Netflix is ​​adding Squid Game creator’s three movies for fans to watch

On Thursday, Netflix announced via Twitter that the service had shot three South Korean feature films directed by Squid toy Creator Hwang Dong-hyuk is available to stream in the United States. This announcement comes in its wake Squid toy became the most popular original series on Netflix, after the debut of the first season in September.

These films include the 2011 police drama Silence starring Gong Yoo, who appears in Squid toy; the comedy-drama of 2014 Miss granny starring Na Moon-hee and Shim Eun-kyung. and the historical drama of 2017 The Fortress starring Kim Yoon-seok and Lee Byung-hun, the latter of whom also appears in Squid toy as the masked “Front Man” who leads the races.

Based on factual facts, Silence follows Kang In-ho (Gong Yoo), a newly hired art teacher at a school for hearing-impaired children who reveals a devastating sexual assault conspiracy between the school’s schools. Miss granny focuses on the story of Oh Mal-soon (Na Moon-hee), a dirty 74-year-old widow who miraculously recovers her 20-year-old appearance. It takes place in 1636, in 2017 The fortressessmall Starring Lee Byung-hun as Choi Myung-kil, a guardian of King Injo (Park Hae-il) of the Joseon Kingdom who clashes with his counterpart Kim Sang-hun (Kim Yoon-seok) over whether to surrender to the coming Qing . forces or resist their invasion. In addition to directing, Hwang Dong-hyuk has written titles for all three films.

Squid toy is one of many Korean shows and movies, including Bong Joon-ho’s Oscar-winning black comedy thriller Parasite and Park Chan-wook’s erotic psychological thriller The maid of honor, to enjoy ample commercial and critical success in the US in recent years. The series has not yet been officially renewed for a second season by Netflix and Hwang Dong-hyuk expressed a interview with Variety that he can return to directing before returning to Squid toy and that he had not yet developed any idea for the second season.