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Min-sik Choi


Ever since Shiri became a huge box office success in 1999, the Korean film industry has undergone a huge boom period. Whilst the North/South spy thriller may have kicked things off, it fuelled a trend for imaginative and impressive crime thrillers. These include Oldboy, Memories of Murder, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, The Man from Nowhere …

There’s something rather poetic about the battle of wills between man and beast. The hunter and the hunted. The predator and the prey. In literature, there are few more poetically powerful tales than Captain Ahab versus Moby Dick. On the big screen, Liam Neeson fighting a wolf with his bare hand in Grey or Brody, …