The Golden Chronilogical age of Korean Cinema & the Legend of Shin Film (Younghwa jaekook Shinfilm eui yeoksa)

Shin Sang-ok in "The Golden Chronilogical age of Korean Cinema & the Legend of Shin Film" An Aspiration Tower, Film Alchemy production, in colaboration with the Shin Sang-ok Memorial Foundation. (Worldwide sales: Film Alchemy, Seoul.) Created by Sheen Jeong-kyun, Lee Nam-jin. Executive producer, Choi Eun-hee. Directed by Cho Jae-hong. Script, Lee Nam-jin, Cho.With: Choi Eun-hee, Choi Gyeong-ok, Hwang Gi-seong, Lim Won-sik, Lee Sang-hyun, Kim Cab-eui, Shin Youthful-kyun, Tae Hyun-sil, Kim Jong-won, Jo Jun-hyeong. Narrator: Lee Jang-ho.A biography of Korean director and studio mind Shin Sang-ok, who labored each side from the peninsula's north-south divide, "The Golden Chronilogical age of Korean Cinema & the Legend of Shin Film" is definitely an enthralling if hagiographic slice of cinema history which will satiate Asian-film aficionados and beginners alike. Covering Shin's career in the late nineteen forties to his 1986 liberation from Kim Jong-il's employment, the pic comes complete with recollections from admiring co-workers and collaborators, and an array of clips from Shin's 60-year oeuvre. Essential for Asian-designed fests, docu will also attract other film-aficionado events. Read by former Shin protege Lee Jang-ho in bombastic style, the docu begins using the prolific director's first film, "Evil Evening" (1952), whose shoot was interrupted through the Korean War Shin after that showed unflagging determination to produce a Korean studio system much like Japan's. Although funded with a body established to recognition Shin's legacy after his 2006 dying, the pic does not completely dodge the debate of their subject's alleged collaboration with South Korea's seventies dictatorship. A suggested follow-up doc will address Shin's publish-North Korean encounters.Camera (color/B&W, HD), Kwak Hyung-shin editor, Kwak. Examined at Busan Film Festival (Wide Position), March. 12, 2011. Running time: 81 MIN. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com