Yeo Un-gye

Acting

Yeo Un-gye

Born 1940-02-25 · Daegu, South Korea

Yeo Woon-kay (여운계) was a South Korean actress and television personality.  She died from kidney and lung cancer in 2009.

Acting credits

The Pinwheel That Spins Alone poster
7.0

Nam-do and Nam-shik are two brothers who were raised by their poor grandmother on a mountainside in a remote region of Kangwon Province. Hoping to receive a salary to support his family, Nam-do takes the airforce entrance exam but he fails. He is forced to move to Seoul to earn a living. Nam-shik remains to care for their ailing grandmother and decides to make a go at improving their small farm

The Pinwheel That Spins Alone

1991

Mapado 2: Back to the Island poster
5.2

Detective Chung-su takes a secret mission from a dying president of a big company. The businessman wants to see his first love before he dies.The only information the detective has is that her name is Kkotnim and she now lives on an island called Tongbaek, off one of the country's southern ports. He rides on a private boat to the island with an anonymous passenger, dreaming of the big bucks he will get when he completes his mission.But the boat is wrecked in a fierce storm, and Chung-su and the passenger find themselves lying on the shore of a strange island. In the struggle to escape from the island, Chung-su meets up with five grandmothers who will not let him or the other men escape. During his captivity, he investigates if one of the grandmothers is indeed the love interest. Will he find out and escape from the island alive?

Mapado 2: Back to the Island

2007

An Affair with Peanuts poster
9.0

An unmarried man in his mid-thirties meets a homeless woman. He allows her to live with him. In return, she must do the household chores. However, to avoid trouble from their conservative landlord, they must pass themselves off as married.

An Affair with Peanuts

1979

Mountain Strawberries 2 poster
NR

A farmer in a community near Jirisan falls in love with and marries an itinerant performer. She plans to betray him by robbing him and leaving with her old boyfriend, another itinerant performer, when he comes to the village. Eventually she realizes she loves the farmer and stays with him.

Mountain Strawberries 2

1985

Cabbage in a Pepper Field poster
7.0

Having been a college student for the past seven years, there are not many people who take Kim Su-hwan seriously. That, combined with personal issues of his sexual prowess, drives his girlfriend into the arms of a man who is more confident and unafraid of life.

Cabbage in a Pepper Field

1985

Mapado poster
6.2

A gangster and a corrupt police officer travel to the tiny remote island of Mapado to hunt down a young woman who has run off with a winning lottery ticket. Upon arriving, they discover that no one lives there except for five old women who have not once seen a man for 20 years. Both men soon experience a nightmare of hard labor and harassment.

Mapado

2005

A Bride on the Second Floor poster
NR

A young bride moves into her husband's family and tries to modernize their lifestyle. Her plans, though, often get discouraged by her mother-in-law, a conservative lady who stresses traditional values. But the bride's father-in-law who understands the charms of her daughter-in-law's modern lifestyle, helps her to get what she wants. Eventually, they become one happy family living a modern lifestyle.

A Bride on the Second Floor

1968

Tto Sun Yi, a college girl poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Tto Sun Yi, a college girl

1973

Family Matters poster
6.0

Min-kyung, once a promising young dancer, is now running a small, shabby dance school in town. Her life gets even harder since her entire family is notoriously troublesome. Her father Won-jo is a dotard, her husband Sang-hoon, who aspires to become a film director but can't get himself to finish a screenplay, is jobless, and her son is reckless, calling his dad, ' Uncle '. However, she manages quite well despite their endless troubles until one day, she finds out that her husband has been cheating on her.

Family Matters

2006

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Wooden Horse that Went to Sea

1980

Sorrow Even Up in Heaven poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Sorrow Even Up in Heaven

2007

Late Autumn poster
7.0

Hye-rim is a model prisoner serving out her sentence for murder. With two years left to go, she gets a special outing. Hye-rim gets on a train to Kang-reung to visit her mother's grave. At the place, she meets Min-gi, a young man running away after being involved in a crime organization. Min-gi's persistence melts the heart that was hardened in jail. Hye-rim and Min-gi fall in love.

Late Autumn

1982

Eight Daughters-in-law poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Eight Daughters-in-law

1970

Man-suk, Run! poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Man-suk, Run!

1980

The Pollen of Flowers poster
6.2

Se-ran, the mistress of Hyeon-ma, lives in a massive traditional-style house called "Blue Mansion"in the suburbs of Seoul with her sister Mi-ran and their maid. One day, Hyeon-ma comes to the house with his newly-employed handsome male secretary/secret lover Dan-ju.

The Pollen of Flowers

1972

The Story of Chunhyang poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Story of Chunhyang

1971

Autumn At Nineteen poster
9.0

Kang-bi, a freshman in college, always respects his father. However, she finds that one day her father is accused of violating the Food Sanitation Act, and she gradually becomes skeptical of her father. Kang-bi, who is hurt by her, goes on a trip alone. On her journey, Kang-bi meets her friend Dai. Through their journey of ups and downs, they open their eyes to a new experience and realization that they cannot live without forgiving and loving everything in this world

Autumn At Nineteen

1984

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

My Lady

1971

Short Embrace, Long Goodbye poster
NR

Do-hee crashes her motorcycle and ends up in a hospital, where she meets Seon-a—an in-patient battling a rare, incurable bone cancer. They form a tender friendship. Do-hee, moved by Seon-a’s spirit, joins a university mountaineering club and climbs Seorak Mountain, praying for her recovery. Seon-a’s parents care deeply, but her condition continues to worsen.

Short Embrace, Long Goodbye

1984

A Journey poster
NR

Boon-yi, a young woman from a poor family, is placed into a wealthy household through marriage to a mentally impaired man. Within the household, she endures a life of hardship and exploitation under the control of her father-in-law, while tensions with the rest of the family grow. After a series of events leads to the family’s downfall and her own expulsion, Boon-yi is forced to rebuild her life on her own. Years later, she finds a path toward reconciliation and returns to her hometown in a bittersweet reunion.

A Journey

1986