Bob Hyeon Gil-su
Also Known As: 玄吉洙, Bob Yuen, 현길수, Hyun Gil-soo, Hyun Gil-su, Kil-su Hyeon, Yuen Gat-Chue, Hyun Kill-Soo, Hyun Kil-Su, Hyeon Gil-Soo
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: South Korea
Birthday: January 25, 1951
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Gender: Male
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Shaolin Drunken Fight
Overview: Eastern Heroes Collection: Imperial guards are ordered to kill the family of Hsiung Chih. He escapes the massacre, and also saves a roving swordsman. Hsiung flees to Shaolin Temple, where he meets up with Priest Wu Yun, the Drunk Monk. He begins to learn the Drunken Style and plots his revenge. A brilliant display of wu-shu and authentic drunken Boxing make this film a must have! The two man sets are the best ever put on screen!!
Genres: Action
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Mantis vs Falcon's Claws
Overview: A silk dealer and a princess are traveling in the China country, when they are attacked by a group of Falcon bandits. The bandits kidnap the princess and steal the silk. The princess's father makes an effort to free his daughter, but fails, and the bandits demand a ransom. Meanwhile, the silk dealer goes to a Shaolin temple, and trains to learn Mantis kung fu. After much intense training, he goes after the bandits.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Golden Gate
Overview: When the Mongolian Salitai raids the Shaolin Temple, the head Buddhist priest of the temple, Won-kak, meets by chance the mute So-sun and the Mongolian Il-gong. They shave their heads and enter the temple. Buddhist priest Won-kak gets the Buddhist soldiers together and tells them to protect to the end the national treasure, the golden Buddhist statue that is at Shaolin temple. The mute So-sun works as the lowest servant at the temple and learns how to fight. One day, evil men come and steal the gold statue. So-sun sees this and tells Buddhist priest Sio but the ringleader of men is none other than the Mongolian informant Il-gong. So-sun ends up on the run due to scheming of Il-gong. After training with the Pungdo-hyub fighting technique, Il-gong turns the Shaolin Temple into the bandits' headquarters. So-sun searches out the 'Hwa-gong Secret Fighting Technique' scriptures and trains under it to defeat the Pungdo-hyub fighting technique.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1979-05-24
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The Last Witness
Overview: Detective Oh goes searching for the murderer of Yang, a small-time brewer bludgeoned to death by a quiet riverside with no witnesses, no apparent motive. As he wanders about the winter landscape of South Jeolla Province and Seoul, he finds himself caught in a story of treachery, rape and murder.
Genres: Crime Mystery Drama War
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1980-11-15
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Kill the Shogun
Overview: Action-drama set during the 1904 occupation of Korea (by Japan). An incident is sparked when the Japanese force the Korean soldiers to strip off their uniforms. Two of the Korean soldiers refuse and go on a rampage against the Japanese, forcing them to take their uniforms off.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1975-05-06
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The Hut
Overview: An attractive young woman has been called on to help rid a haunted family of its demons - the male heirs all die young, and one is now in a coma - she has to clear the environment where several exorcists have failed before her.
Genres: Horror Drama Mystery
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1981-06-13
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Obsession
Overview: So-dol, serving a prison sentence after being accused of murdering his friend, gets a 7 day leave from the prison when his mother dies. As soon as he and the guard assigned to him arrive in the village, strange events begin to occur. A 5-year old corpse is discovered floating in the harbor and the entire seaweed harvest spoils. So-dal's guard begins an investigation and find that the supernatural is very real in this remote island.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1977-11-24
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Shaolin Drunken Monk
Overview: When a martial arts teacher is murdered by his students, his son and heir, Lao Chung (Gordon Liu), escapes but vows to exact vengeance for his father's death. After learning drunken kung fu from an old master, Chung sets out to punish the perpetrators. Eagle Han also stars in this rousing Hong Kong actioner featuring scores of spectacular fight scenes, all choreographed by the legendary Lau brothers.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1982-12-31
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The Nationwide Constituency
Overview: Dragon Lee stars as Baek-chon, a small time gangster who quickly rises to power following a shake up in his organization. The gang boss was shot and, before succumbing to his wounds, proclaims Baek-chon to be his successor. Per his chief's final instructions, Baek-chon makes each member of the gang sign a document in blood declaring the rules of conduct of the gang. First and foremost is that no one will deal in drugs. Naturally, all of this doesn't sit well with Hyun-tae, another gangster who resents Baek-chon's rise to power and seeks to exploit the lucrative nature of narcotics. Hyun-tae plots to kill Baek-chon, a plan that ultimately fails but sees Baek-chon sent to jail for manslaughter after defending himself. While in jail, Baek-chon befriends one of Hyun-tae's underlings. When both men are eventually released from jail, Baek-chon seeks to avoid conflict but when Hyun-tae murders his friend, Baek-chon seeks his revenge.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1991-11-16
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Super Hong Gil-Dong 2 - Super Hong Gil-Dong And High Priest Kong-Cho
Overview: Taking time out of studying for a government exam, Hong Kil-dong teams up with Gangcho and a group of foreign warriors to defeat the evil of magistrate Byeon and his thugs.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1988-12-01
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A Bloody Battle For Revenge
Overview: Tae-young is a former fighter who now runs a relatively legitimate disco club business. He has a best friend named Joon-suk who runs a bakery with In-hye and is always ready to help Tae-young. When Tae-young refuses to let drug lord Ma Gun-soo use his disco club as a place of business, Gun-soo injects him with drugs and sets him up to the police. Tae-young serves time for a crime he did not commit. After his release, Tae-young attacks Gun-soo's son Tae-ho. Gun-soo retaliates by attacking Joon-suk and In-hye. He tortures and kills Joon-suk. Having lost everything to Gun-soo and his men, Tae-young plans one final battle. He alerts the police to come at a specified moment and prepares for a fight to the finish.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1992-10-10
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Thunderhawk 5 - New Machine Thunderhawk
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Genres: Family Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1988-07-16
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A Water Mill
Overview: On the first full moon of January, in the town of Ha-pyung, there is a festival going on in the yard of Shin Chi-gyu, the town's biggest landowner. They are playing yut, a game of throwing four short sticks. The winner of the game is Ok-bun's husband, Lee Bang-won. Having no money, Ok-bun and Bang-won had been tenant farmers on Chi-gyu's land. With their winnings, they try to start their own business. Chi-gyu had always been drawn to Ok-bun. When Bang-won leaves, Chi-gyu comes on strong to Ok-bun. Ok-bun waits eagerly for her husband's return but Bang-won has failed in his business and returns a pauper. As their dreams go up in smoke, Ok-bun falls into deep despair.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1986-05-03
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Fury in Shaolin Temple
Overview: When a young boy finds himself alone in the world when his adoptive father disappears after a fight, his first thought is to go to Shaolin.
Genres: Action
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1979-06-11
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Be a Wicked Woman
Overview: Two housewives, wounded by their husbands' betrayals, meet by chance. They decide to carry out "exchange murders" and work towards the perfect alibis. Under what they know to be perfect plans, they kill each other's husbands. Although the police are able to prove that they're guilty, these two women are found innocent by the court of law.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1990-09-28
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Kwangdong Viper
Overview: After witnessing the brutal murder of his mother, Ma-ryong grows up intent on revenge and sets out to become a master of martial arts. When Ma-ryong kills his mother’s murderer, Il-pyung, the son of Ma-ryong’s enemy, seeks a master to learn how to fight. Ma-ryong and Il-pyung form a bond as master and apprentice leading to an inevitable showdown.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1983-08-13
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Hitman in the Hand of Buddha
Overview: A country bumpkin arrives to help his brother's rice business. Things get out of hand while a rival company becomes corrupt. The bumpkin, an ace martial artist, fights off the rivals. Angered, the rivals hire a martial arts expert to fight the hero, only to get beaten up himself. The expert send his teacher to hurt the hero and succeeds. The hero is sent to a temple where he learns a new style of kung fu. Now with the skills, our hero is ready to get even.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1981-04-14
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The Doofus Detective And The Twin Light Brothers
Overview: Miss Jin, a female detective, meets the head of a human trafficking organization in an undercover plan to destroy it. But she falls into their trap and gets caught. Jin's younger brother and two young men who both have unrequited love for Jin try to save her, but they fail due to the appearance of The Twin Light Brothersrothers. However, Detective Kim defeats The Twin Light Brothers and rescues Jin from the villain's lair.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1990-01-16
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The Eternal Empire
Overview: This film depicts the struggles of the Royal Party and the Old Party to obtain political power. In 1800, The Royal Party insisted that the political power should be centralized to the King, but the other party (The Old Party) insisted that the political power should be centralized to the majority of the ministers. One day, official Jang was ordered by the King to arrange and edit the record of the former King Yeongjo. All of a sudden, Jang dies. Soon it was disclosed that Jang was killed by the Old Party because of their connection with the book. For this incident , the King tried to get rid of key members of the Old Party, but the Old Party resists the King's will. What was in the book? Who was involved? Why? The political intrigue will keep you on the edge of your seat.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1995-01-28
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