Director – Kiyoshi Kurosawa – 2017 – Japan – Cert. 15 – 129m *** Three humans claiming to be aliens steal ideas from people’s heads as they prepare for their race’s forthcoming invasion – from LEAFF, the London East Asia Film Festival 2017 This review is of a first viewing of this film. It really […]
Director – Kim Il-rhan, Lee Hyuk-sang – 2016 – South Korea – 116m **** Revisiting the Korean towering inferno: follow-up doc to Two Doors, has survivors of the Yongsan tragedy released from prison to tell their side of the story and grapple with the resulting emotional and psychological problems – from the London Korean Film […]
Director – Kim Il-rhan, Hong Ji-you – 2011 – South Korea – 101m ***** Is this the Korean Grenfell Tower? Threatened eviction, SWAT, lethal building fire: compelling documentary about the Yongsan tragedy in which a police raid on a group of housing protesters went horribly wrong – from the London Korean Film Festival 2017 The […]