Jang Dong-hwi

Acting

Jang Dong-hwi

Born — Died

1920-06-22 — 2005-04-02

Place of birth

Incheon, South Korea

Known for

Acting

Credits

55 titles

Known for

The Teacher with Ten Daughters poster
8.5

No synopsis available yet.

The Teacher with Ten Daughters

1964

Three Generations of Men poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Three Generations of Men

1969

I Want to Be Human poster
7.0

Natasha, an officer at the Soviet Embassy in North Korea, is in love with Seok-bong. But Seok-bong has already planned his wedding with Bok-hui. Natasha grows jealous and threatens Bok-hui to leave somewhere else. Meanwhile Bok-hui's brother, Tae-yeong, is executed after participating in an anti-communist march. Seok-bong is accused of taking a part in the march. Seok-bong starts to feel pessimistic about his communist belief. He tries an escape to the South, but he is captured by the authority and executed.

I Want to Be Human

1969

Three Women Under the Umbrella poster
NR

Yu Mi-young, an ordinary housewife, loses her husband in a car accident. Two women come to his funeral and she is raged with his betrayal. She finds out in his diary that it wasn't an accident and plans a revenge against the two women, Sin-ae and Su-mi.

Three Women Under the Umbrella

1980

Bonanza poster
5.5

A young sailor arrives in Busan Harbour; an outrageous-looking, woolly bear of a man appears in downtown Busan with a shotgun over one shoulder, a heavy knapsack thrown over the other; a tough-looking young woman joins her friend in robbing a naïve fat man in a suit. The strands of character and story will slowly converge, well after the audience, tuned to the coincidences and mistaken identities of melodrama, has recognised that these three have a shared history and are fated to meet and reconcile.

Bonanza

1961

Cruel history of Myeong Dong poster
10.0

An omnibus of three stories all taking place in the Myeongdong district of Seoul.

Cruel history of Myeong Dong

1972

Film credits

1970s · 13 titles

Cruel history of Myeong Dong poster
10.0

An omnibus of three stories all taking place in the Myeongdong district of Seoul.

Cruel history of Myeong Dong

1972

Weeds poster
6.2

A depiction of the life and fate of a physically weak woman who has strong maternal love.

Weeds

1973

A Woman Pursued poster
8.0

At the death of her father, A-mi returns to Korea and realises he was implicated in the theft of a chest full of gold bars. She then becomes the target of a criminal organisation.

A Woman Pursued

1970

A War Diary poster
10.0

Admiral Lee Sun-shin designs and builds the 'Turtle Ships' in preparation of the Japanese invasion during the Injin War. He is promoted after his victories, but due to his expanding influence and increased popularity in military circles, the king comes to fear him and has him imprisoned. A year later, the Japanese navy attempts another invasion and the king is required to enter the prison and beg the admiral's assistance.

A War Diary

1978

Break Up The Chain poster
9.0

Cheol-Su, an assassin disguised as a patriot, Tae-Ho, a gangster, and Dal-Gun, a spy, are kind of people who can turn their backs from each other for the sake of their own interests. Now they are cooperating to find a golden Buddhist statue. They gets to think about the nation's wellbeing during their search for the statue, and decide to fight for their mother land, returning the statue to Lance.

Break Up The Chain

1971

Whirl of Betrayals on Myeongdong poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Whirl of Betrayals on Myeongdong

1972

Rain Outside the Porthole poster
9.0

In 1946, Tae-woong, a man nicknamed "The Bear" who dominated the streets of Busan with his fists, have returned after twenty years. Tae-woong is still haunted by his former love, Yeonsuk, and is confused when he meets Jung-hee, who looks exactly like Yeonsuk. Meanwhile, Dal-ji, a former subordinate of Tae-woong's, schemes to get rid of him.

Rain Outside the Porthole

1970

Snowing on Grudge Street poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Snowing on Grudge Street

1971

명동에 흐르는 세월 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

명동에 흐르는 세월

1971

The Express Train to Hell poster
9.0

Two children vow revenge for the death of their parents. Eighteen years later, they meet again to carry out their promise, but one of them has been blinded by their enemy.

The Express Train to Hell

1977

No artwork available
9.0

Dong-su, a retired criminal, is tempted back into robbing when his friend tells of a plan to rob a racetrack. They select a couple of other professional criminals to help them commit the perfect crime.

Last Heist

1979

Turn Around at Samgakji poster
NR

Kind-hearted orphaned Hye-sook loves Minsu, but her parents disapprove. They promise to reunite years later after achieving success. A decade on, Minsu has fallen into gangster life and frequent imprisonment. Though still longing for Hye-sook, he’s pulled back to crime until Hye-sook's tearful plea and the intervention of a detective inspire him to change his life.

Turn Around at Samgakji

1970

The Unforgiven poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Unforgiven

1970

1960s · 38 titles

The Teacher with Ten Daughters poster
8.5

No synopsis available yet.

The Teacher with Ten Daughters

1964

Three Generations of Men poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Three Generations of Men

1969

I Want to Be Human poster
7.0

Natasha, an officer at the Soviet Embassy in North Korea, is in love with Seok-bong. But Seok-bong has already planned his wedding with Bok-hui. Natasha grows jealous and threatens Bok-hui to leave somewhere else. Meanwhile Bok-hui's brother, Tae-yeong, is executed after participating in an anti-communist march. Seok-bong is accused of taking a part in the march. Seok-bong starts to feel pessimistic about his communist belief. He tries an escape to the South, but he is captured by the authority and executed.

I Want to Be Human

1969

Bonanza poster
5.5

A young sailor arrives in Busan Harbour; an outrageous-looking, woolly bear of a man appears in downtown Busan with a shotgun over one shoulder, a heavy knapsack thrown over the other; a tough-looking young woman joins her friend in robbing a naïve fat man in a suit. The strands of character and story will slowly converge, well after the audience, tuned to the coincidences and mistaken identities of melodrama, has recognised that these three have a shared history and are fated to meet and reconcile.

Bonanza

1961

Farewell to the Duman River poster
6.2

Patriotic university student Youngwoo and his friends, led by their teacher Lee Sung, along with a British friend bid farewell to their families and become freedom fighters in Manchuria fighting against the Japanese occupation around the Tumen River.

Farewell to the Duman River

1962

Marine Battleground poster
7.1

A division of marines survive a battle with the Chinese army but find themselves stranded without contact on the wrong side of the front.

Marine Battleground

1963

Lady Jang poster
7.3

King Sukjong exalts a greedy concubine to the status of Bin, which is next to that of the Queen. The new Bin, who is now called Jang Hui-bin, drives out the Queen through a coup and takes her place. But thanks to loyal court officials, the King finds out what has been going on. He demotes Jang to Bin again and reinstates his Queen. Jang, now vindictive, conspires with her mother to kill the queen and reclaim her place. But the conspiracy is brought to light, and Jang is executed.

Lady Jang

1961

Assassin poster
6.6

Infighting breaks out between factions of the Communist Party over whether to back the U.N. Trusteeship under which the Korean Peninsula is to be divided between U.S. and Soviet control. One faction hires a hit man to kill the leader of the opposing faction. The hit man is known as the best in his field, yet is also known for having a heart.

Assassin

1969

School Excursion poster
9.0

A school teacher on a remote island has to convince skeptical parents to allow him to take his class of young children to Seoul to experience modern, urban civilization for the first time.

School Excursion

1969

Call 112 poster
NR

A gang of pharmacists, intent on seizing Hyun-ju's inheritance, systematically approaches her. The leader of the gang is her ex-husband. Before they can seize her inheritance, internal conflict arises within the gang, and they are all murdered by the leader. Meanwhile, the police, aware of this, launch a nimble investigation. The leader, determined to keep her inheritance, persistently pursues her, but ultimately fails and is arrested. She is rescued from a near-death experience.

Call 112

1962

Asphalt poster
7.0

In the process of arresting a smuggler, the criminal's wife is killed. Twenty years later, the smuggler is released from prison and vows to murder the wife of the policeman who killed his spouse.

Asphalt

1964

Rebirth poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Rebirth

1969

The Lost Sun poster
9.0

A bar manager deals drugs on the side and tries to recruit her employees, friends and customers.

The Lost Sun

1964

Descendants of Cain poster
6.2

Shortly after Korea gained independence from Japan (1945), North Koreans decide to extort civilians' property in the name of revolutionalizing its land and settle class struggles for proletariats. The film depicts an anti North-Korean concept, detailing the country's situation after the independence. South Korea's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1968.

Descendants of Cain

1968

Black Hair poster
5.7

Yeon-shil is the lover of crime boss Dong-il. She pays off one of the boss's henchmen, Man-ho, with whom she once had an affair; Man-ho is an opium addict, and he has been blackmailing Yeon-shil by threatening to disclose their past relations.

Black Hair

1964

When Acacias Bloom poster
7.3

A man assists a woman in danger, but through her actions, she unintentionally causes his death. Everyone in the village knows that she visits his tomb every spring, but no one knows the details of her story.

When Acacias Bloom

1962

The Martyrs poster
7.0

Out of fourteen ministers taken away by the communist troop, only two come back alive. The mystery behind their survival is at the issue here. Told through one of the survivor's testimony, depicts images of men troubled between the war and the religion. Although laden with anti-Communist notions from the 60's military regime.

The Martyrs

1965

The Heartbreaking Story poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Heartbreaking Story

1964

View from an Alley poster
7.5

One father finds life nearly impossible to live as he attempts to raise his nine children on a pitifully small salary.

View from an Alley

1962

Soldiers of YMS504 poster
10.0

YMS 504 was one of the best light war vessels of South Korean navy at the time of the Korean War (1950-1953). When the war breaks out, the ship ventures over the enemy's line and blows up an enemy fortress. And on its way back, it also sinks a boat of the enemy.

Soldiers of YMS504

1963

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Horizon

1961

Forlorn Hope poster
7.0

A man's brother is killed by rogue troops following the end of World War II. He joins up with the roving band, intent on slaying them in vengeance from within their ranks

Forlorn Hope

1966

Three Gangsters of Songhwa River poster
9.0

During the 1920's, because the colonization of Korea by Japan, there was an exodus of the Korean population to Manchuria. Three freedom fighters disguise themselves as migrants in order to contact the Independence Army at the Songhwa River and organize the citizens to stop the Japanese advance.

Three Gangsters of Songhwa River

1965

The Great Plain poster
9.0

During the colonial period, some Korean students give up their studies to fight the Japanese in Manchuria.

The Great Plain

1963

The Result of the Ambition poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Result of the Ambition

1964

A Wanted Man poster
6.5

In order to gain revenge on the killers of his parents, a man joins an organized crime ring as a hit man. The brutality of his slayings in his quest for vengeance makes him a man that the police desperately want to collar. ※ Only the first 32 minutes of the film currently exist today. The plot summary has been added in the form of title cards to aid the viewing experience.

A Wanted Man

1961

Betrayal poster
NR

To prevent an investigation into a fraudulent bidding case, Woorim Engineering & Construction drives accounting manager Park Sun-dal to commit suicide under the condition that 30 million won be given to the bereaved families. Seong-Hoon (Shin Seong-Il), an employee at Woorim Construction who went to Busan to confirm Manager Park's suicide, meets a woman named Ji-Won (Eom Aing-Ran) on his way to Seoul. When Seong-hoon finds out that Ji-won is the mistress of Hong Man-seok (Jang Dong-hwi), the president of Woorim Engineering & Construction, who is also his benefactor, he tries to give up the relationship, but the more he tries, the deeper the relationship between them becomes. Knowing this, President Hong tries to separate the two, but eventually gives up due to their love that transcends death.

Betrayal

1964

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

The Soviet-Manchurian Border poster
8.0

Clashes between Korean Independence fighters, the retreating Japanese military, the Soviet Army, and bandits at the end of WWII.

The Soviet-Manchurian Border

1964

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Fighting Lions

1962

Eagle of Wild Field poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Eagle of Wild Field

1969

The Woman Coming in Fall poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Woman Coming in Fall

1965

Sinmungo poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Sinmungo

1963

A Revival poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

A Revival

1960

The Devil and the Beauty poster
6.5

When a doctor's beloved wife passes away, he puts her in a glass tub and revives her by injecting fresh blood to her every night. In return, he has to kill a number of other lives, including one of his friends. The victim's daughter suspects the death of her father and gets a job as a nurse at the doctor's office. She discovers the terrible secret and takes revenge for her father.

The Devil and the Beauty

1969

The Continent in Flames poster
NR

The activities of a group of Korean independence fighters in Mongolia, who try to steal a valuable item from the Japanese Army.

The Continent in Flames

1965

Sequel of Gallant Man poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Sequel of Gallant Man

1969

Man Is Not Popular poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Man Is Not Popular

1963