Youn Yuh-Jung & Korean Cinema

Youn Yuh-jung & Korean Cinema

April 27, 2021

And The Oscar Goes To

I confess. I have not watched Minari…yet, but I did catch the moment Youn Yuh-Jung gave her acceptance speech at the Oscars for winning Best Supporting Actress. She thanked Kim Ki-Young for giving her first role. Below is a short clip about her background:

More film still images from Youn’s career:

“A look at Oscar-winner Youn Yuh-jung’s radical 50-year career” by Amanda McDougall (Vogue, April 26, 2021)

Kim Ki-Young

The pandemic has led me to pick up some of the strangest books. I was researching about Korean patchwork quilting and this one popped up:

Korean Horror Cinema (affiliate link) led me to read about Kim Ki-Young, a director who died in a house fire in 1998. From what I’ve read thus far, he’s an important figure in Korean cinema. It took me a second to connect the dots.

Korean Horror Cinema

I am in the process of reading this book….

Update: April 28, 2021

I looked for Woman of Fire (1971) directed by Kim Ki-young but fell short. I managed to find an article that pulled film stills:

Woman of Fire (Harvard Film Archive)
Korean Film: 화녀 / Woman of Fire (1971) by Filmotomy
“Woman of Fire: A Selection of Shots” by Woolgatherist

And here’s the original film, The Housemaid (1960), which Woman of Fire became a remake of the Housemaid Trilogy :

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