Nam Jeong-im
Also Known As: 남정임, Nam Jung-im
Biography: One of the actresses of the first "troïka" of the 60-70's https://www.kmdb.or.kr/eng/db/per/00003995
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Gwangju, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
Adult: No
Birthday: July 21, 1945
Age: 79 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: September 02, 1992
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Yongary, Monster from the Deep
Overview: 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.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1967-08-13
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Living in the Sky
Overview: The film, which was shot to promote the Korean air force team, depicts the story of air force students who are assigned to their base after hard training.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1968-10-02
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Chulsaegado
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1968-09-22
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Women of Yi-Dynasty
Overview: Four short stories examing the lives of women in the last 18th and 19th century Story 1: 'Wives Should Be Submissive'--A father tries to marry his daughter into a wealthy family. Story 2: 'A Daughter-In-Law Is No Better Than A Stranger'--A woman thinks that her daughter-in-law has turned her son against her so she tries to kill the younger woman. Story 3: '7 Grounds For Divorce'--A wife begins an affair with her servant because of her husband's impotency Story 4: 'Prohibit Sex In Court'--A concubine's life is at risk when it is revealed that her infant child is not the king's.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1969-05-02
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Female Power
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1967-06-28
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I Confess
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1976-01-11
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A Red-and-blue Gauze Lantern
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Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1967-07-01
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A Swordsman
Overview: During the Joseon dynasty, the adviser Choi manages to place his natural son on the throne. His ambitions are upset by the appearance of Young-mun, a man whose parents he had killed.
Genres: Action History
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1967-10-11
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Femme Fatale, Jang Hee Bin
Overview: King Sukjong assigns Jang Ok-nan, a court lady, as a concubine overnight. Jang plots to drive the current Queen into exile.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1968-01-27
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A Man Like the Wind
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Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1968-06-06
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Lady in Dream
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Genres: Horror
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1968-08-01
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The Night of Full Moon
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Genres: History Drama Action
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1969-06-05
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One-eyed Park
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Genres: Action Drama Western
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1970-04-02
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Special Agent X-7
Overview: The Korean Intelligence Agency receives information that a huge amount of gold is being smuggled by North Korean spies, who has a secret organization in Hong Kong. To prevent this, Korea dispatches a secret agent to Hong Kong, who destroys their plan in advance and rounds up the mob.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1966-12-11
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Naked Love
Overview: shaw production
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1970-01-31
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Ghost Story
Overview: 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 gruesome death.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-05-23
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O-Gong-Nyeo Legend
Overview: When Korea Highway Corporation is about to destroy the grave of O Gong-nyeo, the locals oppose the idea because they are worried of the legend of the grave. Heo, an engineer in charge of the construction, checks into a mountain lodge to investigate the legend. One night, he listens to O Gong-nyeo's grudge-filled story in his dream. However, he is too obsessed with his investigation and has been hallucinating. At last, he leaves the lodge and insists that the absurd legend is nothing but a superstition. He boldly pushes forward the construction project.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Beauty in Black Rose Castle
Overview: Hye-ryeon suddenly loses her parents and stays in the Black Rose Castle alone. One day, she says the castle is haunted and asks for help to friend Ji-suk. Ji-suk goes to the castle with boyfriend Yeong-uk, a newspaper reporter. Just as Hye-ryeon has said, they see a ghost, but Yeong-uk feels that someone is playing a prank. He waits for the ghost in the woods, and when it finally appears, Yeong-uk fights it off. The ghost misses a step and falls off a cliff. It turns out Hye-ryeon has been suffering from a mental disease and has been playing as a ghost.
Genres: Mystery Horror
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1969-11-12
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Horror in the Underworld
Overview: Mi-Hye and Mi-Ran sisters get to inherit 100,000 dollars from their long lost father. The next day Mi-Hye's lover Baek Seung-Ji finds that Mi-Ran got killed, which makes him a suspect of the crime. To prove he is innocent, Seung-Ji investigates the murder. Soon it turns out that a band of North Korean agents including Dr. Kim, Mi-Ran and Mi-Hye planned to kidnap Seung-Ji who worked as a cipher officer in the military. The police arrest all the North Korean agents who were on the verge of kidnapping Seung-Ji.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1971-06-25
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Step-mother
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1967-10-27
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Bun-nyeo
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1968-12-21
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The Wings of Lee Sang
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1968-11-13
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A Plateau
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Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1969-02-16
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Saint and Witch
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1969-05-10
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A Story of a Nobleman
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Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1966-12-11
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Affection
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Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1966-01-21
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Soil
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1967-05-18
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Full Ship
Overview: A film picturing the lives and adversities of fishermen who live and die in the sea.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1967-01-20
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Confession of an Actress
Overview: Confession of an Actress is about an actor who was once a famous star. He had a daughter with an actress who he loved when he was young. His daughter became a grownup and he sacrificed himself secretly to make his daughter a star.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1967-02-09
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Legends
Overview: Three traditional Korean folktales. Story 1: The kindness and good deeds of a poor couple earns them a bag of gold from heaven. Story 2: A brave man battles a bloodthirsty ghost. Story 3: A man must choose between devotion to his lover or duty to his parents.
Genres: Action Drama Horror
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1968-03-01
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Guests Who Arrived by the Last Train
Overview: 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 sympathy and compassionate humor on a set of people who, for whatever reason, just don’t fit in.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1967-12-14
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The Starting Point
Overview: Crime ring leader Lee hires prostitute Seon to kill his subordinate Seok-gu who has threatened to take his place. Seon tempts Seok-gu to go to Mountain Seorak to assassinate him. But she falls in love with him in the journey and confesses everything to him. In fact, they have been shadowed by the spies Lee sent and bloody fight breaks out. Seok-gu in the end defeats all the villains.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1967-06-01
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Let's Meet at Walkerhill
Overview: After missing his daughter during the Korean War (1950-1953), the protagonist happens to meet Sam-ryong on Seoul-bound train. He has never been to Seoul before and asks him for direction. They together wander around looking for his daughter. And one day at Walkerhill hotel, he sees her daughter singing as a popular singer and has a heart-moving reunion.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1966-12-10
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Spring, Spring
Overview: 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. Jeom-sun finds out, and picks up a fight with her father. When Chun-sam decides to play hard on his master, Jeom-sun takes Chun-sam's side.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1969-05-24
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Stroller
Overview: An old member of Namsadang (a wayfaring group of Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910)) leaves his daughter Gye-yeon at a tavern of Hwagye Market, a traditional market located in Gurye, Jeollanam-do. Son of the tavern owner Seong-gi and Gye-yeon love each other, but the madam owner tries to separate them by sending Seon-gi to a temple. The old man comes back to take Gye-yeon and disclose a secret that the tavern owner is in fact his daughter, therefore Seong-gi is his grand son. Frustrated to hear that he cannot love Gye-yeon, Seong-gi goes for a long journey without destination as his ancestors of Namsadang have done.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1967-07-20
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A Male Housekeeper
Overview: A woman hires a male cook, being afraid that her lewd husband may have an affair with a female cook. Hyeong-gu who thinks about how to collect money for his brother's research starts working in her house. While he serves as a cook there, a lot of funny episodes happen. Finally, his brother finishes his research successfully and he gets out of the house to work for his brother's company as a managing director. He also gets married to a cook maid of the neighbor at the next door. It turns out that the maid is the daughter of the land lore, not a hired servant.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1968-05-01
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Gunsmoke
Overview: 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 devotion weakens with time and falls in love with Jin-u's friend Seong-hun. Hearing about the fact, Jin-u hurriedly returns to fight a duel with him...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1966-12-08
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Miss Chicken
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Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1970-01-16
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Starting Point
Overview: 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 conscience, he abandons the career as a doctor and devotes himself to writing a novel. However, the brothers have high self-esteem and finally overcome their weaknesses to make a fresh start.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1969-02-02
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Nostalgia
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1966-07-02
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Sound of Magpies
Overview: Bong-su, who has been missing since the Korean War, returns to his hometown. A death notice for him has already been sent to his hometown, and his fiancée, Jeong-sun, has already married another man, Sang-ho. Bong-su tries to persuade Jeong-sun to forget about Sang-ho and return to him, but she tells him that it's something that cannot be undone. Tormented by his pain, Bong-su begins to show signs of delusional behavior and ends up strangling Jeong-im, Sang-ho's younger sister, who had a crush on him. Later, it is revealed that the death notice for Bong-su was a fake, created by Sang-ho so he could marry Jeong-sun.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1967-11-26
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Salt Pond
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1968-10-19
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Sound of Laughing
Overview: The hostess Oh Hak-ja has not experienced true love yet. Though outwardly, Hak-ja seems to distrust men, she earnestly thirsts for love. Hak-ja tries to find true love with a young man named Ji Suk-wu but he betrays her. Promising to meet again, Suk-wu goes abroad but Hak-ja falls into despair when he doesn't return.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1978-10-05
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The Male Beauty Artist
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1969-03-29
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One-sided Love of Princess
Overview: Sook-kyung, the youngest tomboy princess, loves playing hide and seek with her same-aged court ladies and is extremely curious about the life outside the palace. An opportunity comes for her on queen mother’s birthday celebration. Princess Sook-kyung gets to explore the outside world with the help of her older sister princesses and falls in love with a Seonggyungwan scholar she meets coincidentally. The variety of character twists in this film which is reminiscent of romantic comedies such as Roman Holiday and Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. The queen mother with a fancy royal costume but wears glasses because of her poor vision, and the court ladies who protect the princess day and night are usually slow and doze off but have the strength to push against male henchmen. The princes outside the palace walls seem like that of a naïve country girl who eats a rice cake at the marketplace because she thinks it’s free.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1967-07-19
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The Queen of Elegy
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1967-11-02
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팔도기생
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Genres: History
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1968-10-30
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Deep in My Heart
Overview: Overseas student Zheng Yihua and her native Korean classmate Soo-ok are bosom friends. Suspecting appendicitis, Zheng is rushed to the hospital for an emergency operation performed by Lee Sang-hyun. Soo-ok falls head over heels for the surgeon, who ironically takes a fancy to his patient. The romance turns the friends into foes. An embittered Soo-ok ruins Zheng's reputation with malicious gossips intended for Zhang Zhen, Zheng's father's personal assistant and the daughter's fiancé during his business trip to Korea. The wary mother of Lee demands the girl's parting from his son. Answering her lover's plea, Zheng stays, quietly enduring the scorn rained down on her from the mother. Having had enough of slander and accusations, the foreigner returns home, vowing never to return. Even the blessing from Lee's father fails to change her mind. Lee arrives at the airport, looking forlornly over the runway where the plane takes off.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1967-12-10
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