These Are The 12 Best South Korean Films
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'Memento Mori'
Directed by Min Kyu-dong and starring Park Ye-jin and Kim Min-sun, Memento Mori is a true South Korean 1990's classic. It follows the story of a girl who finds a strange diary, kept by two of her fellow students who apparently have a very strong yet unusual bond.
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'Oldboy'
Starring Choi Min-sik and Yoo Ji-tae, Oldboy is undeniably one of the best South Korean films of all time. The movie tells the story of a man driven insane, held captive for an unknown reason, and by unknown captor and is released 15 years later as if nothing happened...
This film won over 25 prestigious awards and was praised by the likes of Quentin Tarantino and the ultimate film critic Roger Ebert for good reason!
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'Memories of Murder'
Memories of Murder is another film directed by Parasite's Bong Joon-ho. Released in 2003, the film is based on South Korea's true story of the Asian country's first serial murders, starring Parasite and Snowpiercer's Song Kang-ho.
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'A Tale of Two Sisters'
The psychological horror drama film A Tale of Two Sisters, released in 2003 and directed by Kim Jee-woon is definitely one of our favorite South Korean films. How could we forget the story of the two sisters who must find a way to deal with their late mother's ghost?
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'Taegukgi'
South Korean wartime action drama film Taegukgi was released in 2004 and we were absolutely fascinated by it. Kang Je-gyu's movie revolves around a young man who has to protect his younger brother when the Korean War starts to flare-up.
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'I Saw The Devil'
Released in 2010 and directed by critically acclaimed Kim Jee-woon, I Saw the Devil revolves around the revenge on a taxi driver who comes across a scared female motorist, stranded in a broken-down car. He pulls over but he doesn't help her...
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'The Housemaid'
The 2010 film The Housemaid is a remake of the original film of the same name released in the 1960s. The movie tells the story of a Korean woman trapped in a salacious love triangle with the very family she works for. The film was directed by Im Sang-soo and nominated for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
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'A Taxi Driver'
A Taxi Driver, directed by Jang Hoon, was released in 2017. The film, set in the 1980s, follows the story of a foreign journalist who hires a taxi driver to take him to South Korea's Gwangju province, where they find a lot of student protesters...
The film stars Parasite's own Song Kang-ho.
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'The Wailing'
Directed by Nao Honh-jin, The Wailing is one of the most recent South Korean films, released in 2016. The movie revolves around a series of mysterious brutal murders that take place in a rural area. The characters do their best to logically solve the crimes but a supernatural force slowly tears the town apart...
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'Train to Busan'
The South Korean action-horror film Train to Busan is a fan-favorite zombie film! Directed by Yeon Sang-ho, it depicts the lives of a man and his daughter who, while traveling on a train to Busan, begin to experience a nightmare following a zombie outbreak. It is fun and terrifying and impossible to look away from!