Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2017
• 105min

Along 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 Seong-il’s onscreen persona. While filming the 1983 TV show Find...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2017
• 90min

Though 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 senior actors already solidly established at Shin Films. One o...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2017
• 116min

The 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 after a chance meeting. To make a new man out of Dusu...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2017
• 110min

Director 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 beer?to Korean film. The image of the restless yo...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2017
• 79min

Based 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 pharmaceutical company president and living in comfort, a man ...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2017
• 103min

The 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 is considered a representation of modernism in Korean films of ...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2017
• 100min

Where 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 a housemaid tell each other that they are the son of a businessm...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea
• 2017
• 73min

The 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 appears as penniless Heo Uk, the image of the des...