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}} Shin Sang-ok (October 18, 1926 – April 11, 2006) was a prolific South Korean film producer and director with more than 100 producer and 70 director credits to his name. His best-known films were made in the 1950s and 60s when he was known as the "Prince of Korean Cinema". He received the Gold Crown Cultural Medal, the country's top honor for an artist. He is also known for having been kidnapped by the previous North Korean leader, Kim Jong-il, for the purpose of producing critically acclaimed films. He was born Shin Tae-seo; he later changed his name to Shin Sang-ok when he started working in the film industry. ==South Korean period (1926–1978)== The son of a prominent doctor of Chinese medicine, Shin Sang-ok was born in Chongjin, in the northeastern part of the Korean Peninsula, at the time occupied by Japan and currently a part of North Korea. Shin studied in Japan at Tokyo Fine Arts School, the predecessor of Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, before returning to Korea three years later.〔("Accounting practices blamed for slump in Japanese films" ) by Kakumi Kobayashi, ''Japan Times'', October 13, 2000, retrieved January 26, 2006〕〔(Biography at asianfilms.org )〕 Shin started his film career as an assistant production designer on Choi In-kyu's ''Viva Freedom!'', the first Korean film made after the country achieved independence from Japan. During the "Golden Age" of South Korean cinema in the late 1950s and 1960s, Shin worked prolifically, often directing two or more films per year, earning the nickname the "Prince of Korean Cinema"〔("Pleasure and Pain" ) by Chuck Stephens, ''The Village Voice'', February 27 – March 5, 2002〕 Shin featured the Western princess, female sex workers for American soldiers, in ''The Evil Night'' (1952) and ''A Flower in Hell'' (1958). The production company he started, Shin Films, produced around 300 films during the 1960s,〔 including ''Prince Yeonsan'' (1961), the winner of the Best Film prize at the first Grand Bell Awards ceremony, and a Grand Bell Award-winning 1964 remake of Na Woon-gyu's 1926 ''Beongeoli Sam-ryong''. During the 1970s, Shin became less active, while South Korea's cinema industry in general suffered under strict censorship and constant government interference. Most of the films he directed during this period ended up being flops. After Shin ran afoul of the repressive government in 1978, General Park Chung Hee closed Shin's studio.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Shin Sang-ok」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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