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How Korean cinema mastered the art of horror

The triumph of Korean cinema

19 December 2020

9:00 AM

19 December 2020

9:00 AM

There is a moment in the Jung brothers’ 2007 ghost film, Epitaph, when a young doctor in wartime Korea realises that the wife he adores does not have a shadow. He is entertaining her with a shadow puppet show in their home when he notices the aberration. ‘Walk to me,’ he says as he waves a naked light bulb in front of her.

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