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Korean Retrospective: Wild Laugh - A Certain Wave of 1970s Korean Comedy

Girls from Eight Provinces

PYEON Keo-Young

Korea1970 77min 35mm Color

Synopsis

A taxi driver, Ji Hi, saves a girl who has almost committed suicide by taking poison after raped by gangsters. Ji Hi also saves Mi Yeon who wonders on the street after being deserted by her lover. In such a way, eight girls from eight provinces of the nation gather at a small inn and agree to help each other when they face hardships.

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PYEON Keo-Young

He started out his film career as a screenwriter and debuted as director iwith his film, Airborne Troops(1965). In 1960s and 70s, he worked action genre films and directed Number One in the Country(1971) which shows the typical Korean action film of the time.