Synopsis Racket Boys tells the story of 16-year-old boys and girls from Haenam Middle School, growing up dreaming of becoming idols in the badminton world in a far away rural area.
Broadcast starting date in Korea : 2021/05/31
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Still clinging to physical media like a drowning person clinging to a life preserver? Me too, reader. Me too. Which is why I’ve compiled a round-up of some recent Blu-ray releases you’re going to want to check out.
Memories of Murder
Bong Joon-ho‘s 2003 masterpiece returns, restored by the Criterion Collection. The film remains just as haunting and memorable as it was all those years ago – perhaps even more so now. At the time the film was made,
Memories of Murder was inspired by a real series of unsolved murders. In the years since its release the killer has been caught, which makes the film’s unsettling, open-ending ending extra eerie.
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SBS new drama Racket Boy Band is a challenge for the Racket Boys, who dream of becoming badminton idols, and a real growth drama for sixteen boys and girls in a far away rural area. Racket Boy Band is expected to be a collaboration of
Jeong Bo-hoon-I, who boasted attractive character construction and delicate writing skills with
Before he directed 2019’s Best Picture winner
Parasite, Bong Joon-ho was already a pioneer filmmaker at the forefront of Korea’s New Wave. Films like
Okja,
Snowpiercer, and
The Host garnered him international acclaim for his biting social commentary, acerbic wit, and deft tonal twists. Bong’s 2003’s procedural murder thriller
Memories of Murder is commonly touted as not only one of his best, but one of the greatest Korean films ever produced.
Based on a true story from the 1980s,
Memories of Murder finds two detectives struggling to capture the culprit behind a then-unprecedented series of murders of women in the agrarian town of Hwaseong. As the stress of the case wears on and the bodies pile up, Seo (Kim Sang-kyung) and Park (Song Kang-ho) are pushed to their brink by a desperate search to bring the killer to justice.