Oyster Village

Oyster Village
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Hangul	석화촌
Hanja	石花村
Revised Romanization	Seokhwachon
McCune–Reischauer	Sŏk‘wach‘on
Directed by	Jung Jin-woo[1]
Produced by	Jung Jin-woo
Written by	Moon Yang-hoon Na Yeon-sook Na Bong-han
Based on	Oyster Village by Lee Cheong-jun
Starring	Yoon Jeong-hee
Music by	Han Sang-ki
Cinematography	Park Seung-bae
Edited by	Kim Hee-soo
Distributed by	Woo Jin Films Co., Ltd.
Release dates	March 22, 1972 (1972-03-22)
Running time	96 minutes
Country	South Korea
Language	Korean

Oyster Village (Korean: 석화촌; Seokhwachon) is a 1972 South Korean drama film directed by Jung Jin-woo. It was awarded Best Film at the Blue Dragon Film Awards ceremony^[2][3] and was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 22nd Berlin International Film Festival.^[4]

Synopsis

In an island village that makes its living from oyster fishing, the villagers believe that a dead person's soul cannot go to heaven until another person has died. After Byol-Rye's father drowns, her mother kills herself. Byol-Rye then marries a sickly man on the condition that his father helps Byol-Rye's mother go to heaven. Based on a novel.^[5]

Cast

• Yoon Jeong-hee^[5]
• Kim Hee-ra
• Yoon Il-bong
• Yoon In-Ja
• Kim Sin-jae

Bibliography

English

• "SEOKHWACHON". The Complete Index to World Film. Retrieved 2009-07-21.  External link in |publisher= (help)
• Seokhwachon (1972) at the Internet Movie Database
• "Oyster Village(Seoghwachon)(1972)". Korean Movie Database (KMDb). Retrieved 2009-07-21. 

Korean

• 석화촌 (in Korean). www.cine21.com. Retrieved 2009-07-21.  External link in |publisher= (help)
• "http://www.kmdb.or.kr/movie/md_basic.asp?nation=K&p_dataid=02502" (in Korean). Korean Movie Database (KMDb). Retrieved 2009-07-21.  External link in |title= (help)

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