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Celebrating their first wedding anniversary, Yoon-hee [Chu Sang-mi) and Jung-hyun (Kim Joo-hyuk) embark on a road trip into the countryside. During the trip they meet a stranger, M, (Park Joong-hoon) and offer him a ride.

However things quickly turn sinister when M starts showing up at all the destinations the couple arrive at. Tensions escalate as this film becomes a taut psychological thriller that takes some unexpected turns.

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Country living doesn't turn out quite like this dysfunctional family had hoped for in this riotous black comedy from director Kim Ji-woon. When a family opens a mountain lodge, their ambitions for establishing a haven of calm are soon dashed by the death of their first guest.

The family decides to bury the body to avoid damaging the hotel's reputation but before long they're welcoming more guests ...in the form of a suicidal couple. Burying them seems the obvious course of action until the local council starts work on their long-awaited road through the families makeshift burial ground. Events spiral out of control until eventually one of the fatal guests happen to be a policeman and the full force of the law lands in the Korean countryside.

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Sun-woo (Lee Byung-hun) is no ordinary hotel manager. He is also the ruthlessly efficient right hand man of underworld boss, Kang (Kim Yeong-cheol). But tough guy Kang has a weakness; his young girlfriend. Suspecting she's unfaithful, Kang orders Sun-woo to take care of the problem.

When Sun-woo discovers her with another man, he uncharacteristically grants them mercy. Kang is furious and orders his gang members to hunt down Sun-woo. With nerves of steel, Sun-woo battles the gang alone. With each kill, he takes one step closer to his final confrontation with Kang.

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Beginning with the forty minute version of Dumplings that includes newly shot footage as well as that taken from the feature length release, director Fruit Chan explores society's obsession with youth and the lengths to which people will go to prolong it.

The second segment is Cut, directed by the irrepressible Park Chan-wook, the story of a film extra with a grudge who forces a good-natured director to prove that deep down he has a nasty streak. The collection concludes with Box, a ritualistic tale of a female novelist who is haunted by a childhood trauma, directed by the cult legend Takashi Miike. Narrated almost without words amongst a series of eerie locations, the film has all the hallmarks of its director.

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From the hugely talented director of A Tale Of Two Sisters comes Memories, a harrowing tale of psychological trauma sees a woman wandering the streets having forgotten her own name whilst her husband struggles to remember why she left in the first place.

With the discovery of a dead body in the husband's car it's not long before the truth begins to rear its ugly head. In The Wheel a group of puppets terrorize a village, causing pain and death at every turn. When the leader of a theatrical troupe tries to destroy them, without much success others begin to steal them, leading to inevitable tragedy. Finally in Going Home, a policeman - Wai, blunders into the apartment of a man who has been caring for his dead wife for the past three years. It transpires that the man is intent on resurrecting his lost love and Wai is soon forced to befriend him if he is to have any chance of escaping alive.

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Following a car crash on a country road, Eun-soo (Chun Jeong-myeong) is led to safety by a girl in a red cloak (Shim Eun-kyoung), to her house, deep in the forest.

Accepting her familys' hospitality for the night, he gradually learns that he is trapped in the woods with this strange picture perfect family and on the sinister story behind the seemingly innocent smiles of the children...

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Mysteriously abandoned on a subway platform lies a pair of red shoes. When a young woman Sun Jae discovers them, she takes them home unaware of the sinister curse that exerts its power over all those who come into contact with them.

Soon, Sun Jae and her young daughter fall foul to the desires of a malevolent spirit seeking revenge beyond the grave, becoming obsessive rivals for ownership of the cursed shoes. But who will take the final walk to their grave?

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Scarred by his traumatic past, former special agent Tae-shik lives a life of solitude. His only contact to the outside world is his neighbour So-mi, a young schoolgirl with a troubled mother. Following a drug deal gone wrong, the innocent So-mi falls prey to Korea's ruthless, dark underworld.

As Tae-shik takes on the crime mob to save his only friend, the thugs soon realize that The Man from Nowhere is a man to be feared...

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Min-ho's wife has been murdered and he has been hunting the killer to exact his revenge. He had also attempted suicide many times, with the last attempt leaving him paralysed in hospital.

When an unidentified amnesiac patient is placed next to him, Min-ho is startled to see it is Sang-up, the killer he had been looking for. Not only does Min-ho have his chance at last to avenge his wife's cold blooded murder, he must also do it before Sang-up regains his memory and finishes him off. Immobile and laid up in bed, the clock starts ticking for Min-ho - it's time to kill, or be killed.

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While serving time in prison, big shot gangster Jae-ho's life is threatened by a veteran criminal who was dispatched by his own boss. Young and spirited Hyun-su (Si-wan Im) saves him in the knick of time, and they soon become loyal friends and promise to work together.

Following their release, Jae-ho (Kyoung-gu Sul) and Hyun-su team up to try and take over the crime ring, but their relationship faces the ultimate test as they each begin to discover what truly lies beneath their alliance.

An out-of-work college lecturer Yun-ju (Lee Sung-jae) becomes so annoyed by the yapping dogs at his apartment complex that he decides to take drastic action. A bold and confident debut which already displays many of the themes and preoccupations that mark Bong Joon Ho's masterful later films.