A 13-year-old father of three? Korean melodrama doesn't play fair with your heart.
Yeong-cheol, at only 13, is the head of his family and takes care of his mentally incompacitated father and 2 younger brothers. The neighbors take pity on the family and arrange for a young woman to marry Yeong-cheol's father so the children can have a legal guardian.
Acting
Child actor carries impossible emotional weight.
Direction
Lee Won-se's unflinching neo-realist gaze.
Director
Lee Won-se
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Korea's 1970s 'motherless child' film cycle, which exploited legal guardianship loopholes for maximum melodrama.
The sequel exists because the original 1976 film was a surprise hit—audiences apparently demanded MORE child suffering.
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