17 Feb 2016
Dongju: The Portrait of a Poet
Based on a true story, renowned Korean poet, Yun Dong-ju, is detained and abused by the Japanese for participating in the Korean Independence Movement.
Genealogy
During the Japanese occupation of South Korea, a Japanese bureaucrat is ordered to persuade an influential Korean patriarch into obeying the law of changing his Korean surname to a Japanese one.
Top Billed Cast
주선태 Sol Jin-young
하명중 Tani
한혜숙 Ok-sun
최남현 
김신재 윤양하 Ju Sang-ho 
김석훈 
독고성 
이향 
김기범 최재호 박광진 
임해림 
이정애 
임예심 
김지영 전숙
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