Kim Jeong-ok

Acting

Kim Jeong-ok

Born

1927-09-03 (99)

Place of birth

Pyongyang, South Pyeongan province, Korea, Empire of Japan [now Pyongyang, North Korea]

Known for

Acting

Credits

42 titles

Born in Pyongyang in 1927. She graduated from Jinnampo Girls’ High School in South Pyongan Province. She began her theater career in the early 1940s. Recognized for her acting skills on stage, she was able to make her film debut in director Lee Kang-cheon's 1956 film The Idiot Adada. Since then, she has appeared in over 80 films, including Simcheongjeon, Seaside Village, and Forest Fire. New play performances such as Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1959), Flock of Seagulls (1963), and Exchange (1966) by Shinhyup Theater Company, and musical performances such as Porgy and Bess (1962) by Drama Center.

Known for

The Queen of Elegy poster
NR

This film features the life story of Korea's renowned singer Lee Mi-ja. She wins a prize in her rural town's singing contest at the age of 10. She continues to sing, becomes a successful celebrity and finally reunites with her mother who she parted from when she was very young.

The Queen of Elegy

1967

Tosuni: The Birth of Happiness poster
6.0

Ttosun, a young hard-working woman with a good heart, falls in love with a driver but her father disapproves of the match.

Tosuni: The Birth of Happiness

1963

Potato poster
10.0

Bok-nyeo gets married to a poor Joseon's aristrocrat and lives a hard life to survive.

Potato

1968

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

A Dream of Fortune poster
6.0

Son Hak-su (Kim Seung-ho) is a middle school teacher who barely gets by on his income because he's paying off a monthly mortgage for his welfare housing facility sold by the government. One day, Mr. Son and his wife make the acquaintance of a U.S. immigrant Charlie Hong (Heo Chang-kang) who is engaged in the smuggling business.

A Dream of Fortune

1961

Love Me Once Again poster
5.9

Hye-yeong had no idea that her lover, Shin-ho, was a married man until Shin-ho's wife and children arrive in town. She leaves him but reappears 8 years later asking him to take responsibilty for their child.

Love Me Once Again

1968

Film credits

1960s · 34 titles

The Queen of Elegy poster
NR

This film features the life story of Korea's renowned singer Lee Mi-ja. She wins a prize in her rural town's singing contest at the age of 10. She continues to sing, becomes a successful celebrity and finally reunites with her mother who she parted from when she was very young.

The Queen of Elegy

1967

Tosuni: The Birth of Happiness poster
6.0

Ttosun, a young hard-working woman with a good heart, falls in love with a driver but her father disapproves of the match.

Tosuni: The Birth of Happiness

1963

Potato poster
10.0

Bok-nyeo gets married to a poor Joseon's aristrocrat and lives a hard life to survive.

Potato

1968

A Dream of Fortune poster
6.0

Son Hak-su (Kim Seung-ho) is a middle school teacher who barely gets by on his income because he's paying off a monthly mortgage for his welfare housing facility sold by the government. One day, Mr. Son and his wife make the acquaintance of a U.S. immigrant Charlie Hong (Heo Chang-kang) who is engaged in the smuggling business.

A Dream of Fortune

1961

Love Me Once Again poster
5.9

Hye-yeong had no idea that her lover, Shin-ho, was a married man until Shin-ho's wife and children arrive in town. She leaves him but reappears 8 years later asking him to take responsibilty for their child.

Love Me Once Again

1968

Under the Sky in Seoul poster
7.0

An oriental doctor Kim Hak-gyu is a cantankerous man who is the longest-term householder in a small village in Seoul. He often causes domestic trouble by being nasty to his wife and his children. Kim Hyeon-ok, a daughter of a young widow who runs Nahana Beauty Shop, is in love with Choi Du-yeol, an obstetrician across the street. Kim Hak-gyu has great distaste for western medicine, and at the same time, is jealous of the obstetrician. He always gets in the way of Choi Du-yeol. Kim's son, Hyeon-gu, dates Jeom-ryae, a daughter of a bar owner.

Under the Sky in Seoul

1961

The Way of Hwarang poster
6.8

His parents captured by the Baekje armies, prince Eo-jin infiltrates the enemy castle alone to seek revenge. His plot is ruined when he falls in love with a princess there and is forced to choose between betraying his parents and nation or the woman he loves.

The Way of Hwarang

1962

Prince Yeonsan poster
8.6

A historical drama about Prince Yeon-san of Joseon as a prince trying to restore the status of his mother, the deposed and executed Queen Yun.

Prince Yeonsan

1961

A Sunflower Family poster
7.5

A middle-aged man is so crazy about his mistress that he doesn't care about what happens to his family. The feud between his children by his wife and by the mistress gets worse until the family almost breaks apart.

A Sunflower Family

1961

Love poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Love

1968

Lee Chadon poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Lee Chadon

1962

My Sister is a Tomboy poster
4.0

The master of a Judo dojo turns his daughter into a master of the martial art as she is growing up. But now that she has reached marrying age, he finds it difficult to find her a husband that can accept her tomboy ways.

My Sister is a Tomboy

1961

Green Rain poster
6.3

Cheol, an auto mechanic, and Yeong-hui, a maid meet. Cheol lies and tells Yeong-hui that he is the son of a businessman. Cheol pretends to be the French ambassador's daughter. They meet only on rainy days.

Green Rain

1966

A Returned Man poster
7.0

Park Nam-ho works at a Japanese pharmaceutical company and lives happily with his wife, Gyeong-hui, in a house filled with beautiful white roses. Not long after hearing the wonderful news that his wife is pregnant, Park Nam-ho is drafted into the war in the Pacific. Posted in the Gwandong army, he survives the battle, though his face is burned. Back home, Gyeong-hui receives a telegram stating that her husband is dead. When she gives birth to their son, Cheol-soo, she goes to live in Seoul. When Nam-woo comes back to the country, he doesn't go to his wife, but rather goes to live in his hometown. On his way home, he encounters a child whose mother is dead, and takes her in as his own daughter.

A Returned Man

1960

Tyrant Yeonsan poster
6.0

Prince Yeonsan-gun turns into a tyrant out of grief for his mother's death. He orders beheadings of all the officials who displease him or who advised the previous king to depose the queen. He becomes crueler by the day. But in 10th year of his reign, he is kicked out of the throne and dies a tragic death.

Tyrant Yeonsan

1962

Madam Freedom poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Madam Freedom

1969

Sorrow Even Up in Heaven poster
9.0

Lee, Yun-bok in his fourth grade lives in a poor family. His father is indulged in gambling, and his mother, who can no longer tolerate the cruelty of her husband, leaves home. Yet, Yun-bok comforts his younger brothers, makes a poor living by shining shoes, and keeps his journal everyday.

Sorrow Even Up in Heaven

1965

The Seaside Village poster
6.4

A remote fishing island is home to a largely female-population. Men are frequently lost to the ocean as stubbornly going out to sea in the face of great danger. Young widows are made and quickly learn the hardships of life.

The Seaside Village

1965

Rebirth poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Rebirth

1969

The Lost Sun poster
9.0

A bar manager deals drugs on the side and tries to recruit her employees, friends and customers.

The Lost Sun

1964

A Sad Story of Danjong poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

A Sad Story of Danjong

1963

Sound of Magpies poster
NR

Bong-su, who has been missing since the Korean War, returns to his hometown. A death notice for him has already been sent to his hometown, and his fiancée, Jeong-sun, has already married another man, Sang-ho. Bong-su tries to persuade Jeong-sun to forget about Sang-ho and return to him, but she tells him that it's something that cannot be undone. Tormented by his pain, Bong-su begins to show signs of delusional behavior and ends up strangling Jeong-im, Sang-ho's younger sister, who had a crush on him. Later, it is revealed that the death notice for Bong-su was a fake, created by Sang-ho so he could marry Jeong-sun.

Sound of Magpies

1967

Hwalbindang poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Hwalbindang

1965

An Upstart poster
6.5

A poor boarder inherits 30 million dollars from an American soldier whose life he saved during the Korean War. The stingy landlady instantly turns into a completely different person, women swarm around him, and charities ask him for donations. Gangsters come forward and try to kill him...

An Upstart

1961

Full Ship poster
10.0

A film picturing the lives and adversities of fishermen who live and die in the sea.

Full Ship

1967

Lost People poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Lost People

1967

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

Confession of an Actress poster
9.0

Confession of an Actress is about an actor who was once a famous star. He had a daughter with an actress who he loved when he was young. His daughter became a grownup and he sacrificed himself secretly to make his daughter a star.

Confession of an Actress

1967

The Country Left Behind poster
7.0

Before the Korean War (1950-1953), a daughter of a Russian soldier stationed at Heungnam falls in love with a young Korean anti-Communist. Their love story shows how cruel the Russian soldiers were and how badly many North Koreans craved for freedom.

The Country Left Behind

1962

Sinmungo poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Sinmungo

1963

One-sided Love of Princess poster
NR

Sook-kyung, the youngest tomboy princess, loves playing hide and seek with her same-aged court ladies and is extremely curious about the life outside the palace. An opportunity comes for her on queen mother’s birthday celebration. Princess Sook-kyung gets to explore the outside world with the help of her older sister princesses and falls in love with a Seonggyungwan scholar she meets coincidentally. The variety of character twists in this film which is reminiscent of romantic comedies such as Roman Holiday and Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. The queen mother with a fancy royal costume but wears glasses because of her poor vision, and the court ladies who protect the princess day and night are usually slow and doze off but have the strength to push against male henchmen. The princes outside the palace walls seem like that of a naïve country girl who eats a rice cake at the marketplace because she thinks it’s free.

One-sided Love of Princess

1967

A Revival poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

A Revival

1960

Flame in Valley poster
6.6

During the Korean War, a widow living in a village in a mountainous region in the South of the Korean Peninsula that has lost most of its men to the war finds a Communist guerilla gone AWOL hiding in a bamboo grove and develops a relationship with him.

Flame in Valley

1967

The Field Glow with the Setting Sun poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Field Glow with the Setting Sun

1965

1950s · 7 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

A Skinny and a Fatty Go to Camp Nonsan poster
5.5

A Skinny and a Fatty go to Nonsan army training camp, but they soon find camp life is too hard for them. A nonsensical comedy filled with funny episodes that will make you smile broadly.

A Skinny and a Fatty Go to Camp Nonsan

1959

The Wedding Day poster
6.0

Master Maeng is very proud that an influential family will soon be his esteemed in-laws when his loving daughter, Mi-yeon, marries their son. A few days before the wedding Maeng hears a rumor that his future son-in-law has a cripple leg. Regretting that he can't give his lovely daughter to a cripple, he decides to marry his maid to him instead. Unexpectedly the future son-in-law shows up at the wedding hall and he is not a cripple, but a healthy and handsome youth. Feeling embarrassed, there is no way but to wed the maid to him. The Wedding Day is a recreation of A Happy Day of Jinsa Maeng, a comical play by Oh Yeong Jin. The first Korean film to win an international film award, the Best Comedy Award at the 1957 edition of the Asian Film Festival (now Asia Pacific Film Festival).

The Wedding Day

1956

Love poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Love

1957

There is No Tragedy poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

There is No Tragedy

1959

An Idiot Adada poster
7.0

Adada's poor husband suddenly strikes it rich. He changes his hovel for a beautiful home, but his character changes as well. He becomes overly proud and shows off his wealth. Adada, despising the money and what it has done to her husband, throws their savings into the river

An Idiot Adada

1956

Gobau poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Gobau

1959