Sarangeul chajaseo
{{Short description|1929 Korean film by Na Woon-gyu}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2020}}
{{Infobox film
|name = Sarangeul chajaseo (In Search of Love)
|image = SarangEul Chaseo (1928).jpg
|caption = Na Woon-gyu in Salangeul chajaseo (In Search of Love) (1929)
|director = Na Woon-gyu
|producer = Na Woon-gyu
|writer = Na Woon-gyu
|starring = Na Woon-gyu
Lee Geum-ryong
Jeon Ok
Yun Bong-chun
|music =
|cinematography = Lee Chang-yong
|editing = Na Woon-gyu
|distributor = Na Woon-gyu Productions
|released = {{Film date|1929|04|10||df=y}}
|runtime = (1,512 ft)
|country = Korea
|language = Silent film
Korean intertitles
|budget = 3,500 won
| native_name = {{Infobox Chinese/Korean|child=yes|hide=no|header=none
|hangul = 사랑을 찾아서
|rr = Sarangeul chajaseo
|mr = Sarang ŭl ch'ajasŏ}}
}}
Sarangeul chajaseo ({{Korean|hangul=사랑을 찾아서|lit=In Search of Love, or Looking For Love}}) is a 1929 Korean film written, directed, produced, edited by and starring Na Woon-gyu (1902-1937). The film premiered at the {{Ill|Choson Theater|ko|조선극장}} in April 1929. More than one thousand extras from Na's hometown Hoeryong were employed in the filming of Sarangeul chajaseo, making the film into a symbolic epic national exodus as a protest against the Japanese occupation of Korea. Originally entitled Crossing the Duman River ({{Korean|hangul=두만강을 건너서|labels=no}}), the film was banned and censored by the Japanese occupying authorities after its first showing. Popular demand caused it to be re-released, though in a heavily edited form, and renamed In Search of Love. As with the vast majority of Korean films of this era, Sarangeul chajaseo is a lost film.
Production
Plot summary
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 Korean Empire. Seeking a better life in northeast China, the three are attacked by Chinese "majeok" 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.
See also
References
{{Reflist}}
- {{cite book|author= Kim, Kab-ui|year=2001|title=Chunsa Na Un-gyu chonjip: ku saengae wa yesul (춘사나운규전집: 그생애와예술)|publisher=Chimmundang|location= Seoul|isbn=89-303-0877-5}} [http://www.aladdin.co.kr/shop/wproduct.aspx?ISBN=8930308775]
- {{cite book|author= Lee Young-il, Richard Lynn Greever, tr.|year=1988|title=The History of Korean Cinema|publisher=Motion Picture Promotion Corporation, Seoul|isbn=89-88095-12-X}}
Literature
『한국영화전사』(이영일,삼애사,1969)
External links
- {{IMDb title|0151043|In Search of Love}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sarangeul Chajaseo}}
Category:Films directed by Na Woon-gyu
Category:Korean black-and-white films
Category:Pre-1948 Korean films
{{Korea-film-stub}}
{{silent-film-stub}}