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Korean Cinema’s Golden Decade: The 1960s
September 1 - 17, 2023
A charming fish-out-of-water musical comedy and a time capsule that gives a front-row view of the music scene of South Korea of the mid-1960s, long before K-Pop would take over the world.
Two country bumpkins (Twist Kim and Seo Yeong-chun) meet on a train bound for Seoul. One of them is hoping to locate his long-lost daughter in the big city, and the other is looking for a former sweetheart who may now be an up-and-coming nightclub singer. During their search, fish-out-of-water hijinks ensue that stitch together music and dance performances at various Seoul nightclubs and dance halls featuring top stars of the time, including the Park Chun-seok Orchestra, Hyeon Mi, Lee Geum-hee, and Lee Mi-ja. Han Hyeong-mo, one of Korea’s leading filmmakers of the 1950s and known for “women’s pictures” (e.g., Madame Freedom), delivers this charming musical comedy during the late stage of his career. Ultimately, this film is a loving time capsule that gives a front-row view of the music scene of South Korea of the mid-1960s, long before K-pop would take over the world. Digitally mastered in 2013 by the Korean Film Archive.
Due to the incomplete nature of the 35mm original camera negative, a 16mm film print acquired from Hong Kong was used to source select footage. Unlike the original negative, this print is in black and white, and has traces of damage due to overuse and film deterioration. The Korean Film Archive has applied the latest digital technologies to restore the film as close to the original as possible.
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