Yang Taek-jo
Also Known As: 양택조
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: South Korea
Adult: No
Birthday: March 23, 1939
Age: 86 years old
Gender: Male
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Who Saw The Dragon's Claws?
Overview: Ji-won, a news anchor woman, witnesses Jung Yong-wook, an emerging leader of the ruling party, being terrorized. She sees the incident from car parked on a deserted road as she was enjoying a secret redez-vous with Park In-gyu, the presidential candidate of the opposition party. She barely escapes being killed herself. The country is thrown in turmoil with the news of Jung Yong-wook's alleged suicide, and Park In-gyu urges Ji-won to keep quiet.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1991-04-05
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General's Son
Overview: In Japanese-occupied South Korea, a young man, newly-released from prison, is accepted into a gang for his fighting skills and quickly rises to the top. Based on the life of South Korean mobster and politician Kim Du-han.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1990-06-09
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General's Son 3
Overview: Following the final events of General's Son 2, Kim Du-han is forced to go on the lam but eventually returns to Jongro where he attempts to rebuild his gang with the brothers that are still alive and loyal and defeat Hayashi's Yakuzas once and for all.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1992-09-11
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Until We Meet
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1999-02-23
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Peach Blossoms
Overview: Do-hwa was born with both blessing and curse of the peach tree in the village. She masters the value of 'Yin and Yang' at the age of three and amazes neighbors with special senses as she grows up. She is told by Dang-gol, the village's shaman to have super power regarding sex and soon brings disaster to the village by having contact with virgin men. She struggles and survives her fate through turbulent corners of life beyond her control.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1987-06-27
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Rules of the Game
Overview: A car wash attendant Yong-dae decides move to Seoul with his girlfriend Tae-suk for join the most dangerous gang Yu Kwangcheon. On the way to Seoul they lost entire of savings to a swindler Man-su whom the most wanted by Yu Kwangcheon.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1994-09-17
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1996 Mulberry
Overview: Sam Bo is a good-for-nothing gambler who loses more often than winning. His wife Hyun Jip takes care of the household and brings home the money. Her outstanding beauty and charm bring her a bevy of neighborhood admirers who are willing to provide her with anything she desires. The neighborhood women go up in arms when they realize their husbands are contributing to Hyun Jip's funds in exchange for her services. They try to run her out of the village but in vain. Sam Dol, the local farmhand, is known for his sexual prowess and his latest target is Hyun Jip. But when she continues to turn him down, he takes revenge on her by telling her husband what she has done.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1996-03-23
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Long After That
Overview: Sun Woo Sumi is a lecturer at a French-language school after studying in France, but she has not forgotten the nightmare from seven years ago. She was assaulted by five men during her first year of college with Jin Woo. At that time, Sumi decided to study abroad. Jin Woo, a police officer, tries to recover her mental and physical injuries.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1989-09-09
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Mulberry
Overview: Sam-po is a gambler living without concern for how his wife will manage their houselhold without his earning money. In order to get food and provisions, his wife An-hyeob, sleeps with various merchants in the village. One of the few men she does not sleep with, a lustful servant named Sam-dol, decides to reveal her activities to her husband for revenge.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1986-02-08
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I Want to Live Just Until I'm 20 Years Old
Overview: A girl with bone cancer tells her story to the world through a radio DJ.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-11-01
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Bird's Sir
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Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1994-06-25
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Passing Rain
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1995-10-14
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Potato
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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Foggy after Clouds in Mujin
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Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1986-10-03
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The Glorious Days Of Young-Ja (Sequel)
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1982-05-22
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Young-ja in Her Prime in 1987
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1987-05-16
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Dance With Solitude
Overview: In a countryside town called Mulgeun lives a bohemian man named BAE Joong-dal. His goals in life are to get his younger brother BAE Joong-bum, now in his fifties, married and to thrive with his new start-up ostrich farm. Living nest door is a pain-in-the-neck named CHO Jin-bong who breaks apart the fence to the ostrich farm, resulting in a scuffle. Suddenly a beautiful and graceful woman - which is hard to find in Mulgeun - unexpectedly shows up in town. Her appearance starts to stir up troubles among the residents. Joong-bum, meanwhile, never appreciates his brother’s efforts to set him up on dates. One day after running away from a panned date, he returns home drunk late at night and confesses something shocking to his brother...
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2004-03-19
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Blood and Fire
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Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1991-12-21
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A Short Love Affair
Overview: Bae Il-do, who feels unappreciated in his rural village, runs away from home and works as a tailor. His wife grew up under a harsh stepmother and worked as a housekeeper and bar hostess before meeting Il-do, for whom she bore a child. The young and attractive Gong-rye comes between them, having an affair with Il-do while working with him in a garment factory. Their secret meetings don't remain secret for long and Il-do's wife inevitably finds out...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1990-03-31
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Two Cops
Overview: An easy-going corrupt detective is partnered up with a younger, more idealistic detective. The two try to influence each other to become more like themselves but must cooperate when faced with a strange case.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1993-12-28
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General's Son 2
Overview: Upon being released from prison, Kim Du-han begins rebuilding his street gang in the face of Hayashi's Yakuzas and increasing Japanese influence.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1991-07-20
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For Agnes
Overview: This 1990s South Korean movie focuses on a woman who is put on death row after killing her abusive husband.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1991-10-19
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How to Top My Wife
Overview: This 1990s South Korean film focuses on a man deciding to hire a hitman to kill his wife rather than file for divorce.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1994-12-17
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The Woman and The Man
Overview: A maternity ward nurse meets and falls in love with an obiturary columnist. Despite their apparent happiness, the nurse begins to feel that something is terribly wrong with their relationship.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1993-07-24
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Marriage Story
Overview: This film is a social comedy which depicts women's endeavor to get the right to live free from men's violence in a male dominated society. This Film begins with a newly married couple. They wed against the wishes of family and friends, who thought they weren't a good match. As their marriage progresses, the young couple realize that marriage is not what you see in movies or read in books. They find that love, sex and marriage are very different from what they had dreamed. They also understand why people disagreed with the marriage from the beginning.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1992-07-04
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Baby Sale
Overview: Ad copywriter Sang-joon and event planner Ji-hyun meet for the first time in an elevator and decide to get married right away. But marital bliss is short lived for these two with the arrival of their son Nu-ri. Ji-hyun, exhausted from raising a baby, wants to go back to work. She thinks of a clever plan to return to her job.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1997-06-21
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Happiness Does Not Come in Grades
Overview: In a high school second grade classroom, Bonggu (Gyu Seok) and Genija (Choi Soo-hoon), whose grades are low, love each other (Yi Yeon Yeon) and Niho teacher. The hard - luck Changshu helps his mother to clean the liquor, but the Eun - joo, who grew up in a rich environment, screams without understanding him. Eunju is always attracted to the innocence of the pure mind while maintaining good grades and suffering obsession with the grades due to the obsession of the parents. She takes her parents' cold eyes when she is pushed to the seventh place by the next exam. Eunju can not endure it and suicide. In the classroom, a flower is placed on the desk of Eun-joo, and the hearse and the children are tears as the hearse runs the school.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1989-07-29
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The Bait
Overview: A pair of professional con-men who swore never to meet again, get together again to pull off one more swindle.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1998-03-21
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Kot-ji
Overview: Kot-ji is born by an affair between a hostess and president Kim of a trading company. Living with her mother, she is unusually smart but envies friends with both parents as she plays alone with dolls or watching TV. One day, on her way home, Kot-ji runs into a woman who offers to take her to her father and follows her. All has been planned by Jin-ah conspiring to make money out of her situation. Dong-jin who is secretly in love with Kot-ji's mother threatens Kim about Kot-ji and get money from him but things do not work out the way he thought. Dong-jin stabs Kim unintentionally and in panic takes Kot-ji into woods. While he quarrels with Jin-ah, Kot-ji makes her way to escape feeling danger. Kot-ji's pure heart moves Dong-jin and he returns her to her mother.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1990-03-31
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Winter Wanderer
Overview: Min-woo, a medical student from a wealthy family, runs into Da-hye) as he rides his bicycle on campus. At first Da-hye dislikes Min-woo, but thanks to help from his charismatic friend Hyeon-tae, he grows closer to Da-hye and the two fall deeply in love. But happiness would not last long. Min-woo's business goes belly-up, and then he learns his birth mother is a military base-town prostitute. Do disturbed by this all he ends up in jail. Meanwhile, Da-hye grows more dependent on Hyeon-tae, and Hyeon-tae gets caught between his friendship for Min-woo and his love for Da-hye...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1986-04-12
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The Happenings
Overview: Upon getting out of prison, Deok-Bae meets his old buddy Dal-soo, who owns a restaurant. These two have never succeeded in life, and are constantly in and out of prison. Two others who happen to be in the same boat as Deok-Bae and Dal-Soo are ex-convicts. They have threatened to commit suicide unless traffic and unemployment issues are resolved. They are also unlucky enough to have been spotted at the scene of a crime. While these four are making big plans for their first success, the city becomes wrapped up in a serial murder case. In the meantime, an investigating team of veteran cops is formed in order to solve this case.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1998-08-22
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Easy Virtue
Overview: Jang is attacked in her home by a masked man two nights in a row. Her husband is reluctant to call the police, but they both begin to suspect the odd young man living next door
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1992-05-16
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Byon Gang-soi (Garujigi)
Overview: Gang-soi is a mean scoundrel who travels up north. Ong-nyo, a woman destined to be widowed, is run out of her village and travels south. Gang-soi and Ong-nyo meet in Chongseok-gwan, a midpoint between Hwang-hae province and Gaeseong, and they get together. As they wander the lands, Ong-nyo works hard while Gang-soi does nothing. They settle down in Mt. Jiri. But when Gang-soi brings back a totem pole while looking for wood and when he tries to start a fire with it, he incurs its wrath and dies. Thus their relationship comes to a tragic end.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1988-02-27
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The 101st Proposition
Overview: Between her and me .. always 101cm Koo Young-seop (Moon Seong-geun), the chief of the construction company, has seen the line 99 times, but he is a bachelor who is retired. However, Young-seop sees the cellist garden (Kim Hee-ae) and Zen for the 100th time, but knows that she is too undeserved of her, but makes every effort to open her heart. The garden, which could not escape the shadow of the dead fiance, begins to open his heart to sincere and pure love. However, a man named Joon-ki appears so much like a dead fiancé who Garden cannot forget.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1993-06-19
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A Journey with Korean Masters
Overview: "A Journey with Korean Masters" is an omnibus film compiling four shorts created by directors who once dominated Korean cinema: Park Chul-soo, Lee Doo-yong, Lee Jang-ho, and Chung Ji-young. This modest project is the product of collaboration between professional and amateur actors of all ages and the masters. The aim was to promote the city of Seoul and the harmony of old and new. The project began as a promotional event, but its cinematic quality is equal, if not superior, to any Korean films officially invited to BIFF this year. That is by no means simply being polite. This special screening is the perfect opportunity to enjoy the unique characteristics of masters experiencing a cinema renaissance in their twilight years.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2013-03-21
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Park Cheol-Su's Hello Lim Guk-Jeong
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.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1987-08-22
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I Will Survive
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Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1993-08-21
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The Silver Stallion Will Never Come
Overview: Soldiers with the U.N. forces that entered Korea during the Korean War rape a village girl named Eon-rae. The villagers ostracize Eon-rae and her son. Unable to make a living, Eon-rae joins the brothel district that has been set up near the U.N. base on the other side of the river from the village. The war and the introduction of U.S. culture break down the social order of the village. After several village children have died, the villagers put the blame on the prostitutes. Eventually the villagers, unable to maintain the village, leave their homes one by one. Eon-rae and her son also leave
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1991-10-05
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A Different Kind of Man
Overview: Frustrated with her lack of opportunity at her workplace, Hye-seon Kim (Park Seon-Young) decides to do something about it. Hye-seon decides to masquerade as a man and quickly becomes the star employee. Then after she gets assigned to an all important project she meets co-worker Hyeong-jun (Choi Min-Soo). As they work together, feelings start to arise between the two and when things can't become more strange, Hyeong-jun's fiance starts to show interest in Hye-seon.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1993-09-25
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Warm It Was That Winter
Overview: With the outbreak of the Korean War, Su-ji and Oh-mok lose their parents. Along with their brother Su-cheol, they go live with their mother's parents. As they go to take refuge, Su-ji loses Oh-mok by accident. Time passes and with her older brother Su-cheol's success, Su-ji enters the high society. But due to the guilt of losing her younger sister Oh-mok, she does a lot of charity work constantly looking for Oh-mok. When Su-ji finally finds Oh-mok in an orphanage, she turns coldly away from Oh-mok for not having any evidence to prove that she is her sister. Oh-mok marries Il-hwan whom she has met at the orphanage and they live a hard life. Finally, Su-ji is convinced that Oh-mok is her sister but after living through such hardship, Oh-mok breathes her last.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1984-09-29
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Country of Fire
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1989-08-19
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