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Burying Old Alive(고려장)

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Korea · 1963
1h 50m
Director Kim Ki-young
Starring Kim Jin-kyu, Ju Jeung-nyeo, Kim Bo-ae, Kim Dong-won
Genre Drama

Prior to the adoption of Confucianism, it was the tradition to abandon one's parents on a mountainside if they were over 70 years of age. In the ancient kingdom of Goryeo, now modern Korea, a nobleman defies this tradition when he refuses to leave his mother to starve to death.

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