World Language Resources

In the year of the infamous King Yeon-san, two clowns start a play that is satirical of the king becomes popular with the common people. But soon, they are arrested for treason, and they bet their lives on making the king laugh, Their fortunate success leads them to stay in the palace and perform regular plays. As the king shows growing attention and love toward one of the clowns, they realize that they have entered an irreversible stage of their lives, entwined with desire, power, and thick blood.

Contains the following movies:
1) Big Swindle
2) Memories of Murder
3) Murmuring
4) My Mother, the Mermaid

Contains the following movies:
1) Flower in Hell
2) King and the Clown
3) Sopyonje
4) Unforgiven
5) Welcome to Dongmakgol

Contains the following movies:
1) Marines Who Never Returned
2) Barking Dogs Never Bite
3) If You Were Me 2
4) Driving With My Wife's Lover
5) Our School
6) Family Ties
7) Dirty Carnival

Contains the following movies:
1) Seashore Village
2) Man with Three Coffins
3) Christmas in August
4) Taxi Blues
5) Like a Virgin
6) Milky Way Liberation Front
7) Epitaph
8) Show Must Go On
9) Bunt
10) Secret Sunshine

Contains the following movies:
1) Beyond the Years
2) Dream
3) For Eternal Hearts
4) M
5) Magicians
6) My Dear Enemy
7) My Friend & His Wife
8) One Day on the Road
9) Rough Cut
10) Who's that Knocking at My Door?

During the Korean War, a company of South Korean soldiers take part in attacks centered around the city of Incheon. While fighting to secure control of one village, they witness a woman killed, leaving her daughter orphaned. After they win the battle, they also discover that many of the inhabitants of the village, including women and children were executed by the enemy. The company adopts the girl as their “mascot” and marches north to continue fighting, as various rivalries test the camaraderie of the group. Eventually, however, they come face to face with the advancing Chinese army, and are forced to fight for their lives.

Based on the true story of South Korea’s first serial killer. When women start turning up dead in a small town in S. Korea in 1986, two reluctantly-partnered cops resolve to bring him to justice. Without DNA testing or modern forensics, the investigators are forced to rely mainly on intuition and brute force. At times both touching and hilarious, MEMORIES OF MURDER is a riveting tale of a mysterious killer and the ceaseless pressure on those charged with stopping his rampage

A documentary about the past and present experiences of a group of “comfort women”, who during World War II were abducted and forced into sexual servitude for the Japanese army. In the course of making this documentary, director Byun Young-joo gradually becomes close to the now-elderly women who meet every week to protest in front of the Japanese embassy in Seoul. In presenting these women’s stories, their campaign to receive a formal apology from the Japanese government and the circumstances of their present lives, “The Murmuring” provides an insightful portrait of the victims of one of the worst crimes of the 20th century.

In 1375, China was in chaos between the Yuan & Ming Dynasties. Coryo sent a delegation of many diplomats, soldiers, & a silent slave to make peace with the new Chinese government. However, this delegation got charged as spies & sent in exile to a remote desert. On the way the group came across a Yuan troop & the Coryo soldiers managed to survive the battle. They began the journey to the faraway home country.

A traditional Korean wedding ceremony held in province. Suni, the bride has not seen her to be groom yet and she's excited but the groom is only ten year old boy. After she has lived with her mean in-laws, her husband comes home from Seoul with his mistress. She leaves her husband and meets her true lover, a potter. They live happily together in "Chŏng," Korean concept of deep, true love

Na-young works at a post office and is sick and tired of being around her shamefully unyielding mother and her pushover father who's excessively nice. The only thing that she can look forward to is her trip abroad in a few days. But one day, her father leaves home without any notice. Her mother doesn't care what happens to him and doesn't care to look for him. Na-young has no choice but to give up her dream trip abroad and to search for her father instead. Once she arrives at her parents' hometown, Na-young is shocked to meet someone she'd never expect, even in her dreams

When a Korean drug kingpin is publicly stabbed to death by a rival boss, hard-nosed Detective Woo and his comrades vow to shut down the city's drug trade once and for all. As he searches for the ever-elusive killer, Woo gets some at-first reluctant help from the fugitive's girlfriend in this intense Asian actioner

Oh Dae-su is an ordinary Seoul businessman with a wife and little daughter who, after a drunken night on the town, is abducted and locked up in a strange, private prison. No one will tell him why hes there and who his jailer is and his fury builds to a single-minded focus of revenge. 15 years later, he is unexpectedly freed, given a new suit, a cell-phone and 5 days to discover the mysterious enemy who had him imprisoned. Seeking vengeance on all those involved, he soon finds that his enemys tortures are just beginning.

This documentary is about the 3rd and 4th generation Korean residents of Japan who are students of Chosen Elementary, Middle and High schools in Hokkaido. It follows the students through one year of the eleven-year national education program. Rather than focusing on special occasions or issues, it reveals what it is like to live in Japan as Korean-Japanese by describing their everyday lives.

Spring, 1999. On a railroad bridge overlooking an idyllic riverbank, Yong-Ho (Sul Kyung-Ku) faces an oncoming train. Distraught and beyond reason, Yong-Ho shouts, "I'm going back!" right before the train takes his life...
Peppermint Candy takes viewers back before Yong-Ho's death, and back through 20 years of the doomed man's life. Director Lee Chang-Dong weaves an emotionally wrenching tale about the futility of dreams against the unstoppable march of time. Like Memento, Peppermint Candy unfolds in reverse, with each stop in time giving new insight into Yong-Ho, as he becomes the man who will one day submit to his own death on a railroad bridge - the very same bridge beneath which he would declare his love for Sun-Im (Moon So-Ri) 20 years earlier...

But Peppermint Candy is more than a portrait of one man's self-destructive regret. Lee Chang-Dong takes Yong-Ho and the audience through 20 years of turbulent Korean history, including a stop at the tragic Gwang-ju Massacre, where Yong-Ho performs an act that will forever change his life. Full of harrowing moments and bittersweet emotions, Peppermint Candy earns every bit of its reputation as a masterpiece of the Korean New Wave

May, 1980 during the Kwangju uprising... A 15-year-old girl deserts her dyig mother and runs away amid gunfire. Years later, the girl calls on a construction site worker, Jang, and follows him everywhere. Jang knows that the girl has experienced something horrible. The girl never talks and always has a far-off gaze. Her mind seems to be torn into pieces which frustrates Jang. He becomes absorbed into the pain and sadness of the girl, and finds her one day in front of her mother’s tomb. There, she retells her past when she had to abandon her mother, leaving her to die alone. Meanwhile, friends of her older brother look for the young girl in vain.