Lee Seok-ku

Acting

Lee Seok-ku

Born

1950-11-06 (75)

Place of birth

South Korea

Known for

Acting

Credits

47 titles

Lee Seok-ku (이석구) is a South Korean actor.

Known for

Film credits

2000s · 7 titles

Silmido poster
7.1

On 31 January 1968, 31 North Korean commandos infiltrated South Korea in a failed mission to assassinate President Park Chung-hee. In revenge, the South Korean military assembled a team of 31 criminals on the island of Silmido to kill Kim Il-sung for a suicide mission to redeem their honor, but was cancelled, leaving them frustrated. It is loosely based on a military uprising in the 1970s.

Silmido

2003

Clementine poster
3.2

Kim, a Taekwondo champion decides to give up his fighting career for good in order to take care of his daughter Sa Rang. But when an evil gambling kingpin kidnaps Sa Rang, Kim must agree to fight in a rigged boxing match in exchange for Sa Rang's freedom.

Clementine

2004

Public Enemy poster
7.1

A notorious dirty cop makes an honest attempt to catch a serial killer who even murdered his own parents.

Public Enemy

2002

Bungee Jumping of Their Own poster
6.5

A likeable, married high school teacher spirals out of control when a student in his class begins unintentionally reminding him of his doomed first love, which ended 17 years earlier.

Bungee Jumping of Their Own

2001

Say Yes poster
5.0

Young married couple Yoon-hee and Jung-hyun go on a road trip, and along the way they pick up a lone drifter, M. M turns out to be a violent and sadistic psychopath who terrorises the couple at every turn. After capturing Jung-hyun, Em gives him a choice: submit to torture or allow Em to kill Yoon-hee.

Say Yes

2001

Running Turtle poster
6.3

Jo Pil-seong, a rural detective with a gambling addiction, is on the brink of losing his job when he has his gambling winnings stolen by an escapee convict. Jo Pil-seong sets out to catch the fugitive and retain his money and dignity.

Running Turtle

2009

Jail Breakers poster
6.2

Two inmates break out of a prison only to discover afterwards that they are up for parole. Desperate to get their lives back on track, they realize their best move is to break back into the prison without being noticed.

Jail Breakers

2002

1990s · 12 titles

Downfall poster
5.2

A 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

End of the Century poster
4.6

An intricately put together story that brings to the screen Korea's most sensitive issues. Through the lives of various Seoulites, the film features an unfettered look into Korea's modern society by presenting them into four chapters - Moratorium, Amorality, Moral Hazard, and Y2K.

End of the Century

1999

7 Reasons Why Beer Is Better Than a Lover poster
4.5

No synopsis available yet.

7 Reasons Why Beer Is Better Than a Lover

1996

Festival poster
7.4

While 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

Tie a Yellow Ribbon poster
5.8

No synopsis available yet.

Tie a Yellow Ribbon

1998

Fly High, Run Far poster
6.6

In mid-19th Century Korea, the people of Joseon Dynasty embrace the new religion Donghak. After the founder is executed, Choi Si-hyeong becomes Donghak’s second-generation leader and successfully propagates the religion, but in doing so becomes the object of oppression by the royal court.

Fly High, Run Far

1991

Money, Money, Money poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Money, Money, Money

1991

Ambiguous Man poster
NR

A well-known womanizer is set to marry the daughter of wealthy business man. However, on the day of the wedding, he goes missing. The police are called and begin an investigation, only to see some surprising witnesses come forward.

Ambiguous Man

1996

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

The Song of Crazy Love poster
6.2

Yi-su, a 37 year-old professor, can't forget her first love Joon-ho who's missing in action in Vietnam. She meets Hyun-woo one day, who look surprising like Joon-ho. Hyun-woo investigates Yi-su who lives in the past and discovers that her pain stems from the Vietnam war. Hyun-woo can't help falling in love with her even though he's a student. On a trip to Busan, he confesses his love for her. But he soon realizes that the only man for her is Joon-ho. Min-cheol who fought along with Joon-ho sells his belongings to Yi-su at a high price. He tells her that Joon-ho died in a fire and they argue aggressively. Min-cheol commits suicide afterwards and Yi-su is also found dead in the campus pool.

The Song of Crazy Love

1990

The Doofus Detective And The Twin Light Brothers poster
4.0

Miss Jin, a female detective, meets the head of a human trafficking organization in an undercover plan to destroy it. But she falls into their trap and gets caught. Jin's younger brother and two young men who both have unrequited love for Jin try to save her, but they fail due to the appearance of The Twin Light Brothersrothers. However, Detective Kim defeats The Twin Light Brothers and rescues Jin from the villain's lair.

The Doofus Detective And The Twin Light Brothers

1990

A Surrogate Father poster
10.0

Kang-pal is filled with grief and anger when his father dies a tragic death after being falsely accused, but the very people who sacrificed his father now seek to kill Kang-pal as well.

A Surrogate Father

1992

1980s · 19 titles

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

Chilsu and Mansu poster
7.0

An aimless young man and his sign-painter friend draw a crowd when they climb to the top of a high-rise billboard.

Chilsu and Mansu

1988

Mission for the Dragon poster
6.4

Han Wu-song, an antique collector, gets killed while appraising a bronze horse rider statue which trader Wang Dae-in has stolen from a tomb. Dae-in dies on the scene and Wu-song leaves the killer's name on the cave wall before he dies. Dae-in's son Wang Gak thinks Wu-Song killed his father and fights with his son Jung-pa. Trader Kwan and her daughter Mi-ryung stop the fight. Jung-pa and Mi-ryung's love is disturbed by Ju-yang. Gak and Jung-pa chase him to find Wu-song's body with Ju-yang's name on the wall but Mi-ryung appeals them not to kill...

Mission for the Dragon

1980

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

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

The Diary of King Yonsan poster
8.0

A historical drama about the life of Prince Yeonsan of Joseon,.

The Diary of King Yonsan

1988

Declaration of Fools poster
6.8

Beginning with the suicide of a film director, this work represents the Korean New Wave Cinema movement that focused on criticizing the Korean society in the 1980s through satire and humor. The journey taken by the characters, who lead low lives at the margins of the society, award them with a sense of liberation, however brief.

Declaration of Fools

1983

Byun Gang-soi 2 poster
8.0

Byeon Kang-soe proves to be too powerful and endowed for most women to bear so he begins a quest to locate Ong-nyeo, a woman whose sexual stamina matches his own

Byun Gang-soi 2

1987

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

Golden Dragon, Silver Snake poster
6.8

Kung Fu star Dragon Lee appears as 'Golden Dragon', who teams up with 'Silver Snake' to take revenge on the men responsible for his brother's murder...

Golden Dragon, Silver Snake

1981

Dragon, the Young Master poster
7.0

Set in 1920's Manchuria, Kao-Yin sells information on the mining operation to the Japanese and is rewarded with a large quantity of valuable jewellery. But the jewellery is stolen and hidden in the snow mountain where it will remain unless one man - or woman - can survive the battles of murder and deception that surround it.

Dragon, the Young Master

1981

Mrs. Kim Ma-ri poster
9.0

When viewed in public, the Kim's seem to have the perfect marriage. In private, however, their married life is filled with turbulence, fighting, cheating, and accusations.

Mrs. Kim Ma-ri

1983

Raging Master's Tiger Crane poster
7.0

Li-Siu, a young Shaolin Monk finds the opportunity to practice his Kung-Fu teachings. During his practice he stumbles onto the murder of the Abbot as the Shaolin Temple and the kidnapping of the elder monk Do-Lim. A string of pearls found in the hands of the murdered Abbot is the only clue that leads Li-Siu to the Silver-Fox, the murderer and sinister mastermind of a deadly plot to invade China. Li-Siu confronts the evil Silver-Fox and his henchmen and challenges them to the deadliest battle in the history of Martial Arts!

Raging Master's Tiger Crane

1982

Will Rather Become a Ball of Fire poster
NR

Ae-shim, a waitress, meets Yun-gu and ends up living with him at a rest area restaurant by the industrial highway. However, Yun-gu treats Ae-shim badly. One day, the vagabond Jun-tae shows up in front of Ae-shim. He seduces her and they plan to kill Yun-gu and get his fortune. But Yun-gu catches on to Ae-shim's betrayal and plotting. He still loves her though. Yun-gu decides that the only way he and Ae-shim can be together forever is to die together. Yun-gu pretends to be a pawn in Ae-shim's plans but then leaps off the cliff with her, killing them both. Jun-tae ends up getting caught by the police.

Will Rather Become a Ball of Fire

1986

Reminiscent Flame poster
NR

Si-Wuk is a repeater who is taking the entrance exam after one failure. When his neighbor Yun-Ho and Ji-Hee family take a trip, their aunt Hye-Bin comes to the house to keep the empty house and Si-Wuk feels love for her.

Reminiscent Flame

1985

Yohwa Eul Udon poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Yohwa Eul Udon

1987

Invisible Man poster
NR

While Professor Yun, one of the world's leading authority on genetics, is abroad, Oh In-cheol and his fiancee Yun Jin-suk take the professor's papers from his laboratory. In-cheol and Jin-suk are researching the principle of the chlorophyll and a pill that can make people invisible. In-cheol becomes invisible and catches bank con-men and child kidnappers, etc. He works hard to expose society's evil and he is pasted all over newspapers. However, the criminals follow him and discover his identity. They steal his invisible pills. The criminals become invisible and they go on to commit their crimes such as robbing banks. But they don't have any pills to reverse the effects. The criminals ultimately come to In-cheol looking for the reverse pills when they are caught by the police.

Invisible Man

1986

Winter Woman Part 2 poster
NR

Li-hwa graduates college and becomes a reporter. On a rainy day, she remembers an old boyfriend, Suk-gi. She goes to Eroika to look for him. Instead, Li-hwa meets Suk-gi's friend, Su-hwan, and she falls in love with him. On the other hand, while on a story, Li-hwa meets Kwang-jun who is a night teacher. She is drawn to his sincere humanity. As time passes, Kwang-jun comes to know Li-hwa's feelings. Together, they help children and offer guidance to prostitutes. Kwang-jun and Li-hwa have true love for each other but they part when Kwang-jun's non-permitted building is demolished. Hyun-wu ended up as a mental patient from the shock he received from his mother's scandalous behavior. He meets Li-hwa and receives her devoted care. Finally, Hyun-wu recovers completely and the two confirm their love. And the next day, Hyun-wu returns to society as a healthy man.

Winter Woman Part 2

1983

The Undertaker In Sohwa Province poster
4.0

Young Ethan is a hopeless lay about who becomes an undertaker's assistant. The undertaker takes pity on the lad and teaches him Gravedigger kung fu so he can avenge his parents' death. Great styles on display here including Three Zombie Strike, Frozen Mantis, Wicked Witch Kung Fu and the Gravedigger Style.

The Undertaker In Sohwa Province

1984

1970s · 7 titles

Yeonhwa 2 poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Yeonhwa 2

1975

Yeonhwa poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Yeonhwa

1975

Five Hostesses for the Resistance poster
NR

A patriot Park No-Hun is dispatched by Shanghai Provisional Government for Independence to assassinate members of the House of Council. In this situation Young-Kuk, brother of Hyeon-Ju who is a kisaeng of Myeong Wol Kwan, is jailed and Choi Chil-Yong, an inspector of Japanese Higher Police Department, is in agony of difficulties between Korea and Japan. Shin Yun-Il, a member of the council falls in love with a kisaeng whose name is Jeong-Mi. All of these are going their way under the influence of phases of the times such as carrying out colonial policies and each of them is linked complicatedly and causes troubles. After all their efforts concentrated on Independence of Korea, and Park No-Hun carried out his mission with help of 5 kisaengs of Myeong Wol Kwan. Finally he leaves for Shanghai with them.

Five Hostesses for the Resistance

1973

I Won't Cry poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

I Won't Cry

1974

Seize the Precious Sword poster
7.0

After the Japanese Invasion of Korea in 1592, Iljimae, a master of the interlaced sword method, heads to Japan to find the national treasure, the Cheonryongsword, which was robbed by the Japanese pirate Kuroda. Around this time, there were two more men looking for Kuroda, one of them was Ma-cheol, a one-armed swordsman who lost his left arm due to Kuroda's trick, and the other was Kuroda's henchman Okamodo, who lost his newlywed wife and even lost his own eyes. This is Yoshiyama, the swordsman who lost his mind. At first, the three knights, who met by chance, were wary of each other for their own goals, but were captured by Kuroda's persistent pursuit. In the end, after a bloody fight, they succeed in revenge, and Iljimae returns home with the recovered Cheonryongsword.

Seize the Precious Sword

1972

Dragon Lee Vs. The 5 Brothers poster
6.1

Dragon Lee takes on five warriors who were sent by the emperor to discover who's behind the rebels plotting his downfall.

Dragon Lee Vs. The 5 Brothers

1978

Close Kung Fu Encounter poster
7.0

1930 Manchuria: Seong-Jin, a member of Korean independence army, is arrested and tortured by Suzuki. Seong-Jin’s tells his colleague Min-Wuk the location of funds. Min-Wuk puts the money into the stomach of a dead hog and floats it down the river. Soon, Min-Wuk is captured by Mokosan, a gangster from Peking and Ye-Ji, a barmaid. While Suzuki arrests all of them and kills Mokosan, Min-Wuk, succeeds in arresting Suzuki and escaping, as he continues his journey along the river to deliver the funds.

Close Kung Fu Encounter

1975

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