Geum-ryong Lee

Acting

Geum-ryong Lee

Born — Died

1906-06-14 — 1955-04-03

Place of birth

Hanseong, Korean Empire [now Seoul, Republic of Korea]

Known for

Acting

Credits

29 titles

Lee Geum-ryong was a Korean actor.

Known for

Film credits

1940s · 17 titles

Volunteer poster
5.5

A young man is anguished that Koreans cannot volunteer to join to Japanese Imperial Army.

Volunteer

1941

To Love and Swear poster
NR

After facing hard times, an orphan Korean boy gets adopted to Japanese society. He meets several Japanese people who are kind to him, and grows up wanting to repay his debt to Japan, by becoming a kamikaze pilot.

To Love and Swear

1945

You and I poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

You and I

1941

Spring of Korean Peninsula poster
5.8

A young filmmaker and his crew struggle to bring the famous Korean story of Chunghyang to the big screen. Torn between two very different women and facing financial ruin, the director makes a rash and foolish choice in order to realize his dreams.

Spring of Korean Peninsula

1941

No artwork available
NR

A pro-Japanese propaganda film designed to inspire Korean fishermen to cooperate with the occupying regime.

Light of the Sea

1940

Dear Soldier poster
8.0

Two Korean conscripts undergo Imperial Japanese Army training, much to the pleasure of their families.

Dear Soldier

1944

The Dawn poster
NR

An instructive film on the topic of the eradication of smuggling and democratic police.

The Dawn

1948

Wakaki sugata poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Wakaki sugata

1943

Su-u poster
NR

This is a promotional film for the police, in which an investigator calls on a priest to appoint a lawyer to free innocent Seo Yeon, who is accused of killing her smuggling husband, from custody.

Su-u

1948

A New Oath poster
NR

Three men who have been taken to the compulsory labour under the Japanese colonialism turn back to their hometown, a fishing village. They break the injustice and corrupt customs and rebuild the devastated village with the help of the village girls.

A New Oath

1947

Straits of Chosun poster
NR

A Japanese-speaking family in occupied Korea deal with the war.

Straits of Chosun

1943

Narcissus poster
NR

The heroine, a girl of marriageable age named Yu, married a thirteen-year-old fiancé, but he died three years later. Twenty years later, Yu adopts a child from a relative named Dong-gil. Dong-gil's siblings, wishing to inherit his legacy, spread rumors that Yu is having an affair with the village teacher.

Narcissus

1940

The Adventure of Ttolttori poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Adventure of Ttolttori

1946

A Fish Tale poster
7.0

A whaling vessel hunts its quarry on the open sea while its crew undergoes many hardships. During the course of their journey, they dream of their wives and families and pray for the chance to provide for the loved ones and nation.

A Fish Tale

1944

Frontier poster
9.0

One spring day when it rained. While watering the paddy fields, Geumryong gets into a fight with the neighboring young man Kokibong, but accidentally kills him. Geum-ryong is sentenced to three years in prison. Meanwhile, Go Young-ran, who is engaged to Geum-ryong, runs away from home because her parents force her to marry someone else. Geum-ryong, who has been released from prison, finds Yeong-ran, but she has become a bar clerk. However, she sees Young-ran, who is still guarding Jeongjo, and she starts anew with Young-ran.

Frontier

1942

A Song in the Year of Abundance poster
7.0

In the previous year, the harvest had been very poor and many farmers starved durng the winter. With the new growing season, it looks as if the harvest will again be bad because of a lack of rain. Young, idealistic farmer Eun-gi asks rich Kim Han to share his bounty, but the request is refused. Eun-gi's rightous fury is turned to rain by the heavens, giving the poor farmers a cause to celebrate

A Song in the Year of Abundance

1942

No artwork available
NR

An educational film about how a backward impoverished village was able to prosper thanks to the initiative of the village youth who began to grow tobacco.

Dawn of the Mountain Village

1940

1930s · 7 titles

Sweet Dream poster
5.7

Middle-class housewife Ae-soon is excessively vain and neglectful of her duties as a homemaker. Unable to tolerate her any longer, Ae-soon's husband kicks her out, and she leaves him and their daughter Jeong-hee to take up with her lover in a hotel.

Sweet Dream

1936

Frontier poster
NR

The border smuggler leader Lee Geum-ryong had a sweetheart Kim So-young, who was only looking for a chance to escape. Geum-ryong's subordinate, Jeon Taek-i, is in love with So-yeong, but helps So-yeong to escape from the smuggling lair. Geumryong's gang pursues and a fight breaks out, and Jeon-taek uses all his might to defeat the gang and crosses the border with So-yeong.

Frontier

1939

Counterattack poster
NR

A kind of method film sponsored by the Prosecutor's Office of the Government-General of Korea, adapted and directed by Ahn Jong-hwa from the original draft of Ogata (緖方), who served as the chief of the censorship at the Gyeonggi-do Police Department. Geum-ryong Lee, a rubber factory worker, inevitably commits murder and sentences to prison to finance his younger brother's tuition. His wife, Bok Hye-suk, abandons her daughter and leaves her house. Geum-ryong, who is released from prison, goes to find his wife, but his wife is cold. Geum-ryong then goes to visit his younger brother, Lee Gyeong-sun. His younger brother becomes a successful doctor, but he brutally beats his daughter. Geum-ryong and his daughter regret his past and set out on a path without a destination.

Counterattack

1936

Heartlessness poster
NR

Based on the novel of the same title by Kwang-Soo Lee (Yi Kwang-su), published in 'Maeil Shinbo' in 1917. The plot is based on the relationship of three young people - English teacher Hyeong-sik Lee, dancer Young-chae Park and Hyun-soo Kim, the daughter of a wealthy presbyter. Left an orphan in early childhood, Hyeong-sik was brought up in the house of Master Park. From childhood, Park predicted his daughter Young-chae as Hyeong-sik's wife. Master Park was a patriot, and when the Japanese invaders came to power, he was illegally convicted and imprisoned. His daughter Young-chae became a kisaeng to earn money to send packages to the prison. At this time, Hyeong-sik and Young-chae are moving away from each other, and Hyun-soo appears in the life of Hyeong-sik, whom he fell in love with and is going to marry her.

Heartlessness

1939

The Story of the Royal Inspector, Park Mun-su poster
NR

Screen adaptation of the ancient legend 'The Story of Pak Mun-su'.

The Story of the Royal Inspector, Park Mun-su

1930

The Han River poster
NR

The film depicts the reality of Joseon at the time through the conflict between the old and the new generation and the ethics between father and son. Park No-in (Yoon Bong-chun) is a boatman who believes in his profession. He intends to pass the ferry he inherited from his ancestors to his son (Lee Geum-ryong). But he doesn't want to be a boatman. When his father's compulsion grows stronger, one night he goes out alone to the riverside, caresses the oar stained by his father's hands, and then abruptly leaves.

The Han River

1938

The Consolatory Song poster
9.0

Bo-shim's father sends her to a rich man to be his concubine. Her lover, Geum-ryong, becomes a Buddhist monk in the hope of forgetting her but with little success

The Consolatory Song

1930

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