to testify in a murder trial? Innocent Witness narrates the story of I'm Ji Woo, a grade-school girl who, unfortunately, becomes the only witness to a murder case. Due to her condition, Ji Woo finds it difficult to help out with the investigation and testifies once and then refuses another meet. On the other hand, Soon Ho, a lawyer, finds some irregularities in the initial findings of the police. Can he get Ji Woo to talk to him and in front of the court? Can Soon Ho find out what really happened?
4. Extreme Job
Go is the leader of the failing narcotics squad. A squad that uses bizarre methods to try to catch criminals and justifies their actions by saying that their mission is to minimize personal damage. Ironically, no matter what plan they had, they always failed. One day the squad lands with a case that could save them from a lifetime of shame. Desperate to make things turn around, squad chief Go, and his subordinates take up the job.
5. Train To Busan
Seok Woo is a divorcee, an extreme workaholic, but a deadbeat when it comes to being a father. One night after having enough of her workaholic father, Su An asks her father to take her to her mother’s home in Busan. Amidst a viral zombie outbreak, Seok Woo sets out on a journey to board a train to Seoul to Busan and successfully bring his daughter to his ex-wife’s home. While Seok Woo is very successful in his line of work, will he be able to ace the task of taking his daughter to her mother’s, or will the zombies be the last thing they remember?
6. Hope
Su Won is a happy-go-lucky child who, thanks to her always engaged parents, learned to take care of herself. One day Su Won is kidnapped and raped by an older man on the way to school. Su Won’s parents file an F.I.R at the police station and aim to fight the world to bring justice to their daughter. Will the parents be successful? Will Su Won be able to move on with the help of her parents?
This movie is about “Na Young” an 8-year-old child who was beaten and raped by a drunk 57-year-old in a public bathroom in 2008.
7. Oldboy
Kidnapped for no apparent reason in 1988 on the night of his daughter’s birthday, Oh Dae Su spent 15 years in a small room with nothing but television as a connection to the outside world. When Dae Su is then even more abruptly released, he makes it his life’s mission to find out the truth behind his abduction.
8. Ode To My Father
Yoon Deok Soo made a promise to his father during the Korean War against the Chinese, a promise to take care of his family. Ode to my father depicts the changes in society as seen through Deok Soo’s eye, who does all in his power to bring food to the table for his family.
9. Swing Kids
Swing kids is a movie set in a camp in Geoje Island during the Korean War housing North Korean and Chinese war prisoners. Jackson, an American officer aims to provide some relief to the prisoners and plans a tap-dancing performance. Roh Ki Soo is a rebellious pro-communist North Korean soldier who falls in love with tap dancing. Can Jackson pull off his idea and turn it into reality? Will Roh Ki Soo be able to freely dance as he feels like he should?
10. The Handmaiden
Sooki (real name Tamako) is an infamous pickpocket who somehow lands a job at a wealthy estate as a handmaiden to Lady Hideko. Soon after her arrival, she gets pulled into a scheme of betrayal by a con artist acting as a fake count who wants to claim the great fortune belonging to Lady Hideko.
