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The 31st Busan International Film Festival opened with a grand ceremony at the Busan Cinema Center in Haeundae, Busan, kicking off Asia's largest film festival. This year BIFF moved its opening day up by one day from Wednesday to Tuesday.

Leading South Korean filmmakers, including directors Jung Ji-young and Lee Myung-se, have taken a firm stand over the controversy surrounding 'Assassins', a film at the center of allegations of historical distortion.

Marilyn Monroe, an icon of her era reinterpreted in women's language Director 'Maggie Gyllenhaal', a celebrated actor in 'The Dark Knight' (2008) who established herself as a successful filmmaker with 'The Lost Daughter' (2022), came to the 31st Busan International Film Festival with her new film,...

If I had to name just one Korean commercial film released this year whose performance fell short of expectations, it would unquestionably be 〈Gyeongju Trip〉. The film's provocative story and its sheer determination to swing between comedy and tragedy with almost ungainly roughness certainly shone,...

A documentary offering an intimate look at the dignified life and decades of charitable work of actor 'Kim Hye-ja', who is marking 65 years in acting at age 85, is coming to audiences. Comfort offered at the edge of despair, and a reason for living found in Africa World Vision, an international...

※ This article includes plot developments from the latter part of the film and its epilogue. ​ Heo Jin-ho’s 〈Assassin 〉 rings out with six gunshots. But what the film tracks to the end is not the bullets, but the questions left behind where the shots passed. Who fired. How many rounds were fired.

The film 〈The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping〉 (directed by Francis Lawrence) will open in South Korean theaters on Nov. 18. Nuri Pictures Co. , the film’s importer and distributor, announced the release date on the 22nd and unveiled the cast lineup, a donated arena poster and a trailer.

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.

The first lady was shot. Yet the investigation is riddled with questions. If "the scene does not lie," who is lying. The film 〈Assassin 〉 reconstructs South Korea's social landscape around the 1974 assassination of First Lady Yuk Young-soo.

The Hollywood hit 〈The Intern〉 returns as a distinctly Korean remake, folding in local workplace culture, marital realism, and a stronger emotional through-line. Due to open September 16, 〈The Intern〉 begins when Gi-ho (Choi Min-sik), a 37-year veteran "silver intern," joins Sun-woo (Han So-hee)’s...