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ARCHIVE

7th(2005)



Seong Chun-Hyang

Shin Sang-ok

  • Korea
  • 1961
  • 108min
  • 35mm
  • color

SYNOPSIS

¡®The Story of Chun-Hyang¡¯, the classical Korean narrative literature, is the most filmed work. Directed by from a Japanese under the rule of Japanese imperialism in 1923 to Im Kwon-taek in 2000, it is filmed no less than seventeen times. Among them, Seong Chun-Hyang is the oldest version remained until present and the first color cinemascope film in Korea. Seong Chun-Hyang starred by Choi Eun-hee in 1961 grappled with The Story of Chun-Hyang starred by Hong Seong-gi and Kim Ji-mi being released at the same time, which made a big issue not only in film industry but also socially.
 Heo Jang-gang¡¯s starring as Bangja and Do Geum-bong as Hyangdan helped the film have humoristic and satiric function and get big responses in public, which women audiences addressed as Gomooshin Gwangaek (Rubber shoes audiences; in 60s, most women wore Gomooshin, rubber shoes)¡¯ make possible. Chun-Hyang is summoned as an incarnation of romantic love, a feudal virtuous heroine leading a ¡®chaste life¡¯ or an embodiment of Hyunmoyangcheo (a wise mother to children and a wise wife to husband) ideology according to the periodic, political and cultural context. At the scenes that Chun-Hyang faces Byun Hak-Do, however, Chun-Hyang seems to deviate from the feminine model prescribed by a patriarchal discourse and makes cracks on the mechanism of those discourses, as she confesses her real marital relation beyond the ¡®law¡¯ against Byun¡¯s claims representing the ¡®law¡¯ and rejects Byun¡¯s enforcement for her to give himself bed service. (Kwon Eun-sun)
 

PROGRAM NOTE

¡®The Story of Chun-Hyang¡¯, the classical Korean narrative literature, is the most filmed work. Directed by from a Japanese under the rule of Japanese imperialism in 1923 to Im Kwon-taek in 2000, it is filmed no less than seventeen times. Among them, Seong Chun-Hyang is the oldest version remained until present and the first color cinemascope film in Korea. Seong Chun-Hyang starred by Choi Eun-hee in 1961 grappled with The Story of Chun-Hyang starred by Hong Seong-gi and Kim Ji-mi being released at the same time, which made a big issue not only in film industry but also socially.
 Heo Jang-gang¡¯s starring as Bangja and Do Geum-bong as Hyangdan helped the film have humoristic and satiric function and get big responses in public, which women audiences addressed as Gomooshin Gwangaek (Rubber shoes audiences; in 60s, most women wore Gomooshin, rubber shoes)¡¯ make possible. Chun-Hyang is summoned as an incarnation of romantic love, a feudal virtuous heroine leading a ¡®chaste life¡¯ or an embodiment of Hyunmoyangcheo (a wise mother to children and a wise wife to husband) ideology according to the periodic, political and cultural context. At the scenes that Chun-Hyang faces Byun Hak-Do, however, Chun-Hyang seems to deviate from the feminine model prescribed by a patriarchal discourse and makes cracks on the mechanism of those discourses, as she confesses her real marital relation beyond the ¡®law¡¯ against Byun¡¯s claims representing the ¡®law¡¯ and rejects Byun¡¯s enforcement for her to give himself bed service. (Kwon Eun-sun)
 

Director

  • Shin Sang-okShin Sang-ok

    Born in 1925, Shin Sang-ok studied painting in Japan and returned to Korea in 1945. He began his film career at Koryeo Film Production as an assistant director to Choi In-kyu. In 1950, he founded his own company, Shin Sang-ok Production and made his debut film, The Evil Night in the midst of the Korean War in 1952. With the huge success of Seong Chun-Hyang (1961), he positioned himself as the No. 1 director and producer in Korea and led the Korean cinema boom in sixties. He is also a prominent figure in Asian Cinema; and was an influential filmmaker in Hong Kong as well. His major filmography includes A Romantic Papa (1960), Mother and a Guest (1961), Deaf Samryong-i (1964) King¡¯s Father (1968), Women of Yi-Dynasty (1969) and War and Human Being (1971).

Credit

  • ProducerShin Sang-ok ½Å»ó¿Á
  • Cast Choi Eun-hee ÃÖÀºÈñ, Kim Jin-kyu ±èÁø±Ô, Han Eun-j
  • Screenwriter Im Hee-jae ÀÓÈñÀç
  • Cinematography Jung Hae-joon Á¤ÇØÁØ
  • Editor Kim Young-hee ±è¿µÈñ
  • Music Jung Yoon-joo Á¤À±ÁÖ