Narrator/actpr Cho Hee-bong in full cry, as the film is projected above him.
The Brisbane Asia-Pacific Film Festival is hosting a Korean film which involves two live singers, a small orchestra, and a narrator who plays everyone, of any sex, age and type, while making jokes and analysing the characters.
Crossroads of Youth, by Ahn Jong-hwa, is the oldest surviving Korean film, made in 1934, while Korea was occupied by the Japanese. It was originally shown as a byeonsa, a technique derived from the benshi system developed in Japan.
