Goryeojang

*7.4

Status

Released

Production

Korea Art Films

Aired

1963-03-15

Goryeojang

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.