Shot in the aftermath of the April 19th revolution against the Syngman Rhee government, "A Petty Middle Manager" offered to Lee Bong-rae the opportunity to break completely free from the melodramatic chains that held the majority of the productions of the time to similarity, and present something completely different, at least within the mainstream frame. Let us see if he succeeded, A Petty Middle Manager, Bang Su-il, Do Kum-bong, Hwang Jung-soon, Kim Hee-kap, Kim Seung-ho-I, Lee Bong-rae, Park Seong-dae, Shin Sang-ok
Korean movie "Cool And Cold" added to HanCinema database, Cool And Cold, Choi Eun-hee, Heo Jang-kang, Kim Seung-ho-I, Lee Kang-cheon, Lee Sang-gyu, Lee Ye-chun, Namkoong Won
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
2021/02/12
An Jung-geun, sometimes spelled Ahn Jung-geun was a Korean-independence activist, nationalist, and pan-Asianist. On 26 October 1909, he assassinated Prince Itō Hirobumi, a four-time Prime Minister of Japan, former Resident-General of Korea, and then President of the Privy Council of Japan, following the signing of the Eulsa Treaty, with Korea on the verge of annexation by Japan. He was imprisoned and later executed by Japanese authorities on 26 March 1910. An was posthumously awarded the Order of Merit for National Foundation in 1962 by the South Korean government, the most prestigious civil decoration in the Republic of Korea, for his efforts for Korean independence. His story has been adapted to cinema a number of times, both in North (An Jung-geun Shoots Itō Hirobumi) and South Korea (Thomas An Jung-geun) but this particularly movie is probably the most impressive.
The overwhelming majority of costume dramas in the Korean movie industry take place in the Joseon era. Thus, watching one that unfolds during the Mahan Age (1st century BC to 5th century AD) seemed a rather interesting opportunity.