Directed by Lee Chang-dong

Directed by Lee Chang-dong

6 Episodes

A writer turned director whose literary background lends his films their novelistic weight, South Korean auteur Lee Chang-dong has made some of the most searching and emotionally devastating works in contemporary cinema. Suffused with all the beauty, pain, and tension of real life, his films look closely at ordinary people pushed to emotional extremes as they grapple with tragedy and trauma: a widow wrestling with existential grief in SECRET SUNSHINE; an elderly woman confronting both the onset of Alzheimer’s and the fallout of a disturbing crime in POETRY; and a young man consumed by jealousy and suspicion in BURNING. Through these profoundly human characters, Lee contemplates the greatest question of all: what is the meaning of life in an often senseless world?

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Directed by Lee Chang-dong

6 Episodes

  • Burning
    2:28:36
    Burning
    Episode 1

    Burning

    Episode 1

    Directed by Lee Chang-dong • 2018 • South Korea, Japan
    Starring Steven Yeun, Ah-in Yoo, Jong-seo Jun

    Based on a short story by Haruki Murakami, this internationally acclaimed psychological drama from Lee Chang-dong is the searing examination of an alienated young man, Jongsu (Ah-in Yoo), a frust...

  • Green Fish
    1:51:28
    Green Fish
    Episode 2

    Green Fish

    Episode 2

    Directed by Lee Chang-dong • 1997 • South Korea
    Starring Han Suk-kyu, Shim Hye-jin, Moon Sung-keun

    Released from his mandatory military service, Makdong (Han Suk-kyu) returns to a hometown he no longer recognizes. After rescuing a beautiful young woman from harassment on a train, his life takes ...

  • Peppermint Candy
    2:10:27
    Peppermint Candy
    Episode 3

    Peppermint Candy

    Episode 3

    Directed by Lee Chang-dong • 1999 • South Korea
    Starring Sul Kyung-gu, Moon So-ri, Kim Yeo-jin

    Yongho (Sul Kyung-gu) stares down an oncoming train as twenty years of his life flash before his eyes. Proceeding to move backward in time, Lee’ Chang-dong’s acclaimed second feature rewinds the protag...

  • Oasis
    2:13:34
    Oasis
    Episode 4

    Oasis

    Episode 4

    Directed by Lee Chang-dong • 2002 • South Korea
    Starring Sul Kyung-gu, Moon So-ri, Ryoo Seung-wan

    Fresh out of prison, Hong Jong-du (Sul Kyung-gu) finds an unlikely soulmate in Gong-ju (Moon So-ri), the daughter of the victim of the hit-and-run accident for which he went to jail. Wheelchair-boun...

  • Poetry
    2:19:28
    Poetry
    Episode 5

    Poetry

    Episode 5

    Directed by Lee Chang-dong • 2010 • South Korea
    Starring Yoon Jeong-hee, Lee Da-wit, Kim Hee-ra

    Lee Chang-dong’s follow-up to his acclaimed SECRET SUNSHINE is an exquisite story about the power of art to bear witness to both sublime beauty and the violent truths that lie hidden in the hearts of ...

  • Secret Sunshine
    2:22:32
    Secret Sunshine
    Episode 6

    Secret Sunshine

    Episode 6

    Directed by Lee Chang-dong • 2007 • South Korea
    Starring Jeon Do-yeon, Song Kang-ho

    A master of intensely emotional human dramas, director Lee Chang-dong is a luminary of contemporary Korean cinema, and his place on the international stage was cemented by this stirring and unpredictable work exa...

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