Korean Remakes of Japanese Films

[Kang Taewoong]

I`m new to this mailing list.
I am Korean and my name is Kang Tae Woong.
I am studying Japanese film history of early times in Hitotsubashi 
University.

By the way, about the question that when `practice" of Korean film producers 
either officially or unofficially remaking Japanese films started, the 
answer, I think, will be from the start of Korean film history. The times of 
Japanese aggression to Korea was from 1911 to 1945. It was the time that 
Korean film history began. The `Benshi` was also found in Korea.

Then, next question will be how about the movies after 1945.
Legally, Japanese movies could not be shown to people in Korea.
Some( I say just some.) of the Korean producers abused that point.
So they brought the Japanese magazine `Scenario` and remade Japanese films 
in Korea.
There are many of those examples.
(A lot of Ishihara Yujiro`s films were remade in Korean.
  Even Yukiguni.)

MBC(one of the Korean broadcasting studios) broadcasted the special program 
about "practice" of Korean film producers` unofficially remaking Japanese 
films.
I have a copy of that program.
If anyone want that, I can surely lend it.
  (No English or Japanese subtitle. Only Korean.)

Sredewa mata.


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