Jo Young-jin

Lee Chang-dong found breakout international acclaim with this searing portrayal of unimaginable loss and the fallacies of religious comfort. Featuring an astonishing performance from Cannes Best Actress-winner Jeon Do-yeon, Secret Sunshine marked Lee as one of South Korean cinema’s leading lights.

When Ji-sook, a successful TV writer, is diagnosed with terminal cancer, she visits her mother and finally understands the sacrifice she made.

An ace police crisis negotiator, Chae-youn (Son Ye-jin), is called to the scene where her supervisor is taken, hostage. Faced with the cold-blooded hostage taker, Tae-gu (Hyun Bin) over multiple video-calls, she tirelessly tries to crack him down, and eventually, the shocking truth begins to unveil.

Musicians, yearning to book a public performance, finds their desperate quest even harder, when the freewheeling leader of their band disappears.

South Koreans are terrified by a series of murders targeting children. The police fail repeatedly to capture the killer. Feeling pressure from all sides, the police pursue a possible suspect, but the suspect is shot to death by the cops. To avoid another dead end and any further heat, the National Police Agency wants to target another person, any plausible person, and close the case as soon as possible.