Hye-yŏng Yi

In his ninth film for Hong Sangsoo, Kwon Haehyo plays Byungsoo, a film director who goes with his daughter Jeongsu an aspiring interior designer, to a building owned by an old friend already established in the design field. She gives them a tour of the property, which includes a restaurant and cooking studio on the first two floors, an office in the basement, a residence on the third floor, and an artist's studio at the top. The three of them amicably...

2009 lost memories: What if Japan allied with the U.S. during WWII? What if nuclear bombs were dropped on Berlin instead of Hiroshima and Nagasaki? What if Korea never existed? To J.B.I. agent Masayuki Sakamoto these questions aren't speculation - they're history. No blood no tears is a translation of the graphic and gritty Korean expression 'p'i to nunmul to ŏpsi', colloquial for 'no mercy'. Two down-on-their-luck women conspire together to pull...