All Korean movies from 1998
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- DirectorJee-woon KimStarsPark In-hwanNa Moon-heeSong Kang-hoA family opens a mountain inn where their first guest commits suicide. Suddenly all their guests befall horrible fates.
- DirectorHur Jin-hoStarsHan Suk-kyuShim Eun-haShin GooHahn Suk-Kyu suffers from a fatal disease. He meets Shim Eun-Ha and falls in love with her. Will their love story have a tragic ending?
- DirectorKi-hyeong ParkStarsKim Gyu-riYun Ji-hyePark Jin-heeIn a Korean school, students are regularly beaten and mistreated by their teachers. However, the spirit of one pupil, who died ten years ago, periodically returns in the guise of a new girl, thus able to gain a revenge on the culprits.
- DirectorHong Sang-sooStarsJong-hak BaekOh Yun-hongKim Yu-seokHelmed by one of Korea's leading directors, Hong Sang-soo, Jisook joins two of her girlfriends for a holiday in Korea's Kangwon Province. But in an eerie twist of fate, her former lover, Sangkwon, plans a getaway for the same destination, where tragedy brings them together once again.
- DirectorK.C. ParkStarsAhn Sung-kiShin Hyeon-junChoo Sang-miWhen the police raid the compound of a religious cult, they discover that almost all of the members have committed suicide. The only survivor, laying on an altar in the middle of the room, is a very pregnant woman who goes into labor as the raid begins. The woman dies in the hospital, but her child survives. 20 years later, strange things are starting to happen around the child, now a grown woman. A group of religious warriors from a mix of faiths join together to try and protect her from whatever supernatural horrors are seeking her out.
- DirectorShin Seung-sooStarsChang Jung LimNa Han-ilWon-hie Kim
- DirectorKim Ki-dukStarsJi-eun LeeHye Eun LeeAhn Jae-moStreetwise Jin-a moves into a boarding house run by a small, close-knit family. But her unacceptable behavior threatens to destroy them all.
- DirectorJeong-hyang LeeStarsShim Eun-haLee Sung-jaeAhn Sung-kiTwo strangers with very little in common, find themselves forced to live together.
- DirectorJe-yong LeeStarsLee Jung-jaeLee Mi-sookMin KimA lonely housewife begins falling in love with her sister's fiancé.
- DirectorKwang-Mo LeeStarsLee InAhn Sung-kiYoo-Jung BaeA story of two 13-year-old boys in a small country village during the last days of the Korean War. Sungmin's father gets a job at US army camp through his daughter's American boyfriend, and the family gets richer. But Changhee's father has been long-lost and his mother can't even afford one meal a day for her children. One day, the boys peep into a deserted mill-house which is unofficially used for prostitution, and find out Changhee's mother with a GI soldier. Changhee sets fire to the place and runs away. Months later, Sungmin hears a rumor that his best friend has been killed by a group of angry American soldiers and makes an empty grave with other boys. A year later, Sungmin's father gets fired for stealing things from the camp. Sangmin goes to Changhee's grave to bid farewell and the family leaves the village.
- DirectorKwang-Mo LeeStarsLee InAhn Sung-kiYoo-Jung BaeA story of two 13-year-old boys in a small country village during the last days of the Korean War. Sungmin's father gets a job at US army camp through his daughter's American boyfriend, and the family gets richer. But Changhee's father has been long-lost and his mother can't even afford one meal a day for her children. One day, the boys peep into a deserted mill-house which is unofficially used for prostitution, and find out Changhee's mother with a GI soldier. Changhee sets fire to the place and runs away. Months later, Sungmin hears a rumor that his best friend has been killed by a group of angry American soldiers and makes an empty grave with other boys. A year later, Sungmin's father gets fired for stealing things from the camp. Sangmin goes to Changhee's grave to bid farewell and the family leaves the village.
- DirectorKwang-hoon LeeStarsLee Sung-jaeKim Hee-seonCha Seung-wonA battle is on to save the soul of a woman who must decide whether or not to become a vengeful spirit.
- DirectorTae-gyun KimStarsAhn Jae-wookChoi Ji-wooLee Kyoung-youngA reporter and a photographer work together at a weekly magazine and navigate their way through a series of misunderstandings on their way to falling in love.
- DirectorEun LeeStarsChang Jung LimKo So-youngCha Seung-wonThe classic love story between the famous actress and the plain ordinary man.
- DirectorJi-sang LeeStarsJung SuhKim Jung-kiMi-ru JangYellow Flower dramatizes the erogenous encounters of a group of Asian men and women who explore the limits of their own sexuality by participating in deviant, perverse, and bizarre coital acts with one another.
- DirectorYoo-jin KimStarsJeon Do-yeonPark Hae-jinJung Jin-youngWhen she met him at the first time, he was a wounded person. However, she saw him through his clear eyes hidden in the bandage. She, Chae Hi-Ju, is a doctor and he, Kong Sang-Du, is a boss of a bandit.
- DirectorSang-Jin KimStarsBo-sung KimMin-jung KweonPark In-hwanA pair of tough, unconventional cops take on the underworld.
- DirectorByung-hun MinJamshed UsmonovStarsMuhammadjon ShodiMastura OrtikTaghoymurod RozikIn a small village in Tajikistan, a wealthy bully erects an outhouse at the edge of his property, right next to the window of his neighbor, a struggling educator. Revolted by the continual stench, and convinced that that the rich man is spying on his wife from the toilet, the teacher implores the mayor to intercede.
- DirectorYan XieStarsCarol 'Do Do' ChengPao-Ming KuKevin LinRong Rong is the tough Mama Boss from childhood in pre-1949 Guilin until her disillusion in 1970s Taipei, where she struggles to run a noodle shop and contend with a host of colorful customers.
- DirectorJung Soo KangStarsLee Sung HiJi-Ha YuJeff Anderson
- DirectorSang-wook YuStarsShin Eun-kyungKim Tae-wooByeong-jun KwonA group of people are drawn together to face the supernatural while they try to unravel a 60-year-old mystery.
- DirectorSeung-wook MoonStarsAhn Sung-kiPawel BurczykEwa GawrylukKim (Ahn Sung-Kee) left his homeland, wife and daughter 13 years ago to roam Europe, finally settling in Poland, where he opened a taekwondo school. Solitary by nature and perhaps atoning for a wilder youth, he holds himself above the fray of the grungy, crime-ridden area in which he lives, penning unanswered letters to his daughter. Two relationships gradually draw him into the social fabric of Poland and provide separate challenges to his contained existence: an initially casual, eventually warm friendship with a freewheeling young blonde, Jola (Ewa Gawryluk) , and an edgy master-pupil relationship with a young thug, Michal (Pawel Burczyk), who enrolls in his classes.
- DirectorYun-ho YangStarsCha In-pyoSong Yun-ahHong Kyoung-inA group of troubled high school students lack direction, discipline and purpose until a new music teacher arrives and gives them something to work towards - and learn a few things about life along the way.
- DirectorJi-Seung HanStarsAhn Jae-wookKim Hye-suKang Seong-jinA high school boy pretends to be a girl so he can spend more time with the girl he has a crush on. But the girl begins to show interest in another boy and he forced to make a move that might reveal himself.
- DirectorSung-Hong KimStarsKong Hyeong-jinKim Seung-wooJin Hee-kyungHorror (and comedy) in the Chinese restaurant!
- DirectorHyeon-su JangStarsKim Seung-wooSe-bin MyeongJo Min-kiCan a childhood crush survive into adulthood?
- DirectorHo ChoiStarsRang HaKim Ha-neulYoo Ji-taeAs three friends prepare to enter adulthood with their high school graduation only a few months away, they lose one of them in an accident that will change their life forever.
- DirectorCheol-su ParkStarsSogil YanHiroko IsayamaEri YuA savage look at food and sex, helms this black comedy about Japan's sizable and often beleaguered Korean-Japanese community. Motomi Hayashi (Eri Yu), a producer who is thoroughly dedicated to her career, returns to her abode to discover that her porn star sister (Ichio Matsuda) is going to make a film about her family's first reunion in 20 years. Motomi is less than thrilled with the prospect, seeing as all is not well at the Hayashi household. Motomi's father recently got canned from his longtime job at a Pachinko parlor, while her mother secretly plans to mortgage the house to finance her affair with a younger lover. Motomi grows more uneasy when she learns that the porn director in charge of the undertaking is known for mixing fact with fantasy.
- DirectorSuh-Goon LeeStarsPang Eun-jinAhn Jae-wookJoshua KlausnerIn 2028, the cartoonist Han Cho falls for his neighbour Nana. But Nana is an assassin. He professes his love for her but she doesn't care. By accident Han Cho finds an amnesia-inducing drug which he uses to spike Nana's drink. With her memory blanked out, Nana is told that she is Han Cho's girlfriend.
- DirectorSu-yong JeongStarsSe-han KimGiuliano SantiThe true story of Jesus, according to the St Matthew version of "The New Testament".
- DirectorDong-hong JangStarsKim Hyun-jooYong-ha ParkKim Ji-yeongSong-hie promises to give her father's Stradivarius violin to her childhood friend, Su-wan, if he forgets that he is about to be married and dates her for one week.
- DirectorKang Woo-sukStarsAhn Sung-kiMoon Sung-KeunHwang Sin-hye
- DirectorJin JangStarsChoi Jong-wonTaek-jo YangLee Kyoung-youngThree amateur thieves and one unfortunate man team up for one last score that will bring joy to an orphanage.
- DirectorKil-soo ChangStarsShim Hye-jinYeong-ha LeeYang Mi-kyeongA couple fall deeply in love. Unfortunately, they are both already married to other people. The resulting affair leads to the man losing his job. Both divorce their spouses, but while travelling together, they decide that the only way for them to be perfectly happy is for them to commit double suicide.
- DirectorJeong Ji-yeongStarsJo Eun SookKim Bo-kyungSo-yeon Kim
- DirectorSion KimStarsKi-Hyun ChangJae-Wook ChungLim Ji-eun
- DirectorKyun-dong YeoStarsHwang Sin-hyeMoon Sung-KeunLee Kyoung-youngA blocked film director is forced to shoot a tragic love story with an over-the-hill bimbo actress, who sees it as her big break into serious movies, and his star actor, who wants to turn it into a gangster movie.
- DirectorByeong-jin MinStarsJang Dong-jikYu Oh-seongWon Bin
- DirectorChun-shik KimStarsDong-yeong OhJi-eun KimSeung-bong WooSeung-hie's father doesn't care that his pro-Japanese activities are making life harder for his countrymen living under occupation. His daughter, however, feels differently and devotes herself to the liberation movement
- DirectorByeong-gak JeongStarsJi-won EunSoo Won JangKo Ji-yongYe-jin is a high school junior from a wealthy family who also does very well in school. But her secret aspiration is to be a back dancer. Although her boyfriend Sang-rok is the class president and a good student, he is very passive.
- DirectorKi-nam NamStarsSu-beom JeongBong-won LeeJeong-pil Eom
- DirectorJeong-cheol KimStarsYoung Jae Dok-GoHyeon-jeong NoJu-yeon ParkMi-ra urges her husband, Jin-wook, to seek medical help to find out why he no longer has any interest in intimacy. However the doctor she recommends convinces Jin-wook that what he needs is to have an affair to spice up his sex life.