When poverty-stricken Korean-Japanese (Zainichi) discover there is valuable iron ore in the rubble of a destroyed shantytown they plan to haul it out for profit. Amidst this plan there is discrimination, war and an infatuation between a man and a woman, but like everything around them there and owing to the forces around them, there is as much chance that these may burn to ashes and be destroyed or be the beginning of something new.

In 1923, teenager Kim Shun-Pei moves from Cheju Island, in South Korea, to Osaka, in Japan. Along th...

A kind of modern dress "Donzoko" "The Lower Depths", about slum life in Osaka, where a greedy widow ...

Kokko is a third grade elementary school student. Even though she has a family who loves her, Kokko ...

During the late 1980s, two detectives in a South Korean province attempt to solve series of gruesome...

1930s Korea, in the period of Japanese occupation, a new girl, Sookee, is hired as a handmaiden to a...

An account of karate competitor Choi Yeung-Eui who went to Japan after World War II to become a figh...

Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They...

With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate man seeks ...

Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage; all she does is cook and ...

Sugihara, a Japanese-born, third-generation Korean teenager struggles to find a place in a society t...

Subu makes pornographic films. He sees nothing wrong with it. They are an aid to a repressed society...

This sensuously beautiful film chronicles the activities of four sisters who gather in Kyoto every y...

Hidenori is a Japanese-Korean man with no sense of belonging, destination or education. He drifts ar...

Business is a game! A theatrical version of the TV drama that became a social phenomenon starring Te...

Set in Osaka's Shinsekai, the film depicts the lives of Ayumu Tobita (Hidekazu Akai), who makes a li...

The main hero of this film is the spirit of the once very popular wooden statuette called Billiken. ...

Set in the 1970's in the Kansai region of Japan.. Yong-Gil is Korean, but he moved to Japan and set...

In late 19th century Tokyo, Kikunosuke Onoue, the adopted son of a legendary actor, himself an actor...

Busan, South Korea, 1970s. Lee Doo-sam is a small-time smuggler. After helping a drug gang to smuggl...

All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for thei...