Kanggeonneo maeul (The Town Across the River) is a 1935

1935 in film

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Korea

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n film directed by Na Woon-gyu

Na Woon-gyu

Na Woon-gyu was a Korean actor, screenwriter and director. He is widely considered the most important filmmaker in early Korean cinema, and possibly Korea's first true movie star...

. It premiered at the DanSungSa theater in downtown Seoul.

Plot summary

This film is a melodrama concerning a spoiled only son, played by Jeon Taek-yi. After his father scolds him for his excessive drinking, he sells the family's only cow for money to leave for Seoul. Finding life difficult on his own in Seoul, he returns to his family begging forgiveness.

External links

• Images from Kanggeonneo maeul at The Korean Film Archive (KOFA)

See also

• Korea under Japanese rule
  Korea under Japanese rule
  Korea was under Japanese rule as part of Japan's 35-year imperialist expansion . Japanese rule ended in 1945 shortly after the Japanese defeat in World War II....
  
  
• List of Korean language films
• Cinema of Korea
  Cinema of Korea
  Korean cinema encompasses the motion picture industries of North and South Korea. As with all aspects of Korean life during the past century, the film industry has often been at the mercy of political events, from the late Joseon dynasty to the Korean War to domestic governmental interference...
  
  
• List of Korea-related topics