Nongjungjo

NongJungJo (농중조, Nongjungjo) 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.[1]

NongJungJo
Na Woon-gyu in NongJungJo (1926)
Hangul
Hanja
Revised RomanizationNongjungjo
McCune–ReischauerNongjungjo
Directed byLee Kyu-seol
Written byJin Soo (Japanese)
StarringLee Kyu-sul
Bok Hae-sook
No Chap-ryong
Na Woon-gyu
Distributed byJoseon Kinema Productions
Release date
  • 19 June 1926 (1926-06-19)
CountryKorea
LanguageKorean (Silent)

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.

References

  1. Dong Hoon Kim, Eclipsed Cinema: The Film Culture of Colonial Korea, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017, 265.


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