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Hong Da-ye majored in film studies in college. She has shot documentary short “Each Vegetarian” (2018) and short films “Shutter”(2020) and “Kill This Love” (2021). “Invisible” is her fourth film, which received the Ulsan International Film Festival Production Fund.

Invisible screened at Busan International Short Film Festival

The movie begins with a Pov sequence through the windshield of a car, which is soon revealed to carry a couple. The man starts talking about Maxim, a foreign worker whom he has granted a room in the motel he runs in the countryside. Jae-hee, the woman is pregnant and is not exactly at her best, with her situation becoming even worse after an episode with a client she experiences while working reception. Maxim comes to her rescue, but his behavior is somewhat condescending and Jae-hee starts feeling a sense of uneasiness around him. The tension soon finds itself in her relationship with her husband,...

Solo Leveling's new opening song, "LEvel," breaks the tradition of using mainly Japanese lyrics and artists in anime, which is an unprecedented and welcome development. The collaboration between Tomorrowxtogether and Hiroyuki Sawano in creating the song pays homage to the fact that Solo Leveling's source material is from South Korea, and the studio animating it is based in Japan. The anime adaptation of Solo Leveling has the potential to revolutionize how manhwa (Korean comics) are adapted and could serve as a blueprint for future projects, with its dedicated fan base and faithful adaptation.

Solo Leveling has been destined for greatness from the moment it began publishing chapters, and its new opening song to accompany the anime adaptation shows how different it is from the rest of the pack. The second episode of the anime featured both the opening and ending songs, quickly becoming popular among fans.

Titled LEvel, this song is classified as being K-Pop.

Strong Girl Nam-soon is a Netflix comedy series created by Baek Mi-kyung, Kim Jung-sik, and Lee Kyung-shik. It is a remake of the popular 2017 Mbc drama of the same name. It stars Lee You-mi, Kim Jung-eun, and Kim Hae-sook,

Every week, a new chapter about this girl endowed with extraordinary strength.

It is a fun and silly comedy that solely focuses on making people laugh, embracing its ridiculous and unapologetically stupid side.

Sit back and get ready for some silly laughs because the combination is, at the very least, surprising: a girl who, since she was a baby, could lift tables, jump four meters, and do all sorts of crazy things.

Plot

Nam-soon was born with superhuman strength, like her mother but, when her father comes up with the “brilliant” idea of taking his daughter to Mongolia to photograph the stars (who knows what he was thinking), he loses the girl.

Anthony Chen (“The Breaking Ice”) is attached to direct and Shinho Lee to write “Sunset Park” for Barunson C&c, a film and TV production subsidiary of Barunson E&a, the Korean company that produced Oscar-winning hit “Parasite.”

“Sunset Park” recounts a surprising journey in the U.S. made by a Korean father with his son’s room mate, after the man receives tragic news about his son. The project is being developed by Jane Hyojin Kwon (Lucky Jane Title) and Woo-sik Seo (Barunson C&c), with Chen’s production outlet Giraffe Pictures boarding as producing partner. New York-based Lee is the writer of Na Hong-jin’s breakout Korean actioner “The Chaser” as well as Wayne Wang’s drama film “While The Women Are Sleeping.”

The cross-cultural story is only one of several high-profile global projects that the company is launching in and around the Busan International Film Festival and on...

An intergenerational drama about a mother and daughter in the eye of a storm and their reaction, “Gyeong-ah’s Daughter” is the debut feature of writer and director Kim Jung-eun. Will she xxx the success of other recent first features by female director like Bora Kim,s “House of Hummingbird” or Yoon Ga-eun’s “The World of Us”, to name few? Let’s see.

Gyeong-ah’s Daughter is screening at London Korean Film Festival

Director Jung-eun let us form an idea of her protagonists’ dynamics from the very opening of the film, through a video-call between the two. Yeon-su (Ha Yoon-kyung) is ready to start her new job as teacher and has just moved in her own first little flat. She is showing it to her mum Gyeong-ah (Kim Jeong-yeong), but while Yeon-su is smiley and trying to be reassuring, Gyeong-ah looks a bit worried and over-protective towards her daughter,...

Korean independent film sales agency, Indiestory is presenting four titles at Busan’s Acfm starting on Saturday. All were produced in 2022, and two of them “The Ripple” and “Dream Palace” are screening at the Busan International Film Festival.

“Dream Palace” depicts the lives of 2 people who move into a new apartment building, only to receive news that their new homes will be back on sale. Inspired by 2010 real estate crises, the film deals with the ordeals of losing a home yet extending compassion to one another. Featuring Kim Sunyoung and Lee Yoonji, “Dream Palace” is premiering at the Busan festival’s Panorama section.

Premiering in Biff’s Vision section is “The Ripple.” The film portrays the story of a middle-aged lady searching for traces of her dead granddaughter, who drowned in a reiver a year earlier. Thematically, the film addresses sadness, guilt about losing a loved one and different attempts at moving on.

Next month’s London Korean Film Festival cloaks itself in a panoply of the country’s recent cinema, with a mix of commercial blockbusters, festival titles and documentaries. The long-running event also pays tribute to Kang Soo-youn, the performer who was the first Korean to win a best acting award in Venice and who died in May this year.

The event runs from Nov. 3 – 17, 2022 in venues across London and comprises 35 films. It opens with a previously announced screening of “Alienoid.”

The Cinema Now section includes: Jeong Ji-yeon’s psychological thriller “The Anchor”; Davy Chou’s “Return To Seoul,” which premiered in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard; Byun Sung-hyun’s “Kingmaker”; “Hot Blooded,” the long-awaited directorial debut by acclaimed novelist and screenwriter Cheon Myeong-kwan; nostalgic road chase movie “Stellar: A Magical Ride”; “Director’s Intention,” by Kim Min-geun.

A special screening goes to “Broker,” the Kore-Ede Hirokazu-directed light drama that opened in competition in Cannes in May.