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Daughters of the Pharmacist Kim
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Korean Cinema Retrospective
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Director :
YU Hyun-Mok
Entry Year :
1999 (4)
Country :
Korea
Running Time :
97min
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This is a tale on the life of one generation of family during Japanese colonization era. Loves and tragedies of a fallen shipowner and his dedicated wife plus misfortunes their daughters' are depicted. The depiction of family under foreign occupation and their resulting natio...
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Guests Who Came by the Last Train
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Korean Cinema Retrospective
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Director :
YU Hyun-Mok
Entry Year :
1999 (4)
Country :
Korea
Running Time :
104min
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Hopeless characters overcast this film. Couples fall in love; the painter yearns for a young girl over his snobby wife; and a woman questions her existence. Yet shackles from disease, domestic trouble, poverty, etc. suffocate their gaunt lives. Without a 'return train' to b...
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Rainy Days
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Korean Cinema Retrospective
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Director :
YU Hyun-Mok
Entry Year :
1999 (4)
Country :
Korea
Running Time :
114min
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Aftermath of Korean War forces couples' families to live under one roof. Having sent their sons to both North and South Korean armies respectively, the families are hostile to each other creating deep anger within them. The prayer of an old woman who believes in folkways opens...
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Martyr
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Korean Cinema Retrospective
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Director :
YU Hyun-Mok
Entry Year :
1999 (4)
Country :
Korea
Running Time :
124min
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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 the war and the religion. Although la...
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Son of Man
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Korean Cinema Retrospective
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Director :
YU Hyun-Mok
Entry Year :
1999 (4)
Country :
Korea
Running Time :
110min
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Based on a popular 70's novel, Yu re-approaches religious nature once again, this time focusing on the notion of human salvation. When a pagan Joseph's body is discovered, a detective gets infatuated with the case, following the steps of Joseph's journey to reveal the mystery ...
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Three Henpeck Generations
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Korean Cinema Retrospective
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Director :
YU Hyun-Mok
Entry Year :
1999 (4)
Country :
Korea
Running Time :
105min
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This is one of handful comedies Yu has directed in his career. With three generation of family living under one roof as its setting, their entangled love affairs and subsequent misunderstanding gets unfolded in humorous ways. The comedy trend shown in
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An aimless bullet
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Korean Cinema Retrospective
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Director :
YU Hyun-Mok
Entry Year :
1999 (4)
Country :
Korea
Running Time :
106min
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This masterpiece is Yu Hyun-Mok's breakthrough film. 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 ...
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