The Wedding Day
6.4
Master Maeng is very proud that an influential family will soon be his esteemed in-laws when his loving daughter, Mi-yeon, marries their son. A few days before the wedding Maeng hears a rumor that his future son-in-law has a cripple leg. Regretting that he can't give his lovely daughter to a cripple, he decides to marry his maid to him instead. Unexpectedly the future son-in-law shows up at the wedding hall and he is not a cripple, but a healthy and handsome youth. Feeling embarrassed, there is no way but to wed the maid to him. The Wedding Day is a recreation of A Happy Day of Jinsa Maeng, a comical play by Oh Yeong Jin. The first Korean film to win an international film award, the Best Comedy Award at the 1957 edition of the Asian Film Festival (now Asia Pacific Film Festival).
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Cast
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Kim Seung-ho
Maeng Jin-sa
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Jo Mi-ryeong
Ip-bun
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The DMZ
Nameless Stars
Jo Mi-lyeong
Byung-il Lee
Lee Byung-il
Young-Jin Oh
Eun-Wu Kim
Kim Yu-Hee
Gap-bun
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A Country Girl
Hyeon Choi
Mi-eon
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A Bouquet of Thirty Million People
A College Woman's Confession
Wol-yeong Seo
Ha Ji-man
Park Cham-bong
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The Bell Tower
King Gojong and Martyr An Jung-geun
Seo Wol-yeong
Maeng Hyo-won
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Destiny
Lee Byung-il Director · Yeong-jin O Screenplay Suk Kim Costume designer
First release November 27, 1956 · Produced in South Korea · Original title 시집가는 날
Production
Dong-ah Motion Picture
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South Korea
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Original title
시집가는 날
Original language
Korean
Spoken on screen
Korean
Release dates
South Korea · November 27, 1956
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
France
November 12, 2005 · L'Arche de Corée
Germany
July 2, 1957 · Theatrical · (Berlin International Film Festival)
Portugal
January 14, 2021 · Cinemateca Portuguesa - Museu do Cinema
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