World War Z
Opening June 20
Drama. Thriller. Sci-fi. Action. Horror. Directed by Marc Forster.
This is an apocalyptic horror film based on the million-seller novel of the same title published in 2007 by Max Brooks. The story revolves around a former United Nations employee Gerry Lane (Brad Pitt) who travels around the world in an attempt to find a way to stop the zombie pandemic that is defeating the armies, collapsing governments, and threatening to decimate the human race.
Mai Ratima
Opening June 6
Drama. Romance. Directed by Yoo Ji-tae.
Actor-director Yoo Ji-tae’s first feature film portrays the unlikely love affair of a Korean man and a young mail-order bride from Thailand. To support her family in Thailand, Mai Ratima (Park Ji-soo) decides to marry mentally challenged Korean Sang-pil (Lee Jun-hyuk). She gets stuck in the slum of Pohang with her mother-in-law and a brother-in-law who sexually harasses her. Things get worse when her visa renewal comes up, but she narrowly escapes deportation with Soo-young’s (Bae Soo-bin) help. Soo-young is a social outcast living with no hope. They inevitably fall in love and move to Seoul, but their happiness seems very fragile as Soo-young already feels tired of living in Seoul.
Secretly Greatly
Opening June 5
Action. Comedy. Drama. Directed by Jang Cheol-soo.
In a film based on a popular webtoon with the same title published in 2010 by Hun, three handsome North Korean spies Won Ryu-hwan (Kim Soo-hyun), Rhee Hae-rang (Park Ki-woong), and Rhee Hae-jin (Lee Hyun-woo) from the elite special corps 5446 are ambitiously dispatched to South Korea. They disguise themselves as a fool, a rock star wannabe, and a high school student. While waiting for orders from the North, they gradually get used to living as ordinary citizens. One day, they receive a mission. After South Korea demands that Pyongyang turn in its top 30 secret agents in the South, the North commands them to kill themselves. Meanwhile, their army instructor Kim Tae-won (Son Hyun-ju) crosses the border to eliminate those who refuse to follow the order.
Rockin’ on Heaven’s Door
Opening May 30
Drama. Directed by Nam Taek-su
A young troubled celebrity Chug-ui (Lee Hong-ki) is sentenced to 300 hours of community service at a hospice where the patients drink, smoke and even go clubbing. While Chung-ui is being sloppy and tries to escape from Anna (Baek Jin-hee) who nags at him over every single thing he does, Anna offers him a deal to double count his volunteering hours if he helps the hospice band “Phoenix” participate in a rock band audition. Although they all know they could die any day, the patients put their hearts and souls into the band.
The Fast and the Furious 6
Opened May 23
Action. Crime. Thriller. Directed by Justin Lin.
Members of the professional criminal gang led by Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) have retired following their successful heist of $100 million, but are scattered across the globe as wanted fugitives. Meanwhile, U.S. Diplomatic Security Service agent Luke Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) offers to clear their criminal records in exchange for help taking down an extremely skilled mercenary organization led by Owen Shaw (Luke Evans) and a ruthless second-in-command Letty Ortiz (Michelle Rodriguez), Dominic’s lover who had been thought dead. For the last chance to return home and make the family whole again, Dominic assembles his elite team in London. The only way to win is to outmatch the targets on the street level.
