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Which Korean films feature or adapt pansori stories?
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Two notable films directed by Im Kwon-Taek have been instrumental in bringing international attention to the pansori tradition:
- Sopyonje (1993): This film depicts the lives and struggles of a family of pansori singers during the 1950s.123
- Chunhyang (2000): This film serves as a direct adaptation of the famous love story recounted in the Chunhyangga song cycle, one of the traditional pansori epics.12