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Parasite director Bong Joon-ho's police procedural is the centrepiece of our retrospective and arguably his masterpiece. Certainly, among serial killer movies this one is on a par with Zodiac and The Silence of the Lambs, but more politically astute.

Dominated by a remarkable performance from veteran Kim Hye-Ja as a quack herbalist who will stop at nothing to clear her son of a murder charge, this is Bong's most under-rated movie, a fascinating companion piece to Memories of Murder.

Bong's first film is a genial black comedy involving the deaths -- accidental and otherwise -- of several dogs in a Seoul apartment complex. Saturday's screening will be followed by a talk by Distinguished Professor Dal Yong Jin.

Bong's monster movie (inspired by a real-life pollution scandal and carrying a prophetic viral load of its own) is his most purely fun entertainment. It's the most successful Korean movie ever made.

In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class system evolves aboard the Snowpiercer, a bullet train that travels around the globe via a perpetual-motion engine.

South Korean master filmmaker Bong Joon Ho delivers an unpredictable comic suspense thriller with his Palme d'Or and Academy Award-winning film, Parasite -- which cracked the top 100 in Sight & Sound's Greatest Films list in 2022.

Bong #6: his wackiest movie, centered on a genetically modified super pig the size of a hippo. Raised by a Korean peasant farmer, prize specimen Okja is called to New York to launch its new food product. But animal liberationists mean to disrupt the show.