A Day Off

A Day Off is both one of the masterpieces of 1960s Korean film and its representative modernist film. When it was made, censors forced the producer to abandon the theater release, but the original print was rediscovered during reorganization of the warehouse of the Korean Film Archive in 2005. Starring the late Shin Seong-il, who passed away in 2018, it was selected near the top of the top 100 Korean films list in 2014. Describing with great sophistication the story of an unfortunate couple in the depressing atmosphere of late-1960s Korea, this film allows us once again to see the value and aesthetic excellence of Korean classic film.