Korea’s oldest kid movie found in China

The oldest children’s movie of Korea was found in China.

Korean Film Archives (Director Lee Byung-hoon) unveiled "Tuition (filmed in 1940)," a representative movie of Japanese colonial era directed by Choi In-kyu and Bang Han-joon, to the media on Tuesday.

Korean Film Archives said, "`Tuition’ is the 6th oldest movie among the existing feature films. It is also the oldest movie where a child plays a leading role.” Koran Film Archives found the 35 mm print of "Tuition" in the China National Film Museum in June. After two months of restoration, the digital version was completed.

This movie of which dialogues are spoken in Korean and Japanese is about episodes of a boy who couldn’t pay for tuition while living with his grandmother after having lost touch with his parents who became peddlers. "Tuition" will be made public on Oct. 25 and 30 at Cinema Tech of Korean Film Archives in Seoul.