Lee Soon-jae

About Family (2024)

Mu-ok is the self-made owner of the established restaurant 'Pyongmanok' that has been drawing long lines of customers before social media existed. He is deeply troubled by his only son, Moon-seok, whom he hoped would inherit the family legacy, becoming a m ...

Good Morning (2022)

When Sumi, a high school senior raised at an orphanage, decides to suicide, hospice nurse Seojin dramatically stops her. Nowhere else to go, Sumi visits Seojin's hospital to find a way to end her life. For the first time, she finds attention, love, and com ...

Mr. Zoo: The Missing VIP (2020)

A zoophobic national security agent suddenly receives the ability to talk to animals after a freak accident. ...

Romang (2019)

75-year-old Cho Nam-bong and 71-year-old Lee Mae-ja are a couple suffering with dementia. After being married for 45 years, the couple couldn't even remember when they were in a good relationship. However, as their memories fade by the day, their dreams an ...

Intimate Strangers (2018)

A group of people meet for the first time in a long time and play a game that reveals each other's secrets. ...

Stand by Me (2018)

A grandpa finds out he is not going to live for much longer so he decides to prepare for his grandson's future with something special. ...

The Artist: Reborn (2017)

Oh In-sook, who goes by Gisele in the art world, is a failed artist with nothing going for her. During her shift at her part time job, she meets a cunning and canny art sales representative Jae-bum. Jae-bum believes that Gisele has the potential to become ...

Late Blossom (2011)

Follows the lives of two couples who live in the same neighborhood. Kim Man-Suk delivers milk on a motorbike at dawn. He curses a lot, but actually has a warm heart. One day when he goes up a slope, he meets Ms. Song - a lonely woman who works hards by col ...

Good Morning President (2009)

Good Morning President is an abridged version of the politics and life of three different presidents. The three are: the older President Kim Jung-ho at the end of his term, the young President Cha Ji-wook, a skillful manipulator of foreign policy and with ...

Family Matters (2006)

Min-kyung, once a promising young dancer, is now running a small, shabby dance school in town. Her life gets even harder since her entire family is notoriously troublesome. Her father Won-jo is a dotard, her husband Sang-hoon, who aspires to become a film ...

Forbidden Quest (2006)

A noble, high-class scholar starts to write erotic novels in 18th century of Chosun dynasty and falls in love with a king's woman. ...

My Girl and I (2005)

Su-ho is a plain high school boy, and Su-eun is a bright and beautiful girl in the same school. For some unknown reason, Su-eun has a crush on the boy, and for equally mysterious reasons she rescues Su-ho in the sea though he doesn't know who actually save ...

Even the Sun is Sobbing (1984)

Park Mei Ji receives a phone call from a woman who says she and Mei Ji's husband, Inn Min, are living together in Taipei and raising a son. Mei Ji immediately leaves Seoul and flies to Taipei with a friend at the woman's request, discovering that the situa ...

Love Me Once Again '80 Part 2 (1981)

Shin-ho wants to visit his son but Hye-yeong refuses to allow them to meet due to his past treatment of the boy. Hye-yeong feels that it is time to put the past behind her and, leaving her son in the care of a friend, she leaves Korea with a new lover. ...

I've Sacrificed Everything (1980)

Yeon Ha returns from overseas after 7 years. She holds a hurtful memory of being betrayed by Jin Woo to whom she offered unconditional love. For revenge, she works for Hae Jin Trading Co., a rival of Il Sung Trading where Jin Woo works and manages to bankr ...

Son of a Man (1980)

A detective searching for the cause of a young man's death uncovers a melodramatic story involving prostitutes and religion. ...

Love Me Once Again '80 (1980)

Kindergarten teacher Jeon Hye-yeong brings her son to the child's father, Shin-ho, to be raised. However, the child is unhappy with his father's family and dreams about living with his mother causing Shin-ho's growing frustration with the boy to turn to vi ...

Magnificent Experience (1980)

Admiration of Nights (1980)

College boxer Jin-kyu falls in love with a college girl Min-hye while chatting on the phone. Min-hye gives him her virginity but her family forces her to get engaged to In-myung and get rid of the baby with Jin-kyu. Broken hearted, Jin-kyu fights as a prof ...

Eternal Inheritance (1980)

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 ...

Pyro-Sonata (1979)

Kim Myung-wu studies modern music in Germany and meets Ji-suk, a pianist. She disappears on the day of his recital to get money for her mother's treatment in hospital and no word from her for a month since. He sees through her mother's funeral when she's g ...

A Letter from Heaven (1979)

Miss O's Apartment 2 (1979)

Cha's meeting with the beautiful Mi-yeong is misunderstood by his family. His wife, furious at his behavior, packs up and moves to Pusan while his son, disgusted with his father, leaves home for Seoul. ...

Miss O's Apartment (1978)

Mi-yeong informs her boyfriend that she is becoming a prostitute to help her poverty striken family. Although she tries not to, she ends up falling in love with wealthy Dae-seon and moves into an apartment that he supplies. She is satisfied with this arran ...

Little Namgung Dong-ja (1977)

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. ...

Wasteland (1975)

At the end of the Japanese rule, Jeom-Rye, a daughter of a poor farmer, bares a son of a Japanese policeman Yamada, but she gets married to Park Hang-Koo and lives a happy life with their daughter, Se-Yeon, after Yamada and his son run away after Liberatio ...

You Become a Star, Too (1975)

A butterfly flies from the mountain to the city. Sang-Kyu, who works in a company, buys a house in the suburbs and lives with his wife and daughter, Yun-Jeong. But Yun-Jeong becomes a somnambulist because of the illusion of a butterfly flying to the house. ...

Lee Jung-Seob, a Painter (1975)

Yeonhwa (1975)

Yeonhwa 2 (1975)

Yeong-ja's Heydays (1975)

Chang-su recalls the girl whom he loved before he entered the military. At that time she had been working as a housemaid. They meet again years later at a police station and the girl, Yeong-ja reveals that she quit her job after being raped by the son of h ...

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 ...

A Horrible Breath (1974)

An old man Park's daughter Eun-Sil happened to know that her biological father is not him and her mother died accidentally at the foot of Seo Rak Mountain. Eun-Sil tries to find out her mother's cause of death and makes sure that his father Song Deok-Sil k ...

Special Investigation Unit: The Life of Miss Kim Su-im (1974)

Kim Su-im, the mistress of an American colonel, is arrested and charged with being a North Korean spy. While not denying the charge, Miss Kim takes the trial as an opportunity to relate her life as an explanation of why she committed treason as a spy. ...

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 ...

Bun-rye's Story (1971)

Bun-rye, the eldest daughter in a poor family, is violated by Yong-pal, who is a married man, and out of desperation she becomes a concubine of Young-cheol, a gambler who is impotent. Kong Jo-shi is in love with Bun-rye, though she still has feelings for Y ...

Great King Sejo (1970)

Regret (1969)

Dr. Go, an authority in botany, lives in Buldang Village. His house is haunted by the ghost of Ok-nyeo, who has loved his friend, Choe Seong-ho. She has been killed unjustly, and the ghost comes to Dr. Go every night, asking for fresh blood from young wome ...

Cruel Revenge (1969)

President Choi of Dongseo Shipping is at the verge of bankruptcy because one of his ships has sunk. Right on time, a man comes to Choi and offers to lend money by taking his remaining real estates as security and staying at his place. The man turns out to ...

Lady Hong (1969)

A man is haunted by the ghost of his murdered girlfriend who tries to tempt him into the underworld. He is also visited by the girls dead mother who is furious with him for loving her daughter. ...

Escaping Shanghai (1969)

Saint and Witch (1969)

Starting Point (1969)

Sang-hun, a painter, and Yeong-hun, a doctor, are brothers. Sang-hun's girlfriend left him for another man, and he draws her portrait everyday. Yeong-hun, the older of the two, makes a medical mistake, and his young patient dies. Because of the guilty c ...

Salt Pond (1968)

Rising in the World (1968)

An earnest young man succeeds at business through honesty, loyalty, and hardwork despite being criticized and alienated by his co-workers. ...

Past Loves (1968)

During a concert in Japan a singer encounters his childhood sweetheart and their old love is rekindled with new passion. However their love is a problem for the singer because he is already engaged to the daughter of his mentor. ...

Lady in Dream (1968)

Ghost Story (1968)

An omnibus of the story of three women. In the first, a ghost takes revenge on the man who killed her sister. In story two, a woman decides it's payback time for a sexual predator. The final story tells the tale of a woman's opium addiction leading to a gr ...

Trees Stand on Slope (1968)

A man's jealousy of his friend's pure love for his girlfriend makes his friend sleep with a prostitute. But the friend agonizes over the depraved conduct and at last kills himself. He also feels guilty of his friend's death. However one day he meets the de ...

Love (1968)

When the Buckwheat Blooms (1967)

Heo, an itinerary market dealer, had a short and passionate love with a girl called Bun when he was young and still cherishes that memory in his heart. One day, he happens to meet a young market dealer who is left-handed like him. While talking to him, he ...

Guests Who Arrived by the Last Train (1967)

This film concentrates on a group of people who have trouble adjusting to mainstream society. From a woman running away from her previous life, to a man with a terminal disease, to a pop artist misunderstood by his contemporaries, the film looks on with sy ...

Nostalgia (1967)

Traces (1967)

A Japanese fine art teacher helps a Korean independence fighter to escape from a threat of being arrested by the Japanese police. The Korean man introduces him a gisaeng (Koran geisha) who learned Korean traditional court dance and he falls in love with he ...

Yongary, Monster from the Deep (1967)

Earthquakes in central Korea turn out to be the work of Yongary, a prehistoric gasoline-eating reptile that soon goes on a rampage through Seoul. ...

A Regret (1967)

This film is a compilation of three short horror stories. They include a story of a wife ghost who was separated by death with her husband. She met him after praying for meeting a husband for 100 days. The wife ghost finally leads him to death. In the seco ...

The White Crow (1967)

A Misty Grassland (1967)

A woman attempts to seduce a rich man so she can convince him to help him pay for her dying sister's hospital bill. ...

Gunsmoke (1966)

O Jin-u of a rich family and a female private tutor at his house are in love, but his family are against their marriage and send him to America. Before he leaves for America, they hold their own wedding and vow to love forever. But once out of sight, her d ...

Teacher Waryong's Trip to Seoul (1962)

Teacher Waryong retires after 37 years of teaching. He sets out to visit his former students living in Seoul. While those who establish themselves successfully show only indifference to him, those who are poor but honest heartily welcome him. Teacher Waryo ...