Chu Seok-yang

Acting

Chu Seok-yang

Born — Died

1923-06-12 — 2000-05-22

Place of birth

Jongno, Seoul, South Korea

Known for

Acting

Credits

59 titles

Chu Seok-yang (June 12, 1923 - May 22, 2000) was a South-Korean actor.

Known for

Film credits

1980s · 9 titles

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

Good Windy Days poster
6.6

Three friends, Deokbae, Chun-sik, and Kil-nam, work each at a suburban Chinese restaurant, a barbershop, and a motel. The three friends are clueless about their future. They just share the drinks and love stories. Kil-nam is in love with Jin-ok working at a hair salon and Chun-sik is after Yu who also works at the barbershop. Naive Duk-bae's mind is torn between Chun-sun who works at a factory and an uptown girl Myung-hi.

Good Windy Days

1980

A Dwarf Launches a Little Ball poster
5.4

A dwarf and his poor, but loving, family who are forced out of their house by a real estate agent.

A Dwarf Launches a Little Ball

1981

Until Heaven Calls poster
7.0

Distraught that he is unable to go to his parent's home for the holidays, Sang-do gets drunk and meets a beautiful woman, but he winds up spending the night in the hospital after being beaten by her boyfriend. Upon being discharged, he finds a blank check on the sidewalk and is torn between following his conscience or his greed.

Until Heaven Calls

1980

People in the Slum poster
6.3

In a poor neighborhood in Seoul, the inhabitants live together in harmony despite their difficult circumstances.

People in the Slum

1982

Fury in Shaolin Temple poster
7.0

When a young boy finds himself alone in the world when his adoptive father disappears after a fight, his first thought is to go to Shaolin.

Fury in Shaolin Temple

1982

Widow Dancing poster
10.0

A group of widows come with several frauds and scams in an effort to cheat the system which marginalizes them and to make a better life for themselves and their children.

Widow Dancing

1984

Children Of Darkness Part 1, Young-ae the Songstress poster
7.0

Young-ae is a prostitute who obsesses over money after losing her daughter to illness. Her co-workers are jealous of her. When a prostitute named Mrs. Kangwon dies after giving a birth, Young-ae takes the baby under her care and leaves the brothel district. Although she struggles to make ends meet and provide a home for the child, the child is taken away by the authorities because she is single. She decides that her old life is the only ground for living she has and returns to it.

Children Of Darkness Part 1, Young-ae the Songstress

1981

Grotesque Master poster
NR

Korean martial arts movie

Grotesque Master

1981

1970s · 15 titles

Great King Sejo poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Great King Sejo

1970

The Woman Who Stole the Sun poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Woman Who Stole the Sun

1979

An Old Potter poster
6.2

A lonely old potter saves the life of a young woman. She is grateful to him, but does not return the love he feels for her. However she feels obligated to marry him. In time, her former boyfriend finds her and takes a job working with the potter until he can convince her to run away with him.

An Old Potter

1970

Woman of Fire poster
4.8

The lives of a composer and his wife, who live on a chicken farm, are thrown into turmoil when a femme fatale joins their household.

Woman of Fire

1971

I Won't Cry poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

I Won't Cry

1974

Cattle poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Cattle

1975

49 Days of Hell poster
8.0

A battalion of North Korean soldiers sieze Eoluk Isalnd on the east coast of Korea. The villagers organize a resistance and set a date to strike back at the occupying force which is terrorizing the population.

49 Days of Hell

1979

Hong Kil-Dong poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Hong Kil-Dong

1976

A Bout in 30 Years poster
6.5

Best friends Dae-gyu and Dal-su fight over Ok-hi. When Ok-hui marries and goes to Seoul the fight ends. After many years, Ok-hi is widowed and brings her daughter Ji-hyang to her home village, and the fight between Dae-gyu and Dal-su begins again. Ok-hui borrows some money from Dal-su when she is short of money while building a reservoir for the village. Dal-su lends money on the condition that she marry him if she cannot pay him back until the ground-breaking ceremony. And Dal-su's wife leaves. As Ok-hui fails to return the money, she tries to run away with Dae-gyu, but they run into Min, Dal-su's son, who demands them to pay back his father's money. Finally Dae-gyu and Dal-su meet and have a fight, but at last Dal-su sends him to Ok-hi, and he is happy to do so.

A Bout in 30 Years

1971

Love Of Blood Relations poster
9.0

North Korean agents are sent to Seoul to disrupt the visit of important international dignitaries.

Love Of Blood Relations

1976

A Crape-Myrtle with Morning Dew poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

A Crape-Myrtle with Morning Dew

1970

Departure poster
8.0

A man avoids his mandatory military service, but this forces him to hide the fact from society and to lie on official documents. Although he makes a decent living, guilt begins to eat at him.

Departure

1973

Resented Spirit of Baby Bride Groom poster
NR

A royal inspector Kim Sang-Won disguised as a traveler arrives at a village where they say a ghost appears to examine the details. Finally he is in the disguise of a resented spirit because of broken engagement and goes to the abandoned house where he discloses that Lee, a scholar, and his daughter In-Yeon murder the chief of the village Kim's whole family. Also he tells official circles and people that ghost can not be existed in any circumstances.

Resented Spirit of Baby Bride Groom

1973

WANTED : GIRL poster
NR

A country-bred simple young man wants to marry a city-bred modern girl. As he meets some city-bred girls, he changes his mind little by little. He thinks they are not suitable to his him. Realizing that a country-bred girl who understands his character and background is suitable to him, he changes his mind.

WANTED : GIRL

1976

No artwork available
10.0

Dal-Rae's father gets killed by his concubine Seo-Mo, who later entraps Dal-Rae into death, also. But Do-Wun, Dal-Rae's younger brother, continues to study for the state examination in some temple, not knowing his father and sister's death. Dal-Rae's ghost tries to protect her youngest brother Do-Seon from Seo-Mo's intrigue. When Do-Seon was on the verge of being killed, Do-Wun who won the first place in the state examination saves his brother. While Seo-Mo and her evil group gets killed accused of their horrible atrocities, Do-Wun goes to Han Yang with his brother, asking Cheong-Am, his teacher and a great Buddhist monk, to pray for Dal-Rae's soul.

My Sister's Regrets

1971

1960s · 26 titles

Returned Left-handed Man poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Returned Left-handed Man

1968

The Teacher with Ten Daughters poster
8.5

No synopsis available yet.

The Teacher with Ten Daughters

1964

A Man Like the Wind poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

A Man Like the Wind

1968

Nostalgia poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Nostalgia

1967

The Sea Knows poster
7.0

A Korean man, forced into service in the Japanese army during WWII, marries his Japanese girlfriend despite everyone's objections. Later, he becomes the sole survivor when the Americans attack.

The Sea Knows

1961

Kinship poster
6.2

The story takes place on a mountain slope where defectors from North Korea live. These families sell cheap things such as socks and pens to make a living and there is a serious gap between the parents and their children. A widower Kim Deok-sam nags his son Geo-buk to join the American army. Ok-Mae who lives next door teaches her daughter Bok-soon traditional Korean folksongs and forces her to become a gisaeng.

Kinship

1963

A Bloodthirsty Killer poster
6.4

A man happens upon a painting of his long deceased ex-wife, and soon he and his family find themselves reacquainted with her bloodthirsty ghost.

A Bloodthirsty Killer

1965

I Want to Be Human poster
7.0

Natasha, an officer at the Soviet Embassy in North Korea, is in love with Seok-bong. But Seok-bong has already planned his wedding with Bok-hui. Natasha grows jealous and threatens Bok-hui to leave somewhere else. Meanwhile Bok-hui's brother, Tae-yeong, is executed after participating in an anti-communist march. Seok-bong is accused of taking a part in the march. Seok-bong starts to feel pessimistic about his communist belief. He tries an escape to the South, but he is captured by the authority and executed.

I Want to Be Human

1969

The Continental Spy poster
7.0

During the Chinese-Japanese War (1937-1945) a nightclub dancer is given a dangerous mission by her dying brother. According to her brother's will, she goes on a journey with encoded papers of the Independence Army operations. She soon becomes a most wanted criminal by the Japanese Army and must cross the continent on her own.

The Continental Spy

1964

The Result of the Ambition poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Result of the Ambition

1964

A Wanted Man poster
6.5

In order to gain revenge on the killers of his parents, a man joins an organized crime ring as a hit man. The brutality of his slayings in his quest for vengeance makes him a man that the police desperately want to collar. ※ Only the first 32 minutes of the film currently exist today. The plot summary has been added in the form of title cards to aid the viewing experience.

A Wanted Man

1961

When Acacias Bloom poster
7.3

A 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

The Devil and the Beauty poster
6.5

When a doctor's beloved wife passes away, he puts her in a glass tub and revives her by injecting fresh blood to her every night. In return, he has to kill a number of other lives, including one of his friends. The victim's daughter suspects the death of her father and gets a job as a nurse at the doctor's office. She discovers the terrible secret and takes revenge for her father.

The Devil and the Beauty

1969

Entanglements poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Entanglements

1960

Rainy Gomoryeong Hill poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Rainy Gomoryeong Hill

1969

Sinmungo poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Sinmungo

1963

King Dongmyeong poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

King Dongmyeong

1962

A Widow poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

A Widow

1960

No artwork available
NR

A scamp Sang-hyeon who has crush on Hui-jeong shadows her to her house. He sneaks into her home and is surprised by a ghost. He stabbs the ghost who turns out Hui-jeong's mother. Hui-jeong gets married to Yeong-min and lives together with her father who has nobody to turn to. But Yeong-min's mother hates her daughter-in-law and mistreats her. She in the end kills Hui-jeong's father and attempts to kill Hui-jeong. Her dead mother appears to save Hui-jeong from the wicked mother-in-law.

Witch Castle

1968

Mr. Park poster
5.6

Mr. Park raises his children by repairing charcoal pits. Although ignorant and stubborn, Mr. Park has a good heart. He is displeased, however, with his eldest daughter, Yong-sun (Jo Mi-ryeong), because of her close relationship with Jae-cheon (Hwang hae), who is a scamp in his eyes. He is also unsatisfied with his second daughter, Myeong-sun (Eom Aeng-ran), for liking Ju-sik (Bang Su-il). Only his eldest son, Yong-beom (Kim Jin-gyu), is the apple of his eye, as he approves of his son's wife, Jeom-rye (Kim Hye-jeong). When Yong-beom is sent to a foreign branch office, Mr. Park is against it at first but approves of it, as he knows what it means for his son's future. Eventually, too, he begins to approve of his two daughters' relationships.

Mr. Park

1960

Black Hair poster
5.7

Yeon-shil is the lover of crime boss Dong-il. She pays off one of the boss's henchmen, Man-ho, with whom she once had an affair; Man-ho is an opium addict, and he has been blackmailing Yeon-shil by threatening to disclose their past relations.

Black Hair

1964

Body is Sad poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Body is Sad

1962

In So Long poster
7.0

"A Long Goodbye" - Taken in by an elderly woman and raised as her own, a boy spends all his days dreaming of the time when he can be reunited with his lost parents.

In So Long

1962

No artwork available
NR

A woman hates men. Her distorted hatred against men presents itself in a way of deep love for her sister-in-law. The affection for her sister-in-law begins to develop into lesbianism

A Jealousy

1960

Man Is Not Popular poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Man Is Not Popular

1963

A Shoeshine Boy poster
7.0

Following the death of his parents, Yeong-cheol shines shoes in the streets, struggling to care for his sick younger sister Yeong-hui and make ends meet. Despite the persuasive efforts of low-life criminal boss Wang-cho, pickpocket Jjang-gu, and prostitute Mi-hwa, Yeong-cheol vows to lead an honest life by looking after Yeong-hui with cigarette salesgirl Myeong-sun and helping newly arrived shoeshine boy Dong-seok settle in. However, a tragic accident forces Yeong-cheol to make an important decision that may change his life. ※ Sharing the same Korean title with Vittorio De Sica’s classic Shoeshine (1946), this film was noted at the time of release for its strong neorealistic approach. All of the picture elements have been lost and only 4 original sound negative reels (around 40 minutes) survive today. The plot summary and scene descriptions have been added in the form of title cards as well as a selection of production stills to aid the viewing experience.

A Shoeshine Boy

1961

1950s · 8 titles

A Female Boss poster
4.7

Would-be feminist Yoanna, running her own company, is insulted in a phone booth by a stranger named Yong-ho. While searching for a job, Yong-ho applies to a magazine named 'The Modern Woman,' not knowing that the company's boss is in fact Yoanna. She hires him with the intention of paying back the humiliation she received. But his masculine attitude captivates her and she ends up marrying him. She resigns her post and becomes a housekeeper, handing over the company to her husband.

A Female Boss

1959

When the Night Comes Again poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

When the Night Comes Again

1958

King Gojong and Martyr An Jung-geun poster
6.0

At the end of the Joseon Dynasty, shortly after the Eulsa Treaty has been forced to be concluded by Ito Hirobumi and the pro-Japanese courtiers, Japan pressures King Gojong to step down from the throne. Meanwhile, An Jung-geun, who is cultivating men of ability at Samheung school, is deeply impressed by a speech made by An Chang-ho, and heads for Russia to volunteer the army fighting for independence of the country. As both a lieutenant general of the Korean militia and a commander of the Korean expeditionary force in Manchuria, he carries on the independence movement in defiance of Japanese coercion.

King Gojong and Martyr An Jung-geun

1959

Nameless Stars poster
5.2

The son of a freedom fighter, Sang-hun is a member of an anti-Japanese resistance group called "Seongjinhoe," composed of students who share a dedication to the cause of liberation. Their spiritual guide is a teacher named Song Un-in. One day, Yeong-ae, whose brother is a detective in the Japanese police force charged with monitoring independence movements, joins their group. Following a series of sporadic incidents, the students gather one night to resolve on an uprising, but are discovered by the police. Young-ae is wrongfully accused of betraying their plans, but she risks her life in order to allow the group members to escape. The morning after, the students of Gwangju rise up against the Japanese government.

Nameless Stars

1959

The Tragedy of King Dan Jong poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Tragedy of King Dan Jong

1956

A Cross of Love poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

A Cross of Love

1959

Life of the Woman poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Life of the Woman

1957

Gobau poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Gobau

1959