Korean Kanakaraju

The celebrated filmmaker talks about Nastassja Kinski’s Korean fanbase, his favorite of Akira Kurosawa’s Shakespeare adaptations, and the DVD that Park Chan-wook swiped from him.

Aaron Han Joon Magnan-Park is Assistant Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong. He received his PhD in film studies from the University of Iowa. He specializes in Hong Kong action cinema, contemporary South...

Kyung Hyun Kim is professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures and director of the Critical Theory Emphasis at the University of California, Irvine. He is the coeditor of The Korean Popular Culture Reader and the author of Virtual Hallyu:...

Tony Rayns is a London-based critic with a special interest in the film cultures of East Asia. He has been awarded the Kawakita Prize (2004) and the Foreign Ministry of Japan’s Commendation (2008) for services to Japanese cinema. His books...

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