Wong Kar-Wai, “The Hand” (2004) “The Hand” is Wong’s short film. Anthologized in the series “Eros,” it is a film about desires. Yet it is...

Edward Yang, “A Brighter Summer Day” (1991) The film A Brighter Summer Day  depicts the tragic story of how Xiao Si’r, the so-called...

“Burning” [버닝] is a film of contrasts—painful ones. There are the Great Hunger and the Little Hunger, light and darkness, soothing jazz...

The Korean title of Kim Ki-Duk’s “3-Iron” is <빈 집> or empty house. The protagonist Tae-Suk sticks fliers on the doors of houses on the...