Korean Cinema Retrospective

• 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 dream of driving a military train. His younger siste...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• 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 her family to shack up with her lover in a hotel. Up...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• 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 at the time with sophisticated camera work. Not on...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• 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 study in Seoul, and so she follows Chul-su who paid b...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• 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 Sung-chil the farmhand, and becomes pregnant. In o...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• 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 the war, leaving his impoverished wife to give bir...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• 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 wasteland and managing tenant farmers. While Deok-sam plo...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• 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 lives of the colonized,” it went on to become the ...