Genealogy

Genealogy (1979)

September 14th, 19791h 47min

Drama
57%

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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