장르 생성 공간으로서의 ‘만주’와 만주액션 영화의 스토리텔링

Abstract

Manchuria is the interesting place in Korean films. Manchuria plays role as a start point in the Korean films which deal with period of Japanese occupation. In a long history, Manchuria was involved in Korean territory, but also was not involved in Korean. It makes Manchuria paradoxical place to Korean history. This odd space was called early to Korean films. In 1960s, when was called golden age of Korean film history, the Manchurian action films take its place with several other genres. Naturally, the core of Manchurian action films is the space ‘Manchuria’. The spatial meaning, however, was construed differently depends on the changes of genre period. From the early to the middle of 1960s, Manchuria was the collision place, where an army for Korean independence fight against a Japanese army, in the former part of Manchurian action films. In these films, Manchuria is a necessary place as combining period with space. Because Manchuria was actual place the Korean independence army wage war against Japanese army in real history. From the end of 1960s to the early of 1970s, Manchuria was the space of hybrid genre in the latter part of Manchurian action films. Manchuria was reborn as the hybrid genre space where mixed variety of national action genres such as war action, samurai action, Hong-kong martial action, and revisionist western. In 2008, <The Good, The Bad, and The Weird> recalled the Manchurian action films which had been forgotten by the peoples’ memory. In this film, Manchuria is the specific place where the Korean western film follows a western genre epically and in style. This film aim for a revisionist western including characters, images, and actions. These all of components meets Manchuria as the specific space for making Korean western genre.