Kim Chil-seong

Long Live the Island Frogs (1972)

A husband-wife teaching team arrive on isolated Sachi Island. They try to start a school against the opposition of the islanders. To attract students, they organize athletic teams from the island children and promise that they will win the national competi ...

Don't Torture Me Anymore (1971)

The Story of Chunhyang (1971)

Ghost and Painter (1970)

Artist Kyeong-pa is asked by the father of a dead girl to paint a portrait of the man's daughter to put her soul to rest. But whenever the artist tries to paint it, a different woman appears on the canvas. The image always takes the form of a woman whom he ...

One-eyed Park (1970)

An Old Potter (1970)

A lonely old potter saves the life of a young woman. She is grateful to him, but does not return the love he feels for her. However she feels obligated to marry him. In time, her former boyfriend finds her and takes a job working with the potter until he c ...

Three Generations of Men (1969)

Beauty in Black Rose Castle (1969)

Hye-ryeon suddenly loses her parents and stays in the Black Rose Castle alone. One day, she says the castle is haunted and asks for help to friend Ji-suk. Ji-suk goes to the castle with boyfriend Yeong-uk, a newspaper reporter. Just as Hye-ryeon has said, ...

Your Name Is Woman (1969)

An architect has an accident which leaves him uninterested in sex and unable to perform. His wife feels she cannot love with forced celibacy and takes up with a college student. ...

A Man Like the Wind (1968)

Descendants of Cain (1968)

Shortly after Korea gained independence from Japan (1945), North Koreans decide to extort civilians' property in the name of revolutionalizing its land and settle class struggles for proletariats. The film depicts an anti North-Korean concept, detailing th ...

Femme Fatale, Jang Hee Bin (1968)

King Sukjong assigns Jang Ok-nan, a court lady, as a concubine overnight. Jang plots to drive the current Queen into exile. ...

Nostalgia (1967)

A Red-and-blue Gauze Lantern (1967)

Full Ship (1967)

A film picturing the lives and adversities of fishermen who live and die in the sea. ...

A Story of a Nobleman (1966)

I Am a King (1966)

Trainer Meng Doo-ho spots Young-chul in a bar fight and decides to turn him into a boxing champion. ...

A Salt Peddler (1966)

Green Rain (1966)

Cheol, an auto mechanic, and Yeong-hui, a maid meet. Cheol lies and tells Yeong-hui that he is the son of a businessman. Cheol pretends to be the French ambassador's daughter. They meet only on rainy days. ...

Yeraishang (1966)

A self-supporting student injured during the 4.19 Student Uprising gets help from an older woman, a madam at a nightclub. They fall in love with each other. Meanwhile, he becomes a private tutor for a rich family, and his student falls madly in love with h ...

The Tiger Moth (1965)

A young bride becomes the prime suspect in a series of grisly murders. However, her dashing young lawyer decides to come to her rescue and begins his own investigation into the crimes in an effort to clear his client's name. ...

Hwalbindang (1965)

The Sino-Japanese War and Queen Min the Heroine (1965)

Queen Min makes regent Prince Daewon withdraw from ruling with the help of the Min Seung-ho Party. ...

The Korean Instrument with 12 Strings (1964)

The Power for Ten Years (1964)

During the reign of King Yeongjo in the Joseon Dynasty (1302-1910), the villainous retainer party led by Jang Ji-hang gains power after cutting the head off a royalist Hong seong-won. His son Hong Guk-yeong passes a state exam and tries to assist the king ...

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)

The Teacher with Ten Daughters (1964)

The Heartbreaking Story (1964)

Sinmungo (1963)

Man Is Not Popular (1963)

Tosuni: The Birth of Happiness (1963)

Ttosun, a young hard-working woman with a good heart, falls in love with a driver but her father disapproves of the match. ...

A Sad Story of Danjong (1963)

King Dongmyeong (1962)

The Way of Hwarang (1962)

His parents captured by the Baekje armies, prince Eo-jin infiltrates the enemy castle alone to seek revenge. His plot is ruined when he falls in love with a princess there and is forced to choose between betraying his parents and nation or the woman he lov ...

When Acacias Bloom (1962)

A man assists a woman in danger, but through her actions, she unintentionally causes his death. Everyone in the village knows that she visits his tomb every spring, but no one knows the details of her story. ...

Farewell to the Duman River (1962)

Patriotic university student Youngwoo and his friends, led by their teacher Lee Sung, along with a British friend bid farewell to their families and become freedom fighters in Manchuria fighting against the Japanese occupation around the Tumen River. ...

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 ...

A Wanted Man (1961)

In order to gain revenge on the killers of his parents, a man joins an organized crime ring as a hit man. The brutality of his slayings in his quest for vengeance makes him a man that the police desperately want to collar. ※ Only the first 32 minutes of ...

Bonanza (1961)

A young sailor arrives in Busan Harbour; an outrageous-looking, woolly bear of a man appears in downtown Busan with a shotgun over one shoulder, a heavy knapsack thrown over the other; a tough-looking young woman joins her friend in robbing a naïve fat ma ...

A Bar without Address (1961)

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. ...

The Moral of Youth (1960)

A Revival (1960)

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. ...

Even the Clouds Are Drifting (1959)

After the death of Mal-Suk's father, her eldest brother, Dong-suk, becomes the sole breadwinner for his three siblings. With rumors of impending strikes and job cuts at the local mine, the struggling family faces difficulties in providing food and school f ...

There is No Tragedy (1959)

Yu Gwan-Sun (1959)

This film is about of the life of the young patriotic martyr Yu Gwan-sun, who fought for the liberation of her country during the Independence Movement in 1919. As the Independence Movement becomes more and more intense among Korean students, the Japanese ...

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 ...

A Lady of Freedom (1957)

The Wedding Day (1956)

Master Maeng is very proud that an influential family will soon be his esteemed in-laws when his loving daughter, Mi-yeon, marries their son. A few days before the wedding Maeng hears a rumor that his future son-in-law has a cripple leg. Regretting that he ...

Nongae (1956)

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. ...

Prince Ho-Dong and Princess Nak-Rang (1956)

The Tragedy of King Dan Jong (1956)