Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2014
• 105min

This is a film that questions the moral issues of the day through a college student’s love story and is every bit as ominous as Anna Karenina. Yu Jiin, who also played Myung-hee in the next year’s Good Windy Day, plays Jang-mi, bo...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2014
• 107min

Kwon-ho and his wife Duk-Kyung hold different ideologies but work together in the independence movement against Japan. After barely surviving a battle, they are eparated, each taking one of their twin sons, Dae-il and Han-il. Year...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2014
• 118min

Based on Jung Bee-suk’s novel, Dori and his mother live in the woods, making a living by selling coal. Mother prays at a village shrine for marriage for Dori and as though her prayers are answered, Sooni comes to live with them. T...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2014
• 96min

In a village far away from city life with little communication with the mainland, the women hunt for oysters and abalones, while the men fish at sea. Byul-lae is left alone after both parents die in the water. She believes the sup...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2014
• 135min

The proud and virtuous Ma-nim(lady of the house) decides a surrogate, Sa-wol, will be used to continue the family line. Her son loves his wife and is unwilling but is forced to sleep with Sa-wol. Sa-wol does as she is asked but su...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2014
• 105min

This legendary film is said to have moved everyone to tears when screened in 1965. The film’s print was found at an archive in Taiwan in 2013, which enabled the 1965 original film to be screened again in Korea this year. Yoon-bok ...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2014
• 99min

A car mechanic and a housekeeper meet in a lie. He claims to be a rich businessman’s son and she says she is the French ambassador’s daughter.They fall in love and dream of climbing the social ladder, but soon learn of their mutua...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2014
• 103min

An accordion player moves in to a boarding house three years after a fire and subsequent plastic surgery has remade him as Min-gu from In-suk. Hearing him play the same song over and over, his rich neighbor’s second wife, Hwang Ja...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2014
• 100min

Here we meet a teenaged Ahn Sung-ki. During the Korean War in 1951, Sang-han and Dong-in smuggle 20 million won to Busan. Dong-in disappears during the job, and five years pass. In that time Sang-han gains success in the furniture...