This box set released by the Korean Film Archive contains four classic films from director Lee Seong-gu: The Sun and The Moon, based on Hwang Sun-won’s book of the same title; When Buckwheat Flowers Bloom based on Lee Hyo-seok’s book of the same title; The General's Mustache, based on Lee Eo-ryeong’s novella of the same title and adapted by Kim Seung-ok; and Seven People in the Cellar, an adaptation of Yun Je-byeong ’s play Return to the Hometown Covered with Moss.
 
Director Lee Seong-gu achieved the production of a “Korean modernist movie” through the genre of literary pictures and is acclaimed as a prolific director of Korean films in the 1960s. Director Lee shook the existing genre film paradigm that was common in the Korean film industry by using a modernist movie style and expanded the boundaries of Korean genre movies. An elaborate mise-en-scene and bold editing stand out in the four films included in the “Lee Seong-gu Collection.”
 
This collection shows a high cinematic brilliance that is unprecedented in commercial DVDs that mainly focus on new films by including supplements such as digitally restored clips, subtitles in Korean, English and Japanese, booklets, a trailer, and an image gallery. The 68-page booklet not only introduces the filmography of the director but also contains a commentary on the director by Jeong Jong-hwa, a researcher of the Korean Film Archive, and a review of the film by Park Yu-hee, a professor in the department of creative writing of Korea University in Korean and English. Furthermore, The General’s Moustache includes an audio commentary by movie critic/director Jung Sung-il, and Seven People in the Cellar includes an audio commentary by director Kim Dai-seung, who directed Blood Rain and Shadows in the Palace, and reporter Joo Sung-cheol.