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Goryeojang

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Directed by Kim Ki-young
March 15, 19631h 50mNo grades yet
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Prior to the adoption of Confucianism, it was the tradition to abandon one's parents on a mountainside if they were over 70 years of age. In the ancient kingdom of Goryeo, now modern Korea, a nobleman defies this tradition when he refuses to leave his mother to starve to death.

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