Soo-han (played by Kang Seok-chul) is a reasonably buff, soft-spoken dude who works in the loan shark industry in Gangreung. Soo-han doesn t seem well-suited to the work, where the main clients are bad people at worst and bad people picking fights with other bad people at best. But Soo-han gets a chance to do something that actually makes his life feel less aimless and pointless when he spots Ye-jin (played by Yoo Ye-bin) accosted by suited thugs at the coast, agreeing to protect her with only a fancy watch as collateral, Bodyguard - 2020, Choi Cheol-ho, Han Kook-in, Ji Hye-in, Kang Seok-chul, Kim Jin-Woo-VIII, Son Seung-hyun, Yoo Ye-bin
Busan International Film Festival has premiered a number of great movies featuring female protagonists during recent years, with titles like "House of Hummingbird" being the first that come to mind. "The Girl on a Bulldozer" although directed by a man this time (Park Ri-woong, in his feature debut) continues this tradition with an impressive title, House of Hummingbird, The Girl on a Bulldozer, Kim Hye-yoon, Noh Susanna, Park Hyuk-kwon, Park Ri-woong, Yesung
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As I have mentioned many times before, the crime thriller was one of the nucleus of the race of Korean cinema towards the top of the international stage it enjoys nowadays, with the number of masterpieces counting at the dozen. At the same time, however, and as is usually the case, the success of the top films of the category gave way to a number of mediocre titles that just tried to ride the wave. Kim Hee-seong, although not straying much away from the norms with "The Goblin", does try to make something different, The Goblin, Jo Dong-hyuk, Kim Hee-seong, Lee Wan
The horror genre has become somewhat detrimental lately, particularly since the number of entries in the category is truly excessive, and everything seems to have already been done. A number of directors, however, are recently making an effort to evolve the particular kind of movies, by injecting social commentary or other elements that are mostly associated with art-house titles, including the overall cinematic approach. Park Kang also follows this direction with "Seire", a title that refers to the period of 21 days in which people are supposed to take utmost care of their behaviors and strangers are not allowed to visit, to protect newborn babies from bad luck, by focusing on the fear of breaking taboos and customs, Seire, Kim Woo-kyum, Ko Eun-min, Park Kang, Ryu Abel, Seo Hyun-woo, Shim Eun-woo