Shin Sang-ok passes away

by Robert Koehler on April 12, 2006

Korean film director Shin Sang-ok, whose life certainly took some Hollywood-like twists and turns, has passed away.

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1 Ray April 12, 2006 at 12:42 pm: Holy shit – that is one fine article (the second link). I suggest to anyone taking a read at that if you haven’t yet.

http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,4120,929182,00.html
2 kushibo April 12, 2006 at 1:14 pm: From the Guardian article:
He is best known for a 1968 historical drama called The Eunuch, about concubines and emasculated servants unable to consummate their secret love.

Yeah, I’ll bet.

Seriously, though, that was quite a read about his life. Of course, I knew who he was, but it’s always a fascinating story. Someone should make a movie about it, although with the anti-Pyongyang and the non-anti-Pyongyang rift so strong in the ROK nowadays, I think it wouldn’t be made as an honest and fair portrayal.