As I have mentioned before, the "Chunhyangjeon" is one of Korea s most iconic epic stories, and has been adapted more than a dozen times on cinema. Shin Sang-ok s version was one of the first films in color cinemascope in Korean cinema, along with Hong Seong-ki s version of the same story, which also screened the same year, Seong Chun-hyang, Choi Eun-hee, Do Kum-bong, Han Eun-jin, Heo Jang-kang, Hong Seong-ki, Kim Jin-kyu, Lee Hyung-pyo, Lee Ye-chun, Shin Sang-ok
2021/04/30
The concept of the neighborhood drama is one of the most appealing through the years in cinema, with the usual abundance of characters living in the same setting offering directors an opportunity for episodes of both drama and comedy, frequently resulting in rather entertaining movies.
Lee Hyung-pyo offers his own version of the subcategory.
Kim Hak-gyoo is a practitioner of oriental medicine, and a really troublesome patriarch who frequently causes troubles for his kids with his egoistic, stubborn behaviour. He is frequently nasty to his wife, Jo Geum-soon, who also had to suffer for his adulterous behaviour through the years. His daughter, Hyeon-ok, is a widow who own a hair salon, and shares a sympathy with a local western medicine doctor, Choi Doo-yeol. Hak-gyoo, however, considers him his archenemy, and will have none of that. His son, Hyeon-goo, dates Jeom-rye, the daughter of a local bar owner, who eventually gets pregnant, with the unknowing Hak-gyoo being ac