CKS Korean Film Series

October 4, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Mānoa Campus, Center for Korean Studies Auditorium Add to Calendar

This semester the Center for Korean Studies will be screening a series of Korean films from the 1960's and 1970's that highlight the quality and diversity of Golden Age Korean cinema and showcase the work of six of Korea's most talented directors.

These six films embody a wide variety of genres including melodrama, horror, action, mystery, and suspense and are widely considered to be among the best Korean films ever made. 

The third film in the film series, A Day Off, was never released in theatres due to censorship, and only came to light through the Korean Film Archive in 2005. Even though it arrived on the scene 37 years after it was first made, A Day Off is so modern that it puts those years to shame. With superb artistic sensibility, the film depicts the bleak reality faced by Korea's youth during the late 1960s, when the country was hurtling toward the Constitutional revision enforced by President Park Chung-hee to ensure the longevity of his government. In A Day Off, the suffocating and distorted atmosphere of Korean society at the time is dramatically portrayed through the tragic holiday spent by a pair of impecunious lovers who are forced to seek an abortion.  

Click here to view a complete film schedule for Fall 2011.


Ticket Information
Free

Event Sponsor
Center for Korean Studies, Mānoa Campus

More Information
Matt Winchell, 956-7041, mj23@hawaii.edu, http://www2.hawaii.edu/~mj23/kfs/

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