Lee Hyeong-pyo

Directing

Lee Hyeong-pyo

Born — Died

1922-03-23 — 2010-04-26

Place of birth

South Korea

Known for

Directing

Credits

31 titles

Graduated from Seoul National University majoring in English Literature. He began his career in 1953 working for the USIS (United States Information Agency) Film Department as a translator of US propaganda films.

Known for

Behind the camera

A Long Journey, a Long Tunnel poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

A Long Journey, a Long Tunnel

1987

No artwork available
9.0

A young woman, suffering from paranoid schizophrenia, develops an obsession with two men.

A Nameless Woman

1984

You Are the Sun, I Am the Moon poster
9.0

A young man and woman meet at the beach. The man falls in love with her despite her perpetually moody personality. She soon reveals that she is dying and has only a few months to live.

You Are the Sun, I Am the Moon

1977

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Aekwon Fighting Skill

1980

Heart and Face poster
7.0

Kyeong-il and his sister, Kyeong-a, run a store together, but Kyeong-il is hospitalized when competitors beat him up. In the hospital, he falls in love with a nurse. She is already engaged so the only way he can continue seeing her is to manufacture reasons to stay in the hospital.

Heart and Face

1983

Winter Story poster
4.0

The movie depicts the sorrows of growing old – a man suffering from dementia finds himself losing parts of his dignity day by day. In the end, it is the power of family's love that embraces that quiet walk into the night.

Winter Story

2023

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
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Male Housekeeper

1980

A Beauty poster
7.5

Shin Jung-Hyeon, Kon-Chi, and Dong-Ho are poor musicians. Since they have excellent ability but don't have money, they don't have jobs. A beauty treats them with kindness. She gives them money for the house and drink, and gives comfort to their minds, too. One day, they grow rapidly into favor. The beauty Shin Jung-Hyeon loves disappears. They thought her a student, but in fact, she is a call girl. Knowing this, Shin Jung-Hyeon sings with almost mad feelings.

A Beauty

1975

Under the Sky in Seoul poster
7.0

An oriental doctor Kim Hak-gyu is a cantankerous man who is the longest-term householder in a small village in Seoul. He often causes domestic trouble by being nasty to his wife and his children. Kim Hyeon-ok, a daughter of a young widow who runs Nahana Beauty Shop, is in love with Choi Du-yeol, an obstetrician across the street. Kim Hak-gyu has great distaste for western medicine, and at the same time, is jealous of the obstetrician. He always gets in the way of Choi Du-yeol. Kim's son, Hyeon-gu, dates Jeom-ryae, a daughter of a bar owner.

Under the Sky in Seoul

1961

Wind, Please Tell Me poster
NR

Wanho and Kyunghui go camping, but Gwisun secretly loves Wanho. After an accident, Wanho and Gwisun fall in love. When they return to Seoul, Gwisun's life takes a drastic turn. Just as she contemplates suicide, an unexpected twist alters her fate.

Wind, Please Tell Me

1965

River of Love poster
10.0

The movie follows a series of twists surrounding a child's paternity after a mother unknowingly becomes pregnant.

River of Love

1967

Horse-year Bride poster
7.5

It is the year of the white horse that arrives every sixty years. Three women avoid sleeping with their husbands so they won't conceive girls on the year of the horse. However, young and healthy husbands fall into great dilemma.

Horse-year Bride

1966

A Car Moves By Water poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

A Car Moves By Water

1974

Mines are Better poster
NR

Seong-chun, who just arrived from the countryside, wonders around the Seoul streets, and meets his old friend, Bong-su. He moves into Bong-su's house, where he stays on rent. But the landlord is very nosy. Bong-su lies that Seong-chun is his wife. Seong-chun dressed as a woman and pretends to act as his wife. But one day, Seong-chun falls in love with a girl next door and proposes her.

Mines are Better

1969

Ever So Much Good! poster
10.0

Seon-Hee, whose dream is to go to high school, gets a job as a housemaid in Jae-Yon's in Seoul. The family of the restaurant treats her as a member of the family. Seon-Hee solves the problems between Jae-Yong and his girlfriend, Yeo-Ju. On the day when Jae-Yong joins the military service, he ensures his love to Yeo-Ju. With the careful concern of the family, Seon-Hee comes true her dream of going to high school. Seon-Hee in her school uniform is full of hope and walks to school.

Ever So Much Good!

1976

My Seoul poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

My Seoul

1970

Your Name Is Woman poster
7.0

An architect has an accident which leaves him uninterested in sex and unable to perform. His wife feels she cannot love with forced celibacy and takes up with a college student.

Your Name Is Woman

1969

Be Patient, Young Lady! poster
7.0

Mr. Jin is the head of a Taiwanese shipbuilding company. Pang, who is the vice president of the company, kills Mr. Jin and plans to kidnap his daughter Li Hwa. He gets Ma Chon Su, the head of a Hong Kong mafia to kidnap Li Hwa and have her sign over her inherited fortune to him. But Kim Min Wuk, a mysterious man and Sung Hi, Li Hwa's friend go on the search for Li Hwa.

Be Patient, Young Lady!

1981

When Night Falls at Myeongdong poster
7.0

A beautiful nightclub owner finds herself desired by many men, but she is saving herself for the one man she cannot have .

When Night Falls at Myeongdong

1964

The Story of Sim Cheong poster
8.0

Based on the traditional story of a girl who makes her blind father see by donating 300 bags of rice to Bongwon Temple.

The Story of Sim Cheong

1962

Hooray for Weirdo poster
NR

Hyeon-ki, nicknamed 'Oddball' by his classmates, is a highschool taekwondo expert. When a beautiful, but arrogant, rich girl requests his help, he at first refuses until he, in turn, needs help to save his sick friend.

Hooray for Weirdo

1977

Female Lover's Fist poster
NR

Korean martial arts movie

Female Lover's Fist

1982

The Secret Court poster
5.7

With the king's death, Queen Heon-ae becomes the queen mother. Young Heon-ae misses Wang-uk whom she loved before rising to the throne. Wang-uk, however, is indifferent towards her.

The Secret Court

1970

Dracula Rises from Coffin poster
6.0

In the dense fog of the seashore, dead corpses lie in a row on a small motorboat. Sung-hye who is studying abroad returns to Korea suddenly but then keeps silent. Jang Chung-han, her fiancee, goes to Minister Pak Chul-hwan for advice regarding Sung-hye's depression. At this time, a woman's body is discovered at the public cemetery for foreigners with Dracula's teeth marks on her.

Dracula Rises from Coffin

1982

No artwork available
9.0

Manchuria continent. Ok Jin-gyeong comes from Joseon and becomes the second master of Jeong Do-mun after a thousand years of hardship, but he is poisoned by the high swordsman Jang Gong-bang under the command of Sakamodo.

The New Lover's Fist

1982

Lady Snake Fist poster
NR

In 1940, Lang Lang, the only daughter of the dojo of the Cheongsim Hall in Manchuria, which was infested with corrupt martial artists, is a tomboy in the world. Lang Lang's father invites a martial arts master to entrust his daughter to her in order to correct her daughter's behavior and rebuild the forest.

Lady Snake Fist

1980

No artwork available
8.0

Seok-bul goes to the mountains and marries the daughter of his father's friend. His father-in-law has a long lost son who is engaged in drug-smuggling and who is out to kill his father.

So-ae Fighting Skill

1983

Madam White Snake poster
7.9

A thousand-year-old snake that has transformed itself into a human, Madame White Snake (Choe Eun-hui), falls in love with a young pharmacist named Heo-Seon. Although they encounter difficulties, they are wed, and their love for each other does not change. However, Beophaeseonsa (a Zen priest) and Gwaneumbosal (the Buddhist goddess of mercy) order Madame White Snake, who had transformed into human without being granted permission to do so, to return back to the world of the gods before July 7. Grieving, she prepares to say goodbye to her beloved husband. But before she can return to the world of the gods in time, she falls into a trap set by Dae-yun (Choe Sam), who is attracted to her. Because of the trap, she is not able to keep the promised deadline, and ends up risking her life to save her husband.

Madam White Snake

1960

Setting Sun poster
10.0

Dok-gu who has seen his son's family off to America lives alone, keeping a close relationship with Bok-rye who lives at an old people's home. Won also likes Bok-ye. Since he finds out his son cannot come back, he marries Bok-rye out of anger and Won falls into sickness. One day, Dok-gu has a stroke and Bok-rye takes care of him selling snacks on the street. His son offers to take him to America but he insists on staying with his wife. Won dies blaming Dok-gu for putting Bok-rye in such hardship. Dok-gu falls out of shock at the death of Won and dies.

Setting Sun

1979

Farewell 2 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Farewell 2

1974