Yoon Yong-gyu | |
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Born | 1913 |
Nationality | Korean |
Occupation | Film director |
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Yoon Yong-gyu ( Korean: 윤용규; Hanja: 尹龍奎; [1] born 1913), also known as Yun Yong-kyu, was a Korean film director. He made his first film A Hometown in Heart (1949) in South Korea before defecting to the North to pursue his filmmaking career. [2]
Yoon was born in 1913 in Daegu, Korea, Empire of Japan. [3] [1] He defected to North Korea before the outbreak of the 1950–1953 Korean War, and worked as director of North Korea's National Film Studio (국립영화촬영소) in 1952. [1]
The classic A Hometown in Heart, released on DVD in 2011 by the Korean Federation of Film Archives and on Blu-ray in 2023 by Blue Kino, [4] was one of the most important films made in Korea after its liberation from Japan. Based on Ham Se Deok's play Tongseung (A Little Monk), [5] [6] it tells the story of Do-seong, a child monk (Yoo Min) who longs for his mother, who has abandoned him. Meanwhile, a childless widow ( Choi Eun-hee) takes to the child. Stanley Park remade the film in 2014 as A Hometown in my Heart (내 마음의 고향; Nae maeumui gohyang). [7]
Teen Guerrillas was one of the first North Korean films, shot during the war.