The Man with Three Coffins (1988 Korean Movie) Filming Locations

 

The Man with Three Coffins (Original Title: 나그네는 길에서도 쉬지 않는다)

Carrying his late wife's ashes to the edge of the divided nation, a grieving man encounters an aging refugee longing for his lost home—and a series of mysterious deaths shrouded in shamanic doom.

Synopsis

Sun-seok heads to a quiet seaside village on the East Coast to scatter the ashes of his wife, who passed away three years ago. Wishing to lay her to rest near her hometown in the North, he attempts to scatter her ashes along the coastline due to the painful reality of national division, but is stopped and turned away by military coastal guards.

While staying at a local inn, Sun-seok meets a sick old man who yearns to spend his final moments near his Northern hometown, accompanied by a devoted nurse. Though the old man longs to die as close to the North as possible, his son refuses to understand his wish. Soon after, the women Sun-seok meets at the inn strangely suffer from sudden fits or meet untimely deaths one after another...

General Information

Director: Lee Jang-ho

Cast: Go Seol-bong, Chu Seok-yang, Lee Bo-hee, Kim Myung-gon

Genre: Melodrama, Drama

Original Novel: Based on the short story The Man with Three Coffins by Lee Je-ha

Release Date: June 11, 1988

Original Novel & Literary Significance

Yi Sang Literary Award Winner: Winner of the prestigious 9th Yi Sang Literary Award Grand Prize in 1985, the original work intricately explores the deep sorrow (han) and scars of displaced persons caused by the national division, seamlessly blending shamanic motifs with themes of death and spiritual redemption.

Filming Locations