Korean Cinema Retrospective
The Ritual for a SoldierThis graduation work of director Ha Kil-chong from UCLA was filmed in 16mm. Seemingly influenced by the New York avant-garde in the 60s, the film mainly talks with ‘death.’ Pitiful...
Korean Cinema Retrospective
The Pollen of FlowersIn the blue mansion, Aeran, Hyunma’s lover, lives with her sister, Miran. Hyunma visits this place with his secretary, Danju. The homosexual relationship between Hyunma and Danju, ...
Korean Cinema Retrospective
Her FidelityFollowing the film war after ten years, and upon hearing that his wife and daughter died after being raped by the village teacher, draws a knife on him. The village teacher is a co...
Korean Cinema Retrospective
The March of FoolsAfter two failures, Ha Kil-chong tries a new genre featuring youth. Several scenes have been censored, but it still is an important film which shows the culture of 70s college stud...
Korean Cinema Retrospective
I Am Looking for a WifeThe first scene, where the street at Ehwa Women’s University and the female students are shown in a documentary style, shows Ha Kil-chong’s style of projecting desire and ideal of ...
Korean Cinema Retrospective
The Ascension of Han-neDuring a village shaman exorcism, Hane-ne tried to commit suicide, but was saved by a farmhand, Man-young. As Pil-joo is added to the equation of two people, a complicated history ...
Korean Cinema Retrospective
The Home of Stars (Sequel)It is said that Ha Kil-chong was not inclined to produce a sequel. The film is straightforwardly a cliche film featuring the love between a painter and a prostitute, but, he bluntl...
Korean Cinema Retrospective
Byung-tae and Young-jaThis is a sequel to [The March of Fools]. The famous scene where Byung-tae, who just came back to school from his military duty, plays for high stakes to hold on to Young-ja who is...
Korean Cinema Retrospective
An Aimless BulletThrough an indigent family living a destitute life, he reveals the difficulties of postwar Korean society. Accountant clerk Chul-Ho, his disabled vet brother and the rest of the fa...
Korean Cinema Retrospective
MartyrOut of fourteen ministers taken away by the communist troop, only two comes back alive. The mystery behind their survival is at the issue here. Told through one of the survivor’s t...