The Sea Knows (Korean: 현해탄은 알고 있다; RR: Hyeonhaetaneun algoitta) is a 1961 South Korean film directed by Kim Ki-young.
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Hangul | 현해탄은 알고 있다 |
Hanja | |
Revised Romanization | Hyohaetaneun alko itta |
McCune–Reischauer | Hyŏnhaet‘anŭn algo itta |
Directed by | Kim Ki-young[1] |
Written by | Kim Ki-young |
Produced by | Kim Ki-young |
Starring | Kim Wun-ha Gong Midori |
Cinematography | Choe Ho-jin |
Edited by | O Yeong-geun |
Music by | Han Sang-ki |
Distributed by | Korean Art Movies |
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Running time | 117 minutes |
Country | South Korea |
Language | Korean |
Plot
editThe film is a wartime melodrama about Aroun, a Korean living in Japan and conscripted into the army. He endures cruel treatment at the hands of the Japanese soldiers, and objections from the mother of his Japanese girlfriend. The film concludes with a U.S. bombing which kills all the Japanese soldiers, but leaves Aroun alive.[1]
Cast
edit- Kim Wun-ha as Aroun[1]
- Gong Midori as Hideko
- Lee Ye-chun as Mori
- Lee Sang-sa as Inoue
- Kim Jin-kyu as Nakamura
- Kim Seok-hun
- Ju Jeung-ryu as Hideko's mother
- Kim Seung-ho
- Park Am
- Park Nou-sik
References
edit- ^ a b c "The Sea Knows (Hyeonhaetaneun Algo Itda) (1961)". Korean Movie Database (KMDb). Retrieved 2021-07-06. and Hyeon Hae-taneun algo itda (1961) at IMDb
Bibliography
edit- Kim, Sung-Eun. "Hyonhaetan Knows Everything". The House of Kim Ki-young. Archived from the original on 2004-05-10. Retrieved 2008-01-24.
External links
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