Hansel and Gretel, the two German kids who nearly became somebody’s meal, need little introduction. The characters in this Brothers Grimm classic have been used as a lesson about stranger danger and resilience for years. And while Hansel and Gretel’s ordeal has been put on screen multiple times — both faithfully and loosely — Yim Pil-sung’s 2007 movie is one of the more distinct adaptations. This Korean reimagining retains the essence of the influential fairy tale while also adding its own unique twists.
Hansel and Gretel was one of several movies from the golden age of South Korean Horror — often referred to as “K-Horror” in the West — to be based on fairy or folk tales. While Arang and A Tale of Two Sisters dug into local Korean lore, other movies drew from European narrations. However, much like Cinderella and The Red Shoes, Hansel and Gretel’s interpretation of its basis is rather liberal.
Hansel and Gretel was one of several movies from the golden age of South Korean Horror — often referred to as “K-Horror” in the West — to be based on fairy or folk tales. While Arang and A Tale of Two Sisters dug into local Korean lore, other movies drew from European narrations. However, much like Cinderella and The Red Shoes, Hansel and Gretel’s interpretation of its basis is rather liberal.
- 2/7/2024
- by Paul Lê
- bloody-disgusting.com
For some reason, the sequel to Concrete Utopia is a Netflix original and was released on the platform before most of the globe had a chance to watch the first part. I suppose Badland Hunters isn’t really a sequel so much as a film that exists in the same universe as Concrete Utopia. The film stars Ma Dong-Seok (Don Lee) in his first Netflix original in the leading role of a huntsman in the dystopian ruins of South Korea after a devastating earthquake. Badland Hunters is the story of his search for a little girl, who is under his protection but gets taken away under the pretense of her being offered clean water and protection. In this lawless badland, though, there are many enemies, so will our huntsman be able to save the girl? Or will he end up losing to the dark side? Before we get into the nitty-gritty details of the film,...
- 1/27/2024
- by Ruchika Bhat
- Film Fugitives
Ma Dong-Seok and his legendary arms appear in Badland Hunters, a new Korean-language action film from Netflix.
The streamer recently released the film’s trailer, only days after unveiling a hyper-violent teaser where a crocodile gets hit in the nose. The latest clip shows lots of action from the movie and its star’s dominant screen presence.
Badland Hunters |Official Trailer
Don Lee fights for survival in the action-packed ‘Badland Hunters trailer.
The Badland Hunters trailer takes place in a post-apocalyptic world after a catastrophic earthquake shatters the spine of Seoul. The city was also plagued with a special kind of undead people called zombies. The survivors have little hope except for a legendary doctor who survived the earthquake.
However, a dystopian Seoul is always complex, with groups of survivors creating chaos, the undead targeting in hordes, and secrets coming to light.
Don Lee, whose real name is Ma Dong Seok,...
The streamer recently released the film’s trailer, only days after unveiling a hyper-violent teaser where a crocodile gets hit in the nose. The latest clip shows lots of action from the movie and its star’s dominant screen presence.
Badland Hunters |Official Trailer
Don Lee fights for survival in the action-packed ‘Badland Hunters trailer.
The Badland Hunters trailer takes place in a post-apocalyptic world after a catastrophic earthquake shatters the spine of Seoul. The city was also plagued with a special kind of undead people called zombies. The survivors have little hope except for a legendary doctor who survived the earthquake.
However, a dystopian Seoul is always complex, with groups of survivors creating chaos, the undead targeting in hordes, and secrets coming to light.
Don Lee, whose real name is Ma Dong Seok,...
- 1/13/2024
- by Mantisha
- https://dailyresearchplot.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/new-sam
Picture: Captivating the King – Tving
A new and exciting historical romantic drama, Captivating the King, starring Hospital Playlist’s Jo Jung Suk, is coming to Netflix in January 2024. We’ve got everything you need to know about the K-drama, including the plot, cast, trailer, and episode release schedule.
Captivating the King is an upcoming internationally licensed South Korean historical romantic drama series. The series is directed by Jo Nam Gook, who previously directed both seasons of The Good Detective, Untouchable and Fast. Kim Sung Deok is the screenwriter of the series and his first series in five years after previously writing The Crowned Clown.
When is Captivating the King coming to Netflix?
The first two episodes of Captivating the King will be released on Netflix on Sunday, January 21st, 2024.
Picture: Poster for Captivating the King -Tving
There will be a total of sixteen episodes. New episodes will be available to stream on Saturdays and Sundays.
A new and exciting historical romantic drama, Captivating the King, starring Hospital Playlist’s Jo Jung Suk, is coming to Netflix in January 2024. We’ve got everything you need to know about the K-drama, including the plot, cast, trailer, and episode release schedule.
Captivating the King is an upcoming internationally licensed South Korean historical romantic drama series. The series is directed by Jo Nam Gook, who previously directed both seasons of The Good Detective, Untouchable and Fast. Kim Sung Deok is the screenwriter of the series and his first series in five years after previously writing The Crowned Clown.
When is Captivating the King coming to Netflix?
The first two episodes of Captivating the King will be released on Netflix on Sunday, January 21st, 2024.
Picture: Poster for Captivating the King -Tving
There will be a total of sixteen episodes. New episodes will be available to stream on Saturdays and Sundays.
- 1/11/2024
- by Jacob Robinson
- Whats-on-Netflix
There is always plenty of new and exciting content on the horizon in Korean dramas. One upcoming program that piqued fans’ interest is “Badland Hunters.”
The screenplay was written by Kwak Jae Min and Kim Bo Tong and directed by action master Heo Hyeong Haeng. This Kdrama can become a fan favorite thanks to its intriguing title and impressive cast.
Badland Hunters | Official Trailer
Netflix recently released the first teaser trailer for Bandland Hunters, a post-apocalyptic action film.
Bandland Hunters teaser offers a brief but compelling peek into what appears to be an intense disaster thriller with a little bit of gore. Ma Dong Seok plays Nam San, a determined wasteland hunter dealing with a post-apocalyptic Seoul.
The clip then gives viewers a taste of Badland Hunters’ high-octane action scenes and all of the characters that will have contact with Nam San. Nam San and his team use sassy slashes...
The screenplay was written by Kwak Jae Min and Kim Bo Tong and directed by action master Heo Hyeong Haeng. This Kdrama can become a fan favorite thanks to its intriguing title and impressive cast.
Badland Hunters | Official Trailer
Netflix recently released the first teaser trailer for Bandland Hunters, a post-apocalyptic action film.
Bandland Hunters teaser offers a brief but compelling peek into what appears to be an intense disaster thriller with a little bit of gore. Ma Dong Seok plays Nam San, a determined wasteland hunter dealing with a post-apocalyptic Seoul.
The clip then gives viewers a taste of Badland Hunters’ high-octane action scenes and all of the characters that will have contact with Nam San. Nam San and his team use sassy slashes...
- 1/3/2024
- by Mantisha
- https://dailyresearchplot.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/new-sam
Director Kim Ki-yeol (Song Kang-ho) only needs two more days of reshoots to craft a new ending to his latest film, and it will no longer be the trashy potboiler everyone thought he was making. It will be, he declares frequently “A masterpiece!” Director Kim Jee-woon does not seem to harbor similar aspirations for his meta-movie “Cobweb” – his loosest, least substantial and most slapdash film in quite some time – though safe to say that the gulf between it and masterpiece status is a little wider than a two-day reshoot could possibly bridge. A film containing another film; a filmmaker referring to the trials of a filmmaker: it’s a movie of many layers, all of them garish and goofy, none of them great.
That’s an assessment that would no doubt cut Ki-yeol to the quick, because, as played with typically raffish charm by “Parasite”‘s Song Kang-ho, he certainly dreams of greatness,...
That’s an assessment that would no doubt cut Ki-yeol to the quick, because, as played with typically raffish charm by “Parasite”‘s Song Kang-ho, he certainly dreams of greatness,...
- 5/27/2023
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
Stars: Seo In-Guk, Dong-Yoon Jang, Choi Gwi-hwa, Dong-il Sung, Park Ho-San, Moon-Sung Jung, Jung So-Min, Jang Young-Nam | Written and Directed by Hongsun Kim
Project Wolf Hunting begins with a mass return of Korean criminals captured in the Philippines. As they’re being led through Seoul airport somebody with a grudge against one of them detonates a suicide bomb killing himself, his target, and everyone else in the vicinity. To avoid a repeat of this, the next group is to be transported on the Frontier Titan, a specially fitted out cargo ship and delivered to a pier in Busan harbour to which the public doesn’t have access. I guess simply flying them into a military base never crossed anyone’s mind.
The Frontier Titan leaves Manilla with forty-seven criminals, twenty guards, two medics, and the ship’s crew. At least that’s what they think they’re leaving with because...
Project Wolf Hunting begins with a mass return of Korean criminals captured in the Philippines. As they’re being led through Seoul airport somebody with a grudge against one of them detonates a suicide bomb killing himself, his target, and everyone else in the vicinity. To avoid a repeat of this, the next group is to be transported on the Frontier Titan, a specially fitted out cargo ship and delivered to a pier in Busan harbour to which the public doesn’t have access. I guess simply flying them into a military base never crossed anyone’s mind.
The Frontier Titan leaves Manilla with forty-seven criminals, twenty guards, two medics, and the ship’s crew. At least that’s what they think they’re leaving with because...
- 4/13/2023
- by Jim Morazzini
- Nerdly
Crash Course in Romance is a South Korean series directed by Yoo Je-won. A funny series that comes to us from South Korea, starring Jeon Do-Yeon and Jung Kyung-ho.
Crash Course in Romance is a series that manages to combine romantic comedy with a more classic and physical comedy based in ingenious dialogue. Briefly, more comedy and crazy situations than in a normal romantic comedy.
Crash Course in Romance (2023)
As happens in Love To Hate You, Crash Course in Romance is a series that, if you like this kind of humor that borders the absurd, will entertain you.
A curious comedy that is also about capitalism and an ironic gaze that is quite entertaining. We loved it and have found it to be very funny, a great and fun way to spend this week just
before Valentine´s Day.
A happy, zestful series that is very amenable and that you...
Crash Course in Romance is a series that manages to combine romantic comedy with a more classic and physical comedy based in ingenious dialogue. Briefly, more comedy and crazy situations than in a normal romantic comedy.
Crash Course in Romance (2023)
As happens in Love To Hate You, Crash Course in Romance is a series that, if you like this kind of humor that borders the absurd, will entertain you.
A curious comedy that is also about capitalism and an ironic gaze that is quite entertaining. We loved it and have found it to be very funny, a great and fun way to spend this week just
before Valentine´s Day.
A happy, zestful series that is very amenable and that you...
- 2/11/2023
- by TV Shows Martin Cid Magazine
- Martin Cid - TV
Well Go USA Entertainment will be giving the South Korean sci-fi thriller Project Wolf Hunting a digital, Blu-ray, and DVD release in the U.S. on February 14th, and with that date less two months away a trailer for the film has arrived online, with English subtitles for those of us who don’t understand Korean. You can check it out in the embed above.
Written and directed by Kim Hong-seon, Project Wolf Hunting has the following synopsis: While under heavily armed guard, the dangerous convicts aboard a cargo ship unite in a coordinated escape attempt that soon escalates into a bloody, all-out riot. But as the fugitives continue their brutal campaign of terror, they soon discover that not even the most vicious among them is safe from the horror they unknowingly unleashed from the darkness below deck.
The film stars Seo In-guk, Jang Dong-yoon, Choi Gwi-hwa, Park Ho-san, Jung So-min,...
Written and directed by Kim Hong-seon, Project Wolf Hunting has the following synopsis: While under heavily armed guard, the dangerous convicts aboard a cargo ship unite in a coordinated escape attempt that soon escalates into a bloody, all-out riot. But as the fugitives continue their brutal campaign of terror, they soon discover that not even the most vicious among them is safe from the horror they unknowingly unleashed from the darkness below deck.
The film stars Seo In-guk, Jang Dong-yoon, Choi Gwi-hwa, Park Ho-san, Jung So-min,...
- 12/20/2022
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Stars: Seo In-Guk, Dong-Yoon Jang, Choi Gwi-hwa, Dong-il Sung, Park Ho-San, Moon-Sung Jung, Jung So-Min, Jang Young-Nam | Written and Directed by Hongsun Kim
Project Wolf Hunting begins with a mass return of Korean criminals captured in the Philippines. As they’re being led through Seoul airport somebody with a grudge against one of them detonates a suicide bomb killing himself, his target, and everyone else in the vicinity. To avoid a repeat of this, the next group is to be transported on the Frontier Titan, a specially fitted out cargo ship and delivered to a pier in Busan harbour to which the public doesn’t have access. I guess simply flying them into a military base never crossed anyone’s mind.
The Frontier Titan leaves Manilla with forty-seven criminals, twenty guards, two medics, and the ship’s crew. At least that’s what they think they’re leaving with because...
Project Wolf Hunting begins with a mass return of Korean criminals captured in the Philippines. As they’re being led through Seoul airport somebody with a grudge against one of them detonates a suicide bomb killing himself, his target, and everyone else in the vicinity. To avoid a repeat of this, the next group is to be transported on the Frontier Titan, a specially fitted out cargo ship and delivered to a pier in Busan harbour to which the public doesn’t have access. I guess simply flying them into a military base never crossed anyone’s mind.
The Frontier Titan leaves Manilla with forty-seven criminals, twenty guards, two medics, and the ship’s crew. At least that’s what they think they’re leaving with because...
- 11/8/2022
- by Jim Morazzini
- Nerdly
Video Movie Review: Seobok (2021): An Exciting Science Fiction Film that Delivers More than Expected
Seobok Video Review — Seobok (2021) Video Movie Review, a movie directed by Lee Yong-ju, written by Lee Yong-ju, and starring Gong Yoo, Park Bo-Gum, Jang Young-nam, Jo Woo-jin, Park Byung-eun, Daniel Joey Albright, Kwang-hoon Na, and Maurice Turner Jr. Crew Yeong-wook Jo created the music for Seobok. Mo-gae Lee crafted the cinematography for [...]
Continue reading: Video Movie Review: Seobok (2021): An Exciting Science Fiction Film that Delivers More than Expected...
Continue reading: Video Movie Review: Seobok (2021): An Exciting Science Fiction Film that Delivers More than Expected...
- 11/16/2021
- by Chris Banks
- Film-Book
Seobok Review — Seobok (2021) Film Review from the 25th Annual Fantasia International Film Festival, a movie written and directed by Lee Yong-ju, starring Gong Yoo, Park Bo-Gum, Jang Young-nam, Jo Woo-jin, Park Byung-eun, Daniel Joey Albright, Kwang-hoon Na, and Maurice Turner Jr. “Elevated” genre is such a ridiculous concept because it suggests that [...]
Continue reading: Film Review: Seobok: A Cool and Calculated Cloning Thriller With a Warmly Philosophical Heart [Fantasia 2021]...
Continue reading: Film Review: Seobok: A Cool and Calculated Cloning Thriller With a Warmly Philosophical Heart [Fantasia 2021]...
- 8/6/2021
- by Jacob Mouradian
- Film-Book
Films that have women’s prison as their main theme tend to linger towards exploitation; in this case, however, Kang Dae-gyu implements a rather different approach, that includes elements of musical and family drama, all of which though, are presented through a filter made of comedy and a general lightness that evidently focuses mostly on entertainment. The result was quite successful, since the movie was the 5th highest-grossing in the country for 2010.
The story revolves around Hong Jeong-hye, who is serving 10 years in prison after killing her abusive husband. However, she was pregnant at the time of the crime, and now, 18 months later, she finds herself raising her child in prison, with the help of a number of sympathetic prisoners, and a kind-hearted jailer named Na-yeong. As the time that she has to give the baby for adoption is up, she experiences much stress, and for reasons...
The story revolves around Hong Jeong-hye, who is serving 10 years in prison after killing her abusive husband. However, she was pregnant at the time of the crime, and now, 18 months later, she finds herself raising her child in prison, with the help of a number of sympathetic prisoners, and a kind-hearted jailer named Na-yeong. As the time that she has to give the baby for adoption is up, she experiences much stress, and for reasons...
- 2/20/2021
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Spring is already shaping up to be a busy season for Korean cinema. From the election drama The Mayor, in which Choi Min-sik appears the mayor of Seoul while Kwak Do-won (The Wailing) plays his aide, to renowned Korean auteur Hong Sang-soo’s On the Beach at Night Alone starring Kim Min-hee (The Handmaiden) to One Day, the latest film from romantic drama specialist Lee Yoon-ki (A Man and A Woman), featuring Chun Woo-hee (The Wailing) and Kim Nam-gil (Pandora).
Here’s a look at 8 new Korean films worth keeping an eye out for.
Ordinary Person
Director: Kim Bong-han
Cast: Son Hyun-joo, Jang Hyuk, Kim Sang-ho, Ra Mi-ran, Jung Man-sik, Cho Dal-hwan, Ji Seung-hyeon
Plot: Detective Seong-jin (Son Hyun-joo) arrests Tae-sung for petty crimes, but shocked to find out that he is the notorious serial killer. However, Seong-jin becomes doubtful of his identity as the serial murder case is investigated.
Here’s a look at 8 new Korean films worth keeping an eye out for.
Ordinary Person
Director: Kim Bong-han
Cast: Son Hyun-joo, Jang Hyuk, Kim Sang-ho, Ra Mi-ran, Jung Man-sik, Cho Dal-hwan, Ji Seung-hyeon
Plot: Detective Seong-jin (Son Hyun-joo) arrests Tae-sung for petty crimes, but shocked to find out that he is the notorious serial killer. However, Seong-jin becomes doubtful of his identity as the serial murder case is investigated.
- 3/25/2017
- by Lady J.
- AsianMoviePulse
Local films have recently led the charge at the Korean box office and not just your typical Korean thriller either. We’ve been spoilt with great films covering a wide range of genres.
Here are 4 stand out films that are currently battling it out for first place at the Korean box office plus 1 film that is surely to set truly shake up the chart.
Pandora
Director: Park Jung-woo
Distributor: Next Entertainment World
Cast: Kim Nam-gil, Moon Jeong-hee, Jung Jin-young, Kim Myung-min
On the heels of ‘The Tunnel’ and ‘Train to Busan’, disaster blockbuster Pandora brings emotional catharsis and is intertwined with political relevance.
Plot: A nuclear power plant is built in a small town in South Korea and gradually corrodes. With an unexpected earthquake, old pipes in the nuclear power plant break and hydrogen gas explodes. Jae-hyuk (played by Kim Nam-gil) risks his life to save his family...
Here are 4 stand out films that are currently battling it out for first place at the Korean box office plus 1 film that is surely to set truly shake up the chart.
Pandora
Director: Park Jung-woo
Distributor: Next Entertainment World
Cast: Kim Nam-gil, Moon Jeong-hee, Jung Jin-young, Kim Myung-min
On the heels of ‘The Tunnel’ and ‘Train to Busan’, disaster blockbuster Pandora brings emotional catharsis and is intertwined with political relevance.
Plot: A nuclear power plant is built in a small town in South Korea and gradually corrodes. With an unexpected earthquake, old pipes in the nuclear power plant break and hydrogen gas explodes. Jae-hyuk (played by Kim Nam-gil) risks his life to save his family...
- 12/14/2016
- by Lady J.
- AsianMoviePulse
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