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A Touch-Me-Not

1956 film by Kim Ki-young

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ7828551 ↗
Source-derived summary

A Touch-Me-Not (Korean: 봉선화) is a 1956 South Korean film directed by Kim Ki-young.

Synopsis

The film is a historical melodrama about a love triangle within a group of bandits.

Cast

Na Gang-hui

An Seok-jin

Beak Song

Hong Il-hwa

Ko Seol-bong

Go Seon-ae

Park Am

Lee Hyeon

Kang Kye-shik

Jo Hyang

References

Bibliography

Berry, Chris. "A Touch-Me-Not". [The House of Kim Ki-young]. Archived from the original on 2004-09-07. Retrieved 2008-01-23.

A Touch-Me-Not (1956) at IMDb

"A Touch-Me-Not (Bongseonhwa) (1956)". [KMDb Korean Movie Database]. Retrieved 2026-08-15.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “A Touch-Me-Not” as 1956 film by Kim Ki-young. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1956, 2004, 2008, 2026—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1956-11-10. The account is most persuasive where Touch-Me-Not, film and Ki-young can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as 1956 film by Kim Ki-young. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7828551. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1956, 2004, 2008 and 2026.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  • Identifying works and editions
  • Tracing reception history
  • Finding collection records
Verify next

The original object or edition, catalogue raisonné, performance record, rights file and holding institution.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “A Touch-Me-Not”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow A Touch-Me-Not primary sources, A Touch-Me-Not archive and Touch-Me-Not research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “A Touch-Me-Not”?
  2. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
  3. Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “A Touch-Me-Not” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.