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Little CrusaderOne summer day, little Jan, the only descendant of the knight Bo?ek, puts on his child’s armour and runs away from home in search of the Holy Land. Having no idea where he is going...
Korean Cinema Retrospective
The Barefooted YoungThe biggest box-office hit of the era with some 250,000 viewers in Seoul, and the film that made Shin Seong-il famous. Gangster Dusu and diplomat’s daughter Joanna fall in love aft...
Korean Cinema Retrospective
Early RainWhere The Barefooted Young is a love between a poor man and a rich girl, Early Rain is a melodrama about two poor souls lying and falling in love. A car mechanic and ...
Korean Cinema Retrospective
MistBased on Kim Seungok’s short story “Record of a Journey to Mujin”, the film is well noted as having been influenced by literary modernism. Married to the daughter of a pharmaceutic...
Korean Cinema Retrospective
The General′s MustacheThe film is directed by Lee Seong-gu (The Sun and the Moon, When the Buckwheat Flowers Blossom), with Kim Seungok’s screenplay adapted from a novel by Lee O Young. It...
Korean Cinema Retrospective
EunuchThough Shin Seong-il began his career as an actor for Shin Films (Romantic Papa ), he was not able to work with director Shin Sang-ok often because there were too many senio...
Korean Cinema Retrospective
A Day OffThe film never made opening night and was forgotten until rediscovered as one of director Lee Manhee’s best films. It’s the story about a poor, young couple’s Sunday. Shin Seong-il...
Korean Cinema Retrospective
Heavenly Homecoming to StarsDirector Lee Jangho’s feature debut, which drew 460,000 viewers to theaters when it opened in 1974. The film introduced youth culture of the times?acoustic guitar, jeans, and draft...
Korean Cinema Retrospective
GilsotteumAlong with Jagko, Gilsotteum is Im Kwon-taek’s another film depicting the tragedy of separation between South and North Korea, which also solidified middle-aged Shin ...
Korean Cinema Today
Black SummerJihyeon works at the university as a part-timer, writing and making films. He is not ambitious and is thankful to have work that he enjoys. He finds joy in recording trivial things...