Guimet Museum in France Stages SHIN Sang-ok Retrospective

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Guimet Museum in France Stages SHIN Sang-ok Retrospective

Dec 19, 2017

Writer by Pierce Conran
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14 Classic Korean Films on Show in Nantes and Paris

A retrospective of the work of classic filmmaker SHIN Sang-ok played at the Guimet Museum in Paris. Dubbed ‘SHIN Sang-ok: The Korean Equation’, the program ran from November 24 to December 17 and included a curated selection of 14 titles among the 300 films the filmmaker is credited with directing or producing.

A master of Korean melodrama and period films, SHIN was a dominant figure in the Korean film industry during the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s. He was famously kidnapped on the orders of North Korean leader KIM Jong-il and made films for the Hermit Kingdom in the 1980s before escaping and eventually relocating to Hollywood where he made several films under the pseudonym Simon SHEEN in the early 1990s. SHIN passed away in 2006 at the age of 80 years old.

14 of SHIN’s titles screened at the Guimet, France’s most prominent museum of Asian art. Focusing on the early part of his career, these included The Flower In Hell (1958), Prince Yeonsan (1962), Mother And A Guest (1961) and Deaf Samryongi (1964).

The retrospective was co-presented by the Festival of the Three Continents in Nantes, which screened the same films under the same banner, at the recently concluded 39th edition of the festival.

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