
Acting
Geum-ryong Lee
Born 1906-06-14 · Hanseong, Korean Empire [now Seoul, Republic of Korea]
Lee Geum-ryong was a Korean actor.
Acting credits
A pro-Japanese propaganda film designed to inspire Korean fishermen to cooperate with the occupying regime.
Light of the Sea
1940
5.5A young man is anguished that Koreans cannot volunteer to join to Japanese Imperial Army.
Volunteer
1941
5.7Middle-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
8.0Two Korean conscripts undergo Imperial Japanese Army training, much to the pleasure of their families.
Dear Soldier
1944
7.0No synopsis available yet.
You and I
1941
NRAn instructive film on the topic of the eradication of smuggling and democratic police.
The Dawn
1948
NRThe 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
5.8A 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
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Farewell
1927
NRA 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
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Wakaki sugata
1943
NRAfter 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
NRScreen adaptation of the ancient legend 'The Story of Pak Mun-su'.
The Story of the Royal Inspector, Park Mun-su
1930
9.0Bo-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
NRA Japanese-speaking family in occupied Korea deal with the war.
Straits of Chosun
1943
NRNo synopsis available yet.
The Adventure of Ttolttori
1946
7.0A 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
NRThe 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
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
NRThis 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
NRBased 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
NRThe hero leaves Korea. But the village where Korean immigrants live is attacked by Chinese bandits. The hero and his friends want to return to Korea. Japanese police officers fire shots at border trespassers.
In Search of Love
1928
NRThree 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
9.0One 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