Na Woon gyu

Na Woongyu October 27, 1902 August 9, 1937 was a Korean actor, screenwriter and director. He is widely considered the most important filmmaker in early Korean cinema, and possibly Koreas first true movie star. Since he often wrote, directed and acted in his films, he has even been said to have started the auteur filmmaking tradition in Korea.

In 1921, he returned to Seoul, and enrolled in Yonhui now Yonsei University to study social science. It was at this period that his fascination with the cinema began. He would fill notebooks with jottings while watching films in theaters, and would carry a hand mirror with him wherever he went to practice facial expressions.However, like the main character in his first, and most famous film, Arirang, he was caught by the Japanese and jailed for his participation in The March 1st Movement. While in prison in Chongjin, from 1921 until 1923, Na received his artistic penname, Chunsa, from Lee Chunsong, another resistance fighter. When he was released in 1923, he joined the Yerimhoe Play Troupe in his hometown, Hoeryong. ........

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