That history is inextricably tied to the story of the 20th century. Freedom following Japanese occupation, the Korean War, coup-d'etats, martial law, popular upheaval, democratization, and globalization all influenced and dictated the direction\u2014and restriction\u2014of South Korean cinema.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tomorrow evening as part of our\u00a0Show Me<\/a>\u00a0series, in partnership with the Asian Affairs Center at the University of Missouri, we present Park Kwang-su\u2019s 1988\u00a0Chilsu and Mansu<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Rarely screened in the US, the film is widely considered the first of the Korean New Wave. What begins as a neorealist buddy comedy about painters bouncing between odd-jobs becomes a rallying cry for the working class in the midst of Seoul\u2019s whirlwind economic growth. It is no exaggeration to say that the film could not have been made even one year earlier, as nearly three decades of despotic military rule came to a close only months before Chilsu and Mansu<\/a> started filming. <\/p>\n\n\n\n We are proud to host one of the very few theatrical screenings of this landmark film in the US, and will be joined by a panel of experts in South Korean culture and political science to discuss the complex history that shapes the identities of people and cinema.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Everything,<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ted<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Greetings Cinema friends, For American audiences, the last two decades has seen the rise of breakthrough South Korea films\u2014from a slow trickle to a fever pitch. Beginning for many with whispers of a shocking genre epic, Park Chan-wook\u2019s Cannes Grand Prix winner Oldboy would find its way to daring cinemas (screened in Ragtag\u2019s single screen iteration in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":10747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,53],"tags":[191,192],"class_list":["post-10746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-word-from","category-news1","tag-chilsu-and-mansu","tag-show-me"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10746"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11783,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10746\/revisions\/11783"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/chilsu1-700x394.jpg\")
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