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While The Glory is certainly unique as a K-drama, there are some other great TV shows in that genre with a similar appeal. The Glory follows Moon Dong-eun, a young woman who was mercilessly bullied by a group of students led by Park Yeon-jin when she was a high school student. After dropping out of school, Dong-eun makes it her dream to make the people who tormented her pay for what they did.

Although The Glory has a basis in reality, the show's creator, Kim Eun-sook, added some fictional elements to the series. With its thrilling plotline and engaging characters, The Glory quickly became one of Netflix's best K-dramas and even won the Baeksang Arts Awards for Best Drama. There are several K-dramas that were released before and after The Glory that have similar themes as the psychological thriller. K-dramas that are about retribution, bullying, or have a high...

Top New K-Dramas of July 2024 and Where to Watch Them - Main Image

July might not have a ton of new K-dramas, but it will still be an exciting month for fans! With a few highly anticipated releases, there’s something for everyone. Whether you love sweet romance, thrilling mysteries, or intense corporate drama, these shows are sure to keep you entertained and hooked all month long.

Here’s what you can add to your K-drama watch list for July and where you can watch them.

Red Swan: The Action Thriller You Need to Watch on Disney+

Starring K-pop sensation Rain and the talented Kim Ha-neul, Red Swan is Disney+'s newest action-packed thriller. The story revolves around Oh Wan-Soo (Kim Ha-neul), a former top-tier golfer who marries the powerful Hwain Group, achieving her dreams of an upper-class life.

She becomes the chairperson of a renowned foundation, making her life seem perfect.

Kim Ji-won's performances in dramas like Queen of Tears and Fight For My Way showcase her range and sincerity. Her portrayal of characters like Yoo Rachel in The Heirs and Choi Ae-ra in Fight For My Way are unforgettable. Kim Ji-won's nuanced acting in My Liberation Notes and Descendants of the Sun highlights her emotional depth and talent.

Though Queen of Tears has become one of the biggest K-dramas of the year so far, Kim Ji-won has a number of great performances under her belt that deserve just as much attention. Initially trained as a singer under the name JessicaK, Kim Ji-won changed career paths to debut as an actor in 2008. Since her acting debut in the sitcom High Kick 3, Kim Ji-won has continually proven that she excels in any genre as she continues to build on her already impressive filmography and deliver performances that only seem to get better.

It's not often you get to see Park Chan-wook directing anything other than feature films, but it is not something that never happens. He has made a few short films, most prominently his segment in “Three… Extremes” and even last year's “Life is But A Dream”, effectively an advertisement of the prowess of Apple's iPhone 13 Pro. That was the second time that Park directed a short for Apple, since he also did one in 2011 called “Night Fishing”, shot entirely on the iPhone 4 and starring actress/singer Lee Jung-hyun, under the pseudonym PARKing CHANce.

What, however, is very uncommon is the director making a music video. The prolific genre director has dabbled in the format only once, way back in 2013, when he directed, once again as PARKing CHANce, the music video for “Night Fishing” actress Lee Jung-hyun's track “V”, starring Lee herself alongside Jin Goo.

Stars of ‘Decision To Leave’ and ‘Squid Game’ were among those on the red carpet.

The 24th Jeonju International Film Festival opened tonight (April 27) with stars on the red carpet, a dramatic taekwondo performance onstage, and Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne greeting the audience at the Sori Arts Center of Jeollabuk-do before the screening of opening film Tori And Lokita.

“Thank you for welcoming us and for defending cinema in the world,” said the Belgian filmmaking duo on their much-anticipated first trip to the country. “Thank you also to the cinema of Korea, because we did not know South Korea except...

Stars: Shin Sia, Park Eun-bin, Seo Eun-soo, Jin Goo, Kim Da-mi | Written and Directed by Park Hoon-jung

I was lucky enough to see The Witch Part 1: The Subversion as part of my coverage for Glasgow Frightfest back in 2019. It was my favourite movie of the festival and was the perfect action horror movie. I can only assume the delay in the sequel was because of the pandemic but in truth, three years isn’t too much of a wait!

A girl is the lone survivor after an attack on a research facility. Covered in blood and left for dead she walks through the woods and into the life of Kyung-hee. She is struggling herself, as, alongside her brother, is trying to keep her farmland away from local gangsters. When these henchman threaten the siblings though, the girl sets out to defend them in a flash of violence. Violence that...

Gory and absorbing sci-fi sequel is part Stranger Things, part Orphan Black and all action, with a ridiculously good-looking and super-cool cast

This expansive but absorbing sequel to the 2018 sci-fi horror feature The Witch: Part 1 presents, as its extra subtitle The Other One, which might suggest a narrative centred on another young “witch”. The first film’s central figure Ja-yoon began to exercise her telekinetic powers only two-thirds of the way into Part 1’s narrative. However, Part 2’s heroine Ark 1 (Shin Sia-ah) is, from the off, able to throw whole cars around and beat people up psychically, having been raised in a secret facility where her superpowers were genetically implanted from birth. But Ark 1 was never socialised like Ja-yoon, the latter having been adopted by kindly if elderly normie farmers at a young age, so a lot of the time is spent watching Ark 1 adapt to regular life after she...

The final two months of every year are a great time to catch up on horror movies that were released throughout the year, as there typically aren’t all that many new releases coming along at this point in time. Halloween is now behind us and things are slowing down a bit on the horror front for the holidays, but each new week still brings new releases along with it.

This week, 5 brand new horror movies will be available at home…

Here’s all the new horror releasing November 8, 2022 – November 13, 2022!

First up, the Bloody Disgusting-powered Screambox streaming service is serving up another slice of gross-out indie horror this week with All Jacked Up and Full of Worms.

Alex Phillips’s psychedelic freak-out is now streaming on Screambox!

In the film, “Working at a seedy motel, maintenance man Roscoe (Phillip Andre Botello) is always searching for his latest fix. When he...

"Why is that witch going on a witch hunt?" Well Go USA has revealed an official US trailer for a Korean mystery thriller sequel titled The Witch 2 - The Other One, also known as The Witch: Part 2 - The Other One, from director Park Hoon-jung. Arriving on VOD in the US this November after first opening in Korea. A girl wakes up in a gigantic secret laboratory. When the girl escapes from a laboratory, she stumbles upon Kyung Hee, who is trying to protect her house from criminal gangs. When the girl comes face to face with a criminal organization approaching Kyung Hee's house, the girl overpowers them with overwhelming power, and in the meantime, they start chasing her in the secret laboratory. Who is this mysterious girl and why is she being chased? A follow-up to The Witch: Part 1 - Subversion - which is available to watch now.

Park Hoon-jung‘s The Witch Part 1: The Subversion might just be one of the best movies you haven’t seen yet. For those who witnessed the action-horror in all of its glory, the sequel The Witch: Part 2 – The Other One made its way to the U.S. this summer with a Digital, Blu-ray, and DVD release set for November 8, via Well Go USA Entertainment.

Bloody has an exclusive look at the home video trailer that’s got big guns and knives, and leaves a ton of dead bodies in its wake.

In this sequel to the popular Korean sci-fi action thriller, the story moves away from a confined secret lab and out into the real world. After a mysterious girl emerges as the sole survivor of a bloody raid on the research facility behind the top-secret Witch Program, she is rescued by a pair of civilians who soon...

The history of Japan and South Korea has brought the two countries together in a variety of areas, not just in the political realm but in the entertainment sphere as well. The multitude of films in a variety of genres and styles depicting animosity between the two countries using real-world scenarios is too vast to name, but one of the more overlooked entries is an acclaimed and highly-stylized horror from writer/director brothers Jung Sik and Jung Bum-shik, originally titled “Gidam” but known more commonly as “Epitaph.”

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After he finds a photo album, Dr. Park Jung-nam (Jin Goo) triggers memories of his life dating back to his days as an intern at the Ansaeng Hospital. In 1942, as a young medical intern, Jung-nam’s arranged marriage ended when his fiancée, whom he had never met, committed suicide. Later assigned...

The concept of a hard man ending up having to take care of a child that changes him completely is not exactly unusual in cinema, with the recipe having produced a number of truly fun films with “Kindergarten Cop” and Jackie Chan’s “The Spy Next Door” being some of the first that come to mind. Lee Chang-won and Kwon Sung-mo present a title in the particular style, which takes, though, a more dramatic path, since the child in this case is a blind-deaf one.

“My Lovely Angel” is available from Echelon Studios

Jae-sik is the CEO of Sik Entertainment, an event agency, but his life is not exactly luxurious. He cannot afford an office, operating from his second-hand car, he is alone and in financial trouble, while, as the movie begins, Ji-young, one of the narrator models working for him turns up dead. Jae-sik is worried that his business will plummet even more,...

Stars: Shin Sia, Park Eun-bin, Seo Eun-soo, Jin Goo, Kim Da-mi | Written and Directed by Park Hoon-jung

I was lucky enough to see The Witch Part 1: The Subversion as part of my coverage for Glasgow Frightfest in 2019. It was my favourite movie of the festival and was the perfect action horror movie. I can only assume they delay in the sequel was because of the pandemic but in truth, three years isn’t too much of a wait. As soon as I heard Part 2 was part of Fantasia, I knew I had to see it immediately!

A girl is the lone survivor after an attack on a research facility. Covered in blood and left for dead she walks through the woods and into the life of Kyung-hee. She is struggling herself, as, alongside her brother, is trying to keep her farmland away from local gangsters. When these henchman threaten the siblings though,...

The action sequel is set for a co-ordinated release in 12 countries across North America and Asia.

South Korea’s Contents Panda has sold action sequel The Witch: Part 2. The Other One to 124 countries including to Spendid Film for Germany, Benelux and Poland.

Director Park Hoon-jung’s follow-up to his 2018 Warner Bros-backed sci-fi action mystery The Witch: Part 1. The Subversion, the sequel stars Shin Sia as another girl with unnamed powers who escapes from a top-secret laboratory, pursued by multiple violent groups.

The film has also sold to China (Pumpkin Film), Japan (Twin), Cis and the Baltics (Volgafilm), Latin America...

Spring is already shaping up to be a busy season for Korean cinema. From the election drama The Mayor, in which Choi Min-sik appears the mayor of Seoul while Kwak Do-won (The Wailing) plays his aide, to renowned Korean auteur Hong Sang-soo’s On the Beach at Night Alone starring Kim Min-hee (The Handmaiden) to One Day, the latest film from romantic drama specialist Lee Yoon-ki (A Man and A Woman), featuring Chun Woo-hee (The Wailing) and Kim Nam-gil (Pandora).

Here’s a look at 8 new Korean films worth keeping an eye out for.

Ordinary Person

Director: Kim Bong-han

Cast: Son Hyun-joo, Jang Hyuk, Kim Sang-ho, Ra Mi-ran, Jung Man-sik, Cho Dal-hwan, Ji Seung-hyeon

Plot: Detective Seong-jin (Son Hyun-joo) arrests Tae-sung for petty crimes, but shocked to find out that he is the notorious serial killer. However, Seong-jin becomes doubtful of his identity as the serial murder case is investigated.

The masterfully-composed frames of Joon-ho Bong's latest always succeeds in drawing the eye - but just as often this unconventional thriller fails at drawing in the viewer's emotions. Centering on a mother's attempts to protect her mentally challenged son after he's accused of murder, superlative acting and direction can't redeem what feels like an underwritten story.

Hye-ja Kim plays the title role, an herbalist and unlicensed acupuncturist who finds herself up against a lazy, uninterested police force and a generally unsympathetic community after a teenage girl is murdered. Her son, Do-joon (Bin Won) becomes the prime suspect after being seen following the victim and leaving a piece of evidence with his name on it near the scene.

The story is in many ways the other side of Bong's brilliant Memories of Murder which showed rural police ineptitude attempting to right itself in the face of a series of heinous crimes.

Chicago – In our latest murder mystery edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 50 admit-two passes up for grabs to the advance Chicago screening of “Mother” from the award-winning director of “The Host”!

“Mother” stars Hye-ja Kim, Bin Won, Ku Jin, Yoon Jae-Moon, Mi-sun Jun, Young-Suck Lee, Sae-Beauk Song, Mun-hee Na, Woo-hee Chun and Byoung-Soon Kim from writer and director Joon-ho Bong. The film opens in Chicago on March 19, 2010.

To win your free pass to the advance Chicago screening of “Mother” courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just answer our question below. That’s it! This screening is on Monday, March 15, 2010 at 7 p.m. in Chicago. Directions to enter this Hookup and immediately win can be found beneath the graphic below.

The movie poster for “Mother” from the award-winning director of “The Host”.

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Here is the “Mother” plot description:

The latest film from award-winning Korean director Bong Joon-ho...

Korean director Joon-ho Bong may have created the ultimate image of matriarchal generosity for his new movie, Mother. Determined to prove her mentally challenged son innocent of murder, the woman (played indelibly by Hye-ja Kim) will do anything to rescue him from incarceration. If that means crossing a few moral boundaries in the process, so be it.

Not all mothers are so selfless, though. Some, in fact, are downright hellacious. And while watching parental sacrifice can be an uplifting and occasionally thought-provoking experience, the sight of a mom warping filial devotion to her own ends — with the kids sometimes getting their own back in return — can be downright fun. So it was no trouble for us to come up with a list of Top 10 Toxic Movie Moms.

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Mother - Trailer

Bin Won, Ku Jin, and Hye-ja Kim star

Link | Posted 3/12/2010 by reelz

Mother | Throw Momma From the Train...

The Last Airbender

Opens: July 2nd 2010

Cast: Noah Ringer, Nicola Peltz, Jackson Rathbone, Dev Patel

Director: M. Night Shyamalan

Summary: A live-action film based on the Nickelodeon animated TV series. In a fantastic world where civilisation exists as four great empires, a reluctant young child sets out on a perilous journey to restore balance to a world torn apart by war.

Analysis: It has been quite the decade for M. Night Shyamalan, who started it as a household name with the label of a modern-day Hitchcock thanks to the likes of "The Sixth Sense" and "Signs". Today he's considered more of a one-trick pony and in some cases a punchline due to rampant stories of egomania run wild and a series of much derided onscreen flops like "Lady in the Water" and "The Happening".

Thus 'Airbender' marks a potential return to form for the helmer. An adaptation of the hit...

The Last Airbender

Opens: July 2nd 2010

Cast: Noah Ringer, Nicola Peltz, Jackson Rathbone, Dev Patel

Director: M. Night Shyamalan

Summary: A live-action film based on the Nickelodeon animated TV series. In a fantastic world where civilisation exists as four great empires, a reluctant young child sets out on a perilous journey to restore balance to a world torn apart by war.

Analysis: Its been quite the decade for M. Night Shyamalan who started it as a household name with labels of a moodern-day Hitchcock thanks to the likes of "The Sixth Sense" and "Signs". Today he's considered more of a one-trick pony and in some cases a punchline due to rampant stories of egomania run wild and a series of much derided onscreen flops like "Lady in the Water" and "The Happening".

Thus 'Airbender' marks a potential return to form for the helmer. An adaptation of the hit cartoon series...