Goryeojang
Goryeojang

Goryeojang (1963)

None | South Korea | Korean | 90 min
Directed by: Kim Ki-young
7.1

Prior to the adoption of Confucianism, it was the tradition to abandon one's parents on a mountainside if they were over 70 years of age. In the ancient kingdom of Goryeo, now modern Korea, a nobleman defies this tradition when he refuses to leave his mother to starve to death.

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