Also Known As: Ki Bum Kim, 金基範, Gam Gei-Fan, 김기범, Kim Ki-Bum
Biography: Kim Ki-bum (김기범) was a South Korean actor.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: South Korea
Birthday: February 09, 1929
Deathday: August 27, 2001
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Gender: Male
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Overview: In order to gain revenge on the killers of his parents, a man joins an organized crime ring as a hit man. The brutality of his slayings in his quest for vengeance makes him a man that the police desperately want to collar. ※ Only the first 32 minutes of the film currently exist today. The plot summary has been added in the form of title cards to aid the viewing experience.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1961-06-23
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Overview: Ingeol and Ki-seong are masters of taekwondo and are bamboo shoots, but they parted ways to spread the traditional martial art, Taekwon, to the whole country. Upon arriving at Ganghwa Island, Ingeol discovers a group of suspicious people and tracks them. Meanwhile, Ki-seong, who had been traveling the country separately, heard the news and ran to Ganghwa Island, and together with In-geol's younger sister, Non-smoking, smacked the Ming merchants and Hyuk-soo gang to protect the gold.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1977-08-27
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Overview: While Professor Yun, one of the world's leading authority on genetics, is abroad, Oh In-cheol and his fiancee Yun Jin-suk take the professor's papers from his laboratory. In-cheol and Jin-suk are researching the principle of the chlorophyll and a pill that can make people invisible. In-cheol becomes invisible and catches bank con-men and child kidnappers, etc. He works hard to expose society's evil and he is pasted all over newspapers. However, the criminals follow him and discover his identity. They steal his invisible pills. The criminals become invisible and they go on to commit their crimes such as robbing banks. But they don't have any pills to reverse the effects. The criminals ultimately come to In-cheol looking for the reverse pills when they are caught by the police.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1986-12-20
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Overview: A masked fighter kills members of the Dragon clan who were practicing a rare form of martial arts in the monastery and took the secret manual now hunt is on to retrieve the manual and bring the killer to justice.
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Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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Overview: A chief surgeon kills the nurse with whom he is having an affair after he becomes engaged to be married to the hospital director's daughter. He becomes tormented by her spirit.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1964-07-11
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Overview: During the reign of King Yeongjo in the Joseon Dynasty (1302-1910), the villainous retainer party led by Jang Ji-hang gains power after cutting the head off a royalist Hong seong-won. His son Hong Guk-yeong passes a state exam and tries to assist the king in ruling well, but he is also put to death by Jang's false incrimination. But he is called a faithful politician in history.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1964-08-06
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Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1964-01-04
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1966-10-29
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Overview: A historical drama about Prince Yeon-san of Joseon as a prince trying to restore the status of his mother, the deposed and executed Queen Yun.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1961-12-31
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Overview: Prince Yeonsan-gun turns into a tyrant out of grief for his mother's death. He orders beheadings of all the officials who displease him or who advised the previous king to depose the queen. He becomes crueler by the day. But in 10th year of his reign, he is kicked out of the throne and dies a tragic death.
Genres: History Thriller Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1962-02-05
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Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1967-07-01
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Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1968-06-06
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Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1967-12-08
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Genres: History Drama Action
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1969-06-05
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Genres: Horror
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1968-08-01
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Genres: Action Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1971-04-09
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1975-03-08
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1975-03-08
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Overview: Best friends Dae-gyu and Dal-su fight over Ok-hi. When Ok-hui marries and goes to Seoul the fight ends. After many years, Ok-hi is widowed and brings her daughter Ji-hyang to her home village, and the fight between Dae-gyu and Dal-su begins again. Ok-hui borrows some money from Dal-su when she is short of money while building a reservoir for the village. Dal-su lends money on the condition that she marry him if she cannot pay him back until the ground-breaking ceremony. And Dal-su's wife leaves. As Ok-hui fails to return the money, she tries to run away with Dae-gyu, but they run into Min, Dal-su's son, who demands them to pay back his father's money. Finally Dae-gyu and Dal-su meet and have a fight, but at last Dal-su sends him to Ok-hi, and he is happy to do so.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1971-02-27
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1972-09-01
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Overview: An omnibus of three stories all taking place in the Myeongdong district of Seoul.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1972-06-04
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Overview: After the Japanese Invasion of Korea in 1592, Iljimae, a master of the interlaced sword method, heads to Japan to find the national treasure, the Cheonryongsword, which was robbed by the Japanese pirate Kuroda. Around this time, there were two more men looking for Kuroda, one of them was Ma-cheol, a one-armed swordsman who lost his left arm due to Kuroda's trick, and the other was Kuroda's henchman Okamodo, who lost his newlywed wife and even lost his own eyes. This is Yoshiyama, the swordsman who lost his mind. At first, the three knights, who met by chance, were wary of each other for their own goals, but were captured by Kuroda's persistent pursuit. In the end, after a bloody fight, they succeed in revenge, and Iljimae returns home with the recovered Cheonryongsword.
Genres: Action History
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1972-09-22
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Overview: A patriot Park No-Hun is dispatched by Shanghai Provisional Government for Independence to assassinate members of the House of Council. In this situation Young-Kuk, brother of Hyeon-Ju who is a kisaeng of Myeong Wol Kwan, is jailed and Choi Chil-Yong, an inspector of Japanese Higher Police Department, is in agony of difficulties between Korea and Japan. Shin Yun-Il, a member of the council falls in love with a kisaeng whose name is Jeong-Mi. All of these are going their way under the influence of phases of the times such as carrying out colonial policies and each of them is linked complicatedly and causes troubles. After all their efforts concentrated on Independence of Korea, and Park No-Hun carried out his mission with help of 5 kisaengs of Myeong Wol Kwan. Finally he leaves for Shanghai with them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1973-03-07
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Overview: 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 Korean army reddens South Korea with their state-of-the-art weapons. This movie describes the progress of war from the invasion in June 25, 1950 to the reclamation of territory on the basis of Sun-A's personal experience. Also this film reminds hard lessons from tragic history.
Genres: War
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Genres: War
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1974-09-28
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Genres: Action Romance Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1969-12-23
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Overview: A group of swordsmen takes on a hard-fight battle to possess a precious sword named Loegeom. Ahn Gil-won, one of the swordsmen, heads to enemy camp by himself, looking for the sword. He manages to swipe out the gang of enemy, finds his sword and heads on his way with his lover.
Genres: Action History Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1969-09-25
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Genres: Drama Action History
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1970-01-22
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Overview: At the death of her father, A-mi returns to Korea and realises he was implicated in the theft of a chest full of gold bars. She then becomes the target of a criminal organisation.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1970-07-26
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Overview: Suk-jin, a naive Young woman lives on her own in Seoul. When her brother dies following a car accident, she finds out he had been having an affair with the wife of a businessman.
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1970-11-21
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1975-11-15
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1977-05-31
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Overview: In Ching Dynasty, surviving retainers of Ming Dynasty swears with blood to restore their country. Hwang Baek who is greedy for power, brutally kills them but the master Mok-ryun defeats him every time. Kang Shi-baek, the lord of Haedong, has a daughter, Chung-chung, who is engaged with Chon-ryong. Baek-ho asks to marry her also. Hwang-baek plots against Kang Shi-baek and puts him in jail. When Kang Shi-baek's head was about to be cut off, two of the masters Mok-ryun show up and rid of Hwang-baek group. Chon-ryong matches against and beats Hwang-baek and leaves with Chung-chung.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1978-12-02
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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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Overview: Yeon-shil is the lover of crime boss Dong-il. She pays off one of the boss's henchmen, Man-ho, with whom she once had an affair; Man-ho is an opium addict, and he has been blackmailing Yeon-shil by threatening to disclose their past relations.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1964-07-31
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Overview: 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 Waryong helps the less fortunate former students.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1962-10-05
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Overview: A notorious dirty cop makes an honest attempt to catch a serial killer who even murdered his own parents.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2002-01-25
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Overview: 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 of oppression by the royal court.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1991-09-21
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Overview: Park, a bar owner, is forced into paying extortion money to the local gangsters. When Yong-cheol, a customer, sees this, he is outraged and tries to beat up the gangsters, but he is overwhelmed by their numbers. The gangsters cut off Yong-cheol's leg to teach him a lesson. Park and a young boy assist Yong-cheol in forging a new leg out of iron to use as a weapon to defeat the gangsters.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1974-10-16
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Overview: In Manchuria during the 1940's, a karate master named Sazaki and hapkido champion Wang make plans to rob the Korean Independence Army of its funds. However, unknown to them, the money is guarded by one Mr Lee--a grand master of taekwondo.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1974-06-13
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Genres: Romance Drama History
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1970-04-23
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Overview: In 1980s South Korea, a former cop, now in destitution, is placed in a rehabilitation center, where, by chance, he finds the Communist guerilla who had eluded his capture more than 30 years ago.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1980-09-25
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Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1967-11-17
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1968-12-21
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Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1969-08-22
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Genres: Adventure Action History
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1965-01-29
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Overview: Two Korean college graduates arouse the suspicions of Japanese authorities after modernizing a rural community with a school and a youth hall.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1978-05-04
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Genres: Action History
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1962-10-24
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Overview: Innocent Bok-nyeo is sold at 18 years old to an elderly widower who sends her to work in the salt mines. There she is raped by the supervisor. Becoming very cynical about life, Bok-nyeo becomes the mistress of a couple of rich men, Choi and Wang. In this way, she becomes accustomed to the high life. However she panics and takes desperate steps when one of her sources of income is about to cut her off.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1987-03-01
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Overview: Lee Mun-hi works as a bus conductor. She is tormented by the fact that she is subject to body searches, but tries to treat her co-workers nicely and live an honest life. She is kind to people who are less fortunate than her and falls in love with Kwang-seok, a traveling salesman. She helps Kwang-seok become a crewman of the ship and promises to marry him. When she is subjected to another body search, she protests against the humiliation and jumps from the roof of her company building. She is critically injured and is embraced by Kwang-seok.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1981-12-03
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Overview: Infighting breaks out between factions of the Communist Party over whether to back the U.N. Trusteeship under which the Korean Peninsula is to be divided between U.S. and Soviet control. One faction hires a hit man to kill the leader of the opposing faction. The hit man is known as the best in his field, yet is also known for having a heart.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1969-01-16
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Overview: Deok-bo intends to fight his Eun-swi for the love of Bon-hie, but he is impressed by his rival's manly strength upon meeting. They become very close friends. Bun-hie, who was hoping to make Eun-swi an upstanding citizen is furious that he now spends all of his time Deok-bo. She decides to murder her former admirer-turned-rival.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1979-02-17
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1975-03-29
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Genres: History Music Drama War
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1964-10-16
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Overview: Jackie Chan stars as the young warrior Hsu Yiu Fong. Hsu has been entrusted with the book of the "Art of the Snake and Crane," after the mysterious disappearance of the eight Shaolin Masters who had written it. He must fight off numerous clans who are all attempting to steal the book from him, to find out the true reason for the disappearance of the Shaolin Masters.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1978-03-08
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Overview: Japanese forces in Shanghai attempt to destroy the patriotic spirit of the Chinese by closing down all Kung Fu gyms. Chang Ling (Bruce Le), a top Chinese Kung Fu practitioner, is forced to flee to Korea. The Japanese forces pursue him there, and so Chang Ling fights back, defeating many Japanese fighters before finally encountering the Japanese commander.
Genres: Action
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1977-03-19
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Overview: In central China, the Dragon Fist and the Jeet-Kune are two competing martial arts schools. When Dragon Fist master, Ho Cho, breaks his leg in a competition between the schools, he vows revenge. The Jeet-Kune school is damaged and student Lee Jin battles to regain the school in a death-duel!
Genres: Action
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1966-01-21
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1969-11-20
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Genres: History
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1970-12-15
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Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1963-01-25
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Overview: Passing through a jail and a construction site, a young laborer meets a middle-aged man returning to Sampo after ten years' absence. Together, they track down a young woman who ran away from the restaurant she was waitressing at, but instead of turning her in for a reward, the trio decide to go on an adventure together.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1975-05-23
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Overview: 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 her employer. Her life got steadily worse until finally she lost an arm in a car accident and had to work as a prostitute to pay for an artificial limb.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1975-02-11
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Overview: There is a poor farmer couple. The landowner, an old man, covetous of the tenant's wife, tries to seduce her and sometimes threatens her. The wife spends every night with the old man at the water mill. Her husband, hearing the news, runs to the water mill and witnesses them together. He picks up the sickle that was placed near and kills his wife. The landowner escapes and the farmer gets arrested by a Japanese policeman.
Genres: Horror Fantasy Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1966-11-10
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Overview: A monastery holds four books containing the secrets of its powerful martial arts techniques. Everybody wants to get their hands on them, including a band of local evil types. The abbot is killed, and the head students begin to argue over who should keep the books safe.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1983-06-04
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Overview: Yong-cheol and Su-na help Hun to take revenge on the men who killed his parents, but anytime they kill one of the murderers, they hear a ghostly, melancholy harmonica.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1974-04-21
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1982-06-26
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Overview: South Korean martial arts.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Overview: Chinese martial artist Huang Sheng arrives in Korea to free his uncle, who was abducted and forced to work in a concentration camp by the Japanese. Disgusted he must realize that the entire populace of the foreign province is suffering terror as well. Especially Mode Nakana and Akijame Endo and their troops oppress the people and even Tae Kwon Do master Sung Shin Shen and his pupils fail to stop the murders, rapes and robberies committed by those Japanese. Huang soon prepares himself to take on the evil 'Rising Sun’ gang to free not only his uncle but the Koreans as well...
Genres: Drama Action Adventure
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1972-06-20
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Overview: Our hero Kim is a police inspector who must arrest the baddest of the bad. Nobody believes he can do it. What they don't know is that he is a 10th level master of karate and kung fu. His challenges only make him stronger. Weapons and hand to hand gory combat dominate this action drenched spectacular!! Killing on the epic level!!
Genres: Action
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1978-11-17
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Overview: A roaming fighter gets into the ring to win a boxing tournament to thwart an evil warlord.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1974-02-06
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Overview: Japan conquers China just before WW2 starts. Chinese women are captured and placed in concentration camps, where they are tortured and humiliated. Some try to escape incurring enormous risks, and death if they fail.
Genres: Adventure Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1976-04-17
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Overview: One Sunday, a penniless unmarried young South Korean couple meet, as they do every Sunday; while the pregnant young woman believes they are not ready to bring a child into the world, the young man decides to go visit his friends to borrow money for delivery.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1968-11-29
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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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Overview: Bun-nyeo, a girl in a mountain village loses her virginity to Myong-jun, the village vagabond. After both of her suitors die before they can wed Bun-nyeo, she moves to the city to work in a factory. Myong-jun persuades her to return to the village, but he is arrested for murder. As the film ends, Bun-nyeo is waiting for Myong-jun's release.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1982-09-04
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Overview: A sequel to Yeong-ja's Heydays follows the career of Yeong-ja’s first love, Chang-su, and his faithful love for her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1975-11-28
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1985-01-23
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Overview: Lee Sung-sun is nicknamed Sirasoni (means a baby tiger) for his gentle personality. Because of his strong sense of justice, Sung-sun gets into a fight with Japanese students and this keeps him from going on his honeymoon. He flees to China. There, he helps a Chinese woman being harassed by the Japanese and ends up working with the Chinese dock laborers. The dock manager doesn't pay the workers fairly and represses them. When Sung-sun loses a friend because of this, he confronts the Japanese and puts a big dent in their pride.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1979-09-04
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Overview: During the Japanese occupation of South Korea, a Japanese bureaucrat is ordered to persuade an influential Korean patriarch into obeying the law of changing his Korean surname to a Japanese one.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1979-09-14
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Overview: Japanese invaders in manchuria are sent packing by Jason Pai Piao, Tommy Lo Chun and the 8th degree black belt Mad Korean Kwon Young Moon, excellent fights in this great production from Yangze films.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1972-12-20
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Overview: A general goes on a search for a book that reveals the names of revolutionaries in the area, leading to a showdown at a Shaolin temple where he faces off against the revolutionaries.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1984-08-25
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Overview: Chun-bo and Bong-dal are members of a bandit who voluntarily claim to be Im Kek-jeong's subordinates. They didn't even know that there was a horse plaque on the clothes of the fishermen, and they were yangban and decided to play the role of a real female haenger. They perform good deeds such as scolding Tamgwan-duck for the unfair and powerless people and distributing grain to poor residents.
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Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1987-08-22
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Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1987-07-17
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