Kim Ja-ok

Acting

Kim Ja-ok

Born 1951-10-11 · Busan, South Korea

Acting credits

My Tutor Friend poster
6.5

A touching story of two completely different students from two completely different worlds. One is a rich male repeating his third year of high school and the other a poor girl in her second year of university struggling to make ends meet.

My Tutor Friend

2003

Nobody's Daughter Haewon poster
6.5

Facing her mother’s departure and the weight of a secret affair with her professor, college student Haewon drifts through a series of encounters and dreams, blurring the lines between her desires and reality.

Nobody's Daughter Haewon

2013

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

An Unhappy Life

1981

Red Gate of Tragedy poster
8.0

A woman arrives in Korea and makes her way to her ancestral home to learn the mysterious history of an ornate silver dagger in her possession.

Red Gate of Tragedy

1979

The Righteous Thief poster
4.8

Hong Mu-Hyeok is a quiet high school music teacher with a secret. His family descends from the notorious Hong Gil-Dong, a Robin Hood styled thief. He has targeted Lee Jeong-Min, a ruthless ...

The Righteous Thief

2009

No artwork available
9.0

Best friends Ji-hye and Mi-yeong, fall in love with Jeong Woo-jin. Mi-yeong seduces him to end the love triangle and the two soon marry. Ji-hye leaves but returns 5 years later with a child in tow whom she claims is Woo-jin's.

You Whom I Cannot Hate

1981

Jenny, Juno poster
6.5

Jenny, Juno centers on the title characters of Jenny and Juno, two fifteen year old middle school students whose one night of romance has dramatic consequences for both their lives. After careful deliberation, the two expectant parents decide to keep the baby.

Jenny, Juno

2005

A Woman After a Killer Butterfly poster
5.7

A melodrama about a man who survives an attempted double suicide with a stranger while picnicking with friends. He goes on a cave expedition for a famous archaeologist where he discovers a skeleton several thousand years old. He meets the spirit of the skeleton in a dream, and then becomes romantically involved with the archeologist's daughter.

A Woman After a Killer Butterfly

1978

Miss O's Apartment poster
7.0

Mi-yeong informs her boyfriend that she is becoming a prostitute to help her poverty striken family. Although she tries not to, she ends up falling in love with wealthy Dae-seon and moves into an apartment that he supplies. She is satisfied with this arrangement until she learns that Dae-seon's wife is her classmate.

Miss O's Apartment

1978

No artwork available
9.0

Cha's meeting with the beautiful Mi-yeong is misunderstood by his family. His wife, furious at his behavior, packs up and moves to Pusan while his son, disgusted with his father, leaves home for Seoul.

Miss O's Apartment 2

1979

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Secret

1995

대물 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

대물

1988

The Woman Who Stole the Sun poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Woman Who Stole the Sun

1979

Under an Umbrella poster
5.0

Dong Won is a down-and-out artist who suffers from despair and dissatisfaction and suicidal tendencies. During a trip to Sorak mountain, he tries to kill himself. He falls in love with Sun Hee, the cabin owner's daughter. For a short time, he experiences true love. But they break up because of Sun Hee's mother. Dong Won becomes a fork crane driver but cannot escape his unhappiness. One day, he travels to Sorak mountain and meets Sun Hee and their son.

Under an Umbrella

1979

No artwork available
8.0

Cho-hye begins an investigation into the mysterious death of her husband but, as the people she interviews start turning up dead, the police begin to suspect that Cho-hye may be their prime suspect.

The Woman of Tuesday Night

1981

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

One Night at a Strange Place

1980

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

Water Lady poster
3.0

Jin-seok returns from the Vietnam war, injured and marries Sun-ok. But financial difficulties cause them to argue. One day, Sun-ok brings bamboo trees from her parents' home and succeeds in running a bamboo ware manufacturing company. Sun-ok has a stuttering problem and their son inherits the habit and he is sent to a special school. Meanwhile Jin-seok falls for Chu-wol and begins abusing Sun-ok...

Water Lady

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