Korean Movies Opening Today 2024/04/17 in Korea

Korean movies opening today 2024/04/17 in Korea: "8 Suspects", "Jeong-sun", "Until the Stones Speak", "Poetry on Land" and "Can You Hear Me?" (Re-release)

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"8 Suspects" (2024)

Directed by Oh In-chun

With Lee Sol-gu, Im Chae-young, Phillip Ryu, Kim Kyoung-seok,...

Synopsis
At the end of the Japanese colonial period in 1944, a Korean film director is murdered, and Korean lawyer Chan-geun, with the help of mystery writer So-yoon, gathers eight suspects into a court and begins an investigation. Chan-geun names eight young elites with various occupations, including a dentist, a young businessman, a cafe owner, a telephone operator, and an architectural designer, as suspects and brings them together in one room. Now, they must prove their innocence with their own alibis. However, as time passes, one by one, they become poisoned by an unknown poison and collapse... They soon realize that they cannot escape this space. The time given is only 3 hours! If they don't find the real culprit, everyone will die! Between time and alibi gradually rushing towards the end! Is it true or false that they must risk their lives to protect? At the end of the Japanese colonial period, in 1944, a huge conspiracy surrounding Joseon's independence is revealed...

"Jeong-sun" (2021)

Directed by Jeong Ji-hye-I

With Kim Geum-soon, Yoon-geum Seon-ah, Jo Hyun-woo, Kim-Choi Yong-joon, Jeong Se-bi,...

Synopsis
Jeong-sun is a middle-aged woman who works in a food factory. While her mundane days pass, she gets to know Yeong-su, a co-worker, who seems lonely. They start to have a secret relationship and sometimes, he takes videos of her with his phone. One day, she senses that her co-workers are talking behind her back, and she finds out that he had spread out her video to their colleagues. Jeong-sun needs to decide how to deal with this situation...

"Until the Stones Speak" (2022)

Directed by Kim Kyung-man

Synopsis
The Jeju April 3 massacre in 1948, five women's life has changed forever. All of the women were just about twenty years or so at the time, and four of them were sent to Jeonju Prison. The violent madness during the Jeju 4.3 not only took the lives of a tenth of the entire Jeju Island population, but also turned the innocent young ones to prisoners even without any trial. It was only seventy years later that they were acquitted through a retrial. Listening to the experiences of those who were imprisoned without trial during the Jeju 4.3, especially as women, the film reveals the stories of the unspeakable loss and tragedy.

"Poetry on Land" (2023)

Directed by Jung Da-woon

Filming: 2019/08/26~2023/09/13
Synopsis
There are people who are in charge of environmental restoration from the front yard of the house to the grave, a small river in the Han River, Seonyudo Park, and the Goseong wildfire in Gangwon-do. They are landscape architects. Among the landscape architects who give good scenery and nature to our difficult lives, 82-year-old grandmother Jeong Yeong-seon continues to work today as if she were writing poetry on the ground for the next generation.

"Can You Hear Me?" (2020)

Directed by Kim Bong-han, Shin Seung-hwan

With Kwak Do-won, Jo Dal-hwan,...

Original release date: 2020/06/10
Synopsis
We meet the Kim Chang-ok we didn't know, off-stage.

80 million accumulated views on Youtube
About 500 times a year, more than 2,000 hours
And over 7000 lectures in the past 19 years

Kim Chang-ok, a top communications expert in South Korea, resonated and brought comfort to a lot of people.
A road movie showing the journey of healing and reconciliation with his hearing-impaired father, and the search to find the 'Real Kim Chang-ok'.