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A symbol of Korean adults-only entertainment cinema, the 〈Tazza〉 series returns for its final chapter, 〈Tazza: Belzebub's Song〉 (hereafter 〈Tazza 4〉), which opens on Sept. 23. The film trades hwatu for poker and moves much of its action from Korea to the global gambling circuit.

[First Reactions] 〈Assassin 〉, a film that traces the suspicions and the forces behind the Aug. 15, 1974 assassination incident that shocked South Korea, opens Sept. 23. The film is a collaboration between Hive Media Corp. , the production company behind 〈12.

[OTT Ratings] Netflix has released all episodes of 〈Mousetrap〉, a thriller about a man who loses his identity in an instant and sets out to get it back. 〈Mousetrap〉 follows novelist Moon Jae, who has his name, face and life stolen by a mysterious figure called the Mousetrap; No-ja, a loan shark...

First reactions from a preview screening Director An Jaehoon's animated feature 〈Agami〉, based on Gu Byeongmo's novel 「Agami」, opens Sept. 9. The film tells the radiant story of Gon, the world's only child to grow gills after being thrown into deep water, and of the people who meant everything in...

One phrase immediately came to mind: Christopher Nolan has pushed past his own limits in 〈Odyssey〉, his adaptation of Homer’s 「The Odyssey」, which opens on Aug. 5. 「The Odyssey」 tells the story of King Odysseus’s return to his homeland of Ithaca after the Trojan War, a foundational epic that still...

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〉.

※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.

“All tragedy begins with perspective. ” Director Na Hong-jin wrote that line in the director's note for 〈Hope〉. On July 15, the director's new film 〈Hope〉, invited to compete in the competition section at the 79th Cannes Film Festival, is set for release.

[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...

Blending realist grounding with a genre mood is difficult. Capturing the border between those two seemingly different realms and turning it into a film is no easy task. Even in South Korea’s film industry, where tightly executed genre movies and grounded, reality-driven stories dominate, films that...