easternKicks.com – how do you get yours?

A sweet wonderfully evocative animation about adolescence and growing up – and well deserving of a wider release next year… (more…)

Less a remake, more a complete reboot of one of Korea’s most well-known (and well-loved) films, Im Sang-soo’s (The President’s Last Bang) take deservedly caused a real stir at this years Cannes Film Festival… (more…)

Something icky this way comes… Director Kim Jee-woon (The Good, The Bad, The Weird, A Bittersweet Life) returns with a controversial and rather gory revenge thriller starring Choi Min-sik (Old Boy)… (more…)

A masterful piece of cinema from Bong Joon-ho, director of The Host and Memories Of Murder… (more…)

A beautiful film by veteran filmmaker Im Kwon-taek with a fine performance by Oldboy’s Choi Min-sik, but suffers from covering far too long a period… (more…)

Some six years after it was originally released this Korean classic has finally been made available in the UK – but has it been worth the wait?… (more…)

Bound to become a flawed, beautiful classic, Park Chan-wook’s final instalment in his revenge trilogy is a master class in the making… (more…)

Kim Ji-woon (The Foul King, The Quiet Family) directs this intelligent Asian shocker with more than a few surprises… (more…)

Director Park Chan-wook’s follow-up to Sympathy for Mr Vengeance is an even better twisted tale of revenge… (more…)

Biting social satire meets hilarious black comedy. Laugh or the dog gets it… (more…)

Let’s get ready to rumble! Song Kang-ho stars in Kim Ji-woon’s (The Quiet Family, A Tale of Two Sisters) hilarious comedy about wrestling… (more…)