Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Five masters of different disciplines get invited by a mysterious master of the online kung fu forum that they're all in (the character names are their IDs on the forum - musashi66 is my fave) for a chance to fight him. They get invited to a smalltown in Kangwon Province (the same one as the Hong Sang Soo movie 😉) and tournament ensues. The entirety of the small town is the battleground. Just pure fun with very nice subtle touches…
Power dyamic of Japanese salarymen culture sublimated into BDSM framework. Reinterpretation of Kafka in a gay porn universe with drive to power and drive to submit consuming everbody.
-Another tonally inconsistent brutal Korean action movie with (everyone is saying it I know but) "self conscious / not taking it serious"-ness of John Wick with brutal sleaze of The Man from Nowhere. Slash.. of course Taken, which was big in Korea.
-Another one of hand-to-hand combat action comedy movies that features the disgusting and the sleaziest acts of crime that make for a super weird and uncomfortable tone (kinda like Midnight Runners or The Roundup).
-It goes from action…