Korean Movie Night at Home
Enjoy a selection of 10 hit Korean films available for a limited screening online!
April 27 - July 26, 2020 (Extended time)
Korean Movie Night New York, one of the most beloved film series hosted by the Korean Cultural Center New York returns in online form! Korean Movie Night At Home brings you a cinematic experience of 10 Korean films from the past five years including blockbuster hits and festival darlings that ranges from sweet melodramas to intense thrillers.
In this unique revamp of Korean Movie Night, we’ve partnered with JBG Pictures to provide FREE access to these films online until the end of July.
Since its inception in 2010, Korean Movie Night New York presented free film screenings that introduced the full spectrum of contemporary and classic Korean cinema to New York audiences, including popular blockbusters, independent films, documentaries, animation, and more.
[Movie List]
* All films are in Korean with English subtitles
* These ratings are by the Korea Media Rating Board
Be With You
(Ji-geum Man-na-leo Gap-ni-da, 지금 만나러 갑니다)
Director: Lee Jang-hoon (이장훈)
Cast: So Ji-sup, Son Ye-jin, Go Chang-seok, Lee Yu-jin, Kim Hyun-soo
Running Time: 132min
Genre: Drama/Fantasy/Romance
Release Year: 2018
Rating: Film intended for audiences 12 and over (12세 관람가)
(Underage audiences accompanied with a parent or guardian is allowed.)
Along with his young son Ji-ho, Woo-jin misses his wife Soo-a, who died after promising to return a year later during the rainy season. Miraculously, they reunite with Soo-a when the rainy season comes around, but she has no memory of the husband and son whom she dearly loved.
Inside Men
(Nae-bu-ja-deul, 내부자들)
Director: Woo Min-ho (우민호)
Cast: Lee Byung-hun, Cho Seung-woo, Baek Yoon-sik, Lee Geung-young, KIM Hong-pa, I El, JUNG Man-sik, Kim Byung-oc, Kim Eui-sung, Jo Jae-yun, Park Jin-u
Running Time: 130min
Genre: Action/Crime/Drama
Release Year: 2015
Rating: No one under 18 is allowed to watch this Film (청소년 관람불가)
Lee Kang-hee, an editor at an influential conservative newspaper raises congressman Jang Pilwoo to the position of a leading candidate for President using the power of the press. Behind this, there was his secret deal with the paper’s biggest sponsor. Ahn Sang-goo, a political henchman who supported Lee and Jang, gets his hand cut when he is caught pocketing the record of the sponsor’s slush fund. Woo Jang-hoon, an ambitious prosecutor, starts to investigate the relationship with Jang and the sponsor believing it is the only chance he can make it to the top. While getting down to the grass roots on the case, Woo meets Ahn who has been deliberately planning his revenge. Now the war among the one blind for power, the one hell bent for vengeance and the one eager for success starts.
*Please note this film has strong bloody violence, disturbing behavior, language and sexual images
Luck-Key
(Leok-ki, 럭키)
Director: Lee Gae-byok (이계벽)
Cast: Yoo Hae-jin, Lee Joon, Jo Yoon-hee, Yim Ji-yoen, Jo Han-cheol
Running Time: 120min
Genre: Action/Comedy/Crime
Release Year: 2016
Rating: Film intended for audiences 15 and over (15세 관람가)
(Underage audiences accompanied with a parent or guardian is allowed.)
Hyung-wook, an infamous assassin known for his perfection, he slips on soap at a public sauna and passes out. Jae-sung, a not famous unknown actor who’s hit rock bottom, witnesses the accident and switches his locker key with Hyung-wook’s. Jae-sung opens the locker to find the key to a fancy car which leads him to a luxurious condo along with the full wealth and secrets of a successful hit man. On the other hand, Hyung-wook wakes up with amnesia. And the only clue he has for his identity are the outstanding payment bills. With the help of a paramedic, he finds his (actually Jae-sung’s) place discovering that he’s a totally broke nameless actor. While Hyung-wook struggles to remember, he tries to ‘continue’ his life as an actor. And by irony of fate, with the help of real-life action moves that his body is used to, he soon becomes the new action hero on TV. And with the continuous shooting of the action sequences, his memory starts to return.
Mal-Mo-E: The Secret Mission
(말모이)
Director: Eom You-na (엄유나)
Cast: Yoo Hae-jin, Yoon Kye-sang, KIM Hong-pa, Woo Hyeon, Kim Tae-hoon, Kim Sun-young, Min Jin-woong, Song Young-chang, Heo Seong-tae, Lee Seong-uk, Jo Hyeon-cheol
Running Time: 135min
Genre: Comedy/Drama/History
Release Year: 2018
Rating: Film intended for audiences 12 and over (12세 관람가)
(Underage audiences accompanied with a parent or guardian is allowed.)
Imprisoned several times during the 1940s, when Korea was under Japanese occupation, Kim Pan-Soo is illiterate and does not know how to read or write Korean or any other language. The teaching of Korean in the schools is banned by the Imperial government. He meets a representative of the Korean Language Society and join forces to publish a dictionary of the Korean language.
Man of Men
(Peo-pek-teu Maen, 퍼펙트맨)
Director: Yong Soo (용수)
Cast: Sul Kyoung-gu, Jo Jin-woong, Huh Joon-ho, Jin Seon-gyu, Kim Sa-rang
Running Time: 117min
Genre: Comedy/Drama
Release Year: 2019
Rating: Film intended for audiences 15 and over (15세 관람가)
(Underage audiences accompanied with a parent or guardian is allowed.)
Once an infamous lawyer for taking any cases for money, Jang-su (SEOL Kyung-gu) is now a terminal patient. His dreary time left is shaken up by the new volunteer Young-ki (CHO Jin-woong), a low-life gangster assigned to do the court-ordered community service. Finding Young-ki’s unrefined manner refreshing and authentic, Jang-su asks Young-ki to help him complete his bucket list in return of a large sum of his life insurance money. In desperate need of fast cash, Young-ki accepts the offer, but the job leads them to an unexpected ending.
Midnight Runners
(Cheong-nyeon-gyeong-chal, 청년경찰)
Director: Kim Ju-hwan (김주환)
Cast: Kim Ha-neul, Park Seo-jun, Sung Dong-il, Park Ha-seon, Jung Da-eun
Running Time: 108min
Genre: Action/Comedy
Release Year: 2017
Rating: Film intended for audiences 15 and over (15세 관람가)
(Underage audiences accompanied with a parent or guardian is allowed.)
Forget the sense of duty and justice! Two apathetic police academy recruits who become best buddies through the tough training together witness a woman being abducted right before their very eyes. As they were taught in the academy, they quickly report the incident to the police, but the police are in no hurry to jump on the case. So the duo decide to take the matter into their own hands and rescue the woman.
The Battle: Roar to Victory
(Bong-o-dong Jeon-tu, 봉오동 전투)
Director: Won Shin-yun (원신연)
Cast: Yoo Hae-jin, Ryu Jun-yeol, Jo Woo-jin, Kazuki Kitamura, Hiroyuki Ikeuchi
Running Time: 135min
Genre: Action/Drama/History
Release Year: 2019
Rating: Film intended for audiences 15 and over (15세 관람가)
(Underage audiences accompanied with a parent or guardian is allowed.)
In 1920, when Korea is under Japanese rule the Korean Independence Army’s Hae-chul (Yoo Hae-jin) and his subordinates are carrying out the operation to deliver funds to the Korean Provisional Government in Shanghai. During the operation Hae-chul is reunited with Jang-ha (Ryu Jun-yeol), a young squad commander, whose mission is to defend Samdunja. They unite and trap the Japanese soldiers in Samdunja, soundly defeating them. Now they’re chased by Japanese troops and Hae-chul finds out that Jang-ha’s mission isn’t over yet. A crucial yet dangerous task is still assigned to him.
The Throne
(Sa-do, 사도)
Director: Lee Joon-ik (이준익)
Cast: Song Kang-ho, Yu Ah-in, Moon Geun-young, Jeon Hye-jin, Kim Hae-sook
Running Time: 125min
Genre: Drama/History
Release Year: 2015
Rating: Film intended for audiences 12 and over (12세 관람가)
(Underage audiences accompanied with a parent or guardian is allowed.)
In the year of 1762, when King Yeongjo of the Joseon dynasty's been ruling for 35 years already, Crown prince Sado is accused of plotting treason by his biological mother lady Yi. Yeongjo falls into a dilemma since he could not penalize his own son as a traitor as it would mean that he would become the father of a traitor threatening his throne, and ends up ordering Sado to take his own life. As Sado’s lieges oppose Yeongjo’s decision by putting their own lives at risk, Yeongjo locks Sado in a wooden rice chest. Locked up without being given a single drop of water, Sado is also deprived from succeeding the throne, having his son take his place as an heir. On the 8th day inside the chest, Sado faces death. The movie follows the most tragic and iconic 8 days in the history of Joseon Dynasty disclosing what forced a father to kill his own son.
Vanishing Time: A Boy Who Returned
(Ga-ryeo-jin si-gan, 가려진 시간)
Director: Um Tae-hwa (엄태화)
Cast: Gang Dong-won, Shin Eun-su, Lee Hyo-je, Kim Hui-won, Kwon Hae-hyo
Running Time: 129min
Genre: Fantasy
Release Year: 2016
Rating: Film intended for audiences 12 and over (12세 관람가)
(Underage audiences accompanied with a parent or guardian is allowed.)
13-year-old Su-rin moves to a remote island with her stepfather when her mother passes away. She befriends Sung-min, an orphan boy who truly understands her. One day, they venture into a cave in the forest with a group of kids and discover a glittering egg which, according to their local folktale, hold a time-eating monster; a monster that can instantly turn a child into an adult. Su-rin tries to stop them, but the boys take the egg out of curiosity. When she follows them out of the cave, she finds that her friends have disappeared. The police assume that this is an abduction case and begin their investigation. Su-rin tells the police about finding the egg, but nobody believes her. Later, a mysterious man in his 30s shows up and tells Su-rin that he is Sung-min.
A Violent Prosecutor
(Geom-sa-oe-jeon, 검사외전)
Director: Lee Il-hyeong (이일형)
Cast: Hwang Jung-min, Gang Dong-won, Lee Seong-min, Park Seong-ung, Kim Eung-soo, Joo Jin-mo, Han Jae-yeong, Kim Won-hae, Jeon Bae-su, SHIN So-yul, Pak Jong-hwan
Running Time: 126min
Genre: Crime/Thriller
Release Year: 2016
Rating: Film intended for audiences 15 and over (15세 관람가)
(Underage audiences accompanied with a parent or guardian is allowed.)
Jae-wook, a prosecutor specializing in violent crimes. While interrogating a shady suspect one day, he loses his temper and lashes out at him. But when he returns to the room he finds the suspect dead and he is promptly charged with murder. Keen to avoid any trouble, he is left to dry by his colleagues and finds himself slapped with a ten-year prison sentence. After incarceration, Jae-wook meets small time hoodlum Chi-won and begins to piece together evidence that will prove that the murder wrap was a setup. But in order to complete his plan, he needs the help of Chi-won, whom he trains to aid him in his quest for revenge.
Korean Movie Night at Home is presented as a part of Korean Culture Day 2020 for April - June
