Hong Sang-soo
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Korean
Description
After years of living abroad in America, former actress Sangok is back in Seoul, staying with her sister. Over the course of a day, it becomes clear that there are many things she's not revealing, and this may be to do with her decision to meet with a film director to discuss her return to acting.
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Legendary French actress Isabelle Huppert stars in the first English-language film from South Korean master Hong Sang-soo, "the love child Antonioni and Hou Hsiao-hsien never had" (Village Voice). In a triptych of overlapping stories, three different French women (a filmmaker, an adulterer and a divorce- Huppert, Huppert and...Huppert) visit a small Korean resort town and encounter a flirtatious director, a lovestruck lifeguard and far too much soju.Hong's...
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
Korean
Formats
Description
A film director who no longer makes films, Seongjun, arrives in Seoul to meet a close friend. When the friend doesn't show up, Seongjun wanders the city aimlessly. He runs into an actress he used to know, shares a drink with some film students and against his better judgment, heads to his ex-girlfriend's apartment. The next day goes very much like the last; Seongjun meets the actress, has drinks with friends, and falls for a woman who looks remarkably...
5) HaHaHa
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
Korean
Description
Moonkyeong (Kim Sang-kyeong) decides to move to Canada where he meets Joongsik (Yoo Joon-sang) only to learn they have a rather unusual connection.
6) Our Sunhi
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Korean
Description
A young woman returning to her old school to visit her professor also runs into her old boyfriend and her senior, each of whom has a past with her
7) Oki's Movie
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
Korean
Description
Toggling between the present and the past, reality and fiction, and divided into four chapters (and different points of view), Oki's Movie recounts the amorous and artistic adventures of young director Jin-gu, his middle-aged cinema instructor and the woman who loves them both.
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
Korean
Description
Invited to serve on the jury at a film festival, Director Ku does not care about his supposed-to-dos. Ku runs into an old friend who insists he come over for dinner, and he stays the night. Yet the next day, Ku finds himself in trouble with an alleged accusation of seducing his friend's wife.
9) Walk Up
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Korean
Description
In his ninth film for Hong Sangsoo, Kwon Haehyo plays Byungsoo, a film director who goes with his daughter Jeongsu (Park Miso), an aspiring interior designer, to a building owned by an old friend (Lee Hyeyoung) already established in the design field. She gives them a tour of the property, which includes a restaurant and cooking studio on the first two floors, her office in the basement, a residence on the third floor and an artist's studio at the...
10) Introduction
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Korean
Description
Youngho goes to see his father who is tending to a famous patient. He surprises his girlfriend, Juwon in Berlin where she is studying fashion design. He goes to a seaside hotel to meet his mother and brings his friend Jeongsoo with him. In each instance, he anticipates an important conversation
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Korean
Description
Is she tired of life or love? Why else is Haewon falling asleep in a restaurant? Haewon, a film student and aspiring actress, feels abandoned. Her mother is about to emigrate to Canada and Haewon has decided to end her affair with one of her professors, a much older married man.
13) Claire's Camera
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A refreshingly sunny performance from Isabelle Huppert is at the center of this comic charmer from South Korean Master Hong Sang-soo. Huppert plays Claire, a school teacher with a camera (that might be magical) on her first visit to Cannes. She happens upon a film sales assistant, Manhee (Kim Min-hee), recently laid off after a one-night stand with a film director (Jung Jin-young). Together, this unlikely pair become detectives of sorts, as they wander...
14) In Water
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Korean
Description
A trio of friends venture to the rocky shores of a large island to shoot a film together. The director, Seong-mo (Shin Seok-ho), recently gave up acting and has decided to make a film with his own money. His former classmate, Sang-guk (Ha Seong-guk), will operate the camera and Nam-hee (Kim Seung-yun) will act in it. The only problem: Seong-mo hasn't decided what to make. His most overtly experimental work to date, in water reveals Hong at the height...
15) Grass
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Language
Korean
Formats
Description
In the corner of a small café, Areum sits typing on her laptop. At the tables around her, other customers enact the various dramas of their lives. A young couple charge each other with serious crimes, an old man tries to rekindle a flame with a younger woman, a narcissistic filmmaker works to put together his next project-all while Areum types. Is she merely writing what she hears? Or is she hearing what's been written? As the dramas inside the café...
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Language
Korean
Formats
Description
An aging poet, Younghwan, summons his two estranged sons to a solitary hotel beside the Han River because he feels his death is near. While waiting for them to arrive, he meets two women out walking in the new-fallen snow and is struck by their angelic beauty. But the women have come to the hotel to do some healing of their own. As Younghwan moves between the women and his bickering sons, he also moves between his two minds: one that walks on the...
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Language
Korean
Formats
Description
Art imitates life in this quietly devastating masterpiece from Hong Sang-soo. Kim Minhee (The Handmaiden, Claire's Camera) plays Younghee, an actress reeling in the aftermath of an affair with a married film director. Younghee visits Hamburg then returns to Korea, but as she meets with friends and has her fair share to drink, increasingly startling confessions emerge. No stranger to mining his own experience for his films, Hong, whose real-life affair...
18) The day after
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Korean
Description
Book publisher Bongwan's marriage is on the rocks after his wife discovers the affair he's been having with his assistant. Now that relationship is ending too and Bongwan's new assistant, the sharp and sensitive Areum, on her first day in the office, is left to navigate the fallout of all the turnover in Bongwan's life.
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