Lee Man-hee-I was one of the most prolific and most intriguing filmmakers of the 60s and 70s, with its legacy continuing for many decades after his untimely death at just 45. His approach, which frequently included genre aesthetics that were filled with sociopolitical context, finds one of its apogees in "The Devil s Stairway", a horror thriller that comments on the strain the pressure for social and financial success places on people, The Devil s Stairway, Bang Seong-ja, Choi Nam-hyun, Jeong Ae-ran, Kim Jin-kyu, Lee Man-hee-I, Moon Jung-suk, Yu Gye-seon
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Just like "Mist", "Night Journey" is adapted from a work by acclaimed 20th-century novelist Kim Seungok. Shot in 1973, the movie was rejected by the censorship committee, and only found its way into the theatres four years later, in a cut version. According to the director, the edition available now on the YouTube Channel of the Korean Film Archive is also censored, although not as much as the one that screened in 1977. The fact could justify the narrative issues of the movie, although not completely, Night Journey, Choe Hui-yeong, Choi Kil-ho, Ju Jeung-ryu, Kang-Shin Sung-il, Kim Seungok, Kim Soo-yong, Lee Il-woong, Yoon Jung-hee
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Although internationally celebrated for the first time in "The Wailing", the concept of exorcism has been a recurring one in Korean cinema for decades, with "The Hut" a film that won the I.S.D.A.P., equivalent to Special Directing Award, at the Venice Film Festival, being another prominent sample, although this time, the concept is connected to eroticism, in a rather interesting approach that also deals with the blights of seclusion and disidemony, The Hut, The Wailing, Choi Sung-ho-II, Hwang Jung-soon, Hyun Kill-soo, Kim Yoon-kyung-I, Lee Doo-yong, Namkoong Won, Yoo Ji-in, Yoon Sam-yook