Genealogy
β 6 Β· 1979 Β· 107m Β· Drama
During the Japanese occupation of South Korea, a Japanese bureaucrat is ordered to persuade an influential Korean patriarch into obeying the law of changing his Korean surname to a Japanese one.
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