Han Ji-il

Acting

Han Ji-il

Born 1947-12-17

Acting credits

Scissor Woman poster
NR

During her university years, A-ran wanders the night streets in emotional distress after a painful breakup. She is sexually assaulted by Do-hyuk’s juniors using scissors. Traumatized, she develops severe psychological disorders related to men. One day, she discovers that Do-hyuk lives in the same apartment complex and decides to destroy his peaceful family life.

Scissor Woman

1993

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

No artwork available
NR

Seol Hee-ju, the eldest daughter-in-law of the chairman of the Pluto Group and wife of Ko Bong-sik, president of Pluto Motors, is found dead with a stab wound to the chest.

The Woman Everyone Wanted to Kill

1992

Come, Come, Come Upward poster
7.0

Schoolgirl Sun Nyog suffers from pain and hardships, life and the world around her confuse the girl. Her father, a Buddhist monk, left them, the mother has totally neglected her daughter while her lover harasses the girl. One winter day Sun Nyog goes to the temple. She decides to study Buddhism and is ordained as a nun. In 1989 the film participated in the MIFF competition and won the Bronze St. George for Best Actress.

Come, Come, Come Upward

1989

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Jealousy

1983

Red Cherry 2 poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Red Cherry 2

1985

Gilsodom poster
6.9

A middle-aged woman in Busan searches for the son she lost in Gilsodom during the Korean War.

Gilsodom

1986

Liberal Wife '81 poster
NR

After 10 years of marriage, Sun-young and Tae-yeon save up a significant amount of money. Tae-yeon runs a food processing company and works hard to expand business but Sun-young wants to enjoy the fruits of their labor. While partying with her friends, she meets fashion designer Pierre Kang and has an affair with him. When her infidelity is found out by her husband, he asks for a divorce. When he refuses to forgive her, she seeks it through suicide.

Liberal Wife '81

1981

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

Invited Heroes poster
7.0

With the introduction of Catholicism to Korea in 1784 came social upheaval. People who practiced the new religion were tortured into renouncing it or executed. However, these conditions do not deter Seung-hun and her brother from attempting to spread the religion.

Invited Heroes

1981

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

No artwork available
8.0

Cho-hye begins an investigation into the mysterious death of her husband but, as the people she interviews start turning up dead, the police begin to suspect that Cho-hye may be their prime suspect.

The Woman of Tuesday Night

1981

The Last Witness poster
7.3

Detective Oh goes searching for the murderer of Yang, a small-time brewer bludgeoned to death by a quiet riverside with no witnesses, no apparent motive. As he wanders about the winter landscape of South Jeolla Province and Seoul, he finds himself caught in a story of treachery, rape and murder.

The Last Witness

1980

No artwork available
8.0

When a young nobleman drowns while visiting their shore, the superstitious villagers go to the local shaman asking him to perform a rite to marry a living woman to the dead man so he will not take revenge. The shaman refuses, claiming that the ritual can only be held every 10 years. The villagers ignore his warnings and attempt to perform the ritual themselves, but only succeed and calling disaster down upon their land.

Muldori Village

1979

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Country of Fire

1989

Girl Going to the City poster
8.0

Lee Mun-hi works as a bus conductor. She is tormented by the fact that she is subject to body searches, but tries to treat her co-workers nicely and live an honest life. She is kind to people who are less fortunate than her and falls in love with Kwang-seok, a traveling salesman. She helps Kwang-seok become a crewman of the ship and promises to marry him. When she is subjected to another body search, she protests against the humiliation and jumps from the roof of her company building. She is critically injured and is embraced by Kwang-seok.

Girl Going to the City

1981

No artwork available
5.8

Kanemoto served five years in prison for attacking Masao of the pro-North Korean organization, the killer of the president of the company who brought him up. Released from prison, Kanemoto gets injured fighting Masao again. Harumi, who lives with her brother Genichi, takes care of Kanemoto. When Genichi visits Korea and reveals the pro-North Korean organization's lies, he becomes their target. This also places the life of Harumi and their family at risk and only Kanemoto can save them.

Lonely Star of Osaka

1980

Temptation poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Temptation

1982