Tony Kitchen

"My Way" (formerly known as D-Day) is budgeted to have the highest-production cost in Korean film history, and dubbed to be the Korean "Red Cliff" (China). The film nearly had production halted due to financial problems until a Seoul court threw out a copyright infringement lawsuit from one of the films producers.

With the geo-political tensions on the Korean peninsula at an all-time high, it comes as no surprise that some of the films creating the most buzz are war movies. Here's the top 5 Most Anticipated South Korean Films of 2011.

In 2010, the Korean film industry continued in its strong stride having several domestic hits such as spy flick Secret Reunion and Kim Jee-woon's controversial Venice and TIFF Film Festival selected I Saw the Devil, while the world film festival circuit, Korean film faired well with Lee Chang-dong grabbing center spot with Poetry in Cannes. Hong Sang-soo produced a pair of offerings including the Un Certain Regard winner Ha Ha Ha.

Five Korean films have been selected to the 35th Toronto Film Festival. Invited films Poetry and The Housemaid will continue to make their push for an Best Foreign Oscar nomination, while the previously announced I Saw the Devil is riding in on the controversy around its graphic nature. Newly selected films announced this past Tuesday include, Oki’s Movie, which is preparing for it's debut in Venice, and the major World Premiere announcement comes in the shape of the multi-region co-produced Late Autumn (a.k.a. “Manchu”).

Not much is known on the Orizzonti (Horizons) selected "Anti Gas Skin" from Kim Gok and Kim Sun, what I do know is this is Kim Gok's fourth feature film – the helmer won the Grand Prize at the 2008 Seoul Independent Film Festival for "Exhausted", and previously directed Capitalist Manifesto: Working Men of All Countries, Accumulate! (2003) and Geo-Lobotomy (2005).