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Yet another film with a history of its own, director Lee Man-hee’s “A Day Off” was filmed in October and November, 1968 and completed in the same year. However, the film, which depicted a bleak, depressing reality of life in a Seoul caught between changes, ran afoul with the censor authorities upon submission. The censors insisted that a sentence be added to the narration in the final scene, one which completely changed the story and the plight of the character that was intended. Firebrand producer Jeon Ok-suk, who greenlit the project without getting the script approved with the censors, director Lee Man-hee and his frequent collaborator, screenwriter Baek Gyeol, all strongly refused the nonsensical addition. This resulted in the film being shelved without screening and it ended up on the shelves of the Korean Film Archive, forgotten and ultimately lost even to history books, to the point...
Yet another film with a history of its own, director Lee Man-hee’s “A Day Off” was filmed in October and November, 1968 and completed in the same year. However, the film, which depicted a bleak, depressing reality of life in a Seoul caught between changes, ran afoul with the censor authorities upon submission. The censors insisted that a sentence be added to the narration in the final scene, one which completely changed the story and the plight of the character that was intended. Firebrand producer Jeon Ok-suk, who greenlit the project without getting the script approved with the censors, director Lee Man-hee and his frequent collaborator, screenwriter Baek Gyeol, all strongly refused the nonsensical addition. This resulted in the film being shelved without screening and it ended up on the shelves of the Korean Film Archive, forgotten and ultimately lost even to history books, to the point...
- 3/17/2020
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
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