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Korean Cinema
South Korean film since the late 1990s, known for swinging violently between comedy, melodrama, and brutality — often within one scene — while dissecting class and institutional rot.
Four textbook cases
Not the best four — the four that define the shape. Start anywhere.

Memories of Murder
Bong Joon Ho · 2003

Oldboy
Park Chan-wook · 2003

Parasite
Bong Joon Ho · 2019

Mississippi Burning
Alan Parker · 1988
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