Song Gil-han

Writing

Song Gil-han

Born 1940-07-30 · Jeonju, North Jeolla Province, Korea, Empire of Japan

Acting credits

Behind the camera

The Surrogate Womb poster
7.1

A barren noblewoman encourages her husband to take a young peasant as a surrogate to secure the male line.

The Surrogate Womb

1987

Daughter of the Flames poster
7.0

A man married to a Christian, but from a shamanistic upbringing, attempts to come to terms with the spirit of his mother who visits him in dreams.

Daughter of the Flames

1983

Manhunt poster
9.0

A Chinese General seeks refuge with a mother and daughter and falls in love with the daughter while being pursued by Mongol invaders.

Manhunt

1978

Moonlight in the University Town poster
NR

Deuk - man, a returning student, finds lodging difficult. The owner of the boarding house, Sookmyung, is tired of her busy husband picking out the type in the narrow printing shop room every day, so he ludicrously seduces him. Deckman moves the house, but skepticism stubbornly searches for him. Deckman throws himself away more easily than the first, because he gives up the rented house and draws him to his house. However, the virtue of being humiliated by the slave of the castle is no longer able to bear the burden. Duk-man, who throws away everything and goes out into the streets and wipes out the glass of high-rise buildings, registers for the new semester and tells the friends' petitions about the pain.

Moonlight in the University Town

1990

Myong-Ja Akiko Sonia poster
7.0

The life of a woman through the tumultuous years of Korea's modern history.

Myong-Ja Akiko Sonia

1992

Mandala poster
6.5

A story that follows the lives and interactions of two Buddhist monks living in South Korea.

Mandala

1981

Gilsodom poster
6.9

A middle-aged woman in Busan searches for the son she lost in Gilsodom during the Korean War.

Gilsodom

1986

An Idiot Lover poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

An Idiot Lover

1992

Jagko poster
7.2

In 1980s South Korea, a former cop, now in destitution, is placed in a rehabilitation center, where, by chance, he finds the Communist guerilla who had eluded his capture more than 30 years ago.

Jagko

1983

Jagko poster
7.2

In 1980s South Korea, a former cop, now in destitution, is placed in a rehabilitation center, where, by chance, he finds the Communist guerilla who had eluded his capture more than 30 years ago.

Jagko

1983

Crying in a Butterfly's Embrace poster
NR

A beleaguered cabbie accompanies a mysterious and moody woman on an eventful journey across South Korea to find her long-lost lover.

Crying in a Butterfly's Embrace

1983

The Village of Mist poster
6.8

A young South Korean woman moves to an isolated mountain village, where all of the villagers are related except for a mysterious vagabond, to take up her first teaching post.

The Village of Mist

1983

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Country of Fire

1989

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

One Night at a Strange Place

1980

Gam-dong poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Gam-dong

1988

Ticket poster
5.8

The lives of the women working in a "café" in a South Korean port town, where customers exchange tickets for services.

Ticket

1986

A White Feathered Gull poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

A White Feathered Gull

1983

I Give You Everything poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

I Give You Everything

1989

America, America poster
10.0

A young Korean-American accidently kills someone and spends the next 7 years in prison. When released, she joins up with a middle-aged Korean man looking for his wife and an illegal immigrant on the run. Together they travel to Lake Tahoe and find redemption along the way.

America, America

1988

Who Knows the Pain poster
8.5

Seong Ji-yeon, a female officer of the North Korean army, is discovered by southern forces on a snow covered mountain. She suffers from severe frostbite so she is taken to a military hospital. There she falls in love with a doctor, Captain Lee. However, when he is sent to the front, she is sent to try to survive the hardships of a POW camp.

Who Knows the Pain

1979

High School Tears poster
8.0

Kwon Dal-ho is a teacher who wants to make his 3rd grade class the best. Yu-dae becomes the class representative and Ki-pyo, the leader of the ten troublesome students who’ve been held back, transfers to his class to the chagrin of the other kids…

High School Tears

1982

Bhiksuni poster
NR

A partially restored version of Director Im Kwon-taek's Bhiksuni, which was halted in 1984 due to opposition from the Buddhist community. It contains the agony of a woman who has converted to Buddhism. The documentary, which is shown together with the partially restored version, contains the story of the production of Bhiksuni told by actress Kim Ji-mi, director Im Kwon-taek, cinematographer Jung Il-sung, and writer Song Gil-han.

Bhiksuni

2017

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

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

A Promise on the Last Day

1974