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Oyster Village

Korean Cinema Retrospective

Rural · Love/Romance

CountryKorea
Production Year1972
Running Time96min
Format35mm
ColorColor

Program Note

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 superstition that someone must drown in the ocean for the souls of those who have died there to be able to cross over to the other side. She loves Goe-mu, but marries the sickly Ee-sik because it promises her mother’s soul safe passage. This Chung Jin Woo’s 1970s masterpiece, based on a novel by Yi Cheong-jun. (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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