Eok Song

Ieoh Island (1977)

A company hopes to open a spa hotel named after Ieodo, a mythical island inhabited by the souls of drowned sailors. During a study trip to the proposed location of the hotel, a journalist disappears under mysterious circumstances. One of the contractors go ...

Transgression (1974)

Chim-Ae, an orphan, is saved by an old monk of Seo San Temple, Mu Bul Dang while he is wandering in war fires. Then he enters the priesthood and trains himself a mountaineering asceticism. When he becomes an eminent young priest, the last trial to receive ...

A Seagull's Dream (1974)

The Testimony (1974)

June 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 Kor ...

The King and the Servant Boy (1965)

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 ...

The Continental Spy (1964)

During the Chinese-Japanese War (1937-1945) a nightclub dancer is given a dangerous mission by her dying brother. According to her brother's will, she goes on a journey with encoded papers of the Independence Army operations. She soon becomes a most wanted ...

The Regular Tardy Student (1964)

Goryeojang (1963)

Prior to the adoption of Confucianism, it was the tradition to abandon one's parents on a mountainside if they were over 70 years of age. In the ancient kingdom of Goryeo, now modern Korea, a nobleman defies this tradition when he refuses to leave his moth ...

Heartlessness (1962)

View from an Alley (1962)

One father finds life nearly impossible to live as he attempts to raise his nine children on a pitifully small salary. ...

Tyrant Yeonsan (1962)

Prince Yeonsan-gun turns into a tyrant out of grief for his mother's death. He orders beheadings of all the officials who displease him or who advised the previous king to depose the queen. He becomes crueler by the day. But in 10th year of his reign, he i ...

A Star (1961)

The Love Story of Chun-hyang (1961)

Wolmae is a gisaeng living in Namwon. Her daughter, Chun-hyang, is secretly engaged to marry Lee Mong-ryong. Lee leaves for Seoul with his father and the new governor, Byeon Hak-do, begins coveting Chun-hyang. ...

King Gojong and Martyr An Jung-geun (1959)

At the end of the Joseon Dynasty, shortly after the Eulsa Treaty has been forced to be concluded by Ito Hirobumi and the pro-Japanese courtiers, Japan pressures King Gojong to step down from the throne. Meanwhile, An Jung-geun, who is cultivating men of ab ...

The Shadowless Pagoda (1957)

On the eighth of April of King Gyoeng-deok's 10th year of the reign of the Unified Silla Period, Guseulagi, a daughter of Yu Jong, joins the king's parade to Bulguksa Temple, where she meets a stonemason named Asadal from Buyeo. Having a crush on him, she ...

Prince in Yam Clothes (1956)

Prince Kim Chu, last prince of the Silla Kingdom, falls in love with an enemy princess. Because this is not allowed, he must renounce his heredity and retire to Mt. Chiaksan. ...

The Tragedy of King Dan Jong (1956)

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. ...