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Green Rain

Korean Cinema Retrospective

Love/Romance · Coming of Age · Psychology

CountryKorea
Production Year1966
Running Time99min
Format35mm
ColorB&W

Program Note

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 mutual deceit. Chung Jin Woo used the barrier of nationality as the backdrop in Border Line, The White Crow, and Jealousy and Murder. Green Rain employs class in a youth melodrama representative of the 1960s that harmonizes the background, filming, music and performances. It is also famous for Patty Kim’s soundtrack. (NAM Dong-chul)

Director

CHUNG Jin Woo

Chung is a veteran filmmaker with 50 films from the debut feature The Only Son to Mugoonghwa-Korean National Flower. He brought a new wave of melodrama with distinctive use of music in such films as A Student Boarder(1966) and Green Rain(1966), and portrayed women’s tragic lives in his later works including Does Cuckoo Cry at Night(1980), Parrot Cries with Its Body and The MA-NIM(1984). He established Woojin Film and produced around 130 films, and also succeeded in importing foreign films, running theaters and distribution. He is currently serving as the board chairman of Korean Film Directors’ Association and Korean Filmmakers’ Welfare Foundation.

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