Director: Attila Korosi
Cast: Jiyeon Han, Anita Korosi, Won Hee Lee, Isabella Rose, Wondae Son, Shinyoung Moon, Eunhee Jeong, Joseph Kim, Jayden Moon-Dell, Hyonkuk Pak
Running Time: 83 min.
By Paul Bramhall
In 2025 audiences were hit with the double whammy of the John Wick spin-off Ballerina, and the massively popular Netflix movie KPop Demon Hunters, so it was perhaps only a matter of time before someone thought to combine the 2 and create a ballet dancing demon hunter. That someone comes in the form of Yugoslavia born filmmaker Attila Korosi, who’s created the U.S. and South Korean co-production Demon Dancer: Sua/Nara as a self-proclaimed “love letter to anime.” Indeed the quote “No matter how many people you lose, you have no choice but to go on living.” is the first thing we see onscreen, credited as an ‘Anime Proverb’ (even though it’s actually taken from a character in the popular Demon Slayer anime series).
While Ballerina and KPop Demon Hunters had the backing of a major studio and streaming giant respectively, Demon Dancer: Sua/Nara doesn’t have the luxury of either, instead being an ambitious low budget indie production. The budget limitations are evident to see onscreen, and in a world which has gotten used to streaming gloss and seamless greenscreen work, for some audiences the gap may be a jarring one. However Korosi wisely kicks things off with Continue reading




























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