Bad Guy (2001)
Jul 2, 2005Sexual Humiliation and Degradation
Kim Ki-Duk film about the strangely tender relationship that grows between a mute thug and a woman he forces into prostitution
CJ Entertainment
Into the Mirror (2003)
Feb 26, 2026Korean Ghost Story/Haunted Mirrors
A South Korean entry in the fad for Asian ghost stories that were popular in the 2000s following the successes of Ring and Ju-on/The Grudge. This later underwent remake as Alexandre Aja’s Mirrors
The Uninvited (2003)
Jul 1, 2014South Korean Ghost Story
One of the spate of South Korean ghost stories that came out in 2000s. While made with undeniable directorial style, the two hour running time drags and the plot is often unclear what is happening
Save the Green Planet (2003)
Jan 27, 2025Man Imprisoned By Someone Who Insists He is an Alien
A bizarre South Korean comedy about a businessman who is imprisoned by a possibly crazed man who insists that he is an alien. Things sit in an absurdly funny ambiguity. Later remade by Yorgos Lanthimos as Bugonia
One Missed Call: Final (2006)
Dec 11, 2025Haunted Cellphone Calls
Takashi Miike’s One Missed Call was one of the more popular of the Ringu-influenced Japanese ghost stories, concerning a viral curse passed by cellphone calls. This was the second Japanese sequel
Hansel and Gretel (2007)
Feb 26, 2026South Korean Horror/Sinister House in the Forest
Confusingly, despite the title, this is not an adaptation of the Brothers Grimm fairytale but a cryptic and often baffling South Korean horror film about people trapped by children at a sinister house in the forest
Muoi (2007)
Jun 10, 2020Korean Ghost Story/Haunted Portrait
After the successes of Japanese ghost stories like Ringu and Ju-on: The Grudge, this was a South Korean ghost story set in Vietnam concerning a haunted painting.
A Man Who Was Superman (2008)
Nov 24, 2021Man Believes He is Superman
Before the spate of superheroes with no powers films with Kick-Ass and Super, there was this South Korean based-on-a-true-story film about a delusional man who believes he is Superman
Thirst (2009)
Aug 13, 2009Korean Vampire Film
Park Chan-wook film in which he rewrites the French literary classic Therese Raquin with the addition of a vampire priest with most effective results
What Women Want (2011)
Jul 27, 2012Man Can Read Womens' Minds/Romantic Comedy
Chinese remake of the romcom where Mel Gibson was suddenly able to hear women's thoughts. A second time over, the premise seems slight while the film crucially fails to create much passion between its two stars
Snowpiercer (2013)
Jul 19, 2014Train Containing the Last Survivors of Humanity
One of the most original science-fiction films of recent years. Set aboard a train where the last survivors of humanity circle a frozen globe, this is less an action film than something like Runaway Train turned into a unique conceptual breakthrough story, all rent through with a fierce parable about social revolution
Satan’s Slave (2017)
Sep 17, 2025Indonesian Horror/Hauntings and the Occult
A horror film that was the biggest box-office hit ever in Indonesia as a family tragedy stirs up hauntings and the occult. A follow-up to an earlier 1970s film that has become a cult hit.
Seobok (2021)
Jun 5, 2022Psychic Powers
Quite good Korean film about a clone with vast psychic powers, this mounts to a climax that captures something of Akira