''NongJungJo'' ( 농중조, ''Nongjungjo'') is a 1926

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(1926). Kato Kyohei served as director of photography both for this and other well-known Korean movies of the 1920s.Dong Hoon Kim, ''Eclipsed Cinema: The Film Culture of Colonial Korea'', Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017, 265.

Plot summary

The story is a melodrama concerning two lovers who are kept apart by the woman's strict parents, who lock her in her house.

References

Pre-1948 Korean films Korean black-and-white films Korean silent films {{Korea-film-stub