Korean Film Archive

[htdm]

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[sabbath]

The 3rd : Good Windy Day (1980), also available on KFA YouTube channel.

[Boosmahn]

Any word on which months these will be released in? We’re already 3 months into 2018...

[sabbath]

Release date not yet decided. FYI, their four 2017 releases came out in June, July, and December.

[sabbath]

Last, but not least : Jagko (1980). The title means 'asymmetric nose' in Korean, which is the nickname of a protagonist.

[whaleallright]

The title means 'asymmetric nose' in Korean, which is the nickname of a protagonist.

Fortunately, nowadays you can fix that.

[sabbath]

More info:

Iodo : 30,800 KRW / July
Audio Commentary by 1 director and 1 critic
2 KFA Q&A sessions on Iodo
Restoration Comparison
Image Gallery
Trailer
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Replica of Original Script
3 Postcards

Jagko : 27,500 KRW / July
Audio Commentary by 1 director and 1 critic
1 KFA Q&A session on Jagko
Restoration Comparison
Image Gallery

Good Windy Day : 27,500 KRW / October
Audio Commentary by 1 director and 1 critic
Image Gallery
Featurette

Yeong-Ja's Heydays : 27,500 KRW / November
Audio Commentary by 1 director and 1 critic
Image Gallery
Featurette

And since they are KFA releases, we can presume there will be booklets and everything will be English-friendly.
Audio commentary participants unknown.
800 copies each.

[L.A.]

The latest release from the label is The Lovers of Woomook-baemi (Jang Sun-woo, 1990).

DVD Compare review. Great extras like that documentary by Tony Rayns.

[L.A.]

More info:

Iodo : 30,800 KRW / July
Audio Commentary by 1 director and 1 critic
2 KFA Q&A sessions on Iodo
Restoration Comparison
Image Gallery
Trailer
+
Replica of Original Script
3 Postcards

Jagko : 27,500 KRW / July
Audio Commentary by 1 director and 1 critic
1 KFA Q&A session on Jagko
Restoration Comparison
Image Gallery

Good Windy Day : 27,500 KRW / October
Audio Commentary by 1 director and 1 critic
Image Gallery
Featurette

Yeong-Ja's Heydays : 27,500 KRW / November
Audio Commentary by 1 director and 1 critic
Image Gallery
Featurette

And since they are KFA releases, we can presume there will be booklets and everything will be English-friendly.
Audio commentary participants unknown.
800 copies each.

Sure hope the two first are still coming next month. Also wouldn’t say no to Mandala (Im Kwon-taek, 1981) which is probably the best Korean film ever made, this is so beautiful and it would look wonderful on Blu-ray.

[sabbath]

Iodo release date and artwork confirmed.

July 19th / 30,800 KRW



Runtime: 112min
Subtitles: Korean, English, Japanese
Video: 1080P 2.35:1 AVC
Audio: Korean LPCM Mono
Special Features:
- Audio Commentary by Jeong Sung-il (director and film critic)
- Audio Commentary by Kim Young-jin (film critic) & Oh Seung-wook (director) recorded in 2018
- Actor Lee Hwa-si interview
- KFA Q&A session
- Restoration Comparison
- Image Gallery
- Trailer
- Replica of Original Script
- 3 Postcards

[sabbath]

Jagko release date and artwork confirmed.

July 30th / 27,500 KRW



Runtime: 103min
Subtitles: Korean, English, Japanese
Video: 1080P 2.35:1 AVC
Audio: Korean LPCM Mono
Special Features:
- Audio Commentary by Kim Dae-seung (director, former assistant director of Im) & Joo Sung-chul (chief editor of Korean film magazine Cine21)
- Audio Commentary by Im Kwon-taek (director of the film) & Huh Moon-young (film critic) recorded in 2012
- Audio Commentary by Song Gil-han (writer of the film) & Kim Hong-joon (director, former assistant director of Im) recorded in 2012
- KFA Q&A session
- Restoration Comparison
- Image Gallery

[Boosmahn]

Not a fan of the artwork for Jagko, but it might grow on me. The inner print also looks pretty compressed.

[sabbath]

It turned out that the previous artwork was just a draft. Even the English title has been changed. Here's the new, final, official artwork of Ieodo.

[Boosmahn]

Looks like Yeong-ja's Heydays has been dropped for 2018. Instead, we're getting Lee Man-hee's A Day Off (a director not to be confused with the cult leader Lee Man-hee). The release date is December 11th.

[L.A.]

The Korean Film Archive Is Now Streaming Over 200 Movies for Free on YouTube.

[L.A.]

The Evil Stairs (Lee Man-hee, 1964) - also known as The Devil's Stairway - out July 4th.

Worth also mentioning that Mondo Macabro is releasing Woman Chasing the Butterfly of Death (Kim Ki-young, 1978), pre-order for the LE starts June 27th.

[L.A.]

White Badge (Jeong Ji-young, 1992) June 25th.

[L.A.]

The Evil Stairs (Lee Man-hee, 1964) - also known as The Devil's Stairway - out July 4th.

DVD Compare.

[L.A.]

Goryeojang (Kim Ki-young, 1963) out now.

[Calvin]

Are the KOFA releases one pressing only deals? I wasn't surprised to see that the early releases were OOP, but I am surprised that something like The Housemaid seemingly hasn't had a standard amaray or anything since.

[Calvin]

I exchanged a few e-mails with the Korean Film Archive. Due to demand, they're considering a re-release of The Housemaid. They're going to decide on that early March, with any release happening in June.

Their planned Blu-Ray releases for 2020 are:

Early Rain (Jin-woo Jeong, 1966)
Nambugun: North Korean Partisan in South Korea (Chung Ji-young, 1990
A Flower in Hell (Shin Sang-ok, 1958)

[zedz]

The latest two KFA BluRay releases don't seem to have been mentioned here yet, but I have both in my hand:

Goryeojang (Kim Ki-Young, 1963)



Mother and a Guest (Shin Sang-Ok, 1961)

[L.A.]

I did mention Goryeojang in November 2019.

[zedz]

Sorry, I must have scrolled too fast!

[L.A.]

Sorry, I must have scrolled too fast!

No worries.