Choe Ik-gyu

Directing

Choe Ik-gyu

Born

1933-02-26 (93)

Place of birth

North Hamgyong Province, Japan Empire [now North Korea]

Known for

Directing

Credits

10 titles

Known for

The Flower Girl poster
6.6

The country is occupied by the Japanese imperialists. Koppun is selling flowers at the market to get some money to buy medicine for her sick mother. Her brother is imprisoned, her father dead and her sister blind.

The Flower Girl

1972

Nation and Destiny 11-13: Hong Yong Ja poster
9.0

A film about a South Korean actress who has been involved in many political activities under President Park Chung-hee's rule. Ch'a Hong-gi persuades Kim Hyong-uk, the former KCIA director to expose the corruption of President Park Chung-hee in a book. After Kim's death, Hong Yong-ja suspects the South Korean government of being involved. She eventually becomes a vice president of International Taekwondo Federation by the help of Ch'a Hong-gi.

Nation and Destiny 11-13: Hong Yong Ja

1997

Sea of Blood poster
6.3

Based on a revolutionary play supposedly written by the Eternal President of the Democratic People's Republic, Kim Il-sung, and rumored to have been co-directed by Kim Jong-il. This revolutionary work is also popular among the Chinese, especially those who lived through the Cultural Revolution, and have fond memories of revolutionary antics.

Sea of Blood

1969

Nation and Destiny 1-4: Choe Hyon Dok poster
5.0

Choe Hyon Dok indulged in anti-communism nearly all his life. At the end, he is forsaken by the nation and lives in exile in a foreign country. But in the embrace of his beloved home, his motherland, he finds the genuine way to resurrection and contribution to the nation at last.

Nation and Destiny 1-4: Choe Hyon Dok

1992

5 Guerilla Brothers poster
NR

Best seen as a dramatized history lesson, 5 Guerilla Brothers features pivotal events in the creation of North Korea. This includes the shift from guerilla warfare to more conventional forms of combat and the establishment of the mountain-based anti-Japanese forces as the legitimate heirs to the land after the defeat of the Japanese. As well as establishing Kim Il Sung as the leader of this movement and thus the only man for the job of taking control of the country after the withdrawal of the occupational forces.

5 Guerilla Brothers

1968

Nation and Destiny 9-10: Cha Hong Gi poster
NR

The life story of Ch'oe Hong-hui. Also known as General Choi, he was a South Korean army general and martial artist who is a controversial figure in the history of the Korean martial art of Taekwondo. In 1972, Choi went into exile in Canada and lived in Toronto until his death in North Korea in 2002.

Nation and Destiny 9-10: Cha Hong Gi

1995

Behind the camera

The Flower Girl poster
6.6

The country is occupied by the Japanese imperialists. Koppun is selling flowers at the market to get some money to buy medicine for her sick mother. Her brother is imprisoned, her father dead and her sister blind.

The Flower Girl

1972

Nation and Destiny 11-13: Hong Yong Ja poster
9.0

A film about a South Korean actress who has been involved in many political activities under President Park Chung-hee's rule. Ch'a Hong-gi persuades Kim Hyong-uk, the former KCIA director to expose the corruption of President Park Chung-hee in a book. After Kim's death, Hong Yong-ja suspects the South Korean government of being involved. She eventually becomes a vice president of International Taekwondo Federation by the help of Ch'a Hong-gi.

Nation and Destiny 11-13: Hong Yong Ja

1997

Nation and Destiny 11-13: Hong Yong Ja poster
9.0

A film about a South Korean actress who has been involved in many political activities under President Park Chung-hee's rule. Ch'a Hong-gi persuades Kim Hyong-uk, the former KCIA director to expose the corruption of President Park Chung-hee in a book. After Kim's death, Hong Yong-ja suspects the South Korean government of being involved. She eventually becomes a vice president of International Taekwondo Federation by the help of Ch'a Hong-gi.

Nation and Destiny 11-13: Hong Yong Ja

1997

Sea of Blood poster
6.3

Based on a revolutionary play supposedly written by the Eternal President of the Democratic People's Republic, Kim Il-sung, and rumored to have been co-directed by Kim Jong-il. This revolutionary work is also popular among the Chinese, especially those who lived through the Cultural Revolution, and have fond memories of revolutionary antics.

Sea of Blood

1969

Nation and Destiny 1-4: Choe Hyon Dok poster
5.0

Choe Hyon Dok indulged in anti-communism nearly all his life. At the end, he is forsaken by the nation and lives in exile in a foreign country. But in the embrace of his beloved home, his motherland, he finds the genuine way to resurrection and contribution to the nation at last.

Nation and Destiny 1-4: Choe Hyon Dok

1992

Nation and Destiny 1-4: Choe Hyon Dok poster
5.0

Choe Hyon Dok indulged in anti-communism nearly all his life. At the end, he is forsaken by the nation and lives in exile in a foreign country. But in the embrace of his beloved home, his motherland, he finds the genuine way to resurrection and contribution to the nation at last.

Nation and Destiny 1-4: Choe Hyon Dok

1992

5 Guerilla Brothers poster
NR

Best seen as a dramatized history lesson, 5 Guerilla Brothers features pivotal events in the creation of North Korea. This includes the shift from guerilla warfare to more conventional forms of combat and the establishment of the mountain-based anti-Japanese forces as the legitimate heirs to the land after the defeat of the Japanese. As well as establishing Kim Il Sung as the leader of this movement and thus the only man for the job of taking control of the country after the withdrawal of the occupational forces.

5 Guerilla Brothers

1968

Nation and Destiny 9-10: Cha Hong Gi poster
NR

The life story of Ch'oe Hong-hui. Also known as General Choi, he was a South Korean army general and martial artist who is a controversial figure in the history of the Korean martial art of Taekwondo. In 1972, Choi went into exile in Canada and lived in Toronto until his death in North Korea in 2002.

Nation and Destiny 9-10: Cha Hong Gi

1995

Nation and Destiny 5-8: Yun Sang Min poster
NR

Parts 5-8 of Nation and Destiny are a thinly fictionalized portrayal of the life of Isang Yun, a Korean-born composer who made his later career in Germany. Because of a visit in North Korea in 1963, he had been kidnapped from West-Berlin by the South Korean secret service in 1967 and released in 1969, returning to West Berlin. He made several more trips to the North during his life, and was a major advocate of peace and reconciliation between the two Koreas.

Nation and Destiny 5-8: Yun Sang Min

1995

The Fate of a Self-defence Corps Man poster
NR

A film adaptation of a revolutionary play created in the 1930s by a group of partisans led by Kim Il-sung. Subject: the struggle of Korean peasants against the Japanese occupiers.

The Fate of a Self-defence Corps Man

1970