Korean Cinema Retrospective

• YANG Ju-nam
• Korea
• 2006
• 47min

Sweet Dream is the oldest existing film in Korean history. But, Ae-sun, the main character, is not a naive and conventional woman. Pursuing money and sexual desire, she abandons he...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Kwang Je SEO
• Korea
• 2006
• 66min

A propaganda film produced as part of the “One National Body” policy put forth by Japan in 1937, which claimed Cho Sun and Japan to be one nation. Jeom-yong finally fulfills his dr...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• ahn chul young
• Korea
• 2006
• 52min

Anchor Light is a melodrama about one woman’s hardships after she leaves her seaside village to move to Seoul. In-sun, the daughter of a poor fisherman, wants to make money and stu...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• In Kyu CHOI
• Korea
• 2006
• 73min

This film is based on the true story of minister Bang Sung-bin, who helped look after streets orphans. Even though the film was initially censored for portraying the “impoverished ...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Seok Young AHN
• Korea
• 2006
• 56min

Volunteer was a propaganda film designed to promote Japan’s Cho Sun reserve army program. Chun-ho is a sincere young man who follows in his father’s footsteps by reclaiming wastela...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• LEE Byung il
• Korea
• 2006
• 84min

This is a self-reflective film about the poor working conditions within the film industry during Japanese occupation. A film within a film, it realistically portrays the situation ...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Ki Chae PARK
• Korea
• 2006
• 75min

After his older brother dies in the war, Sung-gi returns home. However, his father, who opposed Sung-gi’s marriage, rejects him. After much anguish, Sung-gi follows his brother to ...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• SHIN Sang-ok
• Korea
• 2006
• 99min

Han, the daughter-in-law of Kim’s family, was granted the ‘arch of chastity’ after becoming a widow at an early age. One rainy night after a severe drought, Han has an affair with ...