Korean cinema

Long invisible beyond its borders, Korean cinema went through Japanese colonisation, war, and then decades of military censorship. As early as 1960 Kim Ki-young filmed a housemaid destroying a bourgeois family, under continuous rain and in a poisonous closed setting. Yu Hyun-mok adapted a story about refugees from the North and saw it banned, Im Kwon-taek devoted a film to traditional pansori singing and to the voice deliberately damaged in order to perfect it, Park Kwang-su opened the political cinema of the eighties.

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• CinemaThe Housemaid하녀Kim Ki-young · 1960A film of 1960 in which a maid hired by a music teacher gains the upper hand over the family that employs her.Cinema
• CinemaThe Stray Bullet오발탄Yu Hyun-mok · 1961A 1961 film, based on a 1959 short story, about a family of refugees from the North crushed by poverty in postwar Seoul.Cinema
• Feature filmPulgasari불가사리Shin Sang-ok · 1985The film was made by a South Korean filmmaker who had been abducted and held in Pyongyang, with Japanese technicians.Cinema
• CinemaChilsu and Mansu칠수와 만수Park Kwang-su · 1988A film from 1988 about two penniless signboard painters, in the aftermath of the military dictatorship.Cinema
• CinemaSopyonje서편제Im Kwon-taek · 1993A 1993 film about a family of itinerant pansori singers, an art of sung storytelling that was going out of fashion.Cinema