Shim Hye-jin

Daughter (2014)

A mother is seriously obsessed with her daughter. The mother forces her daughter to live a ascetic life and keeps a close watch to ensure she doesn't stray. Years later, now fully grown up, the daughter learns that her mother is stricken with cancer and vi ...

Welcome (2014)

One day, Hye-sook is tricked by her mother into visiting her hometown. When she finds out that her mother is fine and tries to leave for Seoul, she hears about the passing of Taek-gyu's father. After the funeral, Hye-sook plans to return to the city. Gi-ju ...

Foxy Festival (2010)

A bright sexy comedy about a wholesome town and four mysterious couples and their sneaky lives. It is the new work of director Lee Hae-yeong, who secured a spot as a new director with the work "Like a Virgin". ...

Mother and Daughters (2008)

Nam-hee (Shim Hye-Jin) is going about selling fruit from her truck, when she nearly runs over a young gentleman, Joon (Lee Sang-Woo). Joon finds his way to Nam-hee's house, where he meets her mother Gan-nan (Kim Su-Mi), and her 20-year-old daughter Na-rae ...

Over the Border (2006)

After learning that his grandfather is alive and living in Seoul, a North Korean musician must leave his fiancee behind and accompany his family to South Korea. ...

Acacia (2003)

A Korean horror film about an adopted young boy with a strange link to an old, dead acacia tree. As the boy settles in to his new home, the tree comes to life. When the family who adopted him becomes pregnant, he is to go back to the orphanage, and horror ...

Paradise Lost (1998)

A couple fall deeply in love. Unfortunately, they are both already married to other people. The resulting affair leads to the man losing his job. Both divorce their spouses, but while travelling together, they decide that the only way for them to be perfec ...

Bedroom And Courtroom (1998)

Lee Kyung-Ja's husband is constantly away from home, working hard for Il San, a major conglomerate. When he is fired, she becomes angry and sues the company, requesting alimony for her poor love life. After discovering the vicious nature of well-known lawy ...

Man with Flowers (1997)

A production company hires an enforcer nicknamed Tyson to retrieve a runaway screenwriter who failed to complete a commissioned scenario on time. ...

Maria and the Inn (1997)

Two men, brothers, and two women, mother and daughter, learn of life and love at an inn. ...

Green Fish (1997)

Returning home and finding his town drastically changed, a former soldier falls in with gangsters. ...

The Adventures of Mrs. Park (1996)

Park Bong-Gon is having problems at home with her husband and his temper. She decides to leave and pursue her childhood dream of becoming a singer and begins seeing it through at a club called the Arabian Night. Her husband, upset with her disappearance, e ...

The Gingko Bed (1996)

A young art professor, Su-hyun lives a contented existence with his pretty girlfriend. Things change, however, when he discovers an antique wooden bed in the garbage and brings it home. ...

Go Alone Like Musso's Horn (1995)

No Exit (1995)

A man begins a murder spree in a misguided effort to narrow the gap between the very rich and the very poor but when he starts to doubt his mission he finds that he has become addicted to killing and cannot stop. ...

Deep Scratch (1995)

An old friendship turns to rivalry, hatred and murder as one artist tries to imitate and then usurp the work of another and eventually trying to steal her husband, home, and life. ...

Marriage Story 2 (1994)

Sun-ju and Jin-woo plan a romantic second honeymoon to celebrate their anniversary. Sun-ju accidently comes into possession of a doll filled with smuggled microfilm. She becomes the target of foreign agents who follow the couple throughout their tour of Au ...

Out to the World (1994)

A satirical allegory of contemporary South Korean politics, the film follows the exploits of two convicts who accidentally escape while being transferred to another prison. Before they can turn themselves back into custody, they meet a female outlaw. She p ...

To the Starry Island (1993)

Two men have returned to their hometown (the titular island) from Seoul to bury the father of one of them, but the islanders vehemently refuse their request, triggering memories of their childhood before and during the Korean War. ...

The Girl for Love and The One for Marriage (1993)

White Badge (1992)

A Vietnam war veteran writes a series of articles about his war experiences for a local newspaper. As he does so, another veteran, drawn by the articles, begins randomly appearing in his life. ...

Marriage Story (1992)

Tae-gyu and Ji-hye get married. Two young lovers dreamed of the ideal married life which each had respect for each other. But honeymoon is soon over as each comes to realize that the other isn't quite what they thought. ...

The Fifth Man (1991)

Chang, an international killer, is inflamed by dark tissue, so he clears his past and lives a peaceful life as a dentist. To such Chang, the criminal organization Triyard wants to borrow his power to find drugs that have evaporated in Korea. However, in re ...

Black Republic (1990)

A social drama about a young student activist who hides from the authorities by working in a small mining town. ...

In the Name of Memory (1989)