Based on the life of the Korean anarchist Park Yeol, the film shows his struggle to counter the massacre of Koreans by the government during the 1923 great Kanto earthquake, focusing on his activities as the leader of the anti-Japanese organization Bulryeongsa and his relationship with Japanese comrade Fumiko Kaneko.

The King and the Clown

2005

Korean

7.3

♡ 23

88%

Joon-ik Lee Director

Joon-Gi Lee as Gong-gil

Yeong-seok Lee as Nobleman

Young-Suck Lee as Nobleman

Seung-won Seo as Steward

Two clowns living in Korea's Chosun Dynasty get arrested for staging a play that satirizes the king. They are dragged to the palace and threatened with execution but are given a chance to save their lives if they can make the king laugh.

Sunny

2008

Korean

6.4

♡ 1

Joon-ik Lee Director

Mi-ryeong Cho as Jeni

Yeong-seok Lee as Soon-yi's Father Soo Ae

Soo Ae as Soon-yi / Sunny

Kyung-ho Jung as Yung Deuk

With hopes of reuniting with her husband, who left for the Vietnam War without telling her, a young wife joins a traveling band as the lead singer.

The Throne

2015

Korean

7.1

♡ 23

42%

Action

based on a true story

Joon-ik Lee Director

Ah In Yoo as Crown Prince Sado

Ji-seob So as King Jeongjo

Kang-ho Song as King Yeongjo

So-dam Park as Lady Moon

Ancient Korea, July 4, 1762. The Crown Prince Hyojang, posthumously named Sado, son of King Yeongjo of Joseon, is accused of treason. Thus, the king asks him to commit suicide, but his closest vassals prevent it, so the king orders the prince to get inside a wooden rice chest, where he suffers deprivation of food and water.

The Book of Fish

2021

Korean

7.5

♡ 2

Joon-ik Lee Director

Woo-jin Jo as

Pang Eun-jin as

Lee Seung-Joon as Bul Chul

Kyung-gu Sol as Yag jeon Jeong

When the scholar Jeong Yak-jeon is exiled to Heuksando Island during the Catholic Persecution of 1801, he decides to write a fish-based encyclopaedia.