Korean Movies Opening Today 2023/12/06 in Korea

Korean movies opening today 2023/12/06 in Korea: "Our Season", "The Ripple", "A Letter from Kyoto", "Home Ground", "NCT NATION : To The World in Cinemas", "Nam June Paik: Moon is the Oldest TV" and "Look At Me Touch Me Kiss Me"

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"Our Season" (2020)

Directed by Yook Sang-hyo

With Kim Hae-sook, Shin Min-a, Kang Ki-young, Hwang Bo-ra, Park Myung-hoon, Jung Lael,...

Also known as Vacation
Synopsis
Mother and daughter's miraculous days during a vacation from afterlife.

Bok-ja (Kim Hae-sook) is granted a special vacation after her death, which allows her to go see her daughter, Jin-joo (Shin Min-a), a university professor living abroad. Unlike her expectation, Bok-ja finds Jin-joo living in her old house running a local diner and becomes frustrated with questions that she is unable to ask. After spending time alongside Jin-joo, Bok-ja realizes that her daughter is struggling with the unresolved feelings about her, and tries to find a way to show her sincere feelings that she had never shared before.

"The Ripple" (2022)

Directed by Lim Seunghyeun

With Kim Ja-young, Hong Ye-seo, Jung Ae-hwa, Seol Si-yeon, Jang Joon-hwi, Choi Won-yong,...

Synopsis
Ye-boon searches for the remains or any traces of her young granddaughter, who drowned in the river a year ago. Still feeling guilty about her granddaughter's death, Ye-boon spends her days in pain. Meanwhile, Ok-im, Ye-boon's old friend in the village, passes away from an illness. Ye-boon briefly takes care of Ji-yoon, Ok-im's granddaughter and her own deceased granddaughter's friend. Ye-boon and Ji-yoon, a corpse shrouder and a middle school swimmer, or a grandmother who lost her granddaughter and a granddaughter who lost her grandmother, suddenly come to live together just like that.

"A Letter from Kyoto" (2022)

Directed by Kim Min-ju-I

With Han Sunhwa, Han Chae-ah, Cha Mi-kyung, Song Ji-hyun-II, Ko Jae-hyun,...

Synopsis
Hwa-ja has been raising three daughters alone in Busan after her husband passed away. One day, the second daughter Hye-young comes back to Busan after having continuous setbacks in Seoul. While spending time with her mom, she accidently sees a letter written in Japanese, which triggers her curiosity. She starts to ask Hwa-ja about her past life and gets to know new stories of her mother that she had never heard of. Meanwhile, something inside Hwa-ja's heart where has been buried for decades also opens up.

"Home Ground" (2023)

Directed by Kwon Aram

Synopsis
In 1996, Korea's first lesbian bar, Lesbos opened. 'Myung-woo', who runs the bar that reopened in 2019, is struggling to protect it amid the Coronavirus crisis. The film reflects on the three spaces that performed similar roles to that of Lesbos through reenactments and interviews. In the 1970s, lesbians used to spend time at Chanel, a women-only coffee shop in Myeong-dong. In the early 2000s, teenage lesbians formed a community in 'Sinchon Park'. Myeong-woo experienced the twists and turns of lesbian-only spaces in person from the 1970s to the present as a customer of 'Chanel' and as the owner of 'Lesbos', a bar across from 'Sinchon Park'. Even though the times and places are different, visitors remember these spaces as comfortable and safe places, and precious liberated zones which had allowed them to form their own identity. "Home Ground" is a film that shows the necessity and self-reliance of a lesbian community that transcends time.

14th DMZ International Documentary Film Festival

"NCT NATION : To The World in Cinemas" (2023)

Directed by Yoon Dong-oh

With Doyoung, Jaehyun, NCT,...

Synopsis
NCT, K-pop's representative artist, captivated the world with unrivaled music and overwhelming performances.

"NCT NATION: To The World" Korean performance, the first step of NCT NATION's journey to the world

NCT 127, NCT DREAM, WayV, and NCT U will be attending a concert at the theater where you can enjoy NCT's unrivaled music, performance, and irreplaceable synergy!

The first movie that contains the infinite charm of NCT NATION!

"Nam June Paik: Moon is the Oldest TV" (2023)

Directed by Amanda Kim

With Steven Yeun,...

A Korean-American co-production
Synopsis
Director Amanda Kim talks for the first time about Nam June Paik's brilliant debut in the New York art world and his Nostradamus-like vision of the future: "Everyone will have their own TV channel". Thanks to social media, Nam June Paik's future is now our present. "Nam June Paik: Moon is the Oldest TV" shows how we got here.

"Look At Me Touch Me Kiss Me" (2023)

Directed by Djenar Maesa Ayu, Kim Tae-sik, Yuhang Ho

With Hong Wan-pyo, Lee Tae-kyoung,...

A Malaysian-Indonesian-Korean co-production
Synopsis
Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, and Seoul. Three couples in three cities in three countries: The paths of a telemarketer for a loan company and a cart rink owner are destined to cross. A pub owner and a woman with their own background stories. A virgin forklift operator who has never kissed before and a kiss-for-sale manager. Although the geographical backgrounds are all different, the contemporary circumstances of those living in the same era are oddly similar. An omnibus film made by dynamic directors from three countries, this feature feels like a well-cooked full-course meal. It is a pleasure to discover the mechanisms that connect each episode while the warm and humorous perspectives of the surroundings intersect. The film's working title, Dream Together, nicely sums up the stories of the film as well as the meaningful co-production among Asian countries. BOO Kyunghwan

27th Busan International Film Festival