Ko Seol-bong

The Man with Three Coffins (1987)

While journeying across South Korea for a suitable place to scatter his late wife's ashes, a widower crosses paths with a nurse and her patient - a dying old man who offers him a considerable amount of money to take him to his hometown. ...

The Earth (1974)

Ha Dong, Kyung Nam Province in 1890. Choi Chi-Su's family is a grand land lord of the region from generation to generation. His mother Mrs. Yoon gives birth to another son Hwan after she was raped by Kim Gae-Ju when he is 10 years old. Later Hwan becomes a ...

Pagoda of No Shadow (1970)

A Sword Under the Moon (1970)

Full Autumn (1966)

A well behaved female prisoner, on parole, is set to return to prison. On the train ride back to prison she encounters a man who is actually a fugitive. ...

The Martyrs (1965)

Out of fourteen ministers taken away by the communist troop, only two come back alive. The mystery behind their survival is at the issue here. Told through one of the survivor's testimony, depicts images of men troubled between the war and the religion. Al ...

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 ...

Kinship (1963)

The story takes place on a mountain slope where defectors from North Korea live. These families sell cheap things such as socks and pens to make a living and there is a serious gap between the parents and their children. A widower Kim Deok-sam nags his son ...

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 ...

Lee Chadon (1962)

The Sea Knows (1961)

A Korean man, forced into service in the Japanese army during WWII, marries his Japanese girlfriend despite everyone's objections. Later, he becomes the sole survivor when the Americans attack. ...

Aimless Bullet (1961)

Two brothers—Chul-ho, an accountant with a toothache and a pregnant wife, and Yong-ho, an unemployed ex-soldier wounded in battle—navigate life in post-war Korea. ...

A Star (1961)

Soil (1960)

Heo Seung, who states that he was "born from soil, will live in soil, and die in soil", becomes a lawyer in Seoul. However when villagers in his hometown are imprisoned for protesting against Japanese oppression, he decides to return to his village and red ...

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 ...

A Woman's War (1957)

A housemaid becomes pregnant by her employer's husband and she flees to the countryside to raise her daughter on her own. ...

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 ...

Touch-Me-Not (1956)

A historical melodrama about a love triangle within a group of bandits. ...

Yangsan Province (1955)

The film is a historical melodrama about a high government official who wants to marry a woman who is engaged to marry another man. ...

Dream (1955)

A young Buddhist monk, Jo Sin, is attracted to Tae-su's daughter, Dal-lye. He hopes to marry her, but she becomes Mo-rye Hwa-rang's wife. One day she secretly leaves the temple and runs away with Jo Sin. Hwa-rang finds out about it and is ready to take rev ...