Ju Seon-tae
Also Known As: Sun-tae Joo, Joo Sun-tae, 주선태, Ju Seon-tae , Ju Seontae , Ju Seon Tae , Чу Сон-тхэ, Чу Сонтхэ, Чу Сон Тхэ, Сон-тхэ Чу, Сонтхэ Чу, Чжу Сон Тхэ, Чжу Сон-тхэ, Чжу Сонтхэ, Сон-тхэ Чжу, Сонтхэ Чжу
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kilju, Kankyō-hoku Prefecture, Korea, Empire of Japan [now North Hamgyeong Province, North Korea]
Birthday: January 01, 1921
Deathday: August 22, 1989
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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A Salaryman
Overview: A man is a chief of accounting who does business honestly, never cheating anyone in his 10 years at the company. But his boss is a completely different man. Regarding him as an obstacle keeping him from stealing the company's money, the boss lays a trap to get him fired. The boss' plot is successful. Now jobless, he and his family suffer a lot. But not long after, the president of the company finds out what's been going on. He comes to see him to apologize and lets him know that he is not only reinstated but also promoted.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1962-07-21
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Bonanza
Overview: A young sailor arrives in Busan Harbour; an outrageous-looking, woolly bear of a man appears in downtown Busan with a shotgun over one shoulder, a heavy knapsack thrown over the other; a tough-looking young woman joins her friend in robbing a naïve fat man in a suit. The strands of character and story will slowly converge, well after the audience, tuned to the coincidences and mistaken identities of melodrama, has recognised that these three have a shared history and are fated to meet and reconcile.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1961-06-01
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A Dream of Fortune
Overview: Son Hak-su (Kim Seung-ho) is a middle school teacher who barely gets by on his income because he's paying off a monthly mortgage for his welfare housing facility sold by the government. One day, Mr. Son and his wife make the acquaintance of a U.S. immigrant Charlie Hong (Heo Chang-kang) who is engaged in the smuggling business.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1961-06-17
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An Upstart
Overview: A poor boarder inherits 30 million dollars from an American soldier whose life he saved during the Korean War. The stingy landlady instantly turns into a completely different person, women swarm around him, and charities ask him for donations. Gangsters come forward and try to kill him...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1961-07-13
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A Country Girl
Overview: Jang Gyeong Ho visits fellow student Kim Dong Hwan's hometown, and falls in love with his sister, Kim Ok Gyeong. Despite Dong Hwan's objections, Ok Gyeong follows Gyeong Ho to Seoul. With his help she finds a job at Dong Il where she works as a secretary for the president, Mr. Oh.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1958-10-31
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Chun Hui
Overview: A young man is in love with a waitress, but his father opposes their relationship. The father approaches the waitress telling her that if she truly loved his son, she would abandon him. She submits to the father's wish, though she is dying from tuberculosis.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1959-05-01
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Man Is Not Popular
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1963-04-25
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The Power for Ten Years
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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The Teacher with Ten Daughters
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1964-04-09
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The Regular Tardy Student
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1964-04-30
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Battlefield and a Female Teacher
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Genres: War Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1966-03-05
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Fading in the Rain
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Genres: Drama Crime Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1965-03-11
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Nilliri
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1966-10-29
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The King and the Servant Boy
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1965-09-10
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Prince Yeonsan
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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The Testimony
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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The Sino-Japanese War and Queen Min the Heroine
Overview: Queen Min makes regent Prince Daewon withdraw from ruling with the help of the Min Seung-ho Party.
Genres: History War
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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The Continental Spy
Overview: During the Chinese-Japanese War (1937-1945) a nightclub dancer is given a dangerous mission by her dying brother. According to her brother's will, she goes on a journey with encoded papers of the Independence Army operations. She soon becomes a most wanted criminal by the Japanese Army and must cross the continent on her own.
Genres: War History Action
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1964-05-22
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Kinship
Overview: The story takes place on a mountain slope where defectors from North Korea live. These families sell cheap things such as socks and pens to make a living and there is a serious gap between the parents and their children. A widower Kim Deok-sam nags his son Geo-buk to join the American army. Ok-Mae who lives next door teaches her daughter Bok-soon traditional Korean folksongs and forces her to become a gisaeng.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1963-10-03
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Teacher Waryong's Trip to Seoul
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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The Promise
Overview: A scandal from the past of two friends haunts them to the present and may result in the loss of any future happiness
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1975-10-03
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A Little Star
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1975-03-18
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Horse-year Bride
Overview: It is the year of the white horse that arrives every sixty years. Three women avoid sleeping with their husbands so they won't conceive girls on the year of the horse. However, young and healthy husbands fall into great dilemma.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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Dawn of Nation
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1947-06-23
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The Coachman
Overview: A man tries to raise his two sons and two daughters under some of the most adverse conditions known to man. The father operates a horse-drawn cart, but in a city that is modernizing after the destruction of the Korean War, automobiles are making carts obsolete. The children are experiencing difficulties as well. The eldest son has flunked the bar exam twice and is not hopeful of passing it a third time to become a lawyer. The eldest daughter is mute and married to an abusive husband. The younger daughter tries to pose as a rich university student to move up in life. The youngest son has a penchant for petty theft.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1961-02-15
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Princess Ok-ran and Hwalbindang
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Genres: Adventure History Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1960-12-02
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A Lady of Freedom
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Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1957-01-31
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The Enemy of Woman
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1956-11-15
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A Wild Chrysanthemum
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Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1957-04-20
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The Romantic Train
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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The Moral of Youth
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Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1960-07-20
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The Tragedy of King Dan Jong
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Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1956-02-12
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Entanglements
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Genres: War
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1960-07-21
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The Korean Instrument with 12 Strings
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Genres: History Music Drama War
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1964-10-16
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Prince Ho-Dong and Princess Nak-Rang
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Genres: Romance History War
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1956-06-13
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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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Life of the Woman
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Genres: Romance Drama Music
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1957-05-12
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Affection
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Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1966-01-21
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King Dongmyeong
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Genres: History Action Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1962-11-03
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A Sad Story of Danjong
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Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1963-01-25
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Long Live the Island Frogs
Overview: A husband-wife teaching team arrive on isolated Sachi Island. They try to start a school against the opposition of the islanders. To attract students, they organize athletic teams from the island children and promise that they will win the national competitions... a promise they may not be able to keep.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1972-04-18
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Madame Freedom
Overview: Oh starts working at a boutique to help her make a living. Professor Jang begins dating the typist Miss Park, but decides to break up with her to protect her family. Han's wife anonymously sends a letter to Jang to reveal Oh's affair.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1956-06-09
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A Female Boss
Overview: Would-be feminist Yoanna, running her own company, is insulted in a phone booth by a stranger named Yong-ho. While searching for a job, Yong-ho applies to a magazine named 'The Modern Woman,' not knowing that the company's boss is in fact Yoanna. She hires him with the intention of paying back the humiliation she received. But his masculine attitude captivates her and she ends up marrying him. She resigns her post and becomes a housekeeper, handing over the company to her husband.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1959-12-16
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Dongsimcho
Overview: Lee Suk-hui (Choe Eun-hui) lost her husband to the Korean War eight years ago. She runs a dressmaking shop that has fallen into debt. When Kim Sang-gyu (Kim Jin-gyu), the executive director of a publishing company, helps her pay off debts, she falls in love with him. He, however, is engaged to the daughter of his boss, Ok-ju (Do Geum-bong). His sister (Ju Jeung-nyeo) pushes him to marry the boss's daughter, hoping that will bring him rapid success. Meanwhile, Suk-hui's grown-up daughter Gyeong-hui, wanting her mother to be happy, urges her mother to marry Sang-gyu, but Suk-hui vacillates between social mores and her own happiness. Even though she and Sang-gyu truly love each other, she decides to leave him and heads for her country home after selling her house in Seoul. Hearing the news, he who is ill in bed hurries to Seoul station, but it is too late. All he can do is just to stand on the platform and to watch her train pulling away.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1959-07-09
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The Way of Hwarang
Overview: His parents captured by the Baekje armies, prince Eo-jin infiltrates the enemy castle alone to seek revenge. His plot is ruined when he falls in love with a princess there and is forced to choose between betraying his parents and nation or the woman he loves.
Genres: History Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1962-09-13
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The Little Adventurer
Overview: In an effort to erase his disgrace, the mischievous Kim Hwan starts a movement to build birdnests but the old park keeper gets injured in his efforts. In order to get money for the park keeper's hospital fees, Hwan gets on his friend Chil-sung's boat to catch some fish. However, Hwan gets caught up in the tide and drifts off to sea where he is rescued by a Chinese ship. The Chinese ship tries to take Hwan to North Korea but Hwan resists with an anti-Communist will so strong he's willing to die. Hwan is safely returned to his home country. At the airport, Hwan's friends bring the old park keeper who is in a cast. They receive Hwan with beautiful music and performances.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1979-06-08
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The Wedding Day
Overview: Master Maeng is very proud that an influential family will soon be his esteemed in-laws when his loving daughter, Mi-yeon, marries their son. A few days before the wedding Maeng hears a rumor that his future son-in-law has a cripple leg. Regretting that he can't give his lovely daughter to a cripple, he decides to marry his maid to him instead. Unexpectedly the future son-in-law shows up at the wedding hall and he is not a cripple, but a healthy and handsome youth. Feeling embarrassed, there is no way but to wed the maid to him. The Wedding Day is a recreation of A Happy Day of Jinsa Maeng, a comical play by Oh Yeong Jin. The first Korean film to win an international film award, the Best Comedy Award at the 1957 edition of the Asian Film Festival (now Asia Pacific Film Festival).
Genres: Comedy Drama History
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1956-11-27
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The Hand of Destiny
Overview: In-Ja, the madam of a cabaret is a mistress of the boss of espionage agent. She gathers information from the guests and gives it to Seon-Tae.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1954-12-14
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A College Woman's Confession
Overview: Choi So-young (Choi Eun-hee), a poor female law student is in trouble because her grandmother, who had been sending her tuition money, passes away. With the help of her friend Hee-suk, (Kim Suk-il) who dreams of becoming a writer, So-young fools Choi Rim (Kim Seung-ho), a lawmaker, into believing she is his daughter and moves in his house.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1958-07-12
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Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Overview: Gyu-hwa and Jin-wu are old friends with very different personalities. Their friend Mi-yeon used to be close to Jin-wu but when she grows up, she becomes a prisoner of Gyu-hwa's aggressive behavior. Gyu-hwa takes Ga-hi away from Jin-wu when he discovers that she comes from a wealthy family. But Gyu-hwa begins to have an affair with an older widow and begins to abuse Mi-yeon, the mother of his daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1979-03-10
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A Woman's War
Overview: A housemaid becomes pregnant by her employer's husband and she flees to the countryside to raise her daughter on her own.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1957-03-01
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An Idiot Adada
Overview: Adada's poor husband suddenly strikes it rich. He changes his hovel for a beautiful home, but his character changes as well. He becomes overly proud and shows off his wealth. Adada, despising the money and what it has done to her husband, throws their savings into the river
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1956-05-20
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Genealogy
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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Prince in Yam Clothes
Overview: Prince Kim Chu, last prince of the Silla Kingdom, falls in love with an enemy princess. Because this is not allowed, he must renounce his heredity and retire to Mt. Chiaksan.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1956-09-19
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Love Of Blood Relations
Overview: North Korean agents are sent to Seoul to disrupt the visit of important international dignitaries.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1976-10-05
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The Deaf Worker
Overview: A deaf woman boarding with an elderly laborer suffers many hardships upon the latter's death. The old man's son offers to care for her, but she feels she must leave in order to protect the young man's reputation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1980-06-13
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It's Not Her Sin
Overview: After the woman who nearly killed her is brought to trial, Eun-hie finds that she must take the stand to give evidence. However, the defense attempts to turn the tables on her by revealing her sordid past and trying to make it seem as if she deserved what happened to her.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1959-01-14
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The Classroom of Youth
Overview: While the students, full of vigor in their twenties, make a stand against their parents who regard dating as a sin, they enjoy their springtime of life to the full showing affection in their own way. In the meantime, their parents get to understand them and their children receive their parents' blessing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1963-08-23
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Tosuni: The Birth of Happiness
Overview: Ttosun, a young hard-working woman with a good heart, falls in love with a driver but her father disapproves of the match.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-02-08
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A Sister's Garden
Overview: Dr. Nam, in his will, requests that his eldest daughter, Jeong-hui(Choe Eun-hui), marry a painter named Dong-su (Nam Gung-won). Jeong-hui is at risk of losing her house due to her father's debt, and a young physician Sun-cheol (Kim Seok-hun) who received his college education with the financial support of Dr. Nam, helps her by selling his own house. Despite his love for her, Sun-cheol cannot express his feelings because he knows of the request in her father's will. When Jeong-hui looks for a job to support her family, Bang, whom Dr. Nam once cured, offers her a position of saloon madam. Meanwhile, her younger sister Myeong-hui (Choe Ji-hui) promises Dong-su her hand in marriage. Jeong-hui, now running the saloon, wishes them happiness. It is only when she gets a proposal from Bang and decides to accept it that Sun-cheol confesses his love for her. Moved by Sun-cheol's true affection for her, Bang gives her up, and Sun-cheol and Jeong-hui exchange vows of marriage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1959-10-01
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King Gojong and Martyr An Jung-Geun
Overview: At the end of the Joseon Dynasty, shortly after the Eulsa Treaty has been forced to be concluded by Ito Hirobumi and the pro-Japanese courtiers, Japan pressures King Gojong to step down from the throne. Meanwhile, An Jung-geun, who is cultivating men of ability at Samheung school, is deeply impressed by a speech made by An Chang-ho, and heads for Russia to volunteer the army fighting for independence of the country. As both a lieutenant general of the Korean militia and a commander of the Korean expeditionary force in Manchuria, he carries on the independence movement in defiance of Japanese coercion.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1959-04-10
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Romance Papa
Overview: A middle-aged man is laid off from work but is too proud to tell his family. His children, however, learn of the situation and take jobs of their own to help him save face.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1960-01-28
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Even the Clouds Are Drifting
Overview: A 10-year old girl in a mining town, separated from her family, keeps a diary which becomes a best-seller.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1959-11-05
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Soil
Overview: Heo Seung, who states that he was “born from soil, will live in soil, and die in soil”, becomes a lawyer in Seoul. However when villagers in his hometown are imprisoned for protesting against Japanese oppression, he decides to return to his village and rediscovers the true way to help his country.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1960-01-28
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In So Long
Overview: "A Long Goodbye" - Taken in by an elderly woman and raised as her own, a boy spends all his days dreaming of the time when he can be reunited with his lost parents.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1962-05-06
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아씨
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
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팔도며느리
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1970-12-05
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Permanent Relationship
Overview: The old Yoo works as a Korean traditional group song's singer at a public cemetery. He was born at the North Korea, and watched killing scene of his wife and children while crossing over the border to South Korea. He comes to South Korea alone and suffers from a lot of difficulties, and becomes a singer of group song at the public cemetery. He adopts six years old girl named Oki, who wandered at the cemetery, as his daughter. Until his daughter becomes adult to get married, he does not married again and watch a lot of the death. All of the sorrows and complaints are in vain in front of the death. He also dies hearing the songs of other group song's singers who worked together.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1979-09-13
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