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The Wedding Day
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Korean Cinema Retrospective
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Director :
LEE Byung il
Entry Year :
2007 (12)
Country :
Korea
Running Time :
78min
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The film is an adaptation of the play A Happy Day of Jinsa Maeng written by O Yeong-jin. It is also the first Korean film to win an award at an international film festival. Local officer Maeng is excited about his glorious future since his daughter is engaged to a son of a mi...
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Money
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Korean Cinema Retrospective
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Director :
KIM So-dong
Entry Year :
2007 (12)
Country :
Korea
Running Time :
123min
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Bong-su (KIM Seung-ho) is a hardworking farmer, but his situation shows no sign of improving, no matter how diligently he toils. He has even postponed his daughter's wedding several times because of financial strain. Bong-su sells his harvest but manages to lose all his earnin...
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Sweet Dream
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Korean Cinema Retrospective
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Director :
YANG Ju-nam
Entry Year :
2007 (12)
Country :
Korea
Running Time :
47min
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Sweet Dream is the oldest existing film in Korean history. But Ae-sun, the main character, is not a naive and conventional woman. Pursuing money and sexual desire, she abandons her family to shack up with her lover in a hotel. Upon realizing that he is a penniless imposter, ho...
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Mt. Sahwa
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Korean Cinema Retrospective
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Director :
KO Young-nam
Entry Year :
2007 (12)
Country :
Korea
Running Time :
104min
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Mt. Sahwa is KIM Seung-ho's final work, which he was also involved in as a producer. In Busan, 1950, KIM Eun-pal (KIM Seung-ho) gathers a crew to search for gold that was hidden by Japanese officials. Seven men form a group and leave for a nearby extinct volcano. However, the ...
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Mr. Park
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Korean Cinema Retrospective
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Director :
KANG Dae-jin
Entry Year :
2007 (12)
Country :
Korea
Running Time :
138min
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With this film, KIM Seung-ho would win his second straight Best Actor Award at the 1961 Asia-Pacific Film Festival, further cementing his status as a premier acting talent. Here, he plays Park, a plasterer who repairs the neighborhood furnaces in every house. He is an unsophis...
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Madame Freedom
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Korean Cinema Retrospective
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Director :
HAN Hyung-mo
Entry Year :
2007 (12)
Country :
Korea
Running Time :
124min
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A college professor¡¯s wife OH Sun-young discovers a new world since she started working at a boutique. She begins to enjoy wearing dresses that accentuate her features, achieve high sales profits, and dances in the arms of men other than her husband. However, the story takes ...
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Viva Freedom
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Korean Cinema Retrospective
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Director :
In Kyu CHOI
Entry Year :
2007 (12)
Country :
Korea
Running Time :
60min
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It is August, 1945 and Han-joong, in prison due to a friend¡¯s betrayal during the independence movement, breaks out of prison with a serious injury and ends up hiding at nurse Hye-ja¡¯s house. He hears that his friend is arrested while preparing an armed attack and goes to save...
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Romantic Papa
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Korean Cinema Retrospective
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Director :
SHIN Sang-ok
Entry Year :
2007 (12)
Country :
Korea
Running Time :
131min
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The film for which Kim was awarded Best Actor at the 1960 Asia-Pacific Film Festival. Mr. Kim (KIM Seung-ho) is the happy father of two sons and three daughters. Always optimistic and romantic, he is called "Romance Papa" by his wife and children. Every day, his only wish is t...
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