The 36th Film Critics Awards, organized by the Korean Film Critics Association, announced the "Top Ten Film Critics Awards" for Korean films.
#1 "No Secrets" Douban 6.4
Zhong Can (Kim Joo-hyuk) and his wife Yeon Hong (Sun Yizhen) have been married for many years. Zhong Can has ventured into politics and has achieved little success, and his colleagues know that he is very likely to become the next member of Parliament. However, their daughter suddenly disappeared for no reason, and Zhong Can did not seem to be so anxious. After his daughter died in this accident, Zhong Can's career road was even flatter, who killed her? Is it Zhong Can's political enemy, or is it Zhong Can himself?
When Yanhong investigates the roots, she finds that her daughter, husband, and life are not at all what she thought before... Because of the sensational and violent parts of the film, there are nudity and bloody scenes, and it is rated 19 banned.
Original title: South Korea these movies ranked in the top ten 4 19 banned movies on the list
2 "East Pillar" Douban 7.5
Anti-Japanese films of the Korean people.
The film tells the story of the Dark Ages when names, mother tongues, and dreams were not allowed during the Japanese imperialist occupation, and the story of the Korean patriotic poet Yoon Dong-joo (Kang Ha-na), who inspired the younger generation through poetry under the influence of his friend Song Mengkui (Park Chung-min), a friend who was also an independence activist.
The film is written by Li Maoyi, the director of "Suyuan", and is shot in black and white, restrained and patient but heart-wrenching. Treating it like a biopic is underrated to watch it, it's definitely a patriotic epic, and the film has won a bunch of awards.
Although it is the main theme of the film, the film "does not deliberately sensationalize the narrative, like a poem that is clearly restrained and patient, but makes people feel bone-wrenching and sad"
#3 Cry Douban 7.1
Director Luo Hongyun, a crime film starter, with "The Pursuer" and "Yellow Sea", became a "Korean film emperor manufacturing machine" and "one of the 20 most talented young directors in the world", this time, he made a "ghost" film.
The story of Cry takes place in a small mountain village in Jeolla-do, South Korea. After the arrival of a mysterious Japanese old man (Hayabusa Kunimura), there are one after another massacres in the village. Zhong Jiu (Guo Duyuan), a policeman in the village, and his peers quickly rush to the scene to investigate. However, the locals privately believed that the Japanese had performed witchcraft.
In desperation, Zhong Jiu has to turn to the wizard (Huang Zhengmin) to relieve the terrible curse that fell on the villagers and daughters...
"Crying" should be the most polarized Korean movie this year, people who like it will shout that the grooves are good and evil and powerful, and people who don't like it will feel that they are doing something ghost throughout.
#4 Miss Douban 7.8
National treasure director Park Chan-wook, literary queen Kim Min-hee, crime film signature Ha Jeong-woo, film emperor Cho Jin-woong... Let this film become an "unusual" 19 ban.
The Duke (Ha Masao) intends to marry a Japanese noble lady Shuko (Kim Min-hee) in order to obtain her property, and then sends Hideko to a mental hospital on the grounds that she is mentally ill. In order to realize his plot, the Duke sends Nam Sook-hee (Kim Tae-ri), who was born into a family of thieves, to Shuko's side as a maid, but unexpectedly, the maid and the young lady have a relationship...
This movie is particularly beautiful in many places, if there is less bad taste, more fragrance, weak editors will prefer. I especially like the three-part structure of this film, telling a story from the perspective of a maid, a lady and an audience, and the plot is reversed.
#5 Busan Trip Douban 8.2
"Busan Trip", which brushed up the circle of friends, is indeed also the great love of Korean audiences. This doomsday story takes place on an express train from Seoul to Busan.
This Korean zombie film is indeed extraordinary, not the kind of routine of the American zombie film, but more of a contest to show the darkness and goodness of human nature, reflecting on the government, the media, and society, and the plot can also be described as gradually getting better.
The most critical emotional catharsis is particularly powerful, paying attention to the details in the feelings, detonating the emotions of the audience, and making people cry when they watch it.
#6 Insider Douban 7.5
It is another Korean film that is trying to tell us that in real life, there are many media people manipulating public opinion to fool the public, and sometimes the more authoritative the media, the more dangerous it is.
The role of An Shangjiu, played by Li Bingxian in the film, was originally a "hunting dog" who was a power holder, but after he became a waste, he became a "political hooligan" who went to war against the rights holders in order to avenge himself, and won the 52nd Baeksang Art Awards with this film.
#7 Secret Agent Douban 6.4
Next year's South Korea's Chong Ao film will gather big names such as Song Kanghao, Kong You, and Han Jimin.
The story takes place in the 1920s, when Kong You's role as the anti-Japanese leader, the Yilie tuan, engages in a brawl with the Japanese police who are pursuing him, while Song Kang-ho plays a Japanese policeman from a Korean background.
Judging from word of mouth, "Secret Agent" is far less than "Busan Trip", but the gunfight action scene in this movie is quite hot, and it is also a movie that makes people turn over. However, now see Kong You on the train without zombie audiences are not used to it.
#8 "Tunnel" Douban 7.6
Ha Zhengyu once again perfectly interprets what it means for a person to hold up a film.
Although it is a disaster film, it is not so heavy, and Ha Zhengyu's humor seems so humane in a difficult environment. There is one word in Korean that is the most appropriate description, funny and sad.
However, Ha Zhengyu's performance in the film is completely different from "Horror Live", and the key is that the film once again satirizes the unscrupulous media and government.
#9 Asura Douban 7.1
There are almost no good guys in this movie, all bad guys, a bunch of bad guys fighting each other based on their own interests. The action is vigorous, the style is dark, the plot is compact, and each actor is an acting skill.
Han Do-kyung (Jung Woo-sung), a criminal police officer in the eye of the typhoon, is sandwiched between Mayor Park Sung-bae (Hwang Jeong-min) and the criminal police team investigating him, doing whatever it takes to survive. On the other hand, Kim Cha-in (Guo Do-won), a prosecutor of the Special Supervision Detachment, is also investigating Mayor Park Sung-bae... The picture is bloody and violent, properly 19 forbidden.
#10 "Our World" Douban 8.5
This film is about the friendship between two little girls.
At an age when friends are more important than mothers, 10-year-olds are bullies at school. During the summer vacation, she met another girl who had just arrived in town. They had a lot of fun all summer, but after the start of the new semester, there was an awkward relationship between them. The two joined different groups of children. Where does their friendship go?