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Over roughly 30 years, Korean master filmmaker Lee Chang-dong has made just seven films, yet his imprint on Korean cinema remains immense. Lee Chang-dong returned after eight years with 〈Possible Love〉, a drama about what happens when a laid-off worker couple and a wealthy documentary-director...

If you went back in time to meet someone who confessed their feelings to you today one week earlier, would they still feel the same way. Couldn't that person from a week ago have no interest in you at all. Human feelings can change from moment to moment.

Director Julia Ducournau, who won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival with the film 〈Titane〉, returns with her new work 〈Alpha〉. Ducournau built a distinctive cinematic worldview by depicting forbidden desire with striking mise-en-scène in films such as 〈Raw〉 and 〈Titane〉.

Chuseok has arrived, and with it comes a wave of Korean releases vying for holiday audiences over the long break. A variety of movies are opening now, each hoping to capture viewers during the holiday. CinePLAY reporters previewed three titles that have drawn the most attention and anticipation.

There’s a lot to see over the Chuseok holiday. And one more big attraction has joined the lineup: the worldwide re-release of 〈Avengers: Endgame〉. With 〈Avengers: Doomsday〉 set for this December, Marvel Studios is bringing back what is still the most recent Avengers film, touching it up and...

※ This interview with actor Lee Min-ho about 〈Assassins 〉 continues from Part 1. In the film, you worked with Shim Eun-kyung, who plays Lee Kang-ja, the character who assists Yeong-il in Japan. What was it like acting with her. Shim Eun-kyung is actually very shy. We did not have long conversations.

In 〈Assassins〉, rookie reporter Yeong-il, played by Lee Min-ho, emerges as the film’s driving force. A rookie reporter on the social affairs desk, he goes to cover the August 15, 1974 Liberation Day event and witnesses the deaths — first the first lady, and then the female student he had been...

[First Reaction] Lee Chang-dong's latest film, 〈Possible Love〉, opens in select theaters Sept. 23 and arrives on Netflix Nov. 6. 〈Possible Love〉 follows two couples — a laid-off worker and his wife, and a documentary director and her husband — who meet to make a documentary and confront their...

This interview with 〈Assassins〉 actor Yoo Hae-jin continues from Part 1. One striking scene shows Cheol-gu trudging forward without saluting the flag as the national anthem plays. The sense of betrayal Cheol-gu must have felt — that emptiness — was the key thing.

In 〈Assassin 〉, Yoo Hae-jin plays Cheol-gu, a deeply human detective whose life is overturned by the 1974 presidential assassination attempt that killed Yuk Young-soo. Cheol-gu is a family man, a dependable boss and a public servant anyone would respect.