
Acting
Choi Bool-am
Born 1940-06-15 · Incheon, South Korea
Choi Bool-am (최불암) is a South Korean actor.
Acting credits
NRJong Sil, a sound effects director, is awarded a carte blanche for his ingenious invention of a coke bottle opener sound used in a commercial film for an Arab client. Ecstatic, drunk, he heads home to his wife and kids, only to end up spending the night in an apartment unit one floor above which belongs to a single woman. The preposterous one-night-stand snowballs into a major event, for which he is reported gone missing on TV. Lost, Jong Sil becomes more involved with the woman, discovering things about her, as their relationship takes an unexpected turn.
Three Times Each for Short and Long Ways
1981
3.6The year is 2157. An alien organization with ultra-high technology, 'Eed', invades the Earth. As the Earth fa ces extinction, Elka, a descendant of the lost continent Atlantis, looks with the help of a super power computer Delta 8988, for the last hero who may be able to save the world. It turns out to be Oh Haesung who lives in the 20th century. Marie, a special agent sent from Elka, comes to the year 1996 with the important mission of fetching Haesung. However, Eed also finds out about Haesung and sends an assassin.
Armageddon
1996
4.9Set in the late 80s during the height of Korea's economic crisis, three leading gangsters of the Jong No division - straight-shooter Byuk Dol, quick-tempered Gae Dduk, and street-smart Sam Bok - are roaming the streets of Seoul after spending the last fifteen years locked up in jail. Their sole mission is to find and seek revenge on Dong Pal, the very man responsible of robbing them of their precious freedom. But when they find Dong Pal, they end up taking on a reluctant job as bodyguards for Dong Pal's daughter Eun Ji and her boyfriend Myung Suk.
Shit Up!
2004
8.0A detective searching for the cause of a young man's death uncovers a melodramatic story involving prostitutes and religion.
Son of a Man
1980
6.4A boisterous detective goes undercover in a high school in order to befriend the teenage daughter of a notorious gangster.
She's on Duty
2005
A man fails to break up the relationshiop between the girl he loves and her fiance. He decides to prove his love by writing lyrics for the songs she composed and entering them in a contest.
An Innocent College Student
1980
6.6Three friends, Deokbae, Chun-sik, and Kil-nam, work each at a suburban Chinese restaurant, a barbershop, and a motel. The three friends are clueless about their future. They just share the drinks and love stories. Kil-nam is in love with Jin-ok working at a hair salon and Chun-sik is after Yu who also works at the barbershop. Naive Duk-bae's mind is torn between Chun-sun who works at a factory and an uptown girl Myung-hi.
Good Windy Days
1980
6.1Young-min secretly admires Hye-rin whom he saw in a play and sends her flowers anonymously every performance of hers. However, Hye-rin marries a gynecologist Oh Seong-wu and leaves for New York.
Our Joyful Young Days
1987
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Monk
2011
6.9A middle-aged woman in Busan searches for the son she lost in Gilsodom during the Korean War.
Gilsodom
1986
NRNo synopsis available yet.
보는 것을 사랑한다
2021
8.0Four brothers live together and share the duties of a single household while trying to set their eldest brother up with the perfect woman.
Run Towards Tomorrow
1979
6.6Chang-su recalls the girl whom he loved before he entered the military. At that time she had been working as a housemaid. They meet again years later at a police station and the girl, Yeong-ja reveals that she quit her job after being raped by the son of her employer. Her life got steadily worse until finally she lost an arm in a car accident and had to work as a prostitute to pay for an artificial limb.
Yeong-ja's Heydays
1975
NRHong Kong and South Korean co-production war film starring Li Li-Hua.
The Partisan Lovers
1969
Young-Shik, a playboy, loves Ok-Ju, a business owner's daughter on purpose. One day he is bashed and taken to a mountain villa while he is taking a walk near a hotel. The villa's owner Jin-Ho was a vet doctor but now he leads a life with anatomizing animals after he is injured in his leg. One day a woman who wears wedding veil comes to Young-Shik and asks him to go back to his first love Mi-Ra. As the mysterious woman faces with Ok-Ju, she kills Ok-Ju. On his departure day, Young-Shik goes to Jin-Ho and hears from him the woman in veil is Mi-Ra who is troubled with her burnt scald of face and committed suicide letting him go. He trembles in sufferings.
Hwannyeo
1974
NRPart of the Insight Asia series, 'Asian Corridor in Heaven' is a six-episode documentary series about the world's oldest trade route, the "Ancient Tea and Horse Caravan Road". Pre-dating the Silk Road by 200 years, the Ancient Tea and Horse Caravan Road crossed from the Sichuan and Yunnan provinces of Southwest China over mountainous terrain into Tibet, Nepal, and India.
Asian Corridor in Heaven
2007
6.3Chim-Ae, an orphan, is saved by an old monk of Seo San Temple, Mu Bul Dang while he is wandering in war fires. Then he enters the priesthood and trains himself a mountaineering asceticism. When he becomes an eminent young priest, the last trial to receive the mantle of the preceding abbot applies on him. The old monk sends the fairest of the fair, Myo-Hyang of cottage Ni Am to Chim-Ae to form a connection with her. But Chim-Ae quickly removes his earthly desires towards woman and goes through this hardship by fasting meditation. However the old monk recognizes that love sprouted between two youngsters and shows Chim-Ae the face of transgression which he mentally violated without hesitation to make Chim-Ae and Myo-Hyang go back to mundane existence.
Transgression
1974
7.3Detective 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
4.0June 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
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Dangerous Scent
1988
NRA sequel to Yeong-ja's Heydays follows the career of Yeong-ja’s first love, Chang-su, and his faithful love for her.
Chang-Su's Heydays
1975
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Unsettling Afternoon
1979
NRZung comes to Korea to investigate the mysterious death of her father, Seijung, a renowned performer and composer in the Japanese music scene. While Zung pursued a different path in life by studying engineering, she is drawn back to her father's legacy. In her search, she reaches the summit of Hallasan, where her father's body was found, and meets Master Woo, a master of the gayageum, and his daughter, Gasil. Listening to Master Woo's performance, characterized by the phrase "music that is joyful yet not exuberant, sorrowful yet not mournful," she learns that her father had been deeply affected by the music, leading to his tragic passing.
The Door
1978
Professor Jo Yeong-hwa gets taken in by a pretty young woman who, unknown to him, supports herself by preying off the vanity of middle-aged men.
Romance Gray
1979