Acting
Choe Jae-ho
Born
1936-07-15 (90)
Place of birth
South Korea
Known for
Acting
Credits
44 titles
Known for
6.3After the death of his master, martial arts student Tong Huo-wan travels with his adoptive family to seek redress from the man responsible but finds himself torn between righteousness and filial piety after becoming entangled in a feud between a local clan and gangsters.
Dragon Fist
1979
7.3A 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
7.0Innocent Bok-nyeo is sold at 18 years old to an elderly widower who sends her to work in the salt mines. There she is raped by the supervisor. Becoming very cynical about life, Bok-nyeo becomes the mistress of a couple of rich men, Choi and Wang. In this way, she becomes accustomed to the high life. However she panics and takes desperate steps when one of her sources of income is about to cut her off.
Potato
1987
8.0Byeon 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
NRA farmer in a community near Jirisan falls in love with and marries an itinerant performer. She plans to betray him by robbing him and leaving with her old boyfriend, another itinerant performer, when he comes to the village. Eventually she realizes she loves the farmer and stays with him.
Mountain Strawberries 2
1985
6.2Passing through a jail and a construction site, a young laborer meets a middle-aged man returning to Sampo after ten years' absence. Together, they track down a young woman who ran away from the restaurant she was waitressing at, but instead of turning her in for a reward, the trio decide to go on an adventure together.
The Road to Sampo
1975
Film credits
2000s · 1 titles
1980s · 15 titles
7.3A 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
7.0Innocent Bok-nyeo is sold at 18 years old to an elderly widower who sends her to work in the salt mines. There she is raped by the supervisor. Becoming very cynical about life, Bok-nyeo becomes the mistress of a couple of rich men, Choi and Wang. In this way, she becomes accustomed to the high life. However she panics and takes desperate steps when one of her sources of income is about to cut her off.
Potato
1987
8.0Byeon 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
NRA farmer in a community near Jirisan falls in love with and marries an itinerant performer. She plans to betray him by robbing him and leaving with her old boyfriend, another itinerant performer, when he comes to the village. Eventually she realizes she loves the farmer and stays with him.
Mountain Strawberries 2
1985
6.3Seok-ho is unable to overcome his fear that he will not graduate from college for only a limited number of the class will get their diplomas. Seok-ho tries to kill himself and ends up in a mental institution. Then he persuades his fellow patient, Hong-ik, to escape with him. After dealing with several incidents, they become miners. They meet a simple young woman. In order to construct an ideal land, they head for a deserted island in the South Sea. However, just before they're about to leave for the island, Seok-ho realizes that the island is a fantasy of an insane man so he runs off with the woman. Left behind, Hong-ik is disheartened but he gets together with the elderly innkeeper couple whose own son died of a mental illness. They head for the deserted island on a boat.
Hunting of Fools
1984
7.0A 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
6.5The matriarch of a highly respected family orders one of her daughter-in-laws to kill herself unless she can produce a child within a year.
Adultery Tree
1985
A woman unknowingly marries a drug dealer and gradually finds herself being drawn into his activities.
Come Back to Busan Port '80
1980
NROh Ka-hi is a popular madam in a nightclub in Mu-gyo-dong street. She supported her widowed mother and sister by working in a factory. Ka-hi and Tae-su, an honest boy, were in love. Then Dal-su, an animal of a man, raped her. With that, Ka-hi went from working at a bar to becoming a hostess at a cabaret. Ka-hi meets Hyun-wu and gets pregnant by him. She gives birth to Suk but learns too late that Hyun-wu is a married man. Dal-su persistently hounds her. He steals her bank account and takes the money she had earned with her tears and blood. To be worse, Suk dies from gas intoxication. Ka-hi falls into despair. Duk-sam, a driver, takes care of her. Ka-hi slowly rises from her nightmarish reality. In the end, she accepts Duk-sam's marriage proposal.
Madam Oh's Day Out
1983
4.0Chun-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
NRJeom-rye works as a sharecropper to make a living for her good-for-nothing husband and her son Yong. But the village men are always trying to seduce her. When she rebuffs her landlord's advances, she is wrongly accused by his wife and is forced to leave. Sam-su, the servant who is smitten with her, offers to lend her husband, Deok-hi, money for her affections. Deok-hi tries to sell her off to Sam-su but Jeom-rye gets him arrested for trafficking humans. Sam-su realizes Jeom-rye's sincerity and drops the charges and Deok-hi repents his ways only too late. He dies of an illness. When her son Yong dies from indigestion after eating rice cakes, she goes off the edge.
Rice Cake
1988
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Yohwa Eul Udon
1987
4.8Superstar 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
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Colorful Woman
1981
NRKorean martial arts movie
Female Lover's Fist
1982
1970s · 17 titles
6.3After the death of his master, martial arts student Tong Huo-wan travels with his adoptive family to seek redress from the man responsible but finds himself torn between righteousness and filial piety after becoming entangled in a feud between a local clan and gangsters.
Dragon Fist
1979
6.2Passing through a jail and a construction site, a young laborer meets a middle-aged man returning to Sampo after ten years' absence. Together, they track down a young woman who ran away from the restaurant she was waitressing at, but instead of turning her in for a reward, the trio decide to go on an adventure together.
The Road to Sampo
1975
4.0June 25, 1950. When second lieutenant Jang has a date with his girl friend during weekend, numerous North Korean jet fighters make sudden air raids to the skies of Seoul. It is the beginning of Korean War. In spite of Korean Army's brave defense, North Korean army reddens South Korea with their state-of-the-art weapons. This movie describes the progress of war from the invasion in June 25, 1950 to the reclamation of territory on the basis of Sun-A's personal experience. Also this film reminds hard lessons from tragic history.
The Testimony
1974
6.0During the Japanese occupation of South Korea, a Japanese bureaucrat is ordered to persuade an influential Korean patriarch into obeying the law of changing his Korean surname to a Japanese one.
Genealogy
1979
10.0An omnibus of three stories all taking place in the Myeongdong district of Seoul.
Cruel history of Myeong Dong
1972
NRA 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
9.0North Korean agents are sent to Seoul to disrupt the visit of important international dignitaries.
Love Of Blood Relations
1976
7.0In Manchuria during the 1940's, a karate master named Sazaki and hapkido champion Wang make plans to rob the Korean Independence Army of its funds. However, unknown to them, the money is guarded by one Mr Lee--a grand master of taekwondo.
Manchurian Tiger
1974
NRDeok-bo intends to fight his Eun-swi for the love of Bon-hie, but he is impressed by his rival's manly strength upon meeting. They become very close friends. Bun-hie, who was hoping to make Eun-swi an upstanding citizen is furious that he now spends all of his time Deok-bo. She decides to murder her former admirer-turned-rival.
The Story of Yellow Village
1979
6.7Park Cheol-ho, a Korean who stole Japanese military funds, is captured by Pang, a Chinese who captures independence fighters. Pang hands Park over to Japanese officer Akasaka, who tortures him to find out the location of the stolen military funds. When Park refuses to open up, Akasaka devises a plan to capture his younger sister, Yeong-ran.
Bridge of Death
1974
9.0While working on a case with farmers, lawyer Heo Seung comes to believe that the rural development movement is the only lasting way to preserve the identity of the country. With conviction, Seung throws himself into the rural area. However, this position is against the Japanese occupation policies and eventually, even his wife, Yun Jung-sun, ends up leaving him. The Japanese judge Masaki Hiroshi determines that Seung's rural development activities are actually a rebellion against Japan. He has Seung imprisoned as an ideology criminal. After spending five years in jail, Seung returns to the country to see his wife, Jung-sun, continuing her husband's work and waiting for him.
Soil
1978
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Love My Whole Body
1973
Young-Shik, a playboy, loves Ok-Ju, a business owner's daughter on purpose. One day he is bashed and taken to a mountain villa while he is taking a walk near a hotel. The villa's owner Jin-Ho was a vet doctor but now he leads a life with anatomizing animals after he is injured in his leg. One day a woman who wears wedding veil comes to Young-Shik and asks him to go back to his first love Mi-Ra. As the mysterious woman faces with Ok-Ju, she kills Ok-Ju. On his departure day, Young-Shik goes to Jin-Ho and hears from him the woman in veil is Mi-Ra who is troubled with her burnt scald of face and committed suicide letting him go. He trembles in sufferings.
Hwannyeo
1974
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Whirl of Betrayals on Myeongdong
1972
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Ecstasy
1974
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Snowing on Grudge Street
1971
9.0No synopsis available yet.
One-eyed Park
1970
1960s · 10 titles
NRA clerk at a jewelry store is an avid reader of the 007 series and admires the protagonist of the story. One day, he loses a huge amount of jewelry to a con artist. In order to catch them, he disguises himself as an woman and pretends to be a cabaret hostess to observe the perpetrators. And he finally reports to the police to arrest them all. A comedy.
Salsali, You Didn't Know
1966
NRPresident Choi of Dongseo Shipping is at the verge of bankruptcy because one of his ships has sunk. Right on time, a man comes to Choi and offers to lend money by taking his remaining real estates as security and staying at his place. The man turns out to be a son that Choi has abandoned. The mother has died after living a hard life, and he wants revenge.
Cruel Revenge
1969
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Three Generations of Men
1969
7.0No synopsis available yet.
A Man Like the Wind
1968
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Nostalgia
1967
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Escaping Shanghai
1969
NRAfter meeting on a train to Seoul, two strangers who both lost someone near to them in the past wonder the music filled city in search for their loved one.
Let's Meet at Walkerhill
1966
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Eagle of Wild Field
1969
NRSeong-chun, who just arrived from the countryside, wonders around the Seoul streets, and meets his old friend, Bong-su. He moves into Bong-su's house, where he stays on rent. But the landlord is very nosy. Bong-su lies that Seong-chun is his wife. Seong-chun dressed as a woman and pretends to act as his wife. But one day, Seong-chun falls in love with a girl next door and proposes her.
Mines are Better
1969
9.0During the Joseon dynasty, the adviser Choi manages to place his natural son on the throne. His ambitions are upset by the appearance of Young-mun, a man whose parents he had killed.
A Swordsman
1967


