Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2009
• 115min

The nickname of Yeon-shil, the lover of Dong-il, is “black hair.” She’s been suffering since she gave a handle to Manho, one of Dong-il’s staff. When Dong-il discovers this he repells Yeon-shil and puts a big scar on her face. Thi...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2009
• 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 students. The film also created the famous characters ...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2009
• 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.’ Pitifully, the sound of this surrealistic film, which may...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2009
• 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 about to be engaged. The scene is aa homage to [T...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2009
• 102min

This is another film which deals with the suffering of women. Eldest daughter Bun-rye is deeply distressed after she is raped by Yong-pal. To make things worse, she is treated coldly by the impotent Young-chul who received Bun-rye...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2009
• 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 bluntly quotes many styles such as [Blow Up] by Antonion...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2009
• 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 corrupt dictator who brings suffering and misery to ...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2009
• 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 testimony, depicts images of men troubled between t...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2009
• 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 the youth. The main character who just moved to Se...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2009
• 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 family tries to cope with harsh reality only to see ...