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Filmmaker · South Korea

Ahn Jong-hwa

Died in 1966

Ahn Jong-hwa was born in Seoul in 1902. According to the Encyclopedia of Korean Culture, he began in the theatre, in shinpa troupes where he played women's roles, joined Yun Baek-nam's troupe in 1922, then in 1924 entered the Joseon Kinema as a contract actor. He acted in three films in 1924 and 1925, then directed about a dozen from 1930 to 1960. He chaired the Association of Filmmakers in 1939, directed the Sorabeol arts school after the war and left memoirs on his beginnings; the Encyclopedia notes that he was classed among the collaborators of the colonial regime. He died in 1966.

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