(1999) The Voice in Cinema, translated by Claudia Gorbman, New York: Columbia University Press

(2005March) The Violence (and the Seafood) is More than Raw, New York Times

(1989) Translated by Hugh Tomlinson and Robert Galeta University of Minnesota Press, Cinema 2

(1962) Translated by Hugh Tomlinson, Columbia University Press

(2001) The Uncanny In The Uncanny, London: Penguin Books

(1977) translated by Patrick Gregory, Johns Hopkins University Press

(2005October) Borrowing Trouble: Interasian Adaptations and the Dislocutive Fantasy. Paper presented at "Film Aesthetics in East Asian Countries and Transculture" panel, Asia/Cinema/Network: Industry, Culture and Technology Conference, Pusan International Film Festival, Pusan, Korea

(2004) The Remasculinization of Korean Cinema, Durham, NC: Duke University Press

(2001) Violence American Style: the Narrative Orchestration of Violent Attractions, Violence and American Cinema, New York and London, Routledge

(2005) Unknowing: the Work of Modernist Fiction, Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press

(2005Summer) Jajangmyeon and Junggukjip,

both notoriously important publications for any independent films opening in the U gave harsh reviews to Oldboy,

Oldboy failed to reach the US $1 million gross mark which is usually held as a benchmark of moderate success for limited-release films which is not a bad figure for a Korean film but certainly well below the U set by a Korean film,

first published in 1998 was written by Tsuchiya Garon and illustrated by Minegishi Nobuaki,

Both Oldboy and Lady Vengeance were bona-fide blockbuster hit films while Sympathy for Mr Vengeance wasnt as successful in the box office,

(1988) drunkard Mansus bar brawl lands him at a police station where he is detained overnight for additional questioning A small misdemeanor that should have only led to a small fine escalates into a far more punitive action because Mansu has a father who is in jail as a long-term political prisoner The Day a Pig Fell into the Well also includes a scene in which its protagonist Hyo-seop is sentenced in court three-day detention for instigating a fight with a restaurant worker at a Korean barbeque spot, In Chilsu and Mansu

See particularly the chapters 3 and 4 from my The Remasculinization of Korean Cinema Violent Sex and the Korean War in Silver Stallion Spring in My Hometown and The Taebaek Mountains and Post-trauma and Historical Remembrance in A Single Spark and A Petal,

In Sympathy for Mr played by Bae Doona orders a bowl of jajangmyeon After placing her order over the phone she mistakenly thinks that her intruder Instead of getting her jajangmyeon,

(2005) On Kafkan uncanny, see Weinstein,

Park Chan-wook began experimenting with voiceover narration from Oldboy he employed an 60 year-old female narrator with long experiences in radio and television voice actor whose voice nostalgically reminded the viewers of radio dramas or popular television documentary programs like Ingan sidae,