PiFan 2013 - Before Sundown: Sunshine Love (2013)

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Arrested development has been a very prescient theme in Western media. The man-child, geek, otaku; no matter what you call it we are living ... Continue reading →

Revenge Week: Amour Noir - The Tragic Outcome of Happy End

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Part of MKC's  Revenge Week  (July 8-14, 2013). Amour noir as a genre in film has always been popular with Korean audiences. From as f... Continue reading →

Revenge Week: Fatal Femininity, Masochistic Masculinity - The Films of Kim Ki-young

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Part of MKC's Revenge Week (July 8-14, 2013). “If the national cinema aesthetics of Korea are characterized by the thematic motifs of h... Continue reading →

Revenge Week: A Dish Best Served Cold

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Part of MKC's  Revenge Week  (July 8-14, 2013). It is a popular assertion in drama and literature that revenge is a violent action commi... Continue reading →

New York Asian Film Festival GIVEAWAY!!!!

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June is a time when kids are let out for summer vacation and film fans can gorge on the latest genre films from Asia in the New York tri-sta... Continue reading →

The Grand Heist (바람과 함께 사라지다) 2012

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The heist film is a unique offshoot of the crime genre. It inhabits a region where the violence is all style, the risks are all calculated, ... Continue reading →

UDINE 2013: A Muse (은교, Eungyo, 2012)

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“ No Muse-poet grows conscious of the Muse except by experience of a woman in whom the Goddess is to some degree resident…A Muse-poet falls ... Continue reading →

UDINE 2013: Divorce, Korean Style: All About My Wife (내 아내의 모든 것, 2012)

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Part of MKC's coverage of the 15th Udine Far East Film Festival. (by Rex Baylon) There used to be a time when America was known as a ma... Continue reading →

UDINE 2013: A Gothic Fantasy: A Werewolf Boy (늑대소년, 2012)

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Part of MKC's coverage of the 15th Udine Far East Film Festival. (by Rex Baylon) Of all the film cultures in the world that embrace the ... Continue reading →

Divorce, Korean Style: All About My Wife (내 아내의 모든 것, Nae Anaeui Modeun Geot) 2012

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(by Rex Baylon) There used to be a time when America was known as a manufacturing giant. In agriculture, electronics, and automobile design... Continue reading →

Grape Candy (청포도 사탕, Chungpodo Satang) 2012

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(by Rex Baylon) Although it’s often seen as two different conditions, a fear of loneliness and an awareness of one’s mortality, in retrospe... Continue reading →

A Taste for Blood and Money: Traffickers (공모자들, Kongmojadeul) 2012

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As a young cinephile and crime fiction fanatic there was a smorgasbord of noir-tinged goodies for a kid growing up in the Nineties to watch,... Continue reading →

A Gothic Fantasy: A Werewolf Boy (늑대소년, Neukdae Sonyeon) 2012

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(by Rex Baylon) Of all the film cultures in the world that embrace the ideals of romantic love it is only in South Korea where the connecti... Continue reading →

MKC Thought Leaders' Corner: January 2013

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Welcome to the first MKC Thought Leaders' Corner! We are thrilled to present this new feature where every month we will ask the top expe... Continue reading →

Padak (파닥파닥, Padak Padak) 2012

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(by Rex Baylon) Although the United States and Japan have a far more illustrious history when it comes to producing animated features, South... Continue reading →

A Company Man (회사원, Huisawon) 2012

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(By Rex Baylon) There is no archetype in film that is more hip than the lone hitman. From a laconic Alan Ladd in This Gun For Hire (1942) t... Continue reading →

Whose Lie is it Anyway: Ad-lib Night (아주 특별한 손님, Aju Teukbyeolhan Sonnim) 2006

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Part of Rex Baylon's ongoing feature on director Lee Yoon-ki. The expectations placed upon us by our family can be emotionally and ment... Continue reading →

Love in the Time of Debt: My Dear Enemy (멋진 하루, Meotjin Haru) 2008

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Part of Rex Baylon's ongoing feature on director Lee Yoon-ki. To speak about love in a contemporary real world setting and ignore the l... Continue reading →