While today many cinephiles and critics alike focus on directors such as Bong Joon-ho and Park Chan-wook, much of their work's political narratives, social commentary and indeed their visuals can be traced all the way back to filmmakers such as Yu Hyun-mok. Even though his most famous work is the brilliant “The Aimless Bullet”, one of the most influential works of the 1960s, he has directed many features worth discussing and also discovering, as many of them have not even been screened outside of Korea. Throughout his career, Yu was never fixed on one approach in terms of storytelling or visuals, but rather experimented, which is very much the case for his 1965 feature “Empty Dream”,a work based on a Japanese pink film by the title “Daydream”. However, Yu transcends the foundation of the story in many ways, creating a movie that is sometimes deeply funny and silly, while also...
- 9/15/2023
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
“Mist” (Angae) or the Foggy Town is a South Korean film directed by the prolific filmmaker Kim Soo-Yong in 1967, inspired by the novel “Record of a Journey to Mujin” (무진기행) by novelist Kim Seung-ok. In 1968, “Mist” won the award for Best Director at the Asia Pacific Film Festival. This work undoubtedly stands as one of the most emblematic movies of Korean cinema's golden age (1955 to 1972). The historical backdrop in which this entire era of exploration is situated is essential for a comprehensive understanding of the works themselves.
Mist is screening at Film At Lincoln Center, as part of the Korean Cinema's Golden Decade: The 1960s program
The story follows Yun Gi-jun – portrayed by the legendary actor Shin Seong-il – a rich married businessman based in Seoul. Alienated and stressed by his job position, the protagonist decides to return to his hometown, Mujin, to visit the grave of his mother. There, he...
Mist is screening at Film At Lincoln Center, as part of the Korean Cinema's Golden Decade: The 1960s program
The story follows Yun Gi-jun – portrayed by the legendary actor Shin Seong-il – a rich married businessman based in Seoul. Alienated and stressed by his job position, the protagonist decides to return to his hometown, Mujin, to visit the grave of his mother. There, he...
- 8/30/2023
- by Siria Falleroni
- AsianMoviePulse
Following an extended battle with Alzheimer's disease, Yoon Jeong-hee, an icon of Korean cinema, has died at age 78. After winning a national competition-style audition in 1967, Yoon became an overnight sensation for her debut performance in "Sorrowful Youth," one of many films she would go on to make which dramatized the Japanese occupation of Korea. Yoon starred in over 300 films before retiring in 1994. Though she lived most of the rest of her life in Paris with her daughter and husband, the famed pianist Paik Kun-woo, she continues to top lists of the most beloved actresses of the late '60s/early '70s "golden age" of Korean cinema, alongside the two stars that make up the so-called "troika" of that era — Moon Hee and Nam Jeong-im.
A fiercely self-possessed modern woman whose open heart and unsophisticated charm pre-figure the "manic pixie dream girl," a ferocious action heroine who took on gangs,...
A fiercely self-possessed modern woman whose open heart and unsophisticated charm pre-figure the "manic pixie dream girl," a ferocious action heroine who took on gangs,...
- 1/21/2023
- by Ryan Coleman
- Slash Film
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