Update, 04/20/20 00:53Am: Netflix has rescheduled its Korean thriller Time To Hunt for an April 23 launch on its platform. The film was previously delayed by an injunction brought by its sales agent, claiming it had a contract for international rights, a move that was granted by a Korean court. The ban was lifted last week after the sales agent and production company reached a deal, allowing the film to progress onto Netflix’s global stable of 190 countries.
Previously, 04/16/20 06:17Am: Time To Hunt, the Korean crime thriller that was recently barred from making its debut on Netflix after a last-minute court injunction, will now be heading onto the streamer after the dispute was resolved.
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Previously, 04/16/20 06:17Am: Time To Hunt, the Korean crime thriller that was recently barred from making its debut on Netflix after a last-minute court injunction, will now be heading onto the streamer after the dispute was resolved.
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- 4/20/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
As context for those unaware, South Korea does not have the equivalent of the United States’ Second Amendment. Instead, the country enforces strict gun control — privately owned weapons must be stored at the police station — and fatal shootings hardly ever happen there. That’s important to know when watching Korean movies: It explains why the desperate hero in “Oldboy” fights his way through a hallway armed only with a hammer, or the audience’s shock when the knives come out at the end of “Parasite.”
Director Yoon Sung-hyun was born in the U.S., but attended film school in Korea, where high-impact survival thriller “Time to Hunt” takes place. The story of four young thieves, a relentless killer and a whole lot of bullets, Yoon’s ultra-violent, Hollywood-style second feature is a radical departure from his more introspective 2011 student film, “Bleak Night,” and from the country’s gun laws in general.
Director Yoon Sung-hyun was born in the U.S., but attended film school in Korea, where high-impact survival thriller “Time to Hunt” takes place. The story of four young thieves, a relentless killer and a whole lot of bullets, Yoon’s ultra-violent, Hollywood-style second feature is a radical departure from his more introspective 2011 student film, “Bleak Night,” and from the country’s gun laws in general.
- 2/22/2020
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
Dong-seok Shin’s debut feature “Last Child” fits alongside much South Korean cinema in being a gritty, emotionally-charged drama set in an environment of urban alienation. But with this the case, can a novice director bring enough new material to tried and tested formulas to keep the audience interested; or is he last to the party?
Last Child is screening at the BFI London Film Festival
Jin (Moo-seong Choi) and his wife Mi-sook (Yeo-jin Kim) are still mourning their son Eun-chan who died saving the life of his classmate. Jin keeps himself busy with work, while Mi-sook tries to connect with her son’s best friend – naturally uneasy around his dead friend’s mother. Seeking out the boy whose life Eun-chan saved, Ki-hyun (Yu-bin Seong), Jin finds a boy whose parents have abandoned him at seventeen, working as a delivery boy to pay his rent.
Taking pity on the young man,...
Last Child is screening at the BFI London Film Festival
Jin (Moo-seong Choi) and his wife Mi-sook (Yeo-jin Kim) are still mourning their son Eun-chan who died saving the life of his classmate. Jin keeps himself busy with work, while Mi-sook tries to connect with her son’s best friend – naturally uneasy around his dead friend’s mother. Seeking out the boy whose life Eun-chan saved, Ki-hyun (Yu-bin Seong), Jin finds a boy whose parents have abandoned him at seventeen, working as a delivery boy to pay his rent.
Taking pity on the young man,...
- 10/19/2018
- by Andrew Thayne
- AsianMoviePulse
Welcome to the second edition of the best of Korean new wave cinema, here on sound of sight. A running series of articles that comes out every two weeks, in it we look at the best 21st century Korea has to offer on cinema screens. Whether that is big names like Park Chan Wook and Kim Jee Woon or unknown curios that deserve the coverage. Each article will cover two thematically similar films, this time its two films from 2011 in Sang-Soo Hong’s The Day he arrives, and Sung-Hyun Yoon’s, Bleak Night.
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The Day He Arrives
Directed by Sang-Soo Hong
Screenplay by Sang-Soo Hong
2011, Korea
The Day He Arrives is a 2011 film by director Sang-Soo Hong about a director who now teaches in the Korean Countryside returning to Seoul for a weekend. At first Sungjoon (Jun-Sang Yu) wanders around town, phoning people and happens upon an actor he worked with,...
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The Day He Arrives
Directed by Sang-Soo Hong
Screenplay by Sang-Soo Hong
2011, Korea
The Day He Arrives is a 2011 film by director Sang-Soo Hong about a director who now teaches in the Korean Countryside returning to Seoul for a weekend. At first Sungjoon (Jun-Sang Yu) wanders around town, phoning people and happens upon an actor he worked with,...
- 9/20/2012
- by Rob Simpson
- SoundOnSight
The Korean Film Festival in Australia (or Koffia, the acronym they’ve mercifully given me so that I don’t have to type out “The Korean Film Festival in Australia” too many times. I am not paid by the word, which is clearly why I’m so concise with any tangents and diversions within my pieces, and only stick to the most pertinent of assertations and never crowd the parentheses) has played its second year in Melbourne, and, as I can often be found yelling to people on the train, Korea currently has some of the most exciting filmmaking in the world. On top of the generally excellent pedigree, they’ve also been making what I would say is some of the most innovative and uncompromising crime films since America was doin’ it right back in the ‘70s.
This year’s line-up looked like it may not appeal to my tastes,...
This year’s line-up looked like it may not appeal to my tastes,...
- 9/12/2012
- by Liam Jose
- Boomtron
This is a reprint of a review first published at BlogCritics.orgWinner of the New Current Award at the 2010 Pusan International Film Festival, Sung-hyun Yoon's Bleak Night is one of those modern Korean dramas that moves at its own deliberate pace, taking the time to explore its issues and make its points. In a similar vein to the work of director Kim Ki-duk (3-Iron) - although certainly not as meticulously shot - Bleak Night is an effective, emotional drama when it wants to be but often its languorous pace and vague plot gets in the way.Bleak Night centers on a grieving father and his quest to find out what happened to his son as he died in a (undisclosed) accident. The film takes the form of flashbacks as we get...
- 7/9/2011
- Screen Anarchy
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