So in my experience that makes both seasons of squid games, parasite and the horror movie 'the host' (also another Korean movie but I can't recall the name of it)

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[–] aebletrae@hexbear.net 19 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The Handmaiden and Queen Woo don't, though being set in earlier times does make it a lot harder.

Special Delivery treats the North as somewhere to escape from but isn't harsh on citizens. Pyramid Game is critical of South Korean society and I don't remember the North being mentioned at all. Not sure that it comes up in Barking Dogs Never Bite or Memories of Murder either. Escape From Mogadishu deals with North Korea quite extensively and is kind of even-handed.

[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The stuff I had in mind isn't even necessarily plot points (like it was in squid games with two characters being from the DPRK), but sometimes just a negative mention of them.

[–] aebletrae@hexbear.net 13 points 3 weeks ago

A Taxi Driver is focused on criticising the authoritarian government of the South in the 1980s. It has the media blaming the uprising on the North, though the film has already shown that to be untrue.

Certainly there's going to be antipathy in some things. The Spy Gone North deals with that head on. But there are plenty of examples where it just doesn't come up at all. It's not like the prerequisite nudity in every single French film.