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So maybe you're the kind of person who saw PARASITE because you wanted to know what all of the (richly deserved) critical acclaim was all about: you dug it, and you want to see more but you don't know where to go from here.Your friendly neighborhood movie nerd is here to help you!I saw PARASITE way late in the season, mostly out of being too busy. But PARASITE is a great film that is very representative of the style, excellence, and creativity of writer/director/producer Bong Joon-Ho. The next film of his you should seek out is SNOWPIERCER, which plays in the same 'class warfare (literally, in this case)' pool as PARASITE... ...Both of those films are on Netflix right now! I also really like Joon-Ho's THE HOST, sort of his South Korean take on Godzilla: US military base dumps toxic waste into the waters that causes a creature to mutate and attack the populace. Another great South Korean director is Chan-wook Park; check out his "Vengeance trilogy" - SYMPATHY FOR MR. VENGEANCE, OLDBOY, and LADY VENGEANCE. OLDBOY is a personal favorite (remade not-too-good by Spike Lee), and features an incredible one shot/one-take hallway fight sequence that the Netflix Daredevil series borrowed HEAVILY from in a Season 1 episode... ...and Takashi Miike (his Japanese canon alone is incredible, with several films a seeming test of nerves to sit through - AUDITION, ICHI THE KILLER, 13 ASSASSINS being some of my favorites, though the first two of those can be...challenging...for the weak-of-stomach).I SAW THE DEVILS is an outstanding thriller; so is TRAIN TO BUSAN (awesome zombie film).There are certainly a myriad of other quality South Korean films, but these are all great jumping-off points.Enjoy!
Another one I'd recommend by Park Chan-Wook is The Handmaiden. It's a bit sexually graphic but it's a gorgeous production and the storytelling is masterful. It changes viewpoints to show the same situation from many angles and it's really just beautiful. Sort of a lesbian period-piece fairy tale about romance and oppression and gender and class and all the ways those can intertwine, for good and for bad.
Thank you for this insight. THE HANDMAIDEN sound a bit like the Japanese film RASHOMON with different viewpoints of the same situation.