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1) The host
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Widescreen special ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In Seoul, an American army doctor forces his assistant to dump bottle after bottle of formaldehyde into the drain. The drain runs into the Han River, the major river running through the middle of Seoul. His only reason is that the bottles are covered with a layer of dust. Six years later, a food cart operator, Gang-du falls asleep every time his dad, Hie-bong, is away from the stand for more than a few minutes. Soon, his daughter, Hyun-Seo returns...
2) Past lives
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrest apart after Nora's family emigrates from South Korea. Two decades later, they are reunited in New York for one fateful week as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a life, in this heartrending modern romance. Includes French SDH.
Publisher
Well Go USA Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Blu-ray edition.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray disc (138 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Korean
Description
Based on a true story set in 1980, a down-on-his-luck taxi driver from Seoul is hired by a foreign journalist who wants to go to the town of Gwangju for the day. They arrive to find a city under siege by the military government, with the citizens, led by a determined group of college students, rising up to demand freedom. What began as an easy fare becomes a life-or-death struggle in the midst of the Gwangju Uprising, a critical event in modern South...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2008
Edition
Collector's ed.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (632 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Watch the hilarious antics of the members of MASH 4077 as they face new challenges such a new commanding officer and new surgeon.
5) Introduction
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (66 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Korean
Description
Youngho goes to see his father who is tending to a famous patient. He surprises his girlfriend, Juwon in Berlin where she is studying fashion design. He goes to a seaside hotel to meet his mother and brings his friend Jeongsoo with him. In each instance, he anticipates an important conversation
Publisher
Distributed by Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (139 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Korean
Description
Mija is a beautiful woman in her sixties who moves gracefully through life, contemplating a trivial daily routine that is ill-suited to her refined persona. On a whim, Mija enrolls in a poetry class at the local cultural center and begins a personal quest to find the perfect words to describe her feelings. However, she's appreciate the wonders of the natural world, but a school girl's suicide initiates a chain of tragic events that will change her...
Publisher
K'eidi Midiŏ
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Blu-ray edition.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray disc (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Korean
Description
"Homicide detective Ko Gun Su just lost his mother and his team is under internal investigation at work. While driving back from his mother's funeral, he accidentally runs over a man on a remote country road. Ko hides the body in his own mother's coffin. A few days later, he is shocked to come across the victim's profile in another ongoing case, which may eventually lead back to him and his desperate cover-up. Before Ko can figure out what's going...
10) Parasite
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
3 DVD edition.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Korean
Description
A zeitgeist-defining sensation that distilled a global reckoning over class inequality into a tour de force of pop-cinema subversion, this is Bong Joon Ho₂s genre-scrambling black-comic thriller. Two families in Seoul, one barely scraping by in a dank semi-basement in a low-lying neighborhood, the other living in luxury in a modern architectural marvel overlooking the city, find themselves on a collision course that will lay bare the dark contradictions...
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Korean
Description
Jina is the top employee at a call center, but despite talking to customers all day, she has shut out the world beyond her headset; she lives alone, eats alone, sleeps alone, and her cell phone is her constant companion. When one day she's tasked with training a friendly and nav̐e new hire, her icy armor is threatened. At the same time, she must navigate an incessantly ingratiating new neighbor, and an increasingly urgent phone call from her father,...
Publisher
Mubi
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (138 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Korean
Description
A man falls from a mountain peak to his death. The detective in charge of the investigation, Hae-Joon, comes to meet the dead man's wife Seo-Rae. When she becomes a suspect, Hae-Joon finds himself slowly developing an interest in her.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1073
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
[Director-approved special edition].
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Korean
Description
Two police detectives investigate a series of murders that rocked a rural Korean community.
14) The red shoes
Publisher
Tartan Video USA
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Korean
Description
Sun Jae finds a mysterious pair of pink shoes on a subway platform. The shoes seem to bring a curse on the owner. Those that see them must have them and a grisly end awaits those that forcibly take them. A mother, who has just left her cheating husband, finds them and ghostly apparitions and strange occurrences follow her as she tries to make it on her own with her young daughter. A helpful decorator helps her solve the mystery and put the ghosts...
15) Face
Series
Publisher
Tartan Video USA
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet.
Language
Korean
Description
A serial killer is burning away the flesh of his victims with acid, leaving only the bones behind. The police turn to Hyun-min, a former forensic sculptor adept in reconstructing faces by examining and interpreting skulls. With the victim's bones in his house, Hyun-min's daughter begins to experience disturbing visions. As he races against time to find the answers and save his daughter, the deadly truth behind these victims reveals a sinister conspiracy...
16) The bow =: Hwal
Publisher
Tartan Video
Pub. Date
2007]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Korean
Description
A 60-year-old man has been raising a girl since she was six years old, and plans to marry her when she turns 17. Living their lives together on a fishing boat, he is very protective of her and will gladly put an arrow into anyone who touches her. She is content with her life until a young man introduces her to a world beyond.
17) Red balloon
Publisher
Golden Card
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (1,700 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Korean
Description
A story of four people attempting to quench their desires and appease their heartbreaks. Jo Eun Gang wants to become a school teacher, but she has failed to pass her teaching examination. She now works as a private tutor. She appears calm, but she holds something hot within her heart. She is a person who will do anything to get what she wants. Ji Nam Cheol comes from a poor family, but he is married to a woman from a rich family. He runs a business...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1073
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Director-approved two-Blu-ray special edition.
Physical Desc
2 blu-ray discs (131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (folded to 12 unnumbered pages : illustrations).
Language
Korean
Description
"In his breakthrough second feature, Bong Joon Ho explodes the conventions of the policier with thrillingly subversive, genre-defying results. Based on the true story of a string of serial killings that rocked a rural community in the 1980s, Memories of Murder stars New Korean Cinema icon Song Kang Ho as the local officer who reluctantly joins forces with a seasoned Seoul detective (Lim Sang Kyung) to investigate the crimes--leading each man on a...
19) Okja
Series
Criterion collection volume 1133
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Director-approved two-DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded booklet.
Language
Korean
Description
Mija is a South Korean girl growing up on an Edenic mountainside with her grandfather and best friend: Okja, a giant, empathetic "super pig" created as part of a secret GMO experiment. When Okja is abruptly torn away from her, Mija embarks on a perilous rescue mission that places her at the center of a sinister corporate conspiracy. While Bong's trademark virtuosic set-pieces dazzle, Okja's beating heart is the connection between a girl and her super...
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Korean
Description
Eun-yi's presence attracts the amorous attentions of Hoon, the master of the house, and he begins an affair with her. Igniting the jealousy of an older maid who knows many family secrets, Eun-yi quickly finds herself in the center of a familial power struggle.
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