
Acting
Chu Bong
Born 1922-01-01 · South Korea
Acting credits
7.3A monk rapes a beautiful young woman who visits his monastery. He quits the monastery, marries the woman, and they have kids. But she despises him all the while and devotes herself to tormenting him.
The Dream
1990
Mi-ryeong marries Ji-kwang and takes him to live at her mansion. He soon seems to fall ill and he requests that his friend, Yeo-ok be hired on to nurse him. However, Yeo-ok and Ji-kwang are really lovers and together they manage to fake Ji-kwang's death. They next torment Mi-ryeong with visions of his 'ghost'. Mi-ryeong dies of fright and Yeo-ok and Ji-kwang marry--but their happiness is short-lived as their nights are interupted by the vengeful spirit of Mi-ryeong.
Evil Spirit
1981
7.0Iljimae's parents were killed due to a conspiracy when he was young. Many years later he became a chivalrous robber, robbing corrupt officials and helping the poor. He eventually manages in taking revenge for his parents' deaths. But the police start to chase him, and he hides himself at a gisaeng's house. The gisaeng was his ex-fiancee. She also lost her parents to a conspiracy. She begs Iljimae to stay with her, but he leaves to do what he has to.
Iljimae the Chivalrous Robber
1961
5.3A young woman is tricked into prostitution, thinking she is going to sell beverages at a village store. She soon learns about the dark world of Korea's red-light districts, where their pimps and society exploit her.
Downfall
1997
7.0A young man who was fired from his job for being unmanly decides to dress as a woman and work as a gisaeng. He gets proposals from several of his male clients including his former boss, Heo. He earns enough money to clear his gisaeng life and opens his own business with his friend Jeong-hui. Meanwhile his sister tells him that she is getting married. Later he finds out that her future brother in-law is the son of Heo. He doesn't know how to react. But Heo takes the man back to his company.
A Man And a Gisaeng
1969
6.7Detective Woo is on the trail of the mysterious gangster Sungmin, a master of disguise who always manages to elude his pursuers. Eventually, the cop tracks down and confronts the master-criminal in the suburbs of a coal-mining town.
Nowhere to Hide
1999
5.0Father An is locked up in a basement by retreating North Korean soldiers while reconstructing his church ruined during the Korean War (1950-1953). The North Koreans hide in the basement with Father An and tries to escape the church by using him as a shield. Captain Choe Dong-ho of the South Korean Army has been chasing the remnants, but he cannot annihilate them because of the safety of Father An. However, thanks to the clever strategy of Captain Choe, the North Koreans are killed and Father An is safely saved.
Seven People in the Cellar
1969
7.4While awaiting the publication of his fairytale about his dementia-stricken octogenarian mother, an acclaimed South Korean novelist receives news that she has passed away, so he leaves the city and returns to her village to take part in the funeral.
Festival
1996
5.2Trainer Meng Doo-ho spots Young-chul in a bar fight and decides to turn him into a boxing champion.
I Am a King
1966
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
6.4A remote fishing island is home to a largely female-population. Men are frequently lost to the ocean as stubbornly going out to sea in the face of great danger. Young widows are made and quickly learn the hardships of life.
The Seaside Village
1965
10.0Bok-nyeo gets married to a poor Joseon's aristrocrat and lives a hard life to survive.
Potato
1968
10.0A group of people whose lives suffer from stagnation, are working together in the same company and their lives are scutinized by those who see them. There is the development manager whose last new idea was five years earlier; a procrastinating office clerk with a crush on a co-worker that he is too shy to reveal; and a senior manager who believes his wife is having an affair causing him to take out his frustration on all his employees.
Bitter and Sweet
1995
7.7Chun-hyang, the only daughter of an old gisaeng named Wolmae, falls in love with Lee Mong-nyong and promises to marry him. But Lee leaves for Seoul with his father who's an aristocrat, and the new governor, Byeon Hakdo, covets Chun-hyang because she is the most beautiful girl in town. When Chun-hyang rejects his order to serve him at night, Governor Byeon sends her to jail. In the mean time, Lee passes the state exam and becomes a special undercover agent of the king. He comes back to where Chun-hyang lives to save her and punishes Governor Byeon.
Seong Chun-hyang
1961
NRA gang of pharmacists, intent on seizing Hyun-ju's inheritance, systematically approaches her. The leader of the gang is her ex-husband. Before they can seize her inheritance, internal conflict arises within the gang, and they are all murdered by the leader. Meanwhile, the police, aware of this, launch a nimble investigation. The leader, determined to keep her inheritance, persistently pursues her, but ultimately fails and is arrested. She is rescued from a near-death experience.
Call 112
1962
NRHi-won is a news reporter for a magazine. She runs into Min Seung-wu who was once her lover when she was a teacher. Hi-won is attracted by Seung-wu's charm but her parents do not approve of their relationship for his past of misfortune having grown up an orphan. She is proposed to marry Song Yun-sik whom she was fixed up by a matchmaker but that only assures her of her love for Seung-wu. Seung-wu decides to move to France for her sake and for his family, cherishing his memory of the time they spent together on the night of his farewell party. As he heads to the airport, she marries an ordinary man.
Lethe's Love Song
1987
9.5King Sukjong assigns Jang Ok-nan, a court lady, as a concubine overnight. Jang plots to drive the current Queen into exile.
Femme Fatale, Jang Hee Bin
1968
7.4Yeong-shin and Dong-hyuk graduate from college with a cause. They plan to bring education and modernization to farmers living in the rural area of their hometown. When they arrive, the pair immediately get to work, Dong-hyuk builds a village hall and starts aiding the farmers while Yeong-shin tries to gather the children to form a school. However, the villagers at first resent and resist the pair. It is not until one child, Ok-bun, takes the initiative and and learns to read under Yeong-shin’s care that the villages trust the pair and allow their children to be taken from the fields and taught reading, writing and math.
The Evergreen
1961
10.0No synopsis available yet.
A Sad Story of Danjong
1963
7.0Choi Seok, the principal of a girl's high school, adopts Jeong-nim, a Japanese student there. However, they develop a disturbing relationship that scandalizes the local region. His family is disgusted and sends the girl back to Tokyo whil Choi Seok loses his job, but the two cannot stop thinking about each other
Forbidden Love
1976
7.0No synopsis available yet.
The Woman Who Stole the Sun
1979
5.0As the woman he has a crush on gets married, Byung-tae is heartbroken and tries to kill himself. At a mental hospital, Byung-tae meets a gang boss. By chance, Byung-tae saves a pickpocket girl from the den of evil.
Whale Hunting 2
1985
7.3A man assists a woman in danger, but through her actions, she unintentionally causes his death. Everyone in the village knows that she visits his tomb every spring, but no one knows the details of her story.
When Acacias Bloom
1962
7.0Hwa-soon comes to Seoul in search of the whereabouts of her fiance, Man-seok, who has not heard from her for 7 years. After many twists and turns, she meets Man-seok, who becomes a restaurant truck driver, but Man-seok hates Hwa-sun. Still, Hwa-sun does not leave her surroundings, and in the end, Man-seok also returns to her Hwa-sun. Man-seok buys her truck, decorates a mobile department store, and starts her business. On a snowy winter day, she clears an obstacle from a sloping road and rolls over to a cliff. Hwa-sun lays her bloody Man-seok next to her and grabs the steering wheel of the truck. Hwa-sun howls and accelerates, but Man-seok finally closes her eyes.
Hwa-suni
1982