The Sea Village

The Sea Village (Korean: 갯마을) is a 1965 South Korean film directed by Kim Soo-yong. It was chosen as Best Film at the Grand Bell Awards.^[1]

The Sea Village
Theatrical poster for The Sea Village (1965)
Hangul	갯마을
Revised Romanization	Gaenmaeul
McCune–Reischauer	Kaenmaŭl
Directed by	Kim Soo-yong
Written by	O Yeong-su
Produced by	Ho Hyeon-chan
Starring	Shin Young-kyun Ko Eun-ah
Cinematography	Jeon Jo-Myeong
Edited by	Yu Jae-won
Music by	Jeong Yun-ju
Distributed by	Daeyang Movies
Release date	November 19, 1965 (1965-11-19)
Country	South Korea
Language	Korean

Plot

A woman in a fishing village is widowed when her husband dies in a fishing boat. She has a liaison with a mainland man who is drafted. She goes insane and waits on a mountain for the return of her husband. Based on a novel.^[2]

Cast

• Shin Young-kyun: Sang-soo
• Ko Eun-ah as Hae-soon
• Lee Min-ja
• Hwang Jung-seun as Seong-goo's mother
• Jeon Gye-hyeon as Soon-im
• Lee Nak-hoon as Seong-chil
• Cho Yong-soo
• Kim Jeong-ok
• Kim Ok
• Jeong Deuk-sun

Bibliography

• "GAETMAUL". The Complete Index to World Film. Archived from the original on 2012-03-25. Retrieved 2009-04-28.
• 갯마을. Cine21 (in Korean).

Contemporary reviews

• November 7, 1965. "「갯마을」시사회에 독자 3백여 명 초대 / 「주부생활」사서". The Chosun Ilbo.^[3]
• November 9, 1965. "[연예수첩] 웃고 만난 한ㆍ미의『돌리』/ 『갯마을』ㆍ『시장』에 기대". The Dong-a Ilbo.
• November 18, 1965. "[영화평] 새로운 시네포엠 시도「갯마을」(한)". The Chosun Ilbo.

Notes

1. Lee Young-il, Choe Young-chol (1998). The History of Korean Cinema. Translated by Richard Lynn Greever, translator. Seoul: Motion Picture Promotion Corporation. pp. 5–278. ISBN 9788988095126. {{cite book}}: |translator= has generic name (help)
2. "The Seaside Village (1965) - Korean Film Archive". YouTube. 2012-04-30. Retrieved 2017-10-04.
3. "The Seashore Village (Gaenma-eul) (1965)" (in Korean). Korean Movie Database (KMDb). Retrieved 2021-07-05.

External links

• The Sea Village at the Korean Movie Database (in Korean)
• The Sea Village at IMDb