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1997(1st) ~ 2023(27th)
Korean Film 100 years-A Crazy Chronicle of Korean Genre Cinema
KIM Ki-young
Korea197996min Color
Jin-seok returns home from war and marries Sun-ok. They have a son, but the son inherits Sun-ok’s stuttering problem and is sent to a special school. Meanwhile Jin-seok falls for Chu-wol and begins abusing his wife.
After graduating from Seoul National University, he became a refugee in Busan in the Korean War. There, he worked as head scenario writer and producer at the film production company of the United States Information Service. This allowed him to become a director in 1955 with The Box of Death, the first synchronous recording film in Korea. He was a rare stylist who showed strong characteristics as a writer from the beginning.