A gang boss Nam-hae meets a young Go player Min-su, who rekindles his interest in the game. Despite his outstanding talent, Min-su has been wasting his days as a gambler without pursuing a real career out of it. Nam-hae orders his second in command to persuade Min-su and Min-su becomes Nam-hae’s private Go tutor. In learning Go from Min-su, Nam-hae looks back on his own life. While Min-su discovers the coarse masculine underworld, the meaning of life and true victory through Nam-hae. However, when Nam-hae’s competition starts to expand their territory, Nam-hae is forced into a path to destruction.
A teenage girl is captured by a giant mutated squid-like creature that appears from Seoul's Han Rive...
Shin-ae moves to her recently late husband’s hometown. Despite her efforts to settle in this unfamil...
On a fishing boat at sea, a 60-year old man has been raising a girl since she was a child. It is agr...
An isolated lake, where an old monk lives in a small floating temple. The monk has a young boy livin...
In 1987 Korea, under an oppressive military regime, a college student gets killed during a police in...
May, 1980. Man-seob is a taxi driver in Seoul who lives from hand to mouth, raising his young daught...
Two North Korean soldiers are killed in the border area between North and South Korea, prompting an ...
Sung-geun is an untalented actor who makes a living playing minor roles. He happens to land on the r...
You earn as much as you work, and you live off that money. This simple proposition has always been a...
Ten years before the outbreak of the Second World War in Asia, a Japanese Go master and his Chinese ...
In the spring of 1999, a group of old friends gather to celebrate their 20 year reunion. Among the g...
On October 26, 1979, President Park Chung-hee, who had ruled South Korea since 1961, was assassinate...
An idle part-time college lecturer is annoyed by the yapping sound of a nearby dog. He decides to ta...
The life of Go master Wu Qingyuan from his meteoric rise as a child prodigy to fame and fortune as a...
Sang-hoon is a lowlife gangster, a debt collector exercising thuggish ways to collect his money. The...
North Korea's 8th Special Forces hijack a shipment of CTX, a potent new liquid explosive, and threat...
During the late 1980s, two detectives in a South Korean province attempt to solve the nation's first...
One Sunday, a penniless unmarried young South Korean couple meet, as they do every Sunday; while the...
Three friends, Duk-bae, Chun-sik, and Kil-nam, work each at a suburban Chinese restaurant, a barbers...
Beginning with the suicide of a film director, this work represents the Korean New Wave Cinema movem...