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Venue: Louis Koo Cinema, Hong Kong Arts Centre

Date: 2023.10.27 – 2023.11.12

Price: Standard Hkd 85. Concession Hkd 68.

Tickets and ticket package are now available on Popticket.hk.

When we see how a people love, marry and have a family, we get an impression of their national character, etiquette, lifestyle and culture. Korea has made a great variety of romance films that have moved the hearts of audiences around the world. We live our romances under spell – they bloom, out of control, into different shapes, colours and smells. Some are beautiful, ugly, or both. But no matter, romantic love is one of the most intense and flavourful human experiences. As part of an annual cultural event in autumn, Festive Korea, Hong Kong Arts Centre and Korean Cultural Center in Hong Kong co-present The Look of Love: Korean Romance Film Showcase to let you experience the diversity of love with eight films and chat with filmmakers.

Hello, uglies. Are you tired of waiting a whole year for that one special day when all us weirdos can feel normal? Well, Dracmorda and Swanthula Boulet feel your pain and have put together an irresistible event to whet the appetite of horror fans of all shapes and sizes. The Boulet Brothers’ Halfway to Halloween TV Special is a star-studded variety show from the spooky drag super monsters and one piece in the next phase of their diabolical plan that they’ve been hinting at. Once again collaborating with Shudder, the Boulets are briefly leaving behind the shade and viciousness of their drag competition to dabble in a near hour-long spectacle of scripted skits and celebrity cameos.

The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula was a godsend (or ‘devilsend’) during the pandemic as my partner and I were mindlessly scrolling through streaming services in search of the next series to devour. In a matter of weeks,...

Jo Eun-ji is a South Korean actress and director. She debuted in the gritty Im Sang-soo film “Tears”, and has since become better known for her supporting roles on film and television, such as in “The President’s Last Bang”, “My Scary Girl”, “Forever the Moment”, “The Concubine” and “The Villainess”. She was also the leading actress in the indies “Driving with My Wife’s Lover”, and “Sunshine Love”. “Perhaps Love” is her debut feature film on the director chair.

“Perhaps Love” screened at Udine Far East Film Festival

I loved the convoluted and ingenious stories and the complicated lives of all the characters in your film and I was wondering if you participated to the script and how.

There was already a script in place, and I was revising that script but the original script was very much focused on the character of Hyun and Yu-jin, so I developed...

Feature debut of Cho Eun-ji, who has been making a name in the Korean film industry as an actress of films like “The Villainess” and “Concubine” since the beginning of the millennium, “Perhaps Love” is a romantic comedy that tries to stray away from the norms through a number of different ways and an intensely episodic approach.

“Perhaps Love” is screening at Udine Far East Film Festival

Hyun is a famous novelist whose life is in shambles, despite the fact that the novel he wrote several years ago is still keeping him famous. The reasons are many. For starters, he seems unable to write a new one, to the despair of his best friend and publisher, Soon-mo. His second wife has left for the US along with her young daughter, which has led him to coming closer to his ex-wife, Mi-ae, who is dating, unbeknownst to him, Soon-mo. On a rather difficult night,...

Directed by Dae-seung Kim, The Concubine is a South Korean period drama that shows us how rigid the Royal Court was in that country, or how it’s imagined, of course. The Court was as strict, brutal, and corrupt as any other in history, give or take a few murders. The film stars Yeo-Jeong Cho as Hwa-Yeon (she’s listed as Yeo-Jeong Jo here), a woman forced into various circumstances by the men around her. (When are women not?) Specifically, the story takes place during the Joseon Dynasty, a Korean kingdom that lasted for approximately five centuries. We first meet Hwa-Yeon, the daughter of a noble family, with Kwon Yoo...

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Korean cinema is never too far from a horror film release. No sooner has the theatres reopened since the corona virus lockdowns that “Hotel Lake”, a new horror film by first-time director Yoon Eun-kyung is gearing up for a release.

Synopsis

When Yoo-mi searches out her mother’s friend at a hotel to drop off her younger sister, she falls into unexpected mystery and horror.

“Hotel Lake” stars Lee Se-young (“Duck Town”), Park Ji-young (“The Concubine”) and Park Hyo-joo (“The Classified Files”). It releases on April 29th, 2020.