The Sea Knows Explained

The Sea Knows
Director:	Kim Ki-young^[1]
Producer:	Kim Ki-young
Starring:	Kim Wun-ha Gong Midori
Music:	Han Sang-ki
Cinematography:	Choe Ho-jin
Editing:	O Yeong-geun
Distributor:	Korean Art Movies
Runtime:	117 minutes
Country:	South Korea
Language:	Korean
Native Name:	Child: yes Hide: no Header: none Hangul: 현해탄은 알고 있다 Hanja: 은 알고 있다 Rr: Hyohaetaneun alko itta Mr: Hyŏnhaet‘anŭn algo itta

The Sea Knows is a 1961 South Korean film directed by Kim Ki-young.

Plot

The film is a wartime melodrama about Aroun, a Korean living in Japan and conscripted into the army. He endures cruel treatment at the hands of the Japanese soldiers, and objections from the mother of his Japanese girlfriend. The film concludes with a U.S. bombing which kills all the Japanese soldiers, but leaves Aroun alive.^[1]

Cast

• Kim Wun-ha as Aroun^[1]
• Gong Midori as Hideko
• Lee Ye-chun as Mori
• Lee Sang-sa as Inoue
• Kim Jin-kyu as Nakamura
• Kim Seok-hun
• Ju Jeung-ryu as Hideko's mother
• Kim Seung-ho
• Park Am
• Park Nou-sik

Bibliography

• Web site: Hyonhaetan Knows Everything. 2008-01-24. Kim. Sung-Eun. The House of Kim Ki-young. https://web.archive.org/web/20040510211251/http://www.asianfilms.org/korea/kky/KKY/Cabinet/Hyonhaetan-f10.htm. 2004-05-10. dead.

Notes and References

1. Web site: The Sea Knows (Hyeonhaetaneun Algo Itda) (1961). 2021-07-06. Korean Movie Database (KMDb). and