Nam Jeong-im

Acting

Nam Jeong-im

Born 1945-07-21 · Gwangju, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

One of the actresses of the first "troïka" of the 60-70's https://www.kmdb.or.kr/eng/db/per/00003995

Acting credits

Women of Yi-Dynasty poster
9.0

Four short stories examing the lives of women in the last 18th and 19th century Story 1: 'Wives Should Be Submissive'--A father tries to marry his daughter into a wealthy family. Story 2: 'A Daughter-In-Law Is No Better Than A Stranger'--A woman thinks that her daughter-in-law has turned her son against her so she tries to kill the younger woman. Story 3: '7 Grounds For Divorce'--A wife begins an affair with her servant because of her husband's impotency Story 4: 'Prohibit Sex In Court'--A concubine's life is at risk when it is revealed that her infant child is not the king's.

Women of Yi-Dynasty

1969

Yongary, Monster from the Deep poster
4.8

Earthquakes in central Korea turn out to be the work of Yongary, a prehistoric gasoline-eating reptile that soon goes on a rampage through Seoul.

Yongary, Monster from the Deep

1967

The Starting Point poster
7.0

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.

The Starting Point

1967

Rising in the World poster
8.0

An earnest young man succeeds at business through honesty, loyalty, and hardwork despite being criticized and alienated by his co-workers.

Rising in the World

1968

Full Ship poster
10.0

A film picturing the lives and adversities of fishermen who live and die in the sea.

Full Ship

1967

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

No artwork available
8.0

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.

Legends

1968

Let's Meet at Walkerhill poster
NR

After meeting on a train to Seoul, two strangers who both lost someone near to them in the past wonder the music filled city in search for their loved one.

Let's Meet at Walkerhill

1966

Femme Fatale, Jang Hee Bin poster
9.5

King Sukjong assigns Jang Ok-nan, a court lady, as a concubine overnight. Jang plots to drive the current Queen into exile.

Femme Fatale, Jang Hee Bin

1968

Spring, Spring poster
8.0

Chun-sam is working as a servant at Bong-pil's home to be his future son in-law. His daughter, Jeom-sun has grown enough to get wed. But her father thinks she is too young. But in reality he doesn't want to set her daughter with Chun-sam to begin with. Jeom-sun finds out, and picks up a fight with her father. When Chun-sam decides to play hard on his master, Jeom-sun takes Chun-sam's side.

Spring, Spring

1969

Saint and Witch poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Saint and Witch

1969

No artwork available
10.0

Hye-ryeon suddenly loses her parents and stays in the Black Rose Castle alone. One day, she says the castle is haunted and asks for help to friend Ji-suk. Ji-suk goes to the castle with boyfriend Yeong-uk, a newspaper reporter. Just as Hye-ryeon has said, they see a ghost, but Yeong-uk feels that someone is playing a prank. He waits for the ghost in the woods, and when it finally appears, Yeong-uk fights it off. The ghost misses a step and falls off a cliff. It turns out Hye-ryeon has been suffering from a mental disease and has been playing as a ghost.

Beauty in Black Rose Castle

1969

The Freezing Point poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Freezing Point

1967

Sound of Magpies poster
NR

Bong-su, who has been missing since the Korean War, returns to his hometown. A death notice for him has already been sent to his hometown, and his fiancée, Jeong-sun, has already married another man, Sang-ho. Bong-su tries to persuade Jeong-sun to forget about Sang-ho and return to him, but she tells him that it's something that cannot be undone. Tormented by his pain, Bong-su begins to show signs of delusional behavior and ends up strangling Jeong-im, Sang-ho's younger sister, who had a crush on him. Later, it is revealed that the death notice for Bong-su was a fake, created by Sang-ho so he could marry Jeong-sun.

Sound of Magpies

1967

Step-mother poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Step-mother

1967

Living in the Sky poster
7.0

The film, which was shot to promote the Korean air force team, depicts the story of air force students who are assigned to their base after hard training.

Living in the Sky

1968

Guests Who Arrived by the Last Train poster
7.5

This film concentrates on a group of people who have trouble adjusting to mainstream society. From a woman running away from her previous life, to a man with a terminal disease, to a pop artist misunderstood by his contemporaries, the film looks on with sympathy and compassionate humor on a set of people who, for whatever reason, just don’t fit in.

Guests Who Arrived by the Last Train

1967

Starting Point poster
7.7

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.

Starting Point

1969

Confession of an Actress poster
9.0

Confession of an Actress is about an actor who was once a famous star. He had a daughter with an actress who he loved when he was young. His daughter became a grownup and he sacrificed himself secretly to make his daughter a star.

Confession of an Actress

1967

One-eyed Park poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

One-eyed Park

1970

Bun-nyeo poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Bun-nyeo

1968

Soil poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Soil

1967

A Man Like the Wind poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

A Man Like the Wind

1968

Affection poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Affection

1966