Choir of God

Two young North Korean gymnasts prepare for an unprecedented competition in this documentary that offers a rare look into the communist society and the daily lives of North Korean families. For more than eight months, film crews follow 13-year-old Pak Hyon Sun and 11-year-old Kim Song Yun and their families as the girls train for the M...

Runtime

1h 33m

Director

Daniel Gordon

Cast

Kim Jong-il, Kim Jong-ho

In feudal Korea, a group of starving villagers grow weary of the orders handed down to them by their controlling king and set out to use a deadly monster under their control to push his armies back.

Runtime

1h 35m

Director

Shin Sang-ok, Chong Gon Jo

Cast

Chang Son Hui, Ham Gi Sop, Jong-uk Ri

Sugihara, a Japanese-born, third-generation Korean teenager struggles to find a place in a society that will not accept him.

Runtime

2h 2m

Director

Isao Yukisada

Cast

Yosuke Kubozuka, Ko Shibasaki, Shinobu Otake

Poongsan has the unenviable - and death-defying - job of delivering messages across the North and South Korean border to separated families. When South Korean government agents ask him to smuggle in In-ok, the lover of a high-ranking North Korean defector, into the South, the damsel and rescuer fall in love instead.

Runtime

2h 1m

In 1951 ceasefire is declared, but two remaining armies fought their final battle on the front line Towards the end of the Korean War, a South Korean battalion is fiercely battling over a hill on the front line border against the North in order to capture a strategic point that would determine the new border between two nations. The ow...

Runtime

2h 13m