Category: Directed by Ahn Jin-woo

  • Mission Sex Control (2006, Ahn Jin-woo)

    Mission Sex Control opens as an almost farcical comedy. The Korean President (circa 1972) meets with his cabinet to discuss family planning and its effect on the GDP. The meeting devolves into a screaming match between two cabinet members, then the opening titles splash across the screen. It all seems very comic, even as the…

  • Over the Rainbow (2002, Ahn Jin-woo)

    Lee Jung-Jae starred in the first Korean film I watched, Il Mare, and I’ve seen another one with him in it. Some bad one that was half-gritty cop movie and half English Patient. I probably did I write up, I remember typing that slight before. Over the Rainbow is, therefore, his first good film. You…