Nam Po-dong

Acting

Nam Po-dong

Born

1944-11-06 (81)

Place of birth

South Korea

Known for

Acting

Credits

48 titles

Known for

Film credits

1990s · 14 titles

Oseam poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Oseam

1990

Two Cops 2 poster
4.6

An unlikely pair of cops take part in a massive crackdown against the local mob.

Two Cops 2

1996

North Korean Partisan in South Korea poster
7.2

Reporter for a North Korean news service joins the partisans when the Americans and UN forces invade South Korea.

North Korean Partisan in South Korea

1990

Two Cops 3 poster
4.8

A pair of tough, unconventional cops take on the underworld.

Two Cops 3

1998

Rooster poster
8.0

Doo-chil, a 46 Year old small poultry farm owner, is the head of the family, yet with no authority rather intimidated by aggressive wife, mother-in-law, and three daughters. One day, Doo-chil makes delivery of chickens to a slaughter house and meets Ok-ja who works there as an accountant. Ok-ja prostitutes at night at motels and barbershops to support her family and pay for her brother's education. Doo-chil goes out for a drink with Duk-bae, the egg seller, who tries to persuade Doo-chil into marrying his daughter and later they end up at a high class barbershop where he runs into Ok-ja. He is disappointed, but since then, feeling compassion toward her, he approaches Ok-ja. Ok-ja's mind also gradually slants toward him, moved by his honesty and sincerity. One day, upon arrival at a beach about dawn, two of them witness the dazzling sunrise over the horizon and realize the beginning of their passionate relationship.

Rooster

1990

A Bloody Battle For Revenge poster
NR

Tae-young is a former fighter who now runs a relatively legitimate disco club business. He has a best friend named Joon-suk who runs a bakery with In-hye and is always ready to help Tae-young. When Tae-young refuses to let drug lord Ma Gun-soo use his disco club as a place of business, Gun-soo injects him with drugs and sets him up to the police. Tae-young serves time for a crime he did not commit. After his release, Tae-young attacks Gun-soo's son Tae-ho. Gun-soo retaliates by attacking Joon-suk and In-hye. He tortures and kills Joon-suk. Having lost everything to Gun-soo and his men, Tae-young plans one final battle. He alerts the police to come at a specified moment and prepares for a fight to the finish.

A Bloody Battle For Revenge

1992

Lynx poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Lynx

1992

Jungle Story poster
7.5

This film depicts the passion and frustration of young people who dream of becoming popular rock musicians. Dohyun neglects his studies because he is only interested in one thing - rock music. He comes to Seoul to work and ente rs a band. he meets his future manager, Jeewoo, and makes his debut as a singer. However, the production of his first album is cancelled because it is considered 'not commercial' enough. Dohyun returns to his hometown, depressed. Jeewo, however, finds him and helps him open his first gig after weeks of practice. The gig turns out to be a complete failure. Dohyun and his friends sing in the middle of the street with pedestrians as their spectators. The film ends with Dohyun frustrated over his unsuccessful career as a rock musician.

Jungle Story

1996

Blues poster
NR

Jun Gu and Geun Bae do whatever they want to make money. In front of Jun Gu, a college student named Sol Bi appears, and the two become a loving relationship. Jun Gu starts thinking about another life.

Blues

1998

The Heartless 3rd Wharf poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Heartless 3rd Wharf

1993

Farewell My Darling poster
7.5

When old Mr. Park dies, his first son Chan-Wu, a film director, and his troublesome daughter Mi-Seon hurriedly come back to their rural hometown, and third son Chan-Se comes back to Korea from America. As the quiet country village gets busy preparing funeral, the house in mourning becomes a meeting place where villagers gather to ask how they are getting along and meet old friends. The children mourn their father's death and above all Mi-Seon, who caused her parents a lot of grief, can't stop crying. Chan-Wu, the chief mourner, has a revelation about his career, and Chan-Se prepares to sing hymns for the Confucian funeral service. Old Man Park's sister sells insurance products and gradually the funeral service becomes for the living rather then the dead.

Farewell My Darling

1996

Thunder Ninja Kids in the Golden Adventure poster
5.8

Three young martial artists travel to the big city to retrieve a sacred statue that was stolen by ninjas for a criminal gang.

Thunder Ninja Kids in the Golden Adventure

1992

My Old Sweetheart poster
6.0

A 36-year old detective falls in love with a nihilistic 19-year old shop-lifter and wonders if the relationship which develops can last.

My Old Sweetheart

1995

I Will Survive poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

I Will Survive

1993

1980s · 27 titles

The Clones of Bruce Lee poster
6.0

A brilliant professor gathers cells from the late Bruce Lee and creates three clones, who are trained in martial arts and sent out to fight crime.

The Clones of Bruce Lee

1980

Whale Hunting poster
7.3

A disillusioned student meets a eccentric beggar and a mute prostitute he falls in love with. Together, without money, they cross South Korea to help the girl go home.

Whale Hunting

1984

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

Seven Slaps on the Face poster
8.0

An up and coming businessman is forced to resign after accidentally kissing the boss' daughter. This leads to a challenge where he must manage to slap the boss in the face on seven different occasions.

Seven Slaps on the Face

1987

Winter Wanderer poster
6.2

Min-woo, a medical student from a wealthy family, runs into Da-hye) as he rides his bicycle on campus. At first Da-hye dislikes Min-woo, but thanks to help from his charismatic friend Hyeon-tae, he grows closer to Da-hye and the two fall deeply in love. But happiness would not last long. Min-woo's business goes belly-up, and then he learns his birth mother is a military base-town prostitute. Do disturbed by this all he ends up in jail. Meanwhile, Da-hye grows more dependent on Hyeon-tae, and Hyeon-tae gets caught between his friendship for Min-woo and his love for Da-hye...

Winter Wanderer

1986

Whale Hunting 2 poster
5.0

As the woman he has a crush on gets married, Byung-tae is heartbroken and tries to kill himself. At a mental hospital, Byung-tae meets a gang boss. By chance, Byung-tae saves a pickpocket girl from the den of evil.

Whale Hunting 2

1985

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

Brave Trio poster
6.5

Three young martial artists travel to the big city to retrieve a sacred statue that was stolen by gangsters.

Brave Trio

1988

Dreams of the Strong poster
10.0

Il-bong was utterly defeated as a wrestling athlete. He decides against returning to his hometown and stays in Seoul. As he wanders the street, going from job to job, someone recommends him to become an actor. But the acting roles that are waiting Il-bong are in adult movies. At the set, Il-bong meets Ae-ja and falls in love with her. They give up the adult films and Ae-ja gets pregnant. Because they are desperately poor, Ae-ja has a miscarriage and Il-bong curses his incompetence. The two decide to part for one year. During that time, Il-bong becomes a male prostitute and makes a ferocious amount of money. But he has become tough without realizing it. After the year is over, Il-bong goes to their promised meeting place but Ae-ja is nowhere to be seen. Il-bong wails to the city.

Dreams of the Strong

1985

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

Incredible Shaolin Thunderkick poster
5.4

The daughter of a restaurant owner gets kidnapped. The water boy (who's almost a girl because his wee-wee was chopped off) want to free her. But therefor he first has to become a real man with real kung fu skills. So he starts training with an old guy

Incredible Shaolin Thunderkick

1982

Moonlight Hunter poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Moonlight Hunter

1987

The Tiger Butterfly is Lonely at Dusk poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Tiger Butterfly is Lonely at Dusk

1985

Woman Who Grabbed the Rod poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Woman Who Grabbed the Rod

1984

Children Of Darkness Part 1, Young-ae the Songstress poster
7.0

Young-ae is a prostitute who obsesses over money after losing her daughter to illness. Her co-workers are jealous of her. When a prostitute named Mrs. Kangwon dies after giving a birth, Young-ae takes the baby under her care and leaves the brothel district. Although she struggles to make ends meet and provide a home for the child, the child is taken away by the authorities because she is single. She decides that her old life is the only ground for living she has and returns to it.

Children Of Darkness Part 1, Young-ae the Songstress

1981

Park Cheol-Su's Hello Lim Guk-Jeong poster
4.0

Chun-bo and Bong-dal are members of a bandit who voluntarily claim to be Im Kek-jeong's subordinates. They didn't even know that there was a horse plaque on the clothes of the fishermen, and they were yangban and decided to play the role of a real female haenger. They perform good deeds such as scolding Tamgwan-duck for the unfair and powerless people and distributing grain to poor residents.

Park Cheol-Su's Hello Lim Guk-Jeong

1987

Now, We're Going to Geneva poster
1.0

A mildly tragic story of how the Vietnam war has bad and good ramifications on the characters lives.

Now, We're Going to Geneva

1988

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

Young-ja in Her Prime in 1987 poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Young-ja in Her Prime in 1987

1987

For the Motherland poster
10.0

Kim Dong-soo is trying to escape with a list of compatriots who support independence, but is ambushed by a Japanese Sabroo, which takes away the theater and cuts off his son Eung-beom's three fingers. Eung-beom hones his orthodox martial arts with the help of Master Baegun. And he creates a new martial art unique to Chil Ji-soo and grows into a terrifying, high-skilled martial artist. Eung-beom, who has been taught his martial arts, descends in search of his homeland and his father's enemies. Eung-beom goes through all sorts of trials to punish Sabroo, a vicious Japanese. Meanwhile, he meets Kyung-ae, a Korean woman who works as Sabro-oh's henchman. In a confrontation to eliminate Sabro-Oh's subordinates one by one, when Eung-beom is put in jeopardy due to a cunning scheme, her Kyung-ae provides dramatic help. Eungbeom escapes from crisis and becomes angry and punishes his parents and enemies of the nation.

For the Motherland

1982

Until Heaven Calls poster
7.0

Distraught that he is unable to go to his parent's home for the holidays, Sang-do gets drunk and meets a beautiful woman, but he winds up spending the night in the hospital after being beaten by her boyfriend. Upon being discharged, he finds a blank check on the sidewalk and is torn between following his conscience or his greed.

Until Heaven Calls

1980

North Shaolin South Taekwon poster
4.8

Superstar Casanova Wong stars as a young fighter who after becoming a master at North Shaolin travels to South Shaolin to learn more of the deadly Shaolin martial arts to prepare him for the might of the Northern Mantis Master--Han Ying--who is planning to destroy Shaolin.

North Shaolin South Taekwon

1984

A Bold Woman poster
NR

The film centers on independence and intelligence of a woman who makes active choices regardless of social norms and ethics. The main character is a divorcee, Eul-hye, and the story unfolds as she encounters different men and experiences with dramatic incidents and conflicts.

A Bold Woman

1987

Mrs. Kangbyun poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Mrs. Kangbyun

1981

The Barefoot in Pyongyang poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Barefoot in Pyongyang

1980

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

No artwork available
NR

Korean movie

Shandong Spot

1983

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