Geum-ryong Lee

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. ...

A New Oath (1947)

Three men who have been taken to the compulsory labour under the Japanese colonialism turn back to their hometown, a fishing village. They break the injustice and corrupt customs and rebuild the devastated village with the help of the village girls. ...

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. ...

Dear Soldier (1944)

Two Korean conscripts undergo Imperial Japanese Army training, much to the pleasure of their families. ...

A Fish Tale (1944)

A whaling vessel hunts its quarry on the open sea while its crew undergoes many hardships. During the course of their journey, they dream of their wives and families and pray for the chance to provide for the loved ones and nation. ...

Wakaki sugata (1943)

Straits of Chosun (1943)

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

A Song in the Year of Abundance (1942)

In the previous year, the harvest had been very poor and many farmers starved durng the winter. With the new growing season, it looks as if the harvest will again be bad because of a lack of rain. Young, idealistic farmer Eun-gi asks rich Kim Han to share ...

Frontier (1942)

One spring day when it rained. While watering the paddy fields, Geumryong gets into a fight with the neighboring young man Kokibong, but accidentally kills him. Geum-ryong is sentenced to three years in prison. Meanwhile, Go Young-ran, who is engaged to Ge ...

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. ...

Volunteer (1941)

A young man is anguished that Koreans cannot volunteer to join to Japanese Imperial Army. ...

Dawn of the Mountain Village (1940)

An educational film about how a backward impoverished village was able to prosper thanks to the initiative of the village youth who began to grow tobacco. ...

Narcissus (1940)

The heroine, a girl of marriageable age named Yu, married a thirteen-year-old fiancé, but he died three years later. Twenty years later, Yu adopts a child from a relative named Dong-gil. Dong-gil's siblings, wishing to inherit his legacy, spread rumors th ...

Light of the Sea (1940)

A pro-Japanese propaganda film designed to inspire Korean fishermen to cooperate with the occupying regime. ...

Frontier (1939)

The border smuggler leader Lee Geum-ryong had a sweetheart Kim So-young, who was only looking for a chance to escape. Geum-ryong's subordinate, Jeon Taek-i, is in love with So-yeong, but helps So-yeong to escape from the smuggling lair. Geumryong's gang pu ...

Heartlessness (1939)

Based on the novel of the same title by Kwang-Soo Lee (Yi Kwang-su), published in 'Maeil Shinbo' in 1917. The plot is based on the relationship of three young people - English teacher Hyeong-sik Lee, dancer Young-chae Park and Hyun-soo Kim, the daughter of ...

The Han River (1938)

The film depicts the reality of Joseon at the time through the conflict between the old and the new generation and the ethics between father and son. Park No-in (Yoon Bong-chun) is a boatman who believes in his profession. He intends to pass the ferry he i ...

Sweet Dream (1936)

Middle-class housewife Ae-soon is excessively vain and neglectful of her duties as a homemaker. Unable to tolerate her any longer, Ae-soon's husband kicks her out, and she leaves him and their daughter Jeong-hee to take up with her lover in a hotel. ...

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. ...