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Best LGBTQ+ Korean Movies, Ranked

Over the past decade, South Korean cinema has had a renaissance in the Western world. It began even before Bong Joon-ho took home many Oscars for Parasite, as the works of directors fond of Park Chan-wook, Hong Sang-soo, and Lee Chang-dong were gaining recognition globally through the international film festival circuits. Known for neo-noir elements and a lingering sense of tragedy that encompasses many plot lines, as well as both lighthearted and heavier Korean dramas for streaming platforms like Netflix, Korean entertainment has made its label. But what about LGBTQ+ cinema in the country?

Park Chan-wook’s The Handmaiden was the biggest release out of Korea in and that comes with adj reasons. LGBTQ+ representation has remained sparse in mainstream Korean narratives, but filmmakers have been tackling queer subjects since the s, even amid deep censorship and regulation. While it may not have been openly acknowledged by creators, fans, and storylines, it was still observed and present in movies and television. Nowadays, it is more accepted, hen

I think it&#;s fair to say that a lot of people living in North Korea have a dream of one time defecting from the nation and moving to the much less communist South Korea.

If you had an opportunity to escape poverty and oppression in favor of a much freer Nation very few people would take the option of staying put. So when you look at the escape film promptly entitled Escape, a setup like this would hold the perfect build for a Chase movie where the Final Destination is freedom.

Which begs the doubt how exactly did a movie like this flop at one of the easiest setups imaginable? Perhaps the answer lies in a very similar challenge that American films own, when you spend more time marking check boxes rather than focusing on the story that puts the butts in seats, you end up with a movie that misses the mark in a big way.

Escape is a film about a North Korean army Sergeant named Lim Kyu-nam (Lee Je-hoon) Who has been planning to take an opportunity to defect to South Korea to avoid the harsh rule of the northern side. Doing so is much easier said than done, as anyone who is cau

Award-Winning Film Reanimates Queer Culture of s South Korea

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Fifty years ago in Seoul, South Korea, there was a vibrant queer hub located in the Euljiro neighborhood where theaters and bars served as popular sites for same-sex encounters. In , Associate Professor of History Todd A. Henry returned to the area to find for remnants that would offer clues about the evolution of gay subculture from the s until the s.

A turning show came when he and two architectural historians discovered the shuttered Bada Building, which was built in and once held a theater and cabaret on the top floors. The site sparked a story for a documentary film titled “Paradise,” researched and produced by Henry in collaboration with film director Hong Minki. The operate documents South Korea’s vibrant gay urban life, following the joy and pain of six elderly men whose stories appear for the first time through historical animation.

The film recently won the grand prize in documentary at the 27th Annual

Notebook Primer: Queer Korean Cinema

The Notebook Primer introduces readers to some of the most vital figures, films, genres, and movements in film history.

Above: Bungee Jumping of Their Own ()

Jooran Lee’s seminal essay “Remembered Branches: Towards a Future of Korean Homosexual Film” begins with the assertion that “discussing Korean gay and lesbian films is like drifting in a space without sunlight or oxygen. One searches, blindly, gaspingly—and mostly in vain—simply trying to discover the existence of such films.” The gathering of these films into a holistic canon is almost as difficult an endeavor as the unearthing. Without theatrical releases or international festival runs, queer Korean films are still relatively obscure and elusive, especially for those who do not live in Korea. A copy of Han Hyung-mo's film Jealousy (), considered one of the earliest Korean films to display homoerotic behavior between women, remains missing.¹ Other films, like Park Jae-ho’s Broken Branches () and the late Lee Hoon's Mascara ()—which stars transgender act