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THEME EXPLORATION

Korean anarchism

14 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Daisies
Daisies
1966 · Věra Chytilová
Fixed Bayonets!
Fixed Bayonets!
1951 · Samuel Fuller
MASH
MASH
1970 · Robert Altman
Metello
Metello
1970 · Mauro Bolognini
Peppermint Candy
Peppermint Candy
2000 · Lee Chang-dong
Nada
Nada
1974 · Claude Chabrol
Revelation
Revelation
1927 · Julien Duvivier
Diary of Yunbogi
Diary of Yunbogi
1965 · Nagisa Oshima
Daisies (film)|Daisies
Daisies (film)|Daisies
1966 · Jennifer West
Peninsula
Peninsula
2020 · Yeon Sang-ho
Ayla: The Daughter of War
Ayla: The Daughter of War
2017 · Can Ulkay
Illang: The Wolf Brigade
Illang: The Wolf Brigade
2018 · Kim Jee-woon
Inchon
Inchon
1981 · Terence Young
The Sacrifice
The Sacrifice
2020 · Frant Gwo & Guan Hu
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Hong Sang-soo → South Korea

His films frequently depict the dissolution of social hierarchies and institutions through intimate character interactions that resist conventional narrative authority.

Lee Chang-dong → South Korea

His works explore the failure of social systems and ideological structures, presenting protagonists who confront the breakdown of order and meaning in modern Korean society.

Bong Joon-ho → South Korea

His films interrogate class hierarchies and systemic oppression, depicting how individuals and groups resist or exist outside formal societal structures through transgressive acts.

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