Name: Jangnam
Genre: Drama
Released: 1985-06-22
Duration: 1 h 55 min
Rating: 6.5
Cast: Il-hae Kim, Hwang Jung Soon, Kim Hee-ra

A look at the disintegration of the Korean extended family

I finished viewing this mid 80's film, well then what about? And a very nice film, the kind on which it is based this Korean film has been already covered in who knows how many more movies, maybe this time you have chosen to bet more than the difference between the best of country and among the urban environment, the family values ​​by highlighting in particular the optical parents / sons / daughters For those who will compete to see the first time this The Oldest Son can perhaps a little confused, because it is the scene there are a good number of actors, I did a little bit hard to store the characters and I had to do a mental family tree and only after the middle of the film, I realized that the elderly couple had five children that three males and two females. The dialogues are quite longish and the actors keep talking very fast (especially in the most hectic), and here is a little hard to keep up subtitle. However in the end I can say that the movie I liked enough

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Forced to leave their home because of the construction of a new dam which will flood their village, the eldest son in the family prepares land and money to construct a new house in Seoul for his family. However, he shirks his duty shortly after and leaves overseeing the construction of the house to his younger brother while he goes to live separately.

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