Hong Sang-soo makes good movies

• Midnight
• New World

The Good, the Bad, and the Weird. I haven’t seen it since it first came out so I can’t say if it holds up. It’s sort of an action/western. You’ll recognize the lead trio, I’m sure.

Thanks for the recommendation. Any specific movie that I have to watch?

Thanks, I'll look it up.

I've only seen The Woman Who Ran, it's good and I've heard it's a good starting point

Song Kang-ho is part of the cast, so definitely a must watch! Thanks for the recommendation.

I'll give it a try. Thanks

Untold Scandal - it's the Dangerous Liaisons story told in the Korean aristocracy. Visually very beautiful

The Admiral: Roaring Currents (2014) -really epic historical movie

A Bittersweet Life has the same director and star of I Saw the Devil, its a great action film that more people should see.

The Yellow Sea

I definitely will give it a shot, since I saw the devil is one of my fav Korean movies! Thank you

Thanks, I will try to find a place, where I can watch it.

Thanks, I'll look into it.

Dude you have missed literally hundreds. You’ve seen a lot of great ones but also you’ve mainly just seen the ones post-2000 that have crossed over to western markets. There is so much more.

watch no tears for the dead. same director from Ajeossi. It has insane tactical shootouts, jui jitsu fight scenes and full of gore. The story is also raw, depressing and with top tier visuals. The audio (mainly gunshots) is colossal. The main character has interesting arc.

The plot sounds interesting. I'll give it a shot. Thank you.

Thats actually good news, lol. Any specific movies, that I have to watch? Any thrillers I have missed?

Edit: what I meant with "I have seen most of them" is, that I have seen most of the korean movies, that get recommended on this sub regularly.

The first half is building the story and the world with the characters, but the second half is just hardcore action. Main hero is bleeding, struggling and the stakes are high. I love the movie.
Ajeossi was for me better, but No Tears has much more grounded and tactical action scenes.

The man from nowhere is hard to beat tbh anyways. But the plot sounds worthy to give it a shot :)

No Tears is little bit different.

Ajeossi felt much more impactful, cause you know.. innocent child kidnapped, and main hero is traumatized. The stakes are much more higher.

In this one, the hitman will do something awful and he will be pulled apart by the guilt, which is fresh. Both lead actors in both movies were phenomenal.

The direction and visual quality of the action is miles ahead in No Tears, though.

Extreme job

The Quiet Family, Failan, The Foul King, 3-Iron, Spring Summer Fall Winter… and Spring, Shiri, The Housemaid (1960), Crying Fist, Attack the Gas Station, Save the Green Planet!, Il Mare

Monstrum

Gonjiam

RV

The Silenced

Door Lock

Killer Toon

Horror Stories 1 & 2

Death Bell 1 & 2

Dark Water

Wishing Stairs

Whispering Corridors

Spring Summer Fall Winter and Spring!!

• The Isle (2000)
• Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter… and Spring (2003)
• Poetry (2010)

I'll look into these. Thanks :)

Wow, thanks for all those recommendations. Im sure, i'll find something to wtach out of these ;)

Okja is a lot of fun.

The Tower, 2009 Lost Memories, The Howling.

He’s incredibly prolific. Makes one or two films a year. I’ve seen a lot of em, his latest one The Novelist’s Film is pretty good.

Keep in mind his films are an acquired taste. They’re low budget and minimal. I find some of his film boring but others brilliant. He often collaborates with the same actors. Most notably in the last ten years or so his partner Kim Min-Hee from The Handmaiden fame.

Check out Peppermint Candy, Oasisand Secret Sunshine, all by Lee Chang-dong. You might know him from Burning.

Gave this a watch a few months ago and I'd say it still holds up. Super fun film.

Castaway on the Moon is my favorite. It's a rom com about a guy who survives a suicide attempt only to get stuck on an islet in the Han River.

JSA (Joint Security Area), directed by Park Chan-wook (2000)

Great war-drama

My Sassy Girl! I tried to describe it to someone a few months ago, and this is what I wrote:

This was the first South Korean film I’ve ever seen 15 years ago and it opened up a whole new world to me. Not only the exciting world of South Korean cinema, it also opened my mind to what films are allowed to do. My Sassy Girl is a romcom, but it’s also a drama, includes action movie parodies, becomes a hostage thriller for ten minutes, plays with chronology and cinematography, and even might have a stealth sci-fi time travel plot, and also features a fun „find the quintuplets“-game. I wasn’t aware that mixing tones and genres like this does not turn your movie into an incomprehensible mess, but can add to its charms. It’s weird to call a film charming when it’s about a relationship I would call abusive in real life, but somehow it manages to heighten the comedic bits in a way that I can’t take the abuse heaped upon poor Gyen-woo by the girl seriously, and yet when we get to the explanation for her behavior it breaks my heart and in the end I root for them as a couple. It's wild and messy, sometimes even mean, but most of all, it is likable. And that is what I love about it.

Sounds very interesting. Ill try to find a way to watch it. Thanks:)

You missed two of the greatest in another category the slow and thoughtful great movies. Those are Poetry and 3-Iron.

Tbf, you've barely scratched the surface (unless you only want to watch critically acclaimed movies). There's loads of gangster flicks, war/historical (Joseon era) flicks, horror, comedies (feel-good & romantic), tear-jerkers, supernatural... sorry if I'm of no help 😅