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Officer Black Belt is a South Korean action comedy film written and directed by Joo-hwan Kim. The Netflix film follows the story of Lee Jong-do, a skilled martial arts fighter as he is recruited by a probation officer to help closely manage the criminals wearing electronic ankle bracelets to stop them from hurting innocent people. Officer Black Belt stars Kim Woo-bin in the lead role with Kim Sung-kyun, Lee Hae Young, and Kim Yool-ho starring in supporting roles. So, if you loved the thrilling action, hilarious comedy, and compelling characters in Officer Black Belt here are some similar movies to watch next.

Midnight Runners (Tubi & Prime Video Add-On) Credit – Lotte Entertainment

Midnight Runner is a South Korean action comedy film written and directed by Jason Kim. The 2017 film follows two new students at the Korean National Police University...

It was a tense time in Korean history. In 1971, a young man named Kim Sang-tae hijacked a domestic passenger plane, demanding to be flown to North Korea. The story shocked the nation and highlighted societal tensions between North and South that continued long after.

Director Kim Sung-Han brings this tragic event to the screen with Hijack 1971. Starring Ha Jung-woo as Tae-In, a former fighter pilot now turned commercial co-pilot, the film recreates the nerve-racking drama that unfolded in the sky. We also meet security threat Yong-Dae, played compellingly by Yeo Jin-goo, who commandeers the plane mid-flight.

Shooting in his home country of South Korea and drawing on the real accounts, Kim Sung-Han aimed to honor those impacted while crafting an entertaining thriller. The review will discuss the characters’ emotional journeys, the visceral atmosphere of suspense in the close quarters of the plane, and how effectively the film addresses its profound historical backdrop even years later.

"We're heading North. There's no dodging this." Sony Pictures has revealed the official trailer for an action thriller survival movie called Hijack 1971, based on a true story of a flight in winter of 1971. It just opened in South Korea last week, and will also be opening in select US theaters starting next week - glad to see them finally releasing films the same time they open in other countries. Hijack 1971, also known as just Hijacking in Korean, depicts the story of people fighting for their lives in an extreme situation when a passenger plane is hijacked in the air space of Korea in 1971. Starring Ha Jung-woo as Tae-in, the first officer of the plane; Sung Dong-il as Gyu-sik, captain of the flight; Yeo Jin-goo as Yong-dae, the terrorist hijacker; and Chae Soo-bin as Lee Ok-soon, a flight attendant on the flight. The hijacker used homemade grenades on a twin prop plane,...

Amazon Prime Video’s “Butterfly” TV series, starring Daniel Dae Kim, has cast five additional actors in recurring and guest star roles.

Sean Dulake, Kim Ji-hoon and Charles Parnell join the series as recurring characters, while Sung Dong-il and Lee Il-hwa are set to guest star.

Other previously announced cast members of the cast include Reina Hardesty, Piper Perabo, Louis Landau, Park Hae-soo, Kim Tae-hee and Nayoon Kim.

“Butterfly,” an adaptation of the graphic novel written by Arash Amel and Marguerite Bennett, is a character-driven spy thriller focusing on Kim’s character, David Jung, an “enigmatic, highly unpredictable former US intelligence operative living in South Korea, whose life is blown to pieces when the consequences of an impossible decision from his past come back to haunt him, and he finds himself pursued by Rebecca (Hardesty), a deadly, sociopathic young agent assigned to kill him.”

Dulake will play Hollis, the right-hand...

South Korea’s Barunson E&a has landed international sales rights to sex comedy Forbidden Fairytale and is introducing the feature to buyers at Hong Kong Filmart.

The film centres on a woman who crashes into a car owned by the boss of an adult novel publishing house and must pay him back by writing erotic fiction, inadvertently becoming an overnight sensation. Her stories also reinvigorate her colleague, who has been experiencing sexual dysfunction for several years.

The feature is directed by Lee Jong-suk, who previously made 2018 crime thriller The Negotiation, and stars Park Ji-hyun from TV series Reborn Rich alongside...

South Korea’s Barunson E&a has landed international sales rights to sex comedy Forbidden Fairytale and is introducing the feature to buyers at Hong Kong Filmart.

The film centres on a woman who crashes into a car owned by the boss of an adult novel publishing house and must pay him back by writing erotic fiction, inadvertently becoming an overnight sensation. Her stories also reinvigorate her colleague, who has been experiencing sexual dysfunction for several years.

The feature is directed by Lee Jong-suk, who previously made 2018 crime thriller The Negotiation, and stars Park Ji-hyun from TV series Reborn Rich alongside...

Stars: Seo In-Guk, Dong-Yoon Jang, Choi Gwi-hwa, Dong-il Sung, Park Ho-San, Moon-Sung Jung, Jung So-Min, Jang Young-Nam | Written and Directed by Hongsun Kim

Project Wolf Hunting begins with a mass return of Korean criminals captured in the Philippines. As they’re being led through Seoul airport somebody with a grudge against one of them detonates a suicide bomb killing himself, his target, and everyone else in the vicinity. To avoid a repeat of this, the next group is to be transported on the Frontier Titan, a specially fitted out cargo ship and delivered to a pier in Busan harbour to which the public doesn’t have access. I guess simply flying them into a military base never crossed anyone’s mind.

The Frontier Titan leaves Manilla with forty-seven criminals, twenty guards, two medics, and the ship’s crew. At least that’s what they think they’re leaving with because...

Stars: Seo In-Guk, Dong-Yoon Jang, Choi Gwi-hwa, Dong-il Sung, Park Ho-San, Moon-Sung Jung, Jung So-Min, Jang Young-Nam | Written and Directed by Hongsun Kim

Project Wolf Hunting begins with a mass return of Korean criminals captured in the Philippines. As they’re being led through Seoul airport somebody with a grudge against one of them detonates a suicide bomb killing himself, his target, and everyone else in the vicinity. To avoid a repeat of this, the next group is to be transported on the Frontier Titan, a specially fitted out cargo ship and delivered to a pier in Busan harbour to which the public doesn’t have access. I guess simply flying them into a military base never crossed anyone’s mind.

The Frontier Titan leaves Manilla with forty-seven criminals, twenty guards, two medics, and the ship’s crew. At least that’s what they think they’re leaving with because...

Tagline: "Vengeance Brings the Dead to Life." Asian cinema continues to dazzle. The latest from Korea is Rv: Resurrected Victims. The film plays out like a crime thriller, set in a horror world. In the film, murder victims return from the dead, to take revenge on their killers. Well Go USA Entertainment will release this terrifying title this October. The film was directed by Korean director Kyung-taek Kwak (Eye for an Eye, 2008). And, Rv: Resurrected Victims stars: Rae-won Kim (Gagnam Blues, 2015), Hae-suk Kim and Dong-il Sung. A preview for this thriller's launch is hosted here. The film's official trailer shows a mother rising from the dead. Her own son is her murderer, or he is at least complicit in her death. The mother returns from the grave, seven years later. Strangely, she is in good health. Now, it is a battle to the death or re-death as mother faces son...

Some films are based on fact. Some quite clearly aren't. Mr Go tells the story of the first gorilla to play baseball in the Korean baseball league. Unsurprisingly, this one falls into the latter category. Maybe if they'd gone with Japan, but not Korea. That would be insane. Directed by Yong-hwa Kim (200 Pounds Beauty), Mr Go is based on Huh Young-man's 1984 comic, The 7th Team, which depicts the relationship between the all-swinging gorilla and his 15-year-old female manager. Mr Go was the first South Korean film to be shot - for better or for worse - in full 3D, and is a co-production between South Korea and China. A bonkers concept then, but what about the execution? When Weiwei's (Jiao Xu) grandfather died in the Great Sichuan Earthquake, he left behind an insurmountable debt. Things get worse for Weiwei when a loan shark threatens to sell Ling Ling and...

Some films are based on fact. Some quite clearly aren't. Mr Go tells the story of the first gorilla to play baseball in the Korean baseball league. Unsurprisingly, this one falls into the latter category. Maybe if they'd gone with Japan, but not Korea. That would be insane. Directed by Yong-hwa Kim (200 Pounds Beauty), Mr Go is based on Huh Young-man's 1984 comic, The 7th Team, which depicts the relationship between the all-swinging gorilla and his 15-year-old female manager. Mr Go was the first South Korean film to be shot - for better or for worse - in full 3D, and is a co-production between South Korea and China. A bonkers concept then, but what about the execution? When Weiwei's (Jiao Xu) grandfather died in the Great Sichuan Earthquake, he left behind an insurmountable debt. Things get worse for Weiwei when a loan shark threatens to sell Ling Ling and...