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Yoon Yong-gyu
Yoon Yong-gyu (Korean: 윤용규; Hanja: 尹龍奎;[1] born 1913, date of death unknown), also known as Yun Yong-kyu, was a Korean film director. He made his first film A Hometown in Heart (1949) in South Korea before defecting to the North to pursue his filmmaking career.[2] BiographyYoon was born in 1913 in Daegu, Korea, Empire of Japan.[3][1] He defected to North Korea before the outbreak of the 1950–1953 Korean War, and worked as director of North Korea's National Film Studio (국립영화촬영소) in 1952.[1] The classic A Hometown in Heart, released on DVD in 2011 by the Korean Federation of Film Archives and on Blu-ray in 2023 by Blue Kino,[4] was one of the most important films made in Korea after its liberation from Japan. Based on Ham Se Deok's play Tongseung (A Little Monk),[5][6] it tells the story of Do-seong, a child monk (Yoo Min) who longs for his mother, who has abandoned him. Meanwhile, a childless widow (Choi Eun-hee) takes to the child. Stanley Park remade the film in 2014 as A Hometown in my Heart (내 마음의 고향; Nae maeumui gohyang).[7] Teen Guerrillas was one of the first North Korean films, shot during the war. Filmography
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