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Goryeojang is a film of genre Drama directed by Kim Ki-young with Kim Jin-kyu
Goryeojang (1963)
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Add to a movie listGoryeojang (고려장), also known as Burying Old Alive, is a 1963 South Korean film written, produced and directed by Kim Ki-young.
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The film tells the story of a poor farm-worker who, according to local tradition, must take his 70-year-old mother into the mountains to die. Deciding to break the custom, he instead returns home with his mother. The Japanese films, The Ballad of Narayama (1958) (Keisuke Kinoshita) and The Ballad of Narayama (1983) (Shohei Imamura) deal with a similar subject.Actors
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