Genealogy (1979)
• September 14th, 1979 • 1h 47min
Drama
Overview
During the Japanese occupation of South Korea, a Japanese bureaucrat is ordered to persuade an influential Korean patriarch into obeying the law of changing his Korean surname to a Japanese one.
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