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After a drunken night on the town, an ordinary Seoul businessman, OH Dae-su, wakes up in the morning to discover he has been locked up without explanation in a mysterious prison. After fifteen years, Dae-su suddenly and inexplicably finds himself freed. A voice on a cellphone taunts him into discovering who kept him imprisoned. Dae-su plunges into a world of competing vengeance, his own drive for revenge matched by the equally implacable and Byzantine...
3) The target
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Korean
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When an ER doctor saves a murder suspect from an assassination attempt, and the doctor's pregnant wife is kidnapped, it becomes clear that there is a larger conspiracy at play. Now the unlikely duo must team up to uncover the long-standing corruption that plagues the police department and rescue the doctor's wife.
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After the shocking kidnapping of a little girl in Thailand, a mercenary with a murky past as a government black ops agent is forced to re-emerge from the shadows when he learns the incident is closely connected to him. With the help of expat Yui, he flies to Thailand and begins tracking the girl's whereabouts, moving ever closer to the notorious child trafficking ring responsible for her abduction. However, when an infamous gangster nicknamed The...
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Korean
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Tae-Shik is an ex-special agent with a tragic past. He runs a small pawnshop, and So-Mi, the young girl who lives next door, is his only friend. When So-Mi's mother becomes involved in a major crime, mother and daughter are kidnapped. To save So-Mi, Tae-Shik makes a certain arrangement with the crime mob. With So-Mi missing, the police begin to chase Tae-Shik. With the police and the underground mob closing in, Tae-Shik continues his frantic search...
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Criterion collection volume 576
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Korean
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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...
7) Chaos
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Korean
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After a successful Japanese businessman's trophy wife vanishes, sadistic ransom demands arrive and the police are summoned. As the true nature of the stakes for the captor and his captive unfold, Chaos transforms from a precision neo-noir to a macabre thriller and ultimately into a sexual gothic.
10) Pietà
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Korean
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Hired by moneylenders, a man lives as a loan shark brutally threatening people for paybacks. This man, without any family therefore with nothing to lose, continues his merciless way of life regardless of all the pain he has caused to a countless number of people. One day, a woman appears in front of him claiming to be his mother. He coldly rejects her at first, but gradually accepts her in his life. He decides to quit his cruel job and to live a decent...
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Korean
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After the shocking kidnapping of a little girl in Thailand, a mercenary with a murky past as a government black ops agent is forced to re-emerge from the shadows when he learns the incident is closely connected to him. With the help of expat Yui, he flies to Thailand and begins tracking the girl's whereabouts, moving ever closer to the notorious child trafficking ring responsible for her abduction. However, when an infamous gangster nicknamed The...
12) Commitment
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Korean
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The highly educated son of an ex-North Korean agent is tasked to kill North Korean spies hiding in Seoul to save his kidnapped younger sister.