Kim Kang-yun

Writing

Kim Kang-yun

Born — Died

1923-01-01 — 1994-01-01

Known for

Writing

Credits

19 titles

Kim Kang-yun was a South Korean screenwriter.

Known for

The Testimony poster
4.0

June 25, 1950. When second lieutenant Jang has a date with his girl friend during weekend, numerous North Korean jet fighters make sudden air raids to the skies of Seoul. It is the beginning of Korean War. In spite of Korean Army's brave defense, North Korean army reddens South Korea with their state-of-the-art weapons. This movie describes the progress of war from the invasion in June 25, 1950 to the reclamation of territory on the basis of Sun-A's personal experience. Also this film reminds hard lessons from tragic history.

The Testimony

1974

Nameless Stars poster
5.2

The son of a freedom fighter, Sang-hun is a member of an anti-Japanese resistance group called "Seongjinhoe," composed of students who share a dedication to the cause of liberation. Their spiritual guide is a teacher named Song Un-in. One day, Yeong-ae, whose brother is a detective in the Japanese police force charged with monitoring independence movements, joins their group. Following a series of sporadic incidents, the students gather one night to resolve on an uprising, but are discovered by the police. Young-ae is wrongfully accused of betraying their plans, but she risks her life in order to allow the group members to escape. The morning after, the students of Gwangju rise up against the Japanese government.

Nameless Stars

1959

Ghost Story poster
8.0

An omnibus of the story of three women. In the first, a ghost takes revenge on the man who killed her sister. In story two, a woman decides it's payback time for a sexual predator. The final story tells the tale of a woman's opium addiction leading to a gruesome death.

Ghost Story

1968

Deaf Sam Yong poster
7.2

The film is based on the 1925 short story of the same title by Na Do-hyang and revolves around the story of a deaf farm hand who is in love with a landlord's daughter-in-law.

Deaf Sam Yong

1964

Cruel Revenge poster
NR

President Choi of Dongseo Shipping is at the verge of bankruptcy because one of his ships has sunk. Right on time, a man comes to Choi and offers to lend money by taking his remaining real estates as security and staying at his place. The man turns out to be a son that Choi has abandoned. The mother has died after living a hard life, and he wants revenge.

Cruel Revenge

1969

The Evergreen poster
7.4

Yeong-shin and Dong-hyuk graduate from college with a cause. They plan to bring education and modernization to farmers living in the rural area of their hometown. When they arrive, the pair immediately get to work, Dong-hyuk builds a village hall and starts aiding the farmers while Yeong-shin tries to gather the children to form a school. However, the villagers at first resent and resist the pair. It is not until one child, Ok-bun, takes the initiative and and learns to read under Yeong-shin’s care that the villages trust the pair and allow their children to be taken from the fields and taught reading, writing and math.

The Evergreen

1961

Behind the camera

The Testimony poster
4.0

June 25, 1950. When second lieutenant Jang has a date with his girl friend during weekend, numerous North Korean jet fighters make sudden air raids to the skies of Seoul. It is the beginning of Korean War. In spite of Korean Army's brave defense, North Korean army reddens South Korea with their state-of-the-art weapons. This movie describes the progress of war from the invasion in June 25, 1950 to the reclamation of territory on the basis of Sun-A's personal experience. Also this film reminds hard lessons from tragic history.

The Testimony

1974

Nameless Stars poster
5.2

The son of a freedom fighter, Sang-hun is a member of an anti-Japanese resistance group called "Seongjinhoe," composed of students who share a dedication to the cause of liberation. Their spiritual guide is a teacher named Song Un-in. One day, Yeong-ae, whose brother is a detective in the Japanese police force charged with monitoring independence movements, joins their group. Following a series of sporadic incidents, the students gather one night to resolve on an uprising, but are discovered by the police. Young-ae is wrongfully accused of betraying their plans, but she risks her life in order to allow the group members to escape. The morning after, the students of Gwangju rise up against the Japanese government.

Nameless Stars

1959

Ghost Story poster
8.0

An omnibus of the story of three women. In the first, a ghost takes revenge on the man who killed her sister. In story two, a woman decides it's payback time for a sexual predator. The final story tells the tale of a woman's opium addiction leading to a gruesome death.

Ghost Story

1968

Deaf Sam Yong poster
7.2

The film is based on the 1925 short story of the same title by Na Do-hyang and revolves around the story of a deaf farm hand who is in love with a landlord's daughter-in-law.

Deaf Sam Yong

1964

Cruel Revenge poster
NR

President Choi of Dongseo Shipping is at the verge of bankruptcy because one of his ships has sunk. Right on time, a man comes to Choi and offers to lend money by taking his remaining real estates as security and staying at his place. The man turns out to be a son that Choi has abandoned. The mother has died after living a hard life, and he wants revenge.

Cruel Revenge

1969

Cruel Revenge poster
NR

President Choi of Dongseo Shipping is at the verge of bankruptcy because one of his ships has sunk. Right on time, a man comes to Choi and offers to lend money by taking his remaining real estates as security and staying at his place. The man turns out to be a son that Choi has abandoned. The mother has died after living a hard life, and he wants revenge.

Cruel Revenge

1969

The Evergreen poster
7.4

Yeong-shin and Dong-hyuk graduate from college with a cause. They plan to bring education and modernization to farmers living in the rural area of their hometown. When they arrive, the pair immediately get to work, Dong-hyuk builds a village hall and starts aiding the farmers while Yeong-shin tries to gather the children to form a school. However, the villagers at first resent and resist the pair. It is not until one child, Ok-bun, takes the initiative and and learns to read under Yeong-shin’s care that the villages trust the pair and allow their children to be taken from the fields and taught reading, writing and math.

The Evergreen

1961

Parrot Sang with Her Own Body poster
7.5

The widower Choi is impotent. He adopts the infants Mun and Su-ryun and raises them. Mun graduates from college in Seoul but he can’t adjust to Seoul life so he returns to Choi’s home. Mun learns that Su-ryun is not his sister in blood and he falls in love with her.

Parrot Sang with Her Own Body

1981

No artwork available
8.0

A royal delegation faces death when it returns with a document from the King of China with the royal signature spelled wrong. The leader of the delegation is sent back to China to correct the mistake before he and his associates are executed

The Cloud Bridge of Gratitude

1963

Lim Kkeok-jeong poster
10.0

During the later years of Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910), Lim Kkeok-jeong, a butcher's son, stands up against the aristocrats' tyranny and helps displaced people live in peace at a village he has established. He also forms a chivalrous robbers' band to get rid of corrupt officials. He dedicates himself to saving people from misery and teaching a lesson to the aristocrats and corrupted officials.

Lim Kkeok-jeong

1961

Resistance poster
8.0

Kim Joe Rang, the new appointed chief of the village, takes charge of a strange case from the first day. A villager is dead just after telling that he saw a ghost. Kim Joe Rang offers his daughter for reward and sends monk Chon-Won and his pupil Min-Do to get rid of the ghost. But they are killed by the ghost. Kim Joe Rang goes to Jeom-Sa who tells him that is wolf's mischief and they should sacrifice a young lady born in Mu-Jin year to solve the problem. Kim is looking for the right person and his daughter Ran volunteers to be a sacrifice. When Ran is alone in the mountain trembling with fear, an eminent monk appears to help her and they defeat the ghost.

Resistance

1972

Pagoda of No Shadow poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Pagoda of No Shadow

1970

The Woman On The Ferris Wheel poster
NR

Kim Jeong-mi wanders the streets due to the death of her loving father and the remarriage of her mother, and is unexpectedly kidnapped by Park Man-soo. Jung-mi is imprisoned in Park Man-soo's apartment. She tries to get out of her apartment by Jeong-mi, but she can't get over Man-su's tactics, and she becomes a partner in the crime. Man-su sacrifices himself to save Jeong-mi, who is in her crisis, after her first crime fails. She finds that Jeong-mi discovers a different side of her Man-su, and she entrusts her body to Man-su without even feeling her love. Seok-gyu, Jeong-mi's ex-lover, encounters opposition from her parents due to the bankruptcy of her Jeong-mi's house. Man-su threatens Soo-kyung and Seok-gyu, who are trying to find her Jeong-mi. At Seok-gyu's plea to save her fiance, Jeong-mi again joins the plot of Man-su's big crime.

The Woman On The Ferris Wheel

1979

The Tiger Moth poster
8.0

A young bride becomes the prime suspect in a series of grisly murders. However, her dashing young lawyer decides to come to her rescue and begins his own investigation into the crimes in an effort to clear his client's name.

The Tiger Moth

1965

Stroller poster
NR

An old member of Namsadang (a wayfaring group of Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910)) leaves his daughter Gye-yeon at a tavern of Hwagye Market, a traditional market located in Gurye, Jeollanam-do. Son of the tavern owner Seong-gi and Gye-yeon love each other, but the madam owner tries to separate them by sending Seon-gi to a temple. The old man comes back to take Gye-yeon and disclose a secret that the tavern owner is in fact his daughter, therefore Seong-gi is his grand son. Frustrated to hear that he cannot love Gye-yeon, Seong-gi goes for a long journey without destination as his ancestors of Namsadang have done.

Stroller

1967

Abenko Green Beret poster
4.0

Abengo Corps is under the direct control of headquarters of Gen. Douglas MacArthur. In order to conceal the Inchon Landing Operation, Abengo is assigned to the Wonsan Landing Operation as a decoy mission. With the operation soon at hand, the members of this operation go on a special vacation to Busan. Among them is Il-gyu. He meets with Bae Su-na, a refugee, and they spend a passionate, touching night of love together. The members perform their duties as ordered. Lieutenant Colonel Koh receives a coded message from the headquarters. Koh realizes that his men are a diversion for the Inchon Landing Operation. Lieutenant Koh is angered and resentful. And Lieutenant Sung is chosen to enter the battle instead of Lieutenant Colonel Koh. During the January 4 Retreat, Lieutenant Sung meets Su-na, who has had Il-gyu's son. Lieutenant Sung helps her out.

Abenko Green Beret

1982

A Widow poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

A Widow

1960

Woman is Wind, Woman is Wind poster
NR

Seong-hoon becomes involved in an illicit affair with Moon-ok, the second wife of Choi Seok-pa, the chairman of a conglomerate, after helping her to the hospital when she fainted from vertigo. Choi Seok-pa schemes to use Seong-hun to protect his fortune from Moon-ok, but soon comes to his senses. Seok-pa's only daughter, Nan, falls in love with Seong-hoon, who has become cold-hearted in pursuit of his desires.

Woman is Wind, Woman is Wind

1987

Rice poster
8.0

The poor farmers of Muju in Cheonbuk Province cannot get enough water to irrigate their rice. They attempt many times to build a canal to the Geum River, but fail each time. After the military coup of 1962 however, the government gives its full support and helps the villagers succeed

Rice

1963