Lee Hye-young

The Old Woman with the Knife (2025)

Aging assassin Hornclaw has seen it all, but she never expected to mentor a reckless rookie like Bullfight. As their unlikely bond deepens, cracks form in the underworld they navigate together. When Hornclaw discovers someone wants her dead, she's thrust i ...

A Traveler's Needs (2024)

Iris, a woman abroad in Seoul, teaches French and English in an idiosyncratic fashion that allows her to pursue her own philosophical and personal interests. Through four encounters over a single day, Iris probes students and strangers for information abou ...

Walk Up (2022)

A series of interactions take place between an established film director, his estranged daughter interested in interior design, an interior designer, and others inside a multi-story commercial and residential building. ...

The Novelist's Film (2022)

A novelist visits a bookstore run by a young colleague who's been out of touch, then takes a walk with a film director and his wife. She meets an actress and tries to convince her to make a film together. ...

The Anchor (2022)

A mysterious informant calls a broadcast news anchor to request that the anchor report on the informant's inevitable death. ...

A Year-End Medley (2021)

A romantic comedy of a young man and woman that is told in the background of hotel 'Emross'. It has stories of people who met each other at Hotel Emross during the New Year holidays. Each one has his own memory to relate and create relationships or just go ...

In Front of Your Face (2021)

She has never lived in a high-rise apartment, and she wonders how her sister can live at this height every day. A few days ago she kind of burst in to stay with her sister, and she is now becoming re-accustomed to life in Korea. While seeming to keep a gra ...

I Have a Date with Spring (2018)

A director who hasn't been able to film a new movie in almost a decade, has been working strenuously on a story about the earth's destruction. One day, he hears a great explosion, and is soon visited by four strangers. ...

The Devil's Game (2008)

Struggling artist Min Hee-do is offered three billion won to bet his life to a game against a rich old man, Kang No-sik, who is dying from a terminal illness. The game is for each man to dial a random phone number and guess if the person who answers will b ...

Low Life (2004)

A sprawling story of one man's tumultuous life within the context of the South Korean political situation during the second half of the 20th century. ...

No Blood No Tears (2002)

A former safecracker makes a living as a taxi driver but continues to be haunted by her past. One day she chances upon an aspiring singer, who is a spitting image of herself back in the day. Together, the two women plot to steal money from gangsters. ...

If (2000)

Ureologist Ha-yeong decides to show the men around her that she does not need a husband by choosing to be artificially inseminated. ...

A Nursery Tale (1999)

Follows an extraordinary weekend in the not-so-extraordinary life of Jinho. The story unravels around the fatalistic pattern of our meek hero's existence-where a chance meeting with the devil offers Jinho an escape hatch to his daily humdrum, and a shot at ...

The Hair Dresser (1995)

A former dog-stylist creates a phony resume and sets up shop as Henri Park, a man who studied hairdressing in Paris. His styles soon become the sensation of the neighborhood causing the competition to seek ways to keep their customers and drive Henri out o ...

Sudden Change (1994)

Yeji meets Robin, a businessman, when her car breaks down. He tracks her down and hires her despite her outrageous salary demands. Eventually they marry, but Ye-jin becomes romantically involved with a lawyer, Jae-woo. ...

Passage to Buddha (1993)

A young boy mourns the death of his father, and begins a quest to find his mother. He encounters many people on the way who quote Buddhist precepts: an eccentric monk, a girl who grows up into a young woman, a prison inmate, a foul-mouthed doctor and the y ...

Myong-Ja Akiko Sonia (1992)

The life of a woman through the tumultuous years of Korea's modern history. ...

Blood and Fire (1991)

Fly High, Run Far (1991)

In mid-19th Century Korea, the people of Joseon Dynasty embrace the new religion Donghak. After the founder is executed, Choi Si-hyeong becomes Donghak's second-generation leader and successfully propagates the religion, but in doing so becomes the object ...

The Winter Dream Does Not Fly (1991)

Twenty-nine year old Seo Sung-yim and twenty-six year old Shin Gil-woo want to escape from the boredom of everyday life. They meet accidentally and set out on a journey together. They spend their money as if they're trying to get back at the world and get ...

North Korean Partisan in South Korea (1990)

Reporter for a North Korean news service joins the partisans when the Americans and UN forces invade South Korea. ...

Korean Connection (1990)

Second Sex (1989)

Sa Bang-ji (1988)

Sa Bangji was an intersex person who according to historical records lived during Korea's Joseon Dynasty. Taken in by a kindly benefactor, Sa Bangji lives in a monastery that is one day visited by a young widow, Lee So-sa, who is in mourn ...

The Age of Success (1988)

Kim Pan-chok is assigned to work in the sales promotion department of Yumi Inc., a sweetener manufacturer. He falls ill after a heated sales war with Gammi Inc., a leading competitor and is hospitalized. He devises a genius plan while in the hospital. ...

Dangerous Scent (1988)

The Home of Two Women (1987)

Resentment rages between two sisters, one of whom was indirectly responsible for her husband's death and the other who secretly loved him. ...

Flower Blooms Even on a Windy Day (1987)

After a performance depicting the lives of jesters during the Joseon era, the cast, led by director Byungsoo, immerses themselves in rehearsing a new play. ...

A Street Musician (1987)

Jae-hee, who left as a college student, and Seo-ha, who got a job at a company in a local small city, are high school alumni. Seo-ha meets and loves Yoon-soo, the company's president's son, but Yoon-soo is engaged to Jae-hee, whom he met on the train, and ...

Ticket (1986)

The lives of the women working in a "café" in a South Korean port town, where customers exchange tickets for services. ...

A Queen Bee (1986)

Mi-hie's affair with her foreign English teacher comes to an end. Feeling that she is ruined for marriage, Mi-hie dubs herself the Queen Bee and begins the life of a prostitute in Itaewon. When she learns that her sister is dating an American, Min-hie deci ...

Winter Wanderer (1986)

Min-woo, a medical student from a wealthy family, runs into Da-hye) as he rides his bicycle on campus. At first Da-hye dislikes Min-woo, but thanks to help from his charismatic friend Hyeon-tae, he grows closer to Da-hye and the two fall deeply in love. Bu ...

The Blazing Sun (1985)

Chun-ho and his wife Sun-hie wander Korea in search of a way to make a living under Japanese colonial occupation. They settle in a mining village where Sun-hie is forced to put up with her husband's gambling and beatings. Eventually he forces her to go to ...

Between the Knees (1984)

Ja-young is a flutist. When her father has a child out of wedlock, her mother regards sex as a sin out of anger towards him. Ja-young grows up under her mother's exceedingly oppressive notions. ...

Mrs. Kim Ma-ri (1983)

When viewed in public, the Kim's seem to have the perfect marriage. In private, however, their married life is filled with turbulence, fighting, cheating, and accusations. ...

Mother's Wedding (1982)

Things backfire for young Cheol-hie when she convinces her father to go on a blind date with her kindergarten teacher. It turns out that her teacher is actually Cheol-hie's birth mother. While at first, Cheol-hie is excited at the possibility of her parent ...