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While the first half of 2014 produced a number of genuinely impressive Asian films, including The Tale Of The Princess Kaguya, The Raid 2 and Black Coal, Thin Ice, the second half of the year felt a little lacklustre to...

Expectations play a large role in how we consume and react to cinema, particularly in the commercial realm. Genre formulas are so clearcut than any deviation is immediately noticeable. Some variation is required to prevent things from getting stale but...

Following the recent hits Masquerade (2012) and last year's The Face Reader, period films are set to make a big push into the Korean market in 2014 with at least six big Joseon era films poised to flood the market....

The local Korean cinemas will kick off the new year with empowered female warriors getting into some silly situations in the period action comedy The Huntresses.  Rounding out these trio bounty hunters is Ha Ji-won (As One), Kang Ye-won (Quick)...

With Spike Lee's Oldboy bearing down on us and recent news of remakes for the other films in Park Chan-wook's Vengeance Trilogy on the way, not to mention American versions of Confession of Murder and New World, there's no shortage...

Korean cinema has proven on many occasions that it can be quite brazen when it comes to generic codes. It can sometimes seem like a kid has been let loose in a well-stocked kitchen as he begins to mix and...

Not long now before Showbox reveals its period action comedy The Huntresses, which stars some of the most popular young actresses in the business. Following the first teaser that launched earlier this month, five new character posters featuring the trio...

Get ready for some girl power and campy hijinks in The Huntresses, a period action comedy in the same vein as The Three Musketeers and Charlie's Angels but with Ha Ji-won, Kang Ye-won and Son Ga-in as the trio bounty...

Lead actress trio Ha Ji-won (As One), Kang Ye-won (Quick) and Son Ga-in are The Huntresses, a somewhat Korean equivalent to The Three Musketeers or Charlie's Angels, only these beautiful bounty hunters are from the Joseon Dynasty. The film is a historical...

A new teaser has been released for the upcoming film Ghost Sweepers, a supernatural horror comedy which follows Korean cinema's proud tradition of mashing together every film genre known to man. Ghost Sweepers is about a group of shamans who come...