Nongjungjo

{{Short description|1926 Korean film by Na Woon-gyu}}

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{{Infobox film

|name = Nongjungjo

|image = NongJungJo (1926).jpg

|caption = Na Woon-gyu in Nongjungjo (1926)

|director = Lee Kyu-seol

|producer =

|writer = Jin Soo (Japanese)

|starring = Lee Kyu-sul
Bok Hae-sook
No Chap-ryong
Na Woon-gyu

|music =

|cinematography =

|editing =

|distributor = Joseon Kinema Productions

|released = {{Film date|df=yes|1926|06|19}}

|runtime =

|country = Korea

|language = Korean (Silent)

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| native_name = {{Infobox Korean film name/auto

|hangul = ^농중조

|hanja = 籠中鳥

}}

}}

NongJungJo ({{Korean|hangul=농중조}}) is a 1926 Korean film. Future writing/directing/acting star Na Woon-gyu appeared in this film just before his breakthrough in Arirang (1926). Kato Kyohei served as director of photography both for this and other well-known Korean movies of the 1920s.Dong Hoon Kim, Eclipsed Cinema: The Film Culture of Colonial Korea, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017, 265.

Plot summary

The story is a Melodrama concerning two lovers who are kept apart by the woman's strict parents, who lock her in her house.

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