Kim Sin-myeong

Bitter and Sweet (1995)

A group of people whose lives suffer from stagnation, are working together in the same company and their lives are scutinized by those who see them. There is the development manager whose last new idea was five years earlier; a procrastinating office clerk ...

Easy Virtue (1992)

Jang is attacked in her home by a masked man two nights in a row. ...

Byun Kang-swoi (1986)

Kang-soe and his wife Ong-nyeo settle down in a new village but tragedy strikes when Kang-soe dies while chopping wood. Ong-nyeo announces that she will marry any man who can successfully bury her husband. Many men try to accomplish the task, but die in th ...

Whale Hunting 2 (1985)

As the woman he has a crush on gets married, Byung-tae is heartbroken and tries to kill himself. At a mental hospital, Byung-tae meets a gang boss. By chance, Byung-tae saves a pickpocket girl from the den of evil. ...

Whale Hunting (1984)

A disillusioned student meets a eccentric beggar and a mute prostitute he falls in love with. Together, without money, they cross South Korea to help the girl go home. ...

Mountain Strawberries (1982)

Bun-nyeo, a girl in a mountain village loses her virginity to Myong-jun, the village vagabond. After both of her suitors die before they can wed Bun-nyeo, she moves to the city to work in a factory. Myong-jun persuades her to return to the village, but he ...

Three Times Each for Short and Long Ways (1981)

Jong Sil, a sound effects director, is awarded a carte blanche for his ingenious invention of a coke bottle opener sound used in a commercial film for an Arab client. Ecstatic, drunk, he heads home to his wife and kids, only to end up spending the night in ...

Children Of Darkness Part 1, Young-ae the Songstress (1981)

Young-ae is a prostitute who obsesses over money after losing her daughter to illness. Her co-workers are jealous of her. When a prostitute named Mrs. Kangwon dies after giving a birth, Young-ae takes the baby under her care and leaves the brothel district ...

Mrs. Kangbyun (1981)

Eulhwa (1979)

Eul-hwa discovers that she has a talent for shamanism. She sends her son away to be raised by monks while she delves into shamanistic rituals and spells. Eventually she becomes a powerful shaman. However, with Christianity taking hold in Korea, Eul-hwa fin ...

Do You Know Kotsuni? (1979)

A naive country girl accepts a position in Seoul unaware of how ill-prepared she is in the ways of the world and the free-thinking ways of the city. ...

The Story of Yellow Village (1979)

Deok-bo intends to fight his Eun-swi for the love of Bon-hie, but he is impressed by his rival's manly strength upon meeting. They become very close friends. Bun-hie, who was hoping to make Eun-swi an upstanding citizen is furious that he now spends all of ...

Unsettling Afternoon (1979)

Miss Yang's Adventure (1978)

The Evergreen Tree (1978)

Two Korean college graduates arouse the suspicions of Japanese authorities after modernizing a rural community with a school and a youth hall. ...

The Life of Ok-rye (1977)

Hong Kil-Dong (1976)

Blue Days (1976)

A woman refuses to give into her fiance's desire that she take a job as a secretary in his father's office. Instead she eventually decides to try to make a life for herself with fatal results. ...

Chang-Su's Heydays (1975)

A sequel to Yeong-ja's Heydays follows the career of Yeong-ja's first love, Chang-su, and his faithful love for her. ...

Bush and Swamp (1975)

Bird of Paradise (1975)

It Rained Yesterday (1974)

Young-Hu and Young-Wuk are half brothers and felt uncertain intimacy even though their personalities are totally different. At the first moment he saw Min-Jeong, Young-Wuk's girl friend, Young-Hu fell in love. He avoided her intentionally but the day his b ...

Myonyeo (1974)

A Story of Crazy Painter: Gwanghwasa (1974)

I Won't Cry (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 ...

One Who Comes Back and the Other Who Has To Leave (1972)

Great King Sejo (1970)

A Sword Under the Moon (1970)

Spring, Spring (1969)

Chun-sam is working as a servant at Bong-pil's home to be his future son in-law. His daughter, Jeom-sun has grown enough to get wed. But her father thinks she is too young. But in reality he doesn't want to set her daughter with Chun-sam to begin with. Jeo ...

A Thousand Year-Old Fox (1969)

Once upon a time, under the reign of the three kingdoms, there was a woman who tempts a Buddhist priest named Cho. She is a one-thousand-year-old fox who intends to reincarnate as a human being. Not knowing this, Cho lives with the fox. But in the end, the ...

Mines are Better (1969)

Seong-chun, who just arrived from the countryside, wonders around the Seoul streets, and meets his old friend, Bong-su. He moves into Bong-su's house, where he stays on rent. But the landlord is very nosy. Bong-su lies that Seong-chun is his wife. Seong-ch ...

Desire (1968)

A doctor is shocked to learn that his girlfriend had formerly been the mistress of a married man. ...

Flame in Valley (1967)

During the Korean War, a widow living in a village in a mountainous region in the South of the Korean Peninsula that has lost most of its men to the war finds a Communist guerilla gone AWOL hiding in a bamboo grove and develops a relationship with him. ...

Nilliri (1966)

Ok-i Makes a Judge Cry (1966)

After her father, failed at stock investment and was shocked to death, a girl enters a textile factory and supports her family. But living on her small salary and repaying her father's debt is too difficult for her. In the end, she tries to kill herself to ...

A Happy Day of Jinsa Maeng (1962)

Jinsa Maeng's daughter is contracted to marry a nobleman's son, however, Jinsa Maeng is upset when he hears about a rumor that the fiance of his daughter is lame. Finally, he decides to take on the idea of arranging his maid to take his daughter's place in ...

A Petty Middle Manager (1961)

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

The Coachman (1961)

A man tries to raise his two sons and two daughters under some of the most adverse conditions known to man. The father operates a horse-drawn cart, but in a city that is modernizing after the destruction of the Korean War, automobiles are making carts obso ...

A Widow (1960)