Lee Dae-geun

Acting

Lee Dae-geun

Born

1943-07-01 (83)

Place of birth

South Korea

Known for

Acting

Credits

65 titles

Lee Dae-geun is a South Korean film and television actor.

Known for

Film credits

2000s · 3 titles

1990s · 10 titles

A Short Love Affair poster
6.2

Bae Il-do, who feels unappreciated in his rural village, runs away from home and works as a tailor. His wife grew up under a harsh stepmother and worked as a housekeeper and bar hostess before meeting Il-do, for whom she bore a child. The young and attractive Gong-rye comes between them, having an affair with Il-do while working with him in a garment factory. Their secret meetings don't remain secret for long and Il-do's wife inevitably finds out...

A Short Love Affair

1990

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7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Prostitutes

1990

No artwork available
8.0

A woman who witnessed the murder of her mother is kidnapped before she can provide details on that crime and her husband and the police are left to sort through the suspects.

Eros 2

1996

Korean Connection poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Korean Connection

1990

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Seoul is Busy on the Phone

1990

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10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Until We Meet

1999

The Heartless 3rd Wharf poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Heartless 3rd Wharf

1993

The Black Hat poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Black Hat

1993

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Erotic X

1996

Karma poster
4.0

Man-seok, a servant, longs for Jin-sa's only daughter, Seon-rye. On the day of her first wedding ceremony, Man-seok runs away with the refusing Sun-rye and starts a new life in the mountains. However, a year later, when the 6.25 broke out, Man-seok enlisted as a substitute for a few land guards, and Seon-rye, who believed that he died due to the division of the country, followed the man outside, ignoring her young daughter Kkot-sil. After returning from the military, Man-seok takes a flower thread that had grown from someone else's hand and grows it with love and sincerity for 15 years. However, her flower room also runs away to the city following the man she loves, leaving behind her love for her father. A mother and daughter who betrayed Manseok one after another and left. After waiting for the flower room, Man-seok goes all over the country to find it.

Karma

1991

1980s · 30 titles

Sexual Compatibility poster
8.0

Kang Dae-woong, a descendant of a fallen family of four generations, is in danger of overturning his sins through the conspiracy of the richest man, but escapes the crisis with the help of Kim Dae-gam, a former leader of Lee Jo.

Sexual Compatibility

1988

Potato poster
7.0

Innocent Bok-nyeo is sold at 18 years old to an elderly widower who sends her to work in the salt mines. There she is raped by the supervisor. Becoming very cynical about life, Bok-nyeo becomes the mistress of a couple of rich men, Choi and Wang. In this way, she becomes accustomed to the high life. However she panics and takes desperate steps when one of her sources of income is about to cut her off.

Potato

1987

Whale Hunting poster
7.3

A disillusioned student meets a eccentric beggar and a mute prostitute he falls in love with. Together, without money, they cross South Korea to help the girl go home.

Whale Hunting

1984

A Forest Where a Woman Breathes poster
9.0

Dong-hoon, a CF director, decides to marry Su-hee, a young lady, with the introduction of Jun-seok, a neuropsychiatrist. Dong-hoon, whose women's relationship is complicated, reveals his last night with Ji-eun the day before marriage in the sense of ending all relationships. Su-hee, who saw Dong-hoon's naked body at first night, runs out of the bedroom in shock, but eventually Dong-hoon experiences a maiden from Su-hee and is moved. One day while living a happy honeymoon, Su-hee accidentally learns about the relationship between Dong-hoon and Ji-eun. Su-hee, who was agonizing, shivers the moment she sees the commercial made by Dong-hoon. After that, Su-hee, who goes out on the street, begins to seduce the men. Is it out of revenge for her husband's affair? She meets a swimming coach on the street and a zookeeper and burns a fantastic, wild zest.

A Forest Where a Woman Breathes

1988

Mulberry poster
5.8

Sam-po is a gambler living without concern for how his wife will manage their houselhold without his earning money. In order to get food and provisions, his wife An-hyeob, sleeps with various merchants in the village. One of the few men she does not sleep with, a lustful servant named Sam-dol, decides to reveal her activities to her husband for revenge.

Mulberry

1986

Seoul Likes Women poster
NR

Several of Korea's male comedy superstars team up to play a group of young women finding their way through life in the busy streets of modern Seoul.

Seoul Likes Women

1987

The Last Witness poster
7.3

Detective Oh goes searching for the murderer of Yang, a small-time brewer bludgeoned to death by a quiet riverside with no witnesses, no apparent motive. As he wanders about the winter landscape of South Jeolla Province and Seoul, he finds himself caught in a story of treachery, rape and murder.

The Last Witness

1980

Peach Blossoms poster
NR

Do-hwa was born with both blessing and curse of the peach tree in the village. She masters the value of 'Yin and Yang' at the age of three and amazes neighbors with special senses as she grows up. She is told by Dang-gol, the village's shaman to have super power regarding sex and soon brings disaster to the village by having contact with virgin men. She struggles and survives her fate through turbulent corners of life beyond her control.

Peach Blossoms

1987

Kam-bo poster
6.5

Kam-bo is released from jail after serving five years for smuggling. He looks for his accomplice, Dong-il, and his wife. Dong-il has cleaned up his old life, determined to start anew. Kam-bo goes to the racetracks to kill time. A hustler pickpockets Kam-bo but he is rendered helpless by Kam-bo's strength when he catches up with him. The two become friends. The hustler gives Kam-bo a watch. Unwittingly, Kam-bo becomes a suspect in a murder due to the watch. Kam-bo and the hustler stick their noses into the murder investigation as they try to find out where the stolen watch came from. The parties behind the murder use a cute delinquent girl named Na-young as a front to take the fall. However, Kam-bo narrowly escapes death numerous times to finally break their organization and clear his name.

Kam-bo

1986

No artwork available
9.0

Yong-pal returns from his grandmother's funeral with a video tape of her will to be played for his family. He is also carrying an invaluable, centuries-old, porcelain treasure. His back gets switched with that of a smuggler who immediately makes plans to sell off the artifact to the highest bidder. Yong-pal and his brother, Yong-chil, set out to recover the heirloom.

Yong-pal Has Returned

1983

Prince Yeon-san poster
NR

Prince Yeon-san

Prince Yeon-san

1987

American Commando 2 — Hunting Express poster
9.0

Japan, a world of evil, where young girls are forced into prostitution and violent death is a fact of life. When Hank, trained in the art of survival by the elite American Commandos in Viet Nam, meets Janis, he never suspects her past. Until a shocking turn of events. Hong Kong cut and paste edit of the 1987 Korean Film "삿뽀로 밤사냥 " (Hunting Night) with new scenes.

American Commando 2 — Hunting Express

1988

Wild Dogs poster
8.0

A painter and a novelist share an abandoned apartment building. The painter takes in 99 stray dogs as the subjects of his next work but, as he does not have enough resources to feed them, the dogs turn feral. Meanwhile, the novelist begins to have an uneasy dread about what will happen when the painter's latest work is complete

Wild Dogs

1983

Imbecile 3 poster
2.0

No synopsis available yet.

Imbecile 3

1987

Byun Kang-swoi poster
7.0

Kang-soe and his wife Ong-nyeo settle down in a new village but tragedy strikes when Kang-soe dies while chopping wood. Ong-nyeo announces that she will marry any man who can successfully bury her husband. Many men try to accomplish the task, but die in the process. Ong-nyeo is in despair over not being able to complete the funeral preparations when her husband appears before her apparently alive again

Byun Kang-swoi

1986

대물 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

대물

1988

Funny Stories of Ancient Days poster
NR

The wise Bae Ji-Ki is expelled from the town because of the jealousy of the men in town.

Funny Stories of Ancient Days

1988

Children Of Darkness Part 1, Young-ae the Songstress poster
7.0

Young-ae is a prostitute who obsesses over money after losing her daughter to illness. Her co-workers are jealous of her. When a prostitute named Mrs. Kangwon dies after giving a birth, Young-ae takes the baby under her care and leaves the brothel district. Although she struggles to make ends meet and provide a home for the child, the child is taken away by the authorities because she is single. She decides that her old life is the only ground for living she has and returns to it.

Children Of Darkness Part 1, Young-ae the Songstress

1981

The Climax One poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Climax One

1989

Indecent Talk poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Indecent Talk

1989

Shall Cuckoo Sing at Night poster
8.0

Sooni is the daughter of a strolling male entertainer. After her mother left her, Sooni was raised by Dori's mother and is engaged to Dori. But Dori's friend Chil-sung also has crush on her. One day, Dori wins the wrestling game at the marketplace and earns money as reward. With that money, he buys Sooni a jade ring. However, an air of misfortune begins as Mr. Kim, who is a forest keeper shows up.

Shall Cuckoo Sing at Night

1980

Lee Su-il Story poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Lee Su-il Story

1987

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Do As You Want

1980

Byon Gang-soi (Garujigi) poster
5.0

Gang-soi is a mean scoundrel who travels up north. Ong-nyo, a woman destined to be widowed, is run out of her village and travels south. Gang-soi and Ong-nyo meet in Chongseok-gwan, a midpoint between Hwang-hae province and Gaeseong, and they get together. As they wander the lands, Ong-nyo works hard while Gang-soi does nothing. They settle down in Mt. Jiri. But when Gang-soi brings back a totem pole while looking for wood and when he tries to start a fire with it, he incurs its wrath and dies. Thus their relationship comes to a tragic end.

Byon Gang-soi (Garujigi)

1988

A Bold Woman poster
NR

The film centers on independence and intelligence of a woman who makes active choices regardless of social norms and ethics. The main character is a divorcee, Eul-hye, and the story unfolds as she encounters different men and experiences with dramatic incidents and conflicts.

A Bold Woman

1987

Until Heaven Calls poster
7.0

Distraught that he is unable to go to his parent's home for the holidays, Sang-do gets drunk and meets a beautiful woman, but he winds up spending the night in the hospital after being beaten by her boyfriend. Upon being discharged, he finds a blank check on the sidewalk and is torn between following his conscience or his greed.

Until Heaven Calls

1980

The Simple-minded Lovebird poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Simple-minded Lovebird

1989

No artwork available
9.0

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.

She is Something

1980

No artwork available
7.0

Patriot Kim Du-han faces a difficult situation when he is detained on a murder charge at the American army base in Itaewon. Things become worse when the prison chief is bribed by communists to make sure Kim Du-han does not survive.

A Chivalrous Man Named Kim Du-han

1981

House of the Rising Sun poster
9.0

A Parent-trap-like movie. Twins, separated at birth, meet by chance and decide to exchange places in the hope of bringing their parents back together.

House of the Rising Sun

1980

1970s · 17 titles

The Great Escape from Women's Prison poster
4.2

Yeong-rim and her mother are imprisoned when she refuses the advances of the village's communist supporter, Bong-ju. Bong-ju gets himself appointed the position of warden where the two are secured and becomes increasingly threatening.

The Great Escape from Women's Prison

1976

Splendid Outing poster
7.3

An overworked female executive is haunted by strange dreams. She is compelled to travel to a remote fishing village where she is inexplicably kidnapped and sold to a peasant farmer on a remote island.

Splendid Outing

1978

The Woman Who Stole the Sun poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Woman Who Stole the Sun

1979

Insect Woman poster
4.9

A schoolgirl goes from braids to bouffant when her mother makes her a bar hostess/prostitute. She cures impotence for Professor Lee and becomes his concubine. His entrepreneurial wife is initially shocked but soon accepts the arrangement and even gives the girl an allowance.

Insect Woman

1972

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

City Hunter

1979

Blood and Rose poster
NR

Blood and Rose is a Hong Kong Action movie starring Yuen Biao

Blood and Rose

1975

The Story of Yellow Village poster
NR

Deok-bo intends to fight his Eun-swi for the love of Bon-hie, but he is impressed by his rival's manly strength upon meeting. They become very close friends. Bun-hie, who was hoping to make Eun-swi an upstanding citizen is furious that he now spends all of his time Deok-bo. She decides to murder her former admirer-turned-rival.

The Story of Yellow Village

1979

The Magnificent Duo poster
7.5

Lee Sung-sun is nicknamed Sirasoni (means a baby tiger) for his gentle personality. Because of his strong sense of justice, Sung-sun gets into a fight with Japanese students and this keeps him from going on his honeymoon. He flees to China. There, he helps a Chinese woman being harassed by the Japanese and ends up working with the Chinese dock laborers. The dock manager doesn't pay the workers fairly and represses them. When Sung-sun loses a friend because of this, he confronts the Japanese and puts a big dent in their pride.

The Magnificent Duo

1979

The True Story of Kim Du-han poster
10.0

The son of a Chosun Dynasty general, Kim Du-han finds himself orphaned when the dynasty ends and the Japanese colonize Korea in the early 1900's. He sets out to build a resistance army in this historical drama.

The True Story of Kim Du-han

1974

Here Comes Dae Geun poster
7.0

Ship captain Lee Dae-geun falls in love with a showgirl named Eun-shil. When a North Korean spy is refused transport by Dae-geun, the agent atempts to kill him. Lee kills the man in self-defense, but is sent to prison. When released he finds his company bankrupt and his girlfriend being harassed by associates to the slain man. It is up to Dae-geun to save her and his business.

Here Comes Dae Geun

1979

No artwork available
7.0

Truck driver Mansu drives dreams of owning an orchard where he can live in peace with his mom. He is in love with Inok yet kills her ex-boyfriend by accident in a fight. Bumgu makes it look like a murder and gives him an alibi. Mansu wants to refuse but goes along for the sake of his mom and brother. The Police are informed of drug dealing and search through cars and Mansu is arrested. Will Detective Jung find more evidence? Will Mansu defend himself? Or will the guilt over the death land him in prison?

Don't Look Back

1979

No artwork available
7.0

A man wears a camilla sent to him by his former lover upon his release from prison. He later learns that she has been killed and that her husband is a North Korean spy. Taking the code-name Camilla Flower, he begins a vendetta against the espionage ring.

The Camellia Man

1979

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

Wild Ginseng poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Wild Ginseng

1979

No artwork available
10.0

The famous detective called 'the Hedgehog' finds himself the reluctant pawn of a North Korean spy who is trying to gain control of the Busan smuggling operations.

Hedgehog of the Third Dock

1977

Fire poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Fire

1978

Rainy Days poster
6.8

During the Korean War in early 1950s, mother’s family comes and stays at Dong-man’s house. His uncle on father’s side is a North Korean partisan and the uncle on mother’s side dies while fighting as South Korean soldier. For this reason, his grandmothers don’t get alone. Dong-man tells a stranger that his partisan uncle is home and his father gets arrested.

Rainy Days

1979

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