Netflix has actually revealed a comprehensive lineup of Korean movies set to debut on the streaming platform in 2025, showcasing the streaming giant’s ongoing financial investment in Korean material.
The varied slate, exposed at an occasion on the sidelines of the Busan International Film Festival, which opened with Netflix’s “Uprising,” consists of jobs covering categories from action and sci-fi to love and animation, including both developed and emerging skill in the Korean movie market.
Well-known director Byun Sung-hyun, understood for his deal with “The Merciless” and “Kill Boksoon,” returns with “Good News” (working title), a 1970s-set thriller focused around a pirated aircraft. The movie stars Sul Kyung-gu, reuniting with Byun for a 4th cooperation, together with Hong Kyung and Ryoo Seung-bum. Sul handles the function of a mystical fixer, with Hong playing an Air Force lieutenant and Ryoo representing a federal government main supervising a hidden operation.
In the sci-fi catastrophe category, “The Great Flood” assures a high-stakes survival story set on Earth’s last day. Directed by Kim Byung-woo, who formerly helmed “The Terror, Live” and “Take Point,” the movie includes Kim Da-mi and Park Hae-soo as they fight to conserve a kid in the middle of an international deluge.
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Breaking brand-new ground for Netflix, “Lost in Starlight” marks the platform’s launching Korean animated function. Directed by Han Ji-won, this area love includes the voice skills of Kim Tae-ri and Hong Kyung. The story follows an astronaut chosen for a journey to Mars, linking styles of household, love, and interplanetary expedition.
Moving equipments to youth-oriented material, “Love Untangled,” directed by Namkoong Sun, transfers audiences back to 1998. Starring Gong Myoung, Shin Eun-soo, Cha Woo-min, Youn Sang-hyun and Kang Mi-na, the movie checks out styles of puppy love and relationship, focused around a high school trainee’s mission to admit her sensations to a popular schoolmate.
The action-packed “Mantis” (working title) broadens deep space developed in “Kill Boksoon,” following an assassin’s go back to a disorderly market. The movie marks Lee Tae-sung’s directorial launching and is co-written by Byun Sung-hyun, assuring to provide extreme action series and intricate character characteristics.
“Hellbound” partners Yeon Sang-ho and Choi Gyu-seok reunite for “Revelations,” a thriller that links faith and criminal activity. The movie stars Ryu Jun-yeol as a pastor driven by magnificent discovery and Shin Hyun-been as an investigator haunted by her past, both pursuing their own variations of justice in a missing out on individual case.
Completing the lineup is “Wall to Wall,” a thriller tale embeded in the restricted area of an apartment building. Directed by Kim Tae-joon, understood for producing stress in daily settings, the movie stars Kang Ha-neul as a guy whose imagine own a home develops into a headache. Yeom Hye-ran and Seo Hyun-woo co-star, including depth to the story of monetary battles and strange disruptions.