Acting

Ju Sang-ho

Acting credits

Four Iron Men poster
NR

Ingeol and Ki-seong are masters of taekwondo and are bamboo shoots, but they parted ways to spread the traditional martial art, Taekwon, to the whole country. Upon arriving at Ganghwa Island, Ingeol discovers a group of suspicious people and tracks them. Meanwhile, Ki-seong, who had been traveling the country separately, heard the news and ran to Ganghwa Island, and together with In-geol's younger sister, Non-smoking, smacked the Ming merchants and Hyuk-soo gang to protect the gold.

Four Iron Men

1977

Splendid Outing poster
7.3

An overworked female executive is haunted by strange dreams. She is compelled to travel to a remote fishing village where she is inexplicably kidnapped and sold to a peasant farmer on a remote island.

Splendid Outing

1978

The Hero Returns poster
7.0

A girl who has failed to be accepted by a first-rate university and is suffering from depression, suddenly finds herself pulled into the past. She meets her parents as teenagers and must somehow find a way to spark their romance before she can return to her own time.

The Hero Returns

1987

No artwork available
6.5

A man is paid to seduce the wife of a powerful stockbroker but realizes that he is being set up for a murder charge.

No Woman Is Afraid of the Night

1986

Rice Cake poster
NR

Jeom-rye works as a sharecropper to make a living for her good-for-nothing husband and her son Yong. But the village men are always trying to seduce her. When she rebuffs her landlord's advances, she is wrongly accused by his wife and is forced to leave. Sam-su, the servant who is smitten with her, offers to lend her husband, Deok-hi, money for her affections. Deok-hi tries to sell her off to Sam-su but Jeom-rye gets him arrested for trafficking humans. Sam-su realizes Jeom-rye's sincerity and drops the charges and Deok-hi repents his ways only too late. He dies of an illness. When her son Yong dies from indigestion after eating rice cakes, she goes off the edge.

Rice Cake

1988

The Testimony poster
4.0

June 25, 1950. When second lieutenant Jang has a date with his girl friend during weekend, numerous North Korean jet fighters make sudden air raids to the skies of Seoul. It is the beginning of Korean War. In spite of Korean Army's brave defense, North Korean army reddens South Korea with their state-of-the-art weapons. This movie describes the progress of war from the invasion in June 25, 1950 to the reclamation of territory on the basis of Sun-A's personal experience. Also this film reminds hard lessons from tragic history.

The Testimony

1974

Yeonhwa poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Yeonhwa

1975

A Self-Righteous Man poster
9.0

As the tragic war of fratricide is drawing to a close, a special agent nicknamed Dokbul, Kang Cheol-gu, is given an intelligence mission to identify and confirm the enemy's unusual movements. While on a mission, Cheol-gu infiltrates the enemy's camp alone and accidentally witnesses a bloody scene of massacre of civilians. He saves the only survivor, Hwang No-in, and is hinted that the enemy's plot is very dangerous. Cheol-gu approaches Mi-young, a People's Army nurse, to extract information, but is exposed to the enemy and escapes a crisis after a fierce battle. In the end, thanks to Cheol-gu's persistence, Mi-young realizes the illusion of the liberation struggle they are calling for, and transforms into Cheol-gu's collaborator to stop their horrific plot, germ warfare, and carries out the mission. However, the result of this tragic war is only futility. A war of illusions where more is lost than gained, and in the end, even the nickname Dokbul sheds hot tears.

A Self-Righteous Man

1988

A Woman Pursued poster
8.0

At the death of her father, A-mi returns to Korea and realises he was implicated in the theft of a chest full of gold bars. She then becomes the target of a criminal organisation.

A Woman Pursued

1970

Rosy Life poster
6.7

A comic book store in Garibong-dong is run by a beautiful woman better known as Madam. This store stays open late into the night, thus attracting varied types of people such as gangsters and hustlers.

Rosy Life

1994

Eagle of Wild Field poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Eagle of Wild Field

1969

Adada poster
6.5

Young-hwan who is the descendant of a fallen noble family takes pure and innocent Adada as his wife. Because of Young-hwan's selfish desires, Adada seeks out her childhood friend Su-ryong. But he, too, becomes a slave to desire. Adada protests and dies by drowning.

Adada

1987

A Second Mother poster
10.0

Nam-Ok who has Yun-Ho and Yun-Suk remarries widowed Heung-Yeol who has Hyeong-Tae and Hyeong-Ja. Nam-Ok are concerned about frequent quarrels between half brothers and sisters, but manages to deal with them wisely. As Yun-Ho who went to fishing with him falls into the water, Heung-Yeol tries to save him only to drown himself to death. Fifteen years later, Hyeong-Tae goes abroad to study while Hyeong-Ja lives in extravagance in Seoul. Yun-Suk gets to know Dong-Oh on the train, and Dong-Ho gets to like her, but later misunderstands her due to Hyeong-Ja's scheme, which causes Yun-Suk to commit suicide.

A Second Mother

1972

One-eyed Park poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

One-eyed Park

1970

Yeonhwa 2 poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Yeonhwa 2

1975

Mrs. Speculator poster
6.0

Mrs. Han who argues with her husband about living expenses. She unexpectedly earns 5 million won over an apartment she sold and becomes a speculator. She teams up with some slanderers and makes big money then soon dissolved into pleasure with men around her. Finally, slanderers trick her and she is broke and nearly mad. The police catches the speculators and they show no regrets. When the verdict is announced, they finally see their wrong doings.

Mrs. Speculator

1980

My Hometown poster
7.0

After 14 years in Japan, a gangster returns to the Seoul neighborhood where he grew up and is forced to confront some difficult truths.

My Hometown

1976

Battlefield and a Female Teacher poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Battlefield and a Female Teacher

1966

I Won't Cry poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

I Won't Cry

1974

Whirl of Betrayals on Myeongdong poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Whirl of Betrayals on Myeongdong

1972

A Red-and-blue Gauze Lantern poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

A Red-and-blue Gauze Lantern

1967

Genealogy poster
6.0

During the Japanese occupation of South Korea, a Japanese bureaucrat is ordered to persuade an influential Korean patriarch into obeying the law of changing his Korean surname to a Japanese one.

Genealogy

1979

Lady in Dream poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Lady in Dream

1968

The Life of Ok-rye poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Life of Ok-rye

1977