CKS Korean Film Series

November 15, 6:30pm - 9:30pm
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 final film in the series is the 1980 film The Last Witness. This film gives testimony to the lives of the powerless individuals who were made to suffer under the fetters of contemporary Korean history. Taking the form of a road movie by having the detective in charge of the case set off on a journey, the movie also offers the element of suspense distinctive to detective mysteries, together with the conspiracies and violent clashes of characters who are hiding secrets from their past. Within the confluence of such generic forms, director Lee Du-yong quietly dissolves Korea's troubled history since the division of the peninsula. Even while candidly revealing the lives of its afflicted characters, the movie employs a bold style of editing that cuts from one scene to the next without allowing time for the audience to indulge in their emotions.

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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