Burying Old Alive (1963)

Director
Kim Ki-Young

Main cast
Jin Kyu Kim; Jeung-nyeo Ju; Ye-chun Lee

Genres
Foreign, Drama

Description
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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