A Taste of South Korean Cinema

A Taste of South Korean Cinema

Season

Please note : this season finished in March 2017

South Korean Cinema has a brilliant reputation abroad and block-busting success at home: join us for a weekend menu of the best of what recent South Korean cinema has to offer. Discover previews from two of its most celebrated directors (Park Chan-wook's The Handmaiden and Kim Jee-woon's The Age of Shadows), plus zombie thriller (Train to Busan), supernatural epics (The Wailing), and a stranger than fiction documentary (The Lovers and The Despot).

This season has been programmed by Watershed staff member, independent film blogger and programmer, Sven de Hondt, who will also be introducing all of the films.

South Korean Cinema is also on the menu in our March podcast in which Watershed's Cinema Curator Mark Cosgrove joins Sven to discuss what it is about South Korean cinema that makes it so dynamic and unique.

Ticket prices: Screenings before 16:00: £6.50 full / £4.50 concessions and 24 and under. Screenings after 16:00: £9.00 full / £6.50 concessions / £4.50 aged 24 and under.

Special offer: Love South Korean cuisine? Enjoy 10% off food at TukTuck on St Stephens Street until 30 April with your South Korean season cinema tickets.


Previous screenings in this season

Preview: The Age of Shadows

classified 15 S A Taste of South Korean Cinema
Preview: The Age of Shadows
Please note: This was screened in March 2017
Film

Korean superstars Song Kang-ho, Han Ji-min, and Gong Yoo headline the latest from cutting-edge director Kim Jee woon (The Good, the Bad, the Weird), an epic, nailbiting cloak and dagger thriller about a double agent sent to infiltrate a band of freedom fighters during the Japanese occupation of Korea in the 1920s.

The Lovers and the Despot

classified PG S A Taste of South Korean Cinema
The Lovers and the Despot
Please note: This was screened in March 2017
Film

This real-life espionage thriller tells the bizarre true story about a famous South Korean director and his actress wife who planned a daring escape about being kidnapped and forced to work as the personal filmmakers of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il.

Train to Busan

classified 15 S A Taste of South Korean Cinema
Train to Busan
Please note: This was screened in March 2017
Film

A group of terrified passengers fight their way through a viral outbreak whilst trapped on board a blood-drenched bullet train, in this fast, fun and highly entertaining zombie-fuelled thriller - which is now the most successful film in South Korean cinema history.

The Wailing

classified 15 S A Taste of South Korean Cinema
The Wailing
Please note: This was screened in March 2017
Film

In this critically acclaimed and tense supernatural thriller, the arrival of a mysterious stranger in a quiet, rural village causes suspicion that quickly turns to panic as the villagers begin brutally killing each other for no apparent reason.

Preview: The Handmaiden

classified 18 S A Taste of South Korean Cinema
The Handmaiden
Please note: This was screened in March 2017
Film

Park Chan-wook (Old Boy, Stoker) channels Sarah Waters’ novel Fingersmith, to create a sumptuous twisty psychological thriller, full of erotic intrigue.

Preview: Seoul Station

classified 15 A Taste of South Korean Cinema
Preview: Seoul Station
Please note: This was screened in March 2017
Film

Cannibalistic undead collide with strident social criticism in this powerful and engrossing zombie feature (the prequel to the blockbusting Train to Busan) from one of South Korea's most acclaimed animators.

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