Kim Dong-hyun

Acting

Kim Dong-hyun

Born

1950-06-10 (76)

Place of birth

Busan, South Korea

Known for

Acting

Credits

30 titles

Known for

Eyes of Dawn poster
8.8

During the Japanese control of Korea during WWII and before, they used Korea women as prostitutes for their Military Officers and Korean men as grunt soldiers to fight in the trenches during the war with the USA.

Eyes of Dawn

1991

Jang Hee Bin poster
NR

The first season of the Women of Legend Series tells the story of a young lady-in-waiting whose beauty catches the eye of the King and becomes his concubine. Quickly rising in the ranks and eventually giving birth to a son, her hunger for power drives her not only to maintain her position, but to become Queen.

Jang Hee Bin

1981

Penny Pinchers poster
6.9

Ji-woong is a loser who can't find a job so he lies to his mother for money, but one day she abruptly cuts him off and he becomes homeless. That same day, salvation arrives in the form of Hong-sil who's extremely stingy. Her hobby is visiting the bank to make savings deposits, and her specialty is selling empty glass bottles and old newspapers for cash.

Penny Pinchers

2011

Jo Gwang Jo poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Jo Gwang Jo

1996

Change poster
6.2

Kang Dae-Ho, a naughty boy used to be an academic failure, could not be more different than Ko Eun-Bi, a prim girl and model student. On one stormy day, lightning strikes both of them and knocks them unconscious.

Change

1997

Heart and Face poster
7.0

Kyeong-il and his sister, Kyeong-a, run a store together, but Kyeong-il is hospitalized when competitors beat him up. In the hospital, he falls in love with a nurse. She is already engaged so the only way he can continue seeing her is to manufacture reasons to stay in the hospital.

Heart and Face

1983

Film credits

2020s · 1 titles

1990s · 5 titles

1980s · 19 titles

Heart and Face poster
7.0

Kyeong-il and his sister, Kyeong-a, run a store together, but Kyeong-il is hospitalized when competitors beat him up. In the hospital, he falls in love with a nurse. She is already engaged so the only way he can continue seeing her is to manufacture reasons to stay in the hospital.

Heart and Face

1983

The Glorious Days Of Young-Ja Part 2 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Glorious Days Of Young-Ja Part 2

1982

Tinker Wife poster
9.0

While on his way to the local temple to ring an ancient bell which will grant his dying mother safe passage to the afterlife, Jong-du's father is killed by a Japanese soldier who was looting the temple. Out of respect for his father and grandmother and to help their spirits rest in peace, Jong-du tries to join the temple and cast a new bell to replace the one that was stolen however his obsessive behavior gets him kicked out of the temple. He marries Suk-hie who helps him scrounge for copper so he can make a new bell on his own.

Tinker Wife

1983

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Fools in the Woods

1982

Madam Oh's Day Out poster
NR

Oh 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

Song of Longing Under Moonlight poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Song of Longing Under Moonlight

1985

Love Song poster
8.0

Yeong-ho tries to keep his heart disease a secret from his wife but he becomes so depressed over his condition that he can no longer function at work and loses his job. To earn money, his wife takes a job with a family friend but Yeong-ho misinterprets his friend's act of kindness. He leaves home in a fury leaving his wife to discover the cause of his behavior and to begin a frantic search for him.

Love Song

1984

No artwork available
7.0

Hyeon-rae becomes engaged to Yun-su who must complete his overseas study before marrying her. Shortly after, Hyeon-rae is raped but she keeps it a secret from everyone. However, when she becomes pregnant, her liberal parents are very excited. Thinking that the baby is Yun-su's they send him letters of congratulations.

The Foolish Woman

1984

Japanese Godfather poster
NR

Released from prison following the bombing of Hiroshima, Kang Dae-sun tries to return to Korea but, because of the chaos at the end of the war, fails to secure passage. He and his former cellmate Ok Man-sul become gangsters but spend a good deal of their time fighting communist sympathizers. When the Korean War breaks out, Dae-sun gives up the idea of ever returning home and concentrates on rising in rank to become the most powerful gangster in Japan.

Japanese Godfather

1989

No artwork available
7.0

Jang-suk learns that his sister, Jang-mi, has met a horrible fate at the hands of an American soldier. He sets up the Jang-mi Foundation in order to better the lives of women living off foreign soldiers by teaching them job skills.

Theater of Life

1983

The Wild Panther poster
6.0

An action-filled martial arts film in which guerilla fighters and foreign spies clash in kung fu combat when important military secrets are at stake.

The Wild Panther

1984

No artwork available
NR

Two friends fall in love with the same woman, but when she chooses one over the other, the spurned lover decides to blackmail her.

The Woman and Rain

1982

No artwork available
7.0

A woman and a man she claims to be her brother convince a naive employee of a prosperous company to help them steal the company funds, promising to divide the money three ways.

Winter Hunting

1982

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Do As You Want

1980

No artwork available
10.0

Dr Young-bin treats Mi-ae for alcohol poisoning and a drug overdose. After her recovery, they find themselves meeting often and realize that they have something in common--drinking. Mi-ae tries to get away from her abusive, unemployed lover to be with Young-bin, but when she succeeds she becomes miserable and her drug addiction worsens.

Choi In-ho's Evening Color

1982

No artwork available
8.0

A woman, 8 months pregnant, attempts suicide but is stopped by the police. She is sent to a home for unwed mothers, run by nuns. She is less than grateful to the nuns for their care and makes trouble whenever possible. She also plans to destroy the life of the man who put her in this situation.

She Cried Like the Rain

1984

No artwork available
9.0

Seung-pyo is blinded by his ambition--so much so that he neglects his wife and family. Meeting the director of his company, Seung-pyo realizes that he needs to win him over if he wants to succeed in that business. He arranges for his wife to spend as much private time as possible with the director in the hopes that this will win him favor from the boss.

You Are a Bad Person

1983

Spring in the Deep Mountain poster
9.0

In a farm, there live a master Dae-Hyeon, Ji-Ae, and a mute Ka-Ya whom they love like a daughter. Also, there is Hyeop who teaches them how to ride a horse once every week. One day, Ka-Ya comes to realize what is sex on the moment of witnessing the scene in which Hyeop is raping Ji-Ae, and she warns Hyeop to don't do that. Surprised, Hyeop runs after and rapes her, and since then, Ka-Ya falls in love with him. Hyeop is move up by Ka-Ya's sincerity and by the time he comes to feel love for her, their relations is disclosed and Hyeop and Dae-Hyeon fight a duel because of it. Shocked at it, Ka-Ya is recovered to speak again. Later, Hyeop and Ka-Ya leave the house as companions of life.

Spring in the Deep Mountain

1985

Home of the Stars 3 poster
NR

Su-gyeong, who married Kyung-ho and set up a newlywed life, has doubts about the object of Kyung-ho's dead ex-wife and his attitude toward his daughter, Yumi, who finds out from Yumi's uncle Dong-pyo that Yumi's mother died of Kyung-ho's righteousness and abused Yumi with an unabated hatred.

Home of the Stars 3

1981

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