Road to Boston

8.2

Ki Jung won the gold medal at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, but because Korea was under Japanese colonial rule at the time, he wore the Japanese flag on his chest. In 1947, two years after Korea’s liberation from Japanese…

Take Me Home

Six years ago, I started a project to promote the racial tolerance and diversity in Ansan, South Korea, and taught 24 young students a variety of instruments from various countries. This project was made into a documentary…

Lust, Caution (Uncut)

7.8

The story is mostly set in Hong Kong in 1938 and in Shanghai in 1942, when it was occupied by the Imperial Japanese Army and ruled by the puppet government led by Wang Jing Wei. It depicts a group of Chinese university…

Old Fox

7.6

In 1989. Liao Jie and his father have been saving money, hoping that they will be able to buy a home of their own. However, they fail to notice that the world is rapidly changing. Liao Jie comes to realize the harsh…

Islanders

Eight Taiwanese myths interweave with current social issues, crafting a poignant modern allegory. The stories begin with a woman rediscovering fertility through encountering a mystical white deer. A diving instructor…

Will You Be My Manager?

7.2

Japanese high schooler Hirose Hana dreams of becoming a manager for top pop groups. She transfers to Segi Art High School, a South Korean school that has produced some of the Korean entertainment industry’s brightest…

Our School

7.0

A documentary about a school in Japan run by the pro-North Korea General Association of Korean Residents. Voted Best Korean Independent film of 2007. Hundreds of thousands of third- and fourth-generation ethnic Koreans…

Crying Out in Love

7.3

A movie adaptation of Japanese novel Socrates in Love, written by Kyoichi Katayama: In a small town of southern Japan, Sakutaro “Saku” Matsumoto and Aki Hirose, classmates since junior high, become high school…

Unicorn Brothers

A fact-based drama set in early 2000s Tokyo—before the term “K-wave” even existed—following a group of Zainichi Koreans living on the fringes of Kabukicho who begin distributing pirated Korean drama tapes as…

Breaking with Old Ideas

In 1958, the Communist Party of China sent Long Guo Zheng, a graduate of the Counter-Japanese Military and Political University, to head the newly established Jiangxi Communist Labour University (today's Jiangxi Agricultural…