Why?
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Korean Cinema’s Celluloid Fever: The 1970s
May 15 - 26
Over-the-top anti-Communist pulp is filtered through actor-director Park No-sik’s eccentric, anything-goes filmmaking as Park’s bumpkin-hero Yong-pal follows a young woman to Japan and both tumble into a Chongryon-linked gangster maze.
By the early 1970s, Park No-sik had appeared in hundreds of films and become one of Korea’s go-to tough guys, headlining a whole mini-franchise built around his bumpkin-hero Yong-pal. In Why?, the actor-director goes all in: Yong-pal heads to Japan in the wake of a young woman searching for the father she’s never met, and both tumble into a Chongryon-linked gangster maze where Park also plays the cold-blooded Korean-Japanese boss running the show. The result is rough, loud, over-the-top anti-Communist pulp filtered through Park’s eccentric, anything-goes filmmaking—a mix of barroom brawls, gags, tonal swerves, and bruised patriotism that feels like a 1970s grindhouse movie from a parallel Korea. This is popular cinema at street level, and the work of a rugged genre star who, by sheer force of personality, turns himself into an auteur with his own scrappy vision of the world. Digitally mastered in 2011 by the Korean Film Archive.
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