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Elegy of Ren is a film of genre Drama directed by Kim Ki-young with Kim Jin-kyu
Elegy of Ren (1969)
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Add to a movie listElegy of Ren (hangul: 렌의 애가, Renui aega) is a 1969 South Korean film directed by Kim Ki-young.
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A wartime melodrama about an artist and a woman who helps him to paint.Actors
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, 1h30Directed by Kim Ki-young
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Directed by Kim Ki-young
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, 1h40Directed by Kim Ki-young
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The film is a melodrama about a man who falls in love with a woman while traveling to Seoraksan. The man becomes infatuated with the woman's hair. The woman, who has a terminal illness, promises to leave her hair to the man after she has died. Later the man finds that the woman has died, and her hair has been sold to someone else. He then has a romantic relationship with another woman who turns out to be his mother.
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During the Japanese occupation, a Korean lawyer devotes his work to rural development, believing this is the only way to preserve Korean identity. Interpreting these actions as anti-Japanese, the Japanese authorities imprison the lawyer for five years. When he is released, he finds his wife continuing his work.
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