Lee Hanna

A master of intensely emotional human dramas, director Lee Chang-dong is a leading light of contemporary Korean cinema, and his place on the international stage was cemented by his stirring and unpredictable work examining grief and deliverance. An effortless mix of light and uncompromising darkness, Secret Sunshine is the story of a widowed piano teacher who moves with her young son from Seoul to her late husband's provincial hometown for a fresh...

Woman is the future of man: Two friends meet after being apart for years. One was in the United States studying film, and the other a professor at a university. When they start talking they realize they both loved the same woman, and decide to go find her to see if any sparks fly. Tale of cinema: Tells two stories, that of a depressive young man, who forms a suicide pact with a friend; and the tale of a filmmaker who sees a film that he believes...