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Korean Retrospective: Wild Laugh - A Certain Wave of 1970s Korean Comedy

Outlaw on a Donkey

AN Il-Nam

Korea1970 100min 35mm Color

Synopsis

A stranger on a donkey rides into the lawless village run by Sancho and his gang. Sancho tries to kill him in vain. One day Piri, a sheriff"s son, comes to ask the stranger to save his mother who has been captured by Sancho. The film unfolds comic western story in the surprisingly awkward Juxtaposition of macaroni western-esque stage and common rural landscape of Korea.
 

Diretor

AN Il-Nam

He worked as Assistant Director for the film, Len’s Sonata(1969). His director debut comedy film is Outlaw on a Donkey(1970) starring Koo Bong Seo, Seo Young Choon, Yang Hun, Oh Kyung Ah, Bang In Ja and more.