Masquerade (Korea)

Opened Sept. 13

Drama. Directed by Choo Chang-min. In the midst of a gruesome fight over kingship in the Joseon period, fear and wrath drives King Gwanghae (Lee Byung-hun) into a frenzy. He orders his councilor, Heo Gyun (Ryoo Seung-ryong), to find him a double to avoid the constant threat of assassination. Heo Gyun finds Ha-sun (Lee Byung-hun) in a crowd of drunkards at a street market. With the appearance and mind-blowing eloquence of a king, he mimics the gestures of the king perfectly. Heo Gyun orders him to disguise himself as the king; Ha-sun, who becomes king overnight, learns to walk and talk like the king, including his politics and attitude. The burlesque continues and Heo Gyun becomes moved by Ha-sun’s affection and genuine concern for the people. Trouble begins when Ha-sun starts speaking his own mind. 


Resident Evil: Retribution (U.S.)

Opened Sept. 13

Action. Thriller. Directed by Paul W.S. Anderson. The Umbrella Corporation’s T-virus endangers the human species and transforms humans into flesh-eating undead creatures. The virus ravages the earth and continues to threaten the human population. Humanity’s ultimate hope is Alice (Milla Jovovich), who awakens at Umbrella’s secret facility and encounters the evils that have grown stronger and more fearsome. She fights against the villains who are responsible for the outbreak and travels throughout cities including Tokyo, New York, Washington and Moscow. Suddenly, Alice faces her mysterious past, and as it is revealed, she begins doubting everything that she once believed was true. 

Pieta (Korea)

Opened Sept. 6

Drama. Directed by Kim Ki-duk. A man (Lee Jung-jin) lives as a brutal loan shark, making money by mercilessly threatening people to pay their debts. The solitary man, an orphan, has nothing or no one to lean on and hurts people shamelessly without realizing the pain he causes. One day, a mysterious woman (Jo Min-soo) appears claiming that she is his mother. The man rejects her at first, but gradually becomes attached to her, accepting her into his life. He eventually decides to quit his job and live a normal life only to realize that his mother has been kidnapped. He assumes that the kidnapper must be someone he has hurt in the past, and starts tracking down people whom he had hurt, not knowing the horrifying secret that awaits him.


The Bourne Legacy (U.S.)

Opened Sept. 6

Action. Thriller. Directed by Tony Gilroy. Aaron Cross (Jeremy Renner) is a member of Operation Outcome, a Department of Defense black ops program with its members highly trained both physically and mentally. While on a training assignment in Alaska, Cross is attacked by a Predator drone, and soon realizes that after Operation Blackbriar and the Treadstone Project had been exposed by a former agent, Jason Bourne, the government was uncertain of the security of other programs and decided to close down Operation Outcome and eliminate all its members including Cross. Cross, now a wanted man by the country he served, is on a journey for survival and vengeance. 


The Traffickers (Korea)

Opened Aug. 29

Crime. Thriller. Directed by Kim Hong-sun. Sang-ho (Choi Daniel) and Chae-hee (Jung Ji-yoon), are a married couple on a cruise for their first trip to Weihai, China. However, Chae-hee suddenly disappears while Sang-ho is away. He soon finds out that Chae-hee’s pictures, belongings and records of boarding on the cruise have been completely removed. Meanwhile, Young-gyu (Im Chang-jeong), a human trafficker in the industry, gets on board to carry out a contract killing. But Young-gyu is shocked when he finds out that the person he was asked to kill was Chae-hee, someone he knew in the past. Sang-ho persistently searches for Chae-hee while Youn-gyu faces a dilemma about whether or not to kill her. With only six hours until the cruise’s arrival, the two men chase one another to determine her fate.