Sung-il Shin
Date of Birth: 08 May 1937
Country: South Korea
Biography: Born in occupied Korea, Kang Shin-yeong attended Geonguk University, majoring in Korean Literature. He made his film debut in director Shin Sang-ok's Romance Papa in 1960 and has appeared in more than 500 movies since then. In 1979, he became the chairman of the Korean Actors League and held the position for several consecutive terms. He was elected to the National Assembly where he remains to this day...
Total Credits at Criticker: 157 (Actor)
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Sin, a North Korean who as a child attempted to defect to the South with his family but was betrayed, resulting in the deaths of his parents. Plotting genocidal revenge, Sin takes up with a group of Thai pirates, and steals a U.S. ship carrying nuclear devices which have been secretly manufactured in Taiwan . He is pursued by Kang Se Jong, a naval officer who attempts to bring Sin to justice, though who gradually comes to understand, and even sympathise with his foe. (asianwiki.com)
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Lee Joonsup is a famous writer in his 40s. One day, he is informed that his mother who has been ill for more than 5 yea rs has died. Before he goes to his mother's house in the countryside to assist with the funeral, he is busy cancelling a ll his appointments and telling everyone about his mother's death. A journalist, Jang Haerim, comes to the funeral to write an article about Joonsup's literary world. (kmdb)
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One rainy day Cheol, who is a lowly auto mechanic, and Yeong-hui, who works as a maid at the home of the French ambassador, meet by chance. Cheol has a great desire to succeed in life. He tells Yeong-hui that he is the son of a businessman and pretends to be the owner of a luxury sedan. Attracted by Cheol, Yeong-hui also pretends to be the French ambassador's daughter, and the two promise to meet only on rainy days... (koreafilm.org)
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A man (Shin Seong-il) goes to the dentist and has a chance encounter with an actress (Park Su-jeong). Lying on the examining table, he falls asleep under anesthesia. In his dream, he sees the actress and the dentist (Park Am). The dentist, who looks like the devil, abuses the actress both mentally and physically under the pretext of love. (koreafilm.org)
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Two North Korean terrorists posing as Japanese tourists under the names of Shin Icho and Ma Yumi, blow up a Korean Airline flight enroute to Baghdad. When investigators catch up with the two in Bahrain, they take suicide pills but Ma Yumi is revived and forced to stand trial for her crimes.
Based on the the bombing of Korean Air Flight 858. (imdb)
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Lee Hyun-ju (played by Yoon Jung-hee) is secretly living with bank co-worker, Mr. Park (played by Shin Seong-il), who is not only incapable of satisfying her sexually, but also refuses to offer her the security of marriage. Caught between a state of discontent, the painful memories of her first love and a world of fantasy, her desires kick in. (wffis.or.kr)
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In 1983 KBS launched a campaign to reunite families torn apart in the Korean War three decades earlier. In an expert dissection of the social and familial rifts in modern Korea, director Im Kwon-taek integrates footage from the campaign into the story of Hwa-yeong, who leaves her middle-class life in Busan to search for the son she lost in Gilsotteum during the war.
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Gyeong-a overcomes the pain of being abandoned by her first love and becomes the second wife of a middle-aged man named Lee An-jun. But Yoon has a history of having driven his first wife to suicide. Gyeong-a, who once had an abortion, is cast out by Lee when her past comes to light. She takes to drink and is degraded to bar hostess by Dong-hyeok. Then she meets an artist named Mun-oh and moves in with him. They try to enjoy a happy life together. But Dong-hyeok comes looking for Gyeong-a. (koreafilm.org)
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A middle-aged man is laid off from work but is too proud to tell his family. His children, however, learn of the situation and take jobs of their own to help him save face.
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Yun Gi-jun has become the executive director of a pharmaceutical company by marrying the widowed daughter of the company CEO. With the general shareholders' meeting coming up shortly, his wife suggests that he visit his hometown of Mujin and he takes her advice. (mubi.com)
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Doo-soo, a member of a gang, comes across and helps Joanna, a college student who is about to have her handbag robbed by the bullies on her way home. (koreanfilm.or.kr)
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The film depicts conflict between the generations in a village. The elders want their children to follow the old ways, but the children pursue a newer way of life and end up supporting their parents. (en.wikipedia.org)
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A young woman is tricked into prostitution, thinking she's going to sell beverages at a village store. She soon learns about the dark world of Korea's red-light districts, where a prostitute is exploited by johns, their pimps and society. She befriends one of her johns, a country bumpkin, who keeps in touch with her over the years. The film is a look at Korea's prostitution from the 1970s to the 1990s told through her story. (imdb)
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A historical drama about Yeonsangun of Joseon as a prince trying to restore the status of his mother, the deposed and executed Queen Yun. (themoviedb)
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It is the year of the white horse that arrives every sixty years. Three women avoid sleeping with their husbands so they won't conceive girls on the year of the horse. However, young and healthy husbands fall into great dilemma. Husbands make up 'pestling' exercise to release their energy and try their best to persuade their wives. Episodes such as lying about being pregnant to avoid having intercourse bring about cold war between husbands and wives... (Korean Classic Film)
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Two college grads go to the country to modernize a small, rustic community. The woman establishes a school and the man organizes a youth hall. However, their activities arouse the suspicions of the colonial government which targets them for elimination... (imdb)
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When a man gets his face burned, his lover marries another man. After getting plastic surgery, he deliberately moves to a boarding house located next to her house. What he does is to pester her by playing the accordion melodies of their past out of vengeance. She finally gives in and repents over her past mistake. Accordingly, he also regrets his behavior and leaves her shedding everything, love or hatred. (Korean Classic Film)
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Crime ring leader Lee hires prostitute Seon to kill his subordinate Seok-gu who has threatened to take his place. Seon tempts Seok-gu to go to Mountain Seorak to assassinate him. But she falls in love with him in the journey and confesses everything to him. In fact, they have been shadowed by the spies Lee sent and bloody fight breaks out. Seok-gu in the end defeats all the villains. (Korean Classic Film)
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A poisonous white snake is transformed into a beautiful woman by a demon in order to destroy a particularly pure monk who works in the service of the goddess of mercy. (imdb)
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A woman supports a young student who was a pupil of her late husband. She soon falls in love with him and sacrifices everything for his success and happiness, knowing that it is impossible for him to love her in return. (imdb)
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"To the Last Day" is a 1960 South Korean drama film directed by Shin Sang Ok. It was entered into the 12th Berlin International Film Festival where it won the Silver Bear Extraordinary Jury Prize. (mydramalist)
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The children of the ministers slain by Queen Min in her bid for power struggle against the corrupt despot as they seek to avenge their parents' deaths... (imdb)
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During the Korean War (1950-1953), a widow working at a bar in Busan falls in love with a young man who is the manager of the bar. But she has another lover, an evil man who always abuses her. The man's outrageousness only strengthens her love for the young man. But a disease strikes her, and she dies in the young man's arms. (movie.douban)
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AKA Personal Teacher Drama directed by the Ki-duk Kim most widely known in the west for directing Yongary, Monster from the Deep.
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Based on a true story. When the heir to the throne is starved to death in a locked rice chest, his wife flees with her son to raise him in safety. (imdb)
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A young woman becomes the stepmother of four grown children. One daughter is jealous of the young interloper while one of the sons falls in love with her, but with patience she sets about winning their respect... (imdb)
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An illegitimate child works on his father's apple orchard, all the while suffering abuses from his half-brother. When his father is killed in a storm, he decides that it is time to leave his misery behind. (imdb)
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An over-protective father seeks professional advice on how to deal with his two daughters who are young adults and have begun dating. (imdb)
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A 36-year old detective falls in love with a nihilistic 19-year old shop-lifter and wonders if the relationship which develops can last. (imdb)
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After the death of his wife, Jong Seob raised his son alone. He lost his son in a car accident. Since the death of his son, Jong Seob lived all alone. He retired from his job as a principle. Jong Seob is then diagnosed with colon cancer and learns he has only 6 months left to live. All his desire to live is gone, but he still wants to keep his dignity.Jong Seob tries to hire a caregiver. A woman named Yeon Hwa comes to him. She is beautiful, but looks sad... (mydramalist)
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When King Heon-kong falls ill, a power struggle erupts over who will inherit the throne. Tired of all the infighting, the ministers arrange for a branch of the king's family, which had lost all its wealth and was living on remote Ganghwa Island, to inherit. But the heir to the throne is reluctant to leave his island home. (imdb)
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A woman could not hear from her husband, who departed with her during the Korean War (1950-1953). As a beauty, she is tempted by many men. She just waits for the news from her husband under the protection of his friend who she gets married to in the end. A long time later her husband who went to the North by force in the name of serving in a volunteer troop comesto the South to meet her since he could not forget her. (mydramalist)
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A well behaved female prisoner, on parole, is set to return to prison. On the train ride back to prison she encounters a man who is actually a fugitive. (mydramalist)
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A nobleman sends his daughter to the king as a concubine in order to gain personal power and favors from the monarch. Her lover follows her into the palace disguised as a eunuch. They continue to meet in secret until discovered and sentenced to death. (imdb)
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The film is a melodrama about a man who falls in love with a woman while traveling to Seoraksan. The man becomes infatuated with the woman's hair. The woman, who has a terminal illness, promises to leave her hair to the manafter she has died. Later the man finds that the woman has died, and her hair has been sold to someone else. He then has a romantic relationship with another woman who turns out to be... (mydramalist)
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Based on the folktale of Shim Cheong, a young girl who lives with her blind father. To provide for her father, she sells herself for 300 bags of rice to a Chinese merchant but she regrets her action and attempts suicide by jumping into the sea. She is rescued by the sea king who falls in love with her and enables Shim Cheong to restore her father's vision. (mydramalist)
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AKA A Girl Who Looks Like the Sun; In Yeong, a repeater of entrance exam, happened to know a murderer Dong Soo on her way to the sea. As she loses 48,000 won in front of the ticket window and can't join her friends, Chang Yun comes to there looking for her. While he is looking for In Yeong, he meets Yeon Suk, an elderly unmarried writer, who asks him to go to the sea together. But Chang Yun runsaway from her to find In Yeong. (mydramalist)
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Four friends struggle with life, philosophy and love during the Sino-Japanese War. (imdb)
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A beautiful smuggler is convinced by a police detective to turn evidence against her associates... (imdb)
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An island girl goes to Seoul looking for the man who is the father of her unborn child. Learning that he has gone abroad to study, she attempts suicide. Failing in her attempt, she decides to live for the child finally giving the baby up to its father when he returns. (imdb)
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A general's wife is kidnapped and sold into slavery to a nearby kingdom. She gives birth to his son there. Decades later, the general and son meet on the battlefield on opposite sides in a war... (imdb)
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A young woman returns from her overseas studies to find that her fiance has accepted the 'services' of the wife of a man who owed him money in return for cancelling his debt... (imdb)
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AKA A Certain Love Affair; As her husband can no longer have sex with a spinal disease, a woman becomes discontented and commits adultery with a stranger. The day he finds her unfaithfulness, he is so angry that he tries to test his sexual ability. To his surprise, he proves quite normal. Then they make a happy family again. (mydramalist)
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A woman, dissatisfied with her husband who works hard but neglects his homelife, begins a relationship with her husband's boss. (imdb)
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In 1950, my brother directed guerrillas in the vicinity of the Maekeling Mountains. The younger brother of a senior cadre serving in the defense department will put his biological father to death as a reactionary. Feel guilty brother after intense mental struggle decided to brother command guerrillas surrendered. On the way to surrender, my brother was accidentally shot dead by the guerrillas. (mtime.com)
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A man aids the North Korean army during the Korean War and then tries to flee to the north upon its conclusion. (imdb)
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A portion of a gang of organized criminals decides they want to abandon crime and live an honest life. However, their co-workers will not allow this without a fight. (imdb)
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Two lovers escape from North Korea but become seperated in the south. The man becomes a newspaper reporter and the woman, a pickpocket. When they meet again, she is unable to be truthful about what she does for a living and her associates don't want to let her leave their gang. (imdb)
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A girl from the country falls deeply in love with a man from Seoul. However, he refuses to have anything to do with her as he has been promised in marriage since he was a child... (imdb)
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A man's family violently opposes his plan to marry a poor girl. The girl's mother is so disappointed and humiliated that she dies. His parents arrange for him to marry a politician's daughter but later learn that his bride-to-be may be his half-sister. (imdb)
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A woman is forced to choose between the man who loves her and the man who threatens her life if she rejects him. (imdb)
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A boy is raised by an underworld boss after the death of his parents in the Korean War. As a young adult, he falls in love with a nightclub pianist and attempts to leave his life of crime, but his foster father will see him dead before he allows that. (imdb)
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The story of a man who graduates with honors from a military academy. (imdb)
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A woman attempts to seduce a rich man so she can convince him to help him pay for her dying sister's hospital bill. (imdb)
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Lawyer Woo Yeong-ho divorces his wife to marry the much younger Kyeong-suk. However his daughter, who spends time at both of her parents houses, drives a wedge between Yeong-ho and Kyeong-suk and has the lawyer looking to his ex-wife for comfort and advice... (imdb)
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The matriarch of an upper-class family assumes that money can solve all problems. She forces her two eldest daughters to marry into money against their wills. She encourages her third daughter to divorce her husband when his business goes bankrupt. However her lust for riches is destroying her own marriage. (imdb)
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A married man carries on a secret, incestuous relationship with his half-sister. (imdb)
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A group of young men join the resistance movement to help free Kore from Japanese rule prior to World War II while their lovers struggle to keep their daily lives intact. (imdb)
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A woman seeks revenge on her father for the way he treated her mother. To this end, she assumes an alias and takes a job in her father's company so she can destroy it from the inside by giving away coporate secrets to her father's business rivals. (imdb)
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An angry young man with a strong dislike of society and social norms finds himself the object of a tug-of-war between a wealthy woman of noble lineage and a poor orphan girl... (imdb)
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A family becomes seperated during the evacuation of Seoul. Eventually the father starts another family. Several years later, he hires a tutor for his young children and is delighted to discover that he has hired his daughter. He excitedly arranges to meet his first wife, never taking the time to consider the consequences ... (imdb)
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A man is prevented from marrying the woman he loves because of her lack of family background. (imdb)
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Ok-hwa dies of a broken heart after she is forbidden to marry above her class. Her ghost haunts her former lover making his life, and the life of his new bride, unbearable. (imdb)
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A man goes hunting for deer but accidently shoots his girlfriend instead. He goes into shock and suffers from amnesia. His doctor takes him to a villa in the mountains for treatment where he meets a woman who is the spitting image of his lover... (imdb)
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The villagers of Dolmuji in Hwanghae Province suffer terribly under the cruelty of their oppressors in North Korea. Armed with crude farming implements, they rise up against the heavily armed soldiers. All of the villagers are killed except for an elderly man and a young boy who remain in the empty village to tell the tale. (imdb)
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A concubine plots drive the queen into exile and she usurps her place on the throne while nobles, loyal to the old queen, try to convince the king of the new queen's cruel actions and ambitions. (imdb)
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While trying to escape from North Korea during the division of the Korean Peninsula, a woman is captured by northern soldiers and seperated from her family. They train her as a spy using the threat of harm to her son as leverage. She is unaware that her son actually made it safely into the south. (imdb)
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A married man falls in love with a journalist he met while being interviewed. His wife and children find out and the man leaves his home to wander the streets. Eventually, he accidently wanders in front of a train. The journalist decides that she also must end her life as penance for the unhappiness and tragedy she has brought the family... (imdb)
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Kyeong-su, a child living in an orphanage, learns that his mother is alive and living in Japan. He tries to find a way to cross the see and winds up stowing away on a cargo ship. (imdb)
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Three traditional Korean folktales. Story 1: The kindness and good deeds of a poor couple earns them a bag of gold from heaven. Story 2: A brave man battles a bloodthirsty ghost. Story 3: A man must choose between devotion to his lover or duty to his parents. (imdb)
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An earnest young man succeeds at business through honesty, loyalty, and hardwork despite being criticized and alienated by his co-workers. (imdb)
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Two traditional stories. In the first, a girl marries the bravest man in the village so she can send him into a monster's lair to collect an mystic herb which can save her father's life. In the second story, even death cannot prevent a devoted wife from helping in her husband's success. (imdb)
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Although she doesn't love the man she weds, Jeong-eun follows her parents wishes and tries to make the marriage work. However, she soon comes to learn that her husband has a quick temper and an extremely jealous streak in him which makes her situation even more unbearable. (imdb)
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The head of a happy family becomes infatuated with a poor, homeless woman. He sheds himself of his home, family and friends to join her in a wandering group of beggars. (imdb)
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A former kisaeng is forced to give in to her father-in-law's demands and give her children to him to be raised after her husband passes away. (imdb)
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In-su's discovers a young woman who has grown up without human contact deep in the mountains. Once bought back to civilization, the girl makes quick progress with language and adapting to the luxuries of modern life has trouble dealing with the coldness of people and the restrictions of society... (imdb)
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A singer seeks to escape her obsession for a man who has no feelings for her by beginning a career outside the country. She becomes a hit in Japan but, unable to forget the object of her desire, she throws away her success and returns home, hoping to finally convince the man to love her... (imdb)
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Lee Jung-won leads a failed couop in 1884 and then flees for his life to Japan. He returns to Korea years later after conspiring with the Japanese government to kill the queen of Korea and pave the way for Japanese occupation which would last until the end of World War II. (imdb)
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Shi-do escapes the gangsters who are chasing him by drinking a potion created by Dr Kim which makes him invisible. (imdb)
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A seamstress falls in love with a photographer. While he returns her feelings, he is indebted to another woman who paid his tuition. (imdb)
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Charged with political activism, a man and his girlfriend are imprisoned. The man convinces his girlfriend to sleep with the warden in order to win favor so they can escape. She does as he wishes but kills herself afterwards. Her brother sets out to seek revenge on her boyfriend and the warden... (imdb)
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A bored housewife falls in love with a young man. While she argues with her husband about this situation, her husband is accidently killed. She finds herself under arrest for manslaughter... (imdb)
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The son of a mute couple succeeds in getting a good job, but is dismayed when he learns that he may have gotten the job, not based on his business skill, but on his ability to speak sign language. This rumor comes about because the boss has a deaf daughter whom he wants to marry off as soon as possible... (imdb)
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Parentless, the oldest of five takes a job in a mill to support his younger siblings. He works hard but is stingy with the money he earns as he hopes to save it for his brothers and sister. However, his girlfriend is not so accepting of this situation... (imdb)
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Sang-jin promises to marry Seong-ok when he returns from studying abroad, but he cannot locate his fiance upon his return. Instead, he marries Yun-kyeong. Several years later, a friend brings Sang-jin a 10 year old girl and claims that she is his and Seong-ok's daughter ... (imdb)
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Trainer Meng Doo-ho spots Young-chul in a bar fight and decides to turn him into a boxing champion. (themoviedb)
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Jeong-woo tries to be a good wife and mother but, after witnessing her husband's adultery, her anger drives her into the arms of another man. (imdb)
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Major Jo Jin-hyang is assigned to training the air force cadets for dangerous bombing runs to Pyeongyang. His sister, a communication officer, falls in love with one of the cadets despite Jin-hyang's warnings that her lover may not survive even his first mission... (imdb)
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Chae-Hwa, daughter of Chinese mother and Korean father, comes to Korea for the first time in 13 years to be a teacher. While she is teaching English, she falls in love with a handsome teacher Ho-Cheol. Chae-Hwa finds that her father already remarried and advises her mother in Hong Kong to divorce. Her mother agrees on that. A student who loves Ho-Cheol makes Chae-Hwa be in trouble several times, but later Chae-Hwa finds that she is her half sister... (koreanfilm.or.kr)
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A rich businessman is the victim of a plot deployed by his stepmother and his best friend to deprive him of his money and girlfriend... (imdb)
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A new teacher organizes a volleyball game to boost school spirit and self confidence while fighting with the conservative school board and chauvanistic principal. Two of her students run away and the teacher's liberal methods and free thinking are blamed. The teacher is fired and tries to sneak away during the volleyball match which she succeeded in pushing through. (imdb)
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Mr Park is having difficulties with his three children. He locks his eldest daughter, a deaf mute, in her room to prevent her from meeting her ex-convict boyfriend. His son has fallen in love with a naive country bumpkin and his second daughter is forced to endure the insults of her boyfriend's wealthy family who look down on her middle-class background. (imdb)
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Kang-ae, a successful novelist and playwrite, dreams of success for her daughter, Da-mi. But Da-mi resents her mother and the expectations placed on her. She decides to leave her mother and go with her father in Japan. (imdb)
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Xia Guoxiu and Xiu Ming are an ordinary couple who have a daughter. The couple took their children to the ski resort on vacation... (movie.mtime)
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Jang-su and Su-myeong go to live in Seoul, but Jang-su loses his hand in a street fight. He returns to his hometown alone and helps take care Sun-nyeo who is expecting Su-myeong's baby. Everyone misunderstands their friendship and Su-myeong returns to beat the truth out of his friend. (imdb)
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Mrs Seo tries to save her widowed daughter-in-law's honor while waging a grudge war against the laborers whose job it is to deliver water from door to door. (imdb)
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In 1884, conflicts arose between two factions in the king's court. One group wanted to maintain the trade treaties with China while the other wanted Korea to ally with Japan. As the confusion becomes more severe, Kim Ok-hyeon takes adavantage of the chaos to declare himself king. (imdb)
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A couple marry but then become separated during the Korean War. Each remarries only to meet again years later. (imdb)
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Old Mr and Mrs Kim host a family reunion to celebrate the promotion of one of their children. They decide to visit each of their children's homes scattered across the nation and as they do, they come to realize how much Korea has developed since the end of the war. (imdb)
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Baishan's transfer of military supplies for the Independence Army was captured by Zhou Hao, a Chinese luxury family. Baishan disciples such as Bai Guang, Riping, Yanxi, and Dashan made emergency mobilizations and arrived from all directions to plan for the rescue master. Under the guidance of Rose, the crowd launched a surprise attack on Zhou Baihao's family and unfortunately defeated and withdrawn. Rose was hijacked by Zhou Baihao.... (baike.baidu.com)
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Korean by birth, Bae Jeong-ja was adopted by a Japanese official and assisted in the annexation of Korea until she met freedom fighter Hong-jun who restored her sense of patriotism. (imdb)
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Su-il goes overseas to study with his future father-in-law's financial assistence. Over time he falls out of touch with the family because of his studies. His girlfriend's family begins struggling financially, and after failing to contact him, his girlfriend marries a rich man to solve her families economic situation. (imdb)
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Shin and Suk have become well-known as singers but Shin misunderstands their professional relationship to be an emotional commitment. Hurt that Suk has fallen in love with Ji-seung, Shin decides to confront his rival and fight for the woman he loves... (imdb)
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After World War II, Moscow and Washington wrangle over the division of Korea while Kim Ku, the leader of the freedom fighters against Japanese colonialism, goes on a doomed mission to Pyeongyang in a desparate attempt to keep the country together. (imdb)
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A look at the Korean War through the eyes of a mute boy who was kept as a mascot by a regiment of soldiers near the front lines. (imdb)
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Jin-suk escapes from North Korea and makes a new life for herself and her daughter in Seoul. Believing that she will never see her husband again, Jin-suk marries air-force pilot, Min-su, to give her daughter a father figure. However, her husband soon defects into South Korea wanting to locate his wife and find freedom to live as he pleases ... (imdb)
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Lt Kang leads an attack on a village that has been occupied by the North Korean soldiers during the beginning of the Korean War. Kim Hong-kil, a teenager, at first fiercely resists Kang but eventually comes to realize that the propaganda spread by the communist soldiers has poisoned his mind against his would-be saviours... (imdb)
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After 14 years of self-imposed exile, a man returns to his hometown and discovers it has been dramatically industrialized. He searches for his ex-girlfriend but learns that she is already married to someone else. (imdb)
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Cheol-san and his ten friends oppose first Japanese colonialism and then, following WWII, they resist the communist take-over. However the US forces mistake their allegiance and they meet tragic ends at Namrodang. (imdb)
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Eun-hie takes advantage of Mr Choi, squeezing as much money as she can from the wealthy man. However, she starts craving true love and turns her attentions to gentle, but married, Mr Ahn... (imdb)
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Seol becomes impatient waiting for her husband who has gone to Pusan, leaving her behind in Seoul to care for her father-in-law. She decides to go to Pusan to find him and demand that he comes home, but what she finds instead is love. (imdb)
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A war breaks out and all the men in a village are taken away to fight. Gyu-bok has run from the battle, ending up at the village where Jum-rye helps him to hide. Romance develops between them and a rumor spreads of a man in the village. Sa-wol follows Jum-rye and threatens to expose Gyu-bok unless she can sleep with him. Will Gyu-bok agree to her conditions or surrender? And what will come of the forest fire started to oust the guerrilla fighters? (imdb)
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Yeong-ah falls in love with Hyeong-jun after picking his pocket and the two have a child together. However, his justifiably suspicious wife in Hong Kong begins having Hyeong-jun followed. Yeong-ah kills the private eye but not before her secrets are revealed... (imdb)
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In the 20th year of Shinji, the Japanese mobilized 200,000 soldiers to occupy Pyongyang. Pyongyang names, Ji Yuexiang, and Chuang Lan both faced danger. Choi Lan was unfortunately raped by the Japanese and was later murdered. Ji Yuexiang had no choice but to commit himself to occupying the commander at that time. However, Ji Yuexiang's ear responded to the words of lover Jin Qingrui from time to time, and he was determined to kill the occupying division... (movie.mtime)
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AKA Take Care of the Weak and Poor; Come Down to a Lower Place; Come Low Unto Us; Yo-han is the son of a Christian minister. Following his father's career, he joins the seminary without much enthusiasm, then drops out. After doing his military service as a KATUSA, he teaches at the U.S. educational center. When he is given a job teaching in America, he hastily marries in preparation for the move. He is suddenly struck blind, then begins contemplating suicide. (Wikipedia)
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In ancient China, a salt merchant takes three wives. However their rivalry, plots and in-fighting destroy more than one family. (imdb)
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A man living in exhile during the Japanese occupation period of Korea fights injustice everywhere he finds it as he prepares to battle his arch-rival. (imdb)
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College girl Jang-mi, has trouble coping after her break up with with Kyu-sik. She suffers from the relationship with her emotionally distant father and falls for a mid-aged man she encounters on a train. This she abandons because he's married, and wanders aimlessly into being a prostitute. Kyu-sik's harsh judgment when he finds out, leads to her overdose on sleeping pills. This results in her stay in a mental hospital where she may fall in love again. (imdb)
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An actor looks around him and is disgusted by the greed and materialism he sees in those whom he used to respect. (imdb)
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Hyeon-woo finds himself a widower when his wife accidently kills herself with natural gas. A year later, he becomes acquainted with a young woman who wants to be a singer. He helps her, but when she is finally on the road to success, she takes his money and leaves. Hyeon-woo becomes embittered towards women until he meets Jin-suk, However, her brother may stand in the way of their union... (imdb)
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Wol-ra decides that she wants to have a baby, but she does not necessarily want to get married. She sets out to find a man of intellect and talent so she can bear a child with these qualities. (imdb)
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AKA Home of the Stars 2; Su Kyung shows signs of mental derangement. She falls in love with Mun Oh who is suffering from lung disease. Su Kyung has a baby and deceives Mun Oh into believing that it is his whereas it is actually Yeong Min's baby. Meanwhile, when Mun Oh tries to raise the child aware of the truth, Su Kyung throws a fit instead. She brings the baby to Yeong Min and leaves Mun Oh.Yeong Min leaves his daughter, Kyung Ah, with a minister. Mun Oh goes looking for her. (mydramalist)
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AKA City Hunter; Seung Hye suffers from her husband's inhuman behavior towards her. After another sleepless night, she takes a walk in the early morning and meets an architect named Hyun Guk. Hyun Guk has been estranged for 6 years from his wife who is in a nursing home for the mental disease. They try to find answers to their dilemmas. But Seung Hye suffers from guilt brought on by her religious background and hefeels guilt towards his sick wife. (mydramalist)
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AKA Under an Umbrella; A painter on the verge of suicide finds comfort in Seon-hie. She gives birth to his son but his mother forces him to separate from her. He decides the way to financial independence from his mother is to win a national art contest. (imdb)
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AKA One Night at a Strange Place; Hye Rin and Dong Hyun run into each other on the beach and spend the night together. They part without any promise. After 5 years, Hye Rin is hired to work in the same office with Dong Hyun and they are reunited. Hye Rin secretly had his daughter Young Ie but he was married to Ji Young. (mydramalist)
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Su Jung, only child of a millionaire, supports Sung Min who came from poor background. He becomes a doctor but they start getting apart. He falls in love with Mi Ok who plays piano at a salon and Su Jung bribes people around him to destroy him. He loses his memory and Mi Ok takes care of him. Su Jung finds them and try to take him away from Mi Ok. (mydramalist)
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AKA Naega salanghaetda; I Loved; The poet Ha Bin meets with Nam Mi Ri on a rainy day which brings them misfortune. The next day, Ha Bin goes to see Mi Ri but meets her fiancee, Son Du Ho, instead. Du Ho is the executive in charge of overseas business at the company of Mi Ri's father. He is also the boss of a drug smuggling ring. Mi Ri's stepmother, Kang Hye In, is the director ofdomestic sales at Dong Hae Trade. (mydramalist)
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Mrs Hong did her best to protect her daughter, Na-mi, from hardships and the pain of life. However, one day, Na-mi is kidnapped and forced to serve in a brothel. Mrs Hong rescues the raped and battered Na-mi but the girl kills herself to escape the memory of the humiliation and terror she experienced. Mrs Hong sets out to seek violent revenge on the men responsible... (imdb)
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Du-jin the sailor meets Eun-ju, the fish market girl who sells more than fish, at a bar. She escapes from Heuksan Island when he stows her away. The two get married on the ship and find marital bliss. But Madam Maigori has sent word so when they dock in Mokpo, Eun-ju is caught and sent to another island. She's shifted from one island to the next until settling on Younpyung Island. (imdb)
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A Korean woman raised in Spain with European values towards life and romance finds living in her ancestral land stifling and it eats away at her vitality. (imdb)
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AKA Love Song of Lethe; Hee Won is a news reporter for a magazine. She runs into Min Seung Woo who was once her lover when she was a teacher. Hee Won is attracted by Seung Woo's charm but her parents do not approve of their relationship for his past of misfortune having grown up an orphan. She is proposed to marry Song Yun Shik whom she was fixed up by a matchmaker but that only assuresher of her love for Seung Woo. (mydramalist)
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A mystery novel writer Se Won gets a visit from the neighborhood city detective Choi. She is shocked to learn that the same crimes depicted in her novel are happening in real life. Unable to contain her curiosity, she goes to the city herself, but the third crime in her novel takes place. A fortuneteller predicts that after the 'calling of the spirit' ritual is completed, the fourth crime will take place. (mydramalist)
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After pursuing and catching a hit-and-run driver, two policemen stumble onto a gang of drug dealers. One is killed and his partner, taken off the case because of his hot temper, must find another means of justice. (imdb)
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Se-hie decides to break off her affair with Jin-hyun after she meets his wife at a publisher's party. However, Jin-hyun's wife is not going to make things easy on Se-hie once she realizes what has been going on. (imdb)
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Former Minister of National Security, Park Jin-wook, is kidnapped from the US by South Korean agents because he was about to reveal secrets concerning the rise of the military dictatorship of the 1980's. (imdb)
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The final chapter of the General's Son trilogy tells the story of Kim Du-han, (Sang-min Park) a gangster turned politician during the Japanese occupation of Korea. (imdb)
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AKA A Don Quixote; After witnessing a boy commit suicide because of stress in school, three highschool friends invent a machine that allows one to successfully study while asleep. Dubbed the Kul-kul machine, they test it on the lowest ranked student in their class. Their experiment is a success and the student gets all A's however, he discontinues using the machine because his friends have begun to avoid him now that he is so smart. (imdb)
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AKA A Sketch of a Rainy Day; The story of Ji-su who life was torn by two women in his life. One of them is his step-sister and the other is a barroom dancer named Kyung-ja. "A Sketch of a Rainy Day" marks the directorial debut of Jae-young Kwak - who would go on later to direct My Sassy Girl and other popular Korean films. (mydramalist)
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On an errand to another temple, a young Buddhist monk becomes entranced with a beautiful nun he spies upon from a distance. When the two finally meet, they fall in love, but face the trauma of breaking their spiritual vows if the relationship continues. (mydramalist)
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Sang-hun, a painter, and Yeong-hun, a doctor, are brothers. Sang-hun's girlfriend left him for another man, and he draws her portrait everyday. Yeong-hun, the older of the two, makes a medical mistake, and his young patient dies. Because of the guilty conscience, he abandons the career as a doctor and devotes himself to writing a novel. However, the brothers have high self-esteem and finally overcome their weaknesses to make a fresh start. ( Korean Classic Film)
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A student protester is injured when police break up a demonstration. He is aided by a prostitute and falls in love with her despite their age difference. His employer knows the situation but his daughter loves the student. He comes up with a plan to reveal the prostitute's past and publically humiliate her.
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Suk-hee's mother is remarried to a man who has a son a year senior to Suk-hee. The two don't get along well at first, but soon they grow intimate. Suk-hee learns, though, that she needs to give up her love for her mother's happiness. One day she leaves her mother and her new family and goes on her way to her hometown, where she sees a Zelkova tree.
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A group of students deal with family dynamics While the students, full of vigor in their twenties, make a stand against their parents who regard dating as a sin, they enjoy their springtime of life to the full showing affection in their own way. In the meantime, their parents get to understand them and their children receive their parents’ blessing.
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A patriot Park No-Hun is dispatched by the Shanghai Provisional Government for Independence to assassinate members of the House of Council. In this situation Young-Kuk, the brother of Hyeon-Ju who is a kisaeng of Myeong Wol Kwan, is jailed and Choi Chil-Yong, an inspector of the Japanese Higher Police Department, is in agony of difficulties between Korea and Japan. Shin Yun-Il, a member of the council falls in love with a kisaeng whose name is Jeong-Mi.
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As the daughter-in-law of a prestigious family, she had to live in a tearful marriage with strict mother-in-law and a young husband. Her husband, who had grown up in the meantime, returned home with a Japanese woman on her way home from studying abroad, and demanded a divorce from her. Her wife complies with her husband's request and agrees to her divorce, but when the Japanese woman learns that he is her husband, she returns to Japan. He is not healthy from drinking too much, but her wife is de
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