Archive for March, 2012

Director Jo Moon-jin was born in 1935 in Manchuria, China.  After Korean liberation, his family returned to Korea. He started working in films in the early 1960s and spent nearly ten years as an assistant director, often for Kim Soo-yong.  He started directing in 1969 and during his first year, he made eight films.  In the 1970s, Jo helmed 2 dozen movies, half of these in the first three years of that decade.  Information on those films has previously been uploaded to this site and can be viewed by clicking the tab marked ‘the 1970s’ at the top of the page.  To view the images below, click the thumbnail and expand for the full-sized image.

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