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]
Tag: Books on Screen (page 5)
Selected publications
- Kim Aeran: My Brilliant Life tr Kim Chi-young, Forge 2021
- Jeong You-jeong: Seven Years of Darkness tr Kim Chi-young, Little Brown 2020
- Cho Nam-joo: Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 tr Jamie Chang, Scribner 2020
- Kim Young-ha: Diary of a Murderer, and other stories tr Krys Lee, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
- Han Kang: The Vegetarian tr Deborah Smith, Portobello Books 2015
- Cheon Myeong-kwan: Modern Family tr Park Kyoung-lee, White Pine Press 2015
- Yi Cheong-jun: Seopyeonje, the Southerners’ Songs tr Ok Young Kim Chang, Peter Owen 2011
- Choe Yun: There a Petal Silently Falls: 3 stories tr Bruce Fulton, Ju-chan Fulton, Columbia University Press 2008
- Cho Son-jak: The Preview and Other Stories tr David R Carter, Kim Chan-young, Jain Publishing 2003
- Kajiyama Toshiyuki: The Clan Records tr Yoshiko Dykstra, University of Hawai'i Press 1995
- Kim Seong-dong: Mandala tr Ahn Jung-hyo, Dongsuh Munhaksa 1990
- Richard E Kim: The Martyred, Penguin 1964
Festival Film Review: Secret Sunshine at the BFI London Film Festival
Caution: this post contains spoilers. It was slightly disappointing to see Screen One of the Odeon West End (seating capacity: 500) somewhat under half full for the London premiere of Lee Chang-dong’s Secret Sunshine last Monday. By contrast, No Mercy for the Rude, a film which (from its description at least) is much more in … [Read More]
Kajiyama Toshiyuki: The Clan Records – Five Stories of Korea
The Clan Records – Five Stories of Korea: The Clan Records | Seeking Life Amidst Death: The Last Day of the War | When the Hibiscus Blooms | The Remembered Shadow of the Yi Dynasty | A Crane on a Dunghill: Seoul in 1936 Kajiyama Toshiyuki, translated by Yoshiko Dykstra (University of Hawaii Press, 1995) … [Read More]