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Na Woon-gyu (October 27, 1902 – August 9, 1937) 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. Since he often wrote, directed and acted in his films, he has even been said to have started the auteur film-making tradition in Korea.
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Deaf Sam Yong (1964)
Directed by Shin Sang-ok, Na Woon-gyu
Genres Romance
Actors Na Woon-gyu, Kim Jin-kyu, Do Kum-bong
The plot concerns Sam-ryong, a deaf servant who is in love with his landlord's daughter-in-law. Critics praised the final scene of the film, in which the house burns, as a work of pioneering and experimental film making.
Arirang 3 (1936)
Directed by Na Woon-gyu
Genres Drama
Actors Na Woon-gyu
Roles Young-jin
This third and last installment in the story of the mentally ill student, Choi Yeong-jin, begins with him being released from prison. He attempts to live a peaceful existence until he witnesses the rape of his sister, at which point his mental problems return.
Directed by Na Woon-gyu
Genres Drama, Action
Actors Na Woon-gyu
This action-oriented film tells the story of a traveling theatrical troupe. When one of the actresses is sold to criminals running an opium den, Na Woon-gyu's character rescues her and returns her to the troupe.
Shadow (1935)
Directed by Na Woon-gyu
Genres Romance
Actors Na Woon-gyu
The story is a melodrama concerning a young woman, played by Yun Bong-choon, who is abused by her stepmother and half-sister. After her stepmother expels her from her home, she stabs her stepmother.
The Street Named Jongno (1933)
Genres Drama
Actors Na Woon-gyu
The film is a melodrama in which Na Woon-gyu's character breaks up with his girlfriend and becomes a vagabond. The girlfriend marries another man. When Na returns and discovers her married, he leaves again.
Immunity (1932)
Directed by Na Woon-gyu
Genres Drama, Historical
Actors Na Woon-gyu
The film concerns the 3-day rule of Kim Ok-kyun (1851–1894), and his attempt to modernize Korea.
Genres Drama
Actors Na Woon-gyu
Roles Chunsam
The plot concerns Soo-sam, a farmer who goes to Seoul and works as a rickshaw man. He is jailed for stealing money to pay for his wife's hospital bills. Upon release from jail, he learns that his wife has had an affair. Disgusted, Soo-sam returns to his village with his daughter and becomes a ferry boat operator. When a bridge is constructed 10 years later, he loses his job. After the bridge engineer tries to rape his daughter, Soo-sam dies when he is hit by a train while trying to destroy the bridge. After their house burns, killing his daughter, Soo-sam's ferry boat remains as the "Ownerless Ferryboat" referred to in the title. The original final scene had Soo-sam taking an axe to the bridge. This was cut by governmental censors because, as Lee says, "to axe the bridge was to describe the anger of the Korean people against the Japanese occupation.
The Grief of Geumgan (1931)
Directed by Na Woon-gyu
Genres Drama, Action
Actors Na Woon-gyu
The film concerns the playboy son of a rich man. After he gets a village girl pregnant, she commits suicide. The playboy is later murdered by his ex-wife.
Genres Drama
Actors Na Woon-gyu
Roles Yeong-jin
In this sequel to Arirang (1926), Choi Yeong-jin, the mentally ill lead character of the first film, returns home from prison to find his father and sister deep in debt. The film ends with Young-jin again being sent to prison for murder.
Village of strong guys (1930)
Directed by Na Woon-gyu
Genres Drama, Action
Actors Na Woon-gyu
The plot concerns two rival villages separated by a hill, and the competition between men from both villages over the daughter of Reverend Suh.
Salangeul chajaseo (1929)
Directed by Na Woon-gyu
Actors Jeon Ok, Na Woon-gyu
The plot concerns three characters who have lost hope in continuing their lives in Korea—Kokosu (Lee Geum-ryong), an old man who has lost his farmland; Dong-min (Na Woon-gyu); and Jong-hui (Jeong Ok), who had been betrayed by her boyfriend. Kokosu had been a bugler in the Korean military during the last days of the Joseon Dynasty. Seeking a better life in northeast China, the three are attacked by bandits and the Japanese while attempting the ice-covered Tumen River crossing of the China–North Korea border . With his last breath, Kokosu blows the army bugle he had carried with him all his life. Dong-min takes the bugle and continues playing it.
Field Mouse (1927)
, 1h20Directed by Na Woon-gyu
Genres Action, Romance
Actors Na Woon-gyu
The plot concerns a young couple who have made a marriage vow with each other. Their marriage is thwarted when the woman is forced to marry a rich gangster. A fighter for justice called "Field Mouse" stops the wedding, killing the gangsters, and returns the bride to her betrothed.
Farewell (1927)
Directed by Na Woon-gyu
Genres Drama
Actors Jeon Ok, Na Woon-gyu
This film is a melodrama telling a story of greed and lust. It begins with millionaire Min Bum-shik's wife and a steward plotting Min's murder in order to collect his money. Rapes, murder and prison sentences follow in the convoluted plot.