The final screening in the current Home Truths season is Shin Sang-ok’s classic weepie My Mother and her Guest. We loved it when it screened at the LKFF twelve years ago. My Mother and her Guest (사랑방 손님과 어머니) Director: Shin Sang-ok (1961, 102mins) Cast: Choi Eun-hee, Jeon Young-sun, Kim Jin-gyu, Han Eun-jin, Do Kum-bong … [Read More]
Author: Chu Yo-seop (주요섭 1902-1972)
Selected publications by Chu Yo-seop
- Mama and the Boarder (Bi-lingual, Vol 99 – Traditional Korea’s Lost Faces) (사랑손님과 어머니, 1935) tr Bruce Fulton, Kim Chong-un, Asia Publishers 2015
Short stories in anthologies
- Mama and the Boarder (사랑손님과 어머니, 1935) in:
Brief Encounter with Chopin – Shin Sang-ok’s My Mother and Her Guest
Shin Sang-ok: My Mother and Her Guest (1961) It was a shame to see two of the most interesting films in the London Korean Film Festival — My Mother and Her Guest and Madame Freedom — so sparsely attended. The Barbican had generously allocated its largest screen (capacity 286) in anticipation of enthusiastic interest — … [Read More]