Bok Hye-suk

Come Down to a Lower Place (1982)

Yo-han is the son of a Christian minister. Following his father's career, he joins the seminary without much enthusiasm, then drops out. After doing his military service as a KATUSA, he teaches at the U.S. educational center. When he is given a job teachin ...

A Salt Peddler (1966)

Her Majesty Yeonghwa (1964)

At the close of the reign of Sin the Great in Goguryeo (B.C.37-A.D.668), royalist Uso is executed by a false incrimination made by a treacherous retainer Yangsin and his sister Jangssi. His daughter becomes a royal concubine of King Nammu, and called Her M ...

Kinship (1963)

The story takes place on a mountain slope where defectors from North Korea live. These families sell cheap things such as socks and pens to make a living and there is a serious gap between the parents and their children. A widower Kim Deok-sam nags his son ...

The Classroom of Youth (1963)

While the students, full of vigor in their twenties, make a stand against their parents who regard dating as a sin, they enjoy their springtime of life to the full showing affection in their own way. In the meantime, their parents get to understand them an ...

A Sad Story of Danjong (1963)

Lady Jang (1961)

King Sukjong exalts a greedy concubine to the status of Bin, which is next to that of the Queen. The new Bin, who is now called Jang Hui-bin, drives out the Queen through a coup and takes her place. But thanks to loyal court officials, the King finds out w ...

An Upstart (1961)

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 co ...

A Petty Middle Manager (1961)

When his wife sees him helping his boss' lover, a low-level manager finds his marriage in shambles. ...

Three O'Clock on a Rainy Afternoon (1959)

Upon hearing that her fiance has been killed in battle, a woman makes her way to the Park Pagoda to seek comfort from the monument. There she becomes acquainted with Henry Jang, a Korean-American whom she eventually marries. ...

A Country Girl (1958)

Jang Gyeong Ho visits fellow student Kim Dong Hwan's hometown, and falls in love with his sister, Kim Ok Gyeong. Despite Dong Hwan's objections, Ok Gyeong follows Gyeong Ho to Seoul. With his help she finds a job at Dong Il where she works as a secretary ...

When the Night Comes Again (1958)

A Wild Chrysanthemum (1957)

Hyperbola of Youth (1957)

Myeong-ho (Hwang Hae), a middle school teacher who had grown up in poverty, and Bu-nam (Yang Hun), the first son of the president of a trading company, attend the same university. A doctor suggests that Bu-nam, who is sick due to overeating, and Myeong-ho, ...

Holiday in Seoul (1956)

A newspaper reporter becomes a witness to a murder and finds himself relentlessly pursued by the killer. ...

A Bouquet of Thirty Million People (1951)

When he loses his sight during one of the battles of the Korean War, Geon-yeong(Choe Hyeon) is taken to a military hospital. There he meets a nursing officer named Hye-yeong(Hwang Yui-hui), but still misses Soon-hui in his hometown. When Geon-yeong's mothe ...

The Dawn (1948)

An instructive film on the topic of the eradication of smuggling and democratic police. ...

Su-u (1948)

This is a promotional film for the police, in which an investigator calls on a priest to appoint a lawyer to free innocent Seo Yeon, who is accused of killing her smuggling husband, from custody. ...

Hurrah! For Freedom (1946)

During the country's occupation Choi was only allowed to make Japan-friendly films, but the plot of Hurrah! For Freedom is distinctly different, telling the story of a Korean resistance fighter in 1945. ...

The Adventure of Ttolttori (1946)

To Love and Swear (1945)

After facing hard times, an orphan Korean boy gets adopted to Japanese society. He meets several Japanese people who are kind to him, and grows up wanting to repay his debt to Japan, by becoming a kamikaze pilot. ...

Impressive Diary (1945)

A pro-Japanese film showing documentary footage of a dance troupe made up of Koreans comforting Koreans and their families during conscription on the Japanese mainland. ...

Wakaki sugata (1943)

Straits of Chosun (1943)

A Japanese-speaking family in occupied Korea deal with the war. ...

Spring of Korean Peninsula (1941)

A young filmmaker and his crew struggle to bring the famous Korean story of Chunghyang to the big screen. Torn between two very different women and facing financial ruin, the director makes a rash and foolish choice in order to realize his dreams. ...

Tuition (1940)

A film based on the memoir of a 4th grade student who received the grand prize in a writing contest sponsored by Gyeongseong Daily. A boy, whose parents sell brass spoons on the street while his grandmother is sick in bed, never has money for his tuition. ...

I Will Die Under My Flag (1939)

Pro-Japanese propaganda film to educate the people in Korea. The old man, convinced that "the expansion of production is the duty of the entire population," faints while alone carrying water to the family's rice field. At the request of the old man to spar ...

Counterattack (1936)

A kind of method film sponsored by the Prosecutor's Office of the Government-General of Korea, adapted and directed by Ahn Jong-hwa from the original draft of Ogata (緖方), who served as the chief of the censorship at the Gyeonggi-do Police Department. ...

Spring Wind (1935)

The daughter of the boarding house owner and the boarder fall in love with each other. The more their parents oppose, the deeper their love grows. As the opposition from both families grows stronger, they leave the house in search of happiness. ...