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Korean Cinema Retrospective

The Ritual for a Soldier
  • HA Kil-chong
  • Korea
  • 1969
  • 32min

This 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 Flowers
  • HA Kil-chong
  • Korea
  • 1972
  • 85min

In 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 Fidelity
  • HA Kil-chong
  • Korea
  • 1973
  • 96min

Following 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 Fools
  • HA Kil-chong
  • Korea
  • 1975
  • 117min

After 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 Wife
  • HA Kil-chong
  • Korea
  • 1976
  • 114min

The 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-ne
  • HA Kil-chong
  • Korea
  • 1977
  • 108min

During 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)
  • HA Kil-chong
  • Korea
  • 1978
  • 120min

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-ja
  • HA Kil-chong
  • Korea
  • 1979
  • 115min

This 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 Bullet
  • YU Hyun-Mok
  • Korea
  • 1961
  • 106min

Through 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

Martyr
  • YU Hyun-Mok
  • Korea
  • 1965
  • 124min

Out 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...

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Busan Office 3rd Floor, BIFF HILL, Busan Cinema Center, 120, Suyeonggangbyeon-daero, Haeundae-gu, Busan 48058, Korea
Seoul Office #1601, GARDEN TOWER, 84, Yulgok-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul 03131, Korea