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While many have tried to tell a story about the struggles of everyday people, the workers, the salesman and the clerks, only a few have managed to make their story both authentic and have an emotional impact. Tales of the underclass especially have been at the very core of many artists' body of work, for example, Charlie Chaplin whose character of the Tramp is perhaps the most popular figure to embody the needs and the daily fights of people who, despite their hard work, cannot hope to rise to the level of the rich and the famous. Within the Korean film industry, directors such as Kang Dae-jin have also left their mark with stories such as “A Coachman”, a family drama depicting the life of a working class family and their various dreams of happiness and living their lives outside the vicious circle of poverty.

The Coachman is screening at Film At Lincoln Center,...

Film at Lincoln Center and Subway Cinema announce “Korean Cinema's Golden Decade: The 1960s,” a sweeping retrospective that features 24 films from this remarkable period in Korean film history. The series will run from September 1–17 and is one of the largest retrospectives ever of 1960s Korean Cinema outside of Korea, including many rarely screened films, several presented on 35mm archival prints.

Long before Bong Joon Ho, Hong Sangsoo, and Park Chan-wook catapulted South Korean cinema onto the world stage, the foundation of their country's film industry formed in the aftermath of the Korean War. The period kickstarted a wealth of eclectic and innovative filmmaking that culminated in the 1960s. Closer inspection of this decade, now widely considered Korea's premier film renaissance, reveals the arrival of seminal works from auteurs such as Kim Ki-young, Shin Sang-ok, Yu Hyun-mok, Kim Soo-yong, and Lee Man-hee, alongside a meteoric rise and reinvention of genres—from...

Following an extended battle with Alzheimer's disease, Yoon Jeong-hee, an icon of Korean cinema, has died at age 78. After winning a national competition-style audition in 1967, Yoon became an overnight sensation for her debut performance in "Sorrowful Youth," one of many films she would go on to make which dramatized the Japanese occupation of Korea. Yoon starred in over 300 films before retiring in 1994. Though she lived most of the rest of her life in Paris with her daughter and husband, the famed pianist Paik Kun-woo, she continues to top lists of the most beloved actresses of the late '60s/early '70s "golden age" of Korean cinema, alongside the two stars that make up the so-called "troika" of that era — Moon Hee and Nam Jeong-im.

A fiercely self-possessed modern woman whose open heart and unsophisticated charm pre-figure the "manic pixie dream girl," a ferocious action heroine who took on gangs,...