Chung Ji-young

Jikji Route; Terra Incognita (2025)

The documentary production team, which was tracking the connection between Gutenberg and Goryeo metal types, finds the "Pope´s Letter to King of Goryeo" in the Vatican archives. In the face of opposition from scholars for lack of relevant evidence, they l ...

The Boys (2023)

In 1999, a robbery-murder case occurs in a small supermarket in Samnye, Jeonbuk province. The police investigation quickly narrows down to three boys from the neighborhood, and these boys are falsely accused of being murderers overnight and are imprisoned ...

Black Money (2019)

A prosecutor is falsely accused of sexual assault in a suicide note from a woman that he is convinced was actually murdered. As he investigates her death to clear his name, he realizes that the truth lies in a huge financial scandal. ...

State-authorized Textbook (2017)

Why on earth should we use the state-authorized textbook? Many history scholars share their opinions about the nature, background and significance of the book and why history is forcibly imposed. ...

Dancing with Jikji (2017)

Traveling to the French National Library to see Jikji, the world's oldest movable metal type book printed in Korea, a Canadian, David Redman discovers no one knows anything about the book printed in Korea in 1377! Realizing Eurocentrism is at play, David o ...

Project Cheonan Ship (2013)

Interpreting an event of ROKS Cheonan corvette, torpedoed and sunken by North Korea, this documentary rebuilds the event with a different insight. No one can tell if the investigation of Cheonan has reached compelling conclusion. But the film tells and rev ...

A Journey with Korean Masters (2013)

"A Journey with Korean Masters" is an omnibus film compiling four shorts created by directors who once dominated Korean cinema: Park Chul-soo, Lee Doo-yong, Lee Jang-ho, and Chung Ji-young. This modest project is the product of collaboration between profes ...

Ari Ari the Korean Cinema (2012)

Director Chung Ji-Young criticizes the thought that older directors have difficulties in making certain movies. Actress Yoon Jin-Seo agonizes over her identity as an actress. In 2009, before the movie "Unbowed" was made, they met and planned a documentary ...

National Security (2012)

On September 4, 1984, democracy movement leader Kim Jong Tae is arrested and taken to an infamous interrogation facility in Namyeong-dong. For the next 22 days, he would be cruelly and continuously tortured in all manners by interrogators intent on forcing ...

Unbowed (2011)

Inspired by the true story of Kim Kyung-ho, a math professor who was arrested for shooting a crossbow at the presiding judge of his appeal against unfair dismissal. ...

Naked Being (1998)

A broadcasting company hosts an actor/actress contest and 30 contestants are pre-selected. Yong-Woo and Eun-Sook are two of them and they are also lovers. Eun-Sook desperately wants to be a TV star and approaches a producer. Yong-Woo discovers this and arg ...

Blackjack (1997)

Three people are caught in a deadly game of greed, lust, and murder. ...

7 Reasons Why Beer Is Better Than a Lover (1996)

Life and Death of the Hollywood Kid (1994)

While the government watches everything and everyone, Myonggil and Pyongsok organize a movie club called The Magnificent Seven. Later in life, after Myonggil is released from military service, he goes to visit his childhood friend and finds out that their ...

White Badge (1992)

A Vietnam war veteran writes a series of articles about his war experiences for a local newspaper. As he does so, another veteran, drawn by the articles, begins randomly appearing in his life. ...

Beyond the Mountain (1991)

In a quite mountain temple Chim-hae follows a path of asceticism under the instruction of the High Priest, Pop-yon. One day, the high priest sends him on an errand to another mountain temple known as Sowondang. Sowondang was widely renowned for the beautif ...

North Korean Partisan in South Korea (1990)

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

Mountain Snake (1988)

Tansil, a native of Hwajeongol in the back of Jirisan Mountain, goes to the house of President Woo Man-chan in Anguk-dong, Seoul, as introduced by his relative. President Woo, who had been away from home for a long time, returns and begins to approach Tans ...

A Forest Where a Woman Breathes (1988)

Dong-hoon, a CF director, decides to marry Su-hee, a young lady, with the introduction of Jun-seok, a neuropsychiatrist. Dong-hoon, whose women's relationship is complicated, reveals his last night with Ji-eun the day before marriage in the sense of ending ...

A Woman on the Verge (1987)

Ha Kook-jin, a physician, meets Noh Ae-ri and his group who came to broadcast at the ski resort where he went with his wife's life. With this opportunity, Kook-jin appears on Ari's radio program, is attracted to being an open divorcee living with her daugh ...

A Street Musician (1987)

Jae-hee, who left as a college student, and Seo-ha, who got a job at a company in a local small city, are high school alumni. Seo-ha meets and loves Yoon-soo, the company's president's son, but Yoon-soo is engaged to Jae-hee, whom he met on the train, and ...

The Light of Recollection (1985)

John tries to overcome the civilization tragedy of this era by tracking the future of man, and Hyun-woo is young people who try to overcome it by tracking the human past. Between them, a woman, So-yeon, who symbolizes that only love is human salvation, int ...

Mist Whispers Like a Woman (1982)

As Sung Min gets involved with a young, attractive mistress, he becomes estranged from his wife, and begins to dream of murdering her. Finally, he carries out his plan of murdering his wife. After doing that he is tormented with the phantom of his wife wit ...

White Smile (1981)

A well-meaning teacher starts working at a school where she clashes with a student whose tough guy exterior masks a secret pain. ...

After Diving Bell (2018)

A documentary that reports on the the rescue failure of the Sewol incident. In the days of media control, Park Geun-hye and her government sabotaged the screening of "Diving Bell" at the Busan International Film Festival. ...

Ari Ari the Korean Cinema (2012)

Director Chung Ji-Young criticizes the thought that older directors have difficulties in making certain movies. Actress Yoon Jin-Seo agonizes over her identity as an actress. In 2009, before the movie "Unbowed" was made, they met and planned a documentary ...

The Cinema on the Road (1995)

A personal consideration of the Korean cinema by director Jang Sun-Woo, looking at it's history of outside influence and censorship. ...

Who Saw The Dragon's Claws? (1991)

Ji-won, a news anchor woman, witnesses Jung Yong-wook, an emerging leader of the ruling party, being terrorized. She sees the incident from car parked on a deserted road as she was enjoying a secret redez-vous with Park In-gyu, the presidential candidate o ...

A Woman on the Verge (1987)

Ha Kook-jin, a physician, meets Noh Ae-ri and his group who came to broadcast at the ski resort where he went with his wife's life. With this opportunity, Kook-jin appears on Ari's radio program, is attracted to being an open divorcee living with her daugh ...

Mrs. Kim Ma-ri (1983)

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. ...