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Advance bookings alone topped 600,000. That opening-day figure shows that 〈Hope〉 has become a national talking point, not just a movie-industry event. 〈Hope〉 is the new film from director Na Hong-jin, known for the tense, audacious intensity of 〈The Chaser〉, 〈The Yellow Sea〉 and 〈The Wailing〉.

Anyone who follows Japanese pop culture likely knows one writer by name: Sakamoto Yuji. A steady source of acclaimed TV dramas, Sakamoto has in recent years also produced consistently strong film screenplays. He teamed with Koreeda Hirokazu on 〈Monster〉 and with Tsukahara Ayuko on 〈The First Kiss〉.

※This interview with 〈Hope〉 actor Jo In-sung continues from Part 1. Imagining and acting opposite an imagined being must have been a major challenge. In particular, when Seong-gi confronts a gigantic alien intelligence late in the film, his subtle eye movements and tiny facial shifts were striking.

Marking its 30th anniversary this year, the Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival will be held from July 2 to July 12 around Bucheon City Hall. As South Korea’s only fantastic genre film festival, BIFAN again presents works armed with genre playfulness and a bold experimental spirit.

※The interview with 〈Hope〉 director Na Hong-jin continues from Part 1. ※This interview contains spoilers and interpretations of the ending. Before the film was finished, you said that the actors who play the aliens—including Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander—are the protagonists.

Few Korean films this year have arrived with expectations as high as 〈Hope〉. The film 〈Hope〉 has, true to its name, been framed as a much‑needed sign of hope for the Korean film industry and carries enormous expectations. Each of those factors has helped make the film a major draw.

[First reactions from the press screening]Na Hong-jin’s new film 〈Hope〉, which screened in competition at the 79th Cannes Film Festival, opens July 15. In 〈Hope〉, Beom-seok (Hwang Jung-min), chief of the Hopohang outpost in the Demilitarized Zone, hears from local young men that a tiger has...

〈Hana Korea〉 tells one of Korean cinema’s most familiar stories in one of its most unfamiliar forms: a film by a Danish director, set in Seoul, about a North Korean defector. At times it unfolds like a Scandinavian film, yet its setting and faces are unmistakably Seoul, with Kim Min‑ha at the...

A “buddy movie” made by “buddies” who genuinely don’t have to pretend—crafted “together. ” 〈Extreme Job〉(2019) marked the last time they reunited after seven years, but Jin Sun-kyu described Gong Myung as “the kind of feeling that’s like a real younger brother.

[First Reactions]Opening today, 〈Supergirl〉 is an action blockbuster about Supergirl, a cosmic troublemaker and loner, who takes on an absolute evil at the start of the event that changes her life and ultimately finds a path of her own.