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Monthly Archive: December 2022

Takashi Miike’s Connect on Hulu

            One of my favorite filmmakers- the prolific, gloriously gozo Takashi Miike (Audition, Ichi the Killer) has directed a whacked-out new South Korean 6-part series on Hulu called Connect and it’s surreal, gory, suspenseful, action-packed, addictive insanity.              Ha Dong Soo (criminally…
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Hunt

            Hunt Is a propulsive, action-packed South Korean spy thriller directed and starring Lee Jung-jae (Squid Game).             It begins in Washington D.C. in 1983 during a botched assassination attempt on the South Korean president, whose authoritarian regime has caused student uprisings…
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