Beak Song
Also Known As: 백송, Song Beak
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Adult: No
Birthday: January 01, 1917
Age: 108 years old
Gender: Male
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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 Wanted Man
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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Man Is Not Popular
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1963-04-25
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Dreams of the Strong
Overview: Il-bong was utterly defeated as a wrestling athlete. He decides against returning to his hometown and stays in Seoul. As he wanders the street, going from job to job, someone recommends him to become an actor. But the acting roles that are waiting Il-bong are in adult movies. At the set, Il-bong meets Ae-ja and falls in love with her. They give up the adult films and Ae-ja gets pregnant. Because they are desperately poor, Ae-ja has a miscarriage and Il-bong curses his incompetence. The two decide to part for one year. During that time, Il-bong becomes a male prostitute and makes a ferocious amount of money. But he has become tough without realizing it. After the year is over, Il-bong goes to their promised meeting place but Ae-ja is nowhere to be seen. Il-bong wails to the city.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1985-11-19
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Fidelity
Overview: Not long after he married, Yoo Shin has to enter the army leaving behind his wife Jil Rye and daughter Yong Bun. He is taken a prisoner of war in a battlefield. Without knowing this, Jil Rye and Yong-bun firmly hope Yoo Shin's safe return from the war while they overcome temptation, poverty, epidemics and even drought. But an influential man of their village rapes Jil Ryel and Yong Bun. Yoo decides to take revenge.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1973-03-23
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Iljimae the Chivalrous Robber
Overview: Iljimae's parents were killed due to a conspiracy when he was young. Many years later he became a chivalrous robber, robbing corrupt officials and helping the poor. He eventually manages in taking revenge for his parents' deaths. But the police start to chase him, and he hides himself at a gisaeng's house. The gisaeng was his ex-fiancee. She also lost her parents to a conspiracy. She begs Iljimae to stay with her, but he leaves to do what he has to.
Genres: History Drama Action
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1961-05-11
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Sinmungo
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Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1963-09-28
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The Result of the Ambition
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Genres: Romance Crime Action
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1964-03-07
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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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Tyrant Yeonsan
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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Yeonhwa
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1975-03-08
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Yeonhwa 2
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1975-03-08
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Whirl of Betrayals on Myeongdong
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Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1972-04-21
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When Acacias Bloom
Overview: A man assists a woman in danger, but through her actions, she unintentionally causes his death. Everyone in the village knows that she visits his tomb every spring, but no one knows the details of her story.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1962-06-06
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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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A Monstrous Corpse
Overview: The newly installed radio transmitter using ultra sonic wavelengths has caused all corpses in the local cemeteries to rise up. The resurrected go on a rampage in a endless search for blood.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1981-04-10
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A Widow
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Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1960-11-05
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Hong Kil-Dong
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Genres: Action Adventure History
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1976-09-08
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Hwalbindang
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Genres: Adventure Action History
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1965-01-29
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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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Three Times Each for Short and Long Ways
Overview: Jong Sil, a sound effects director, is awarded a carte blanche for his ingenious invention of a coke bottle opener sound used in a commercial film for an Arab client. Ecstatic, drunk, he heads home to his wife and kids, only to end up spending the night in an apartment unit one floor above which belongs to a single woman. The preposterous one-night-stand snowballs into a major event, for which he is reported gone missing on TV. Lost, Jong Sil becomes more involved with the woman, discovering things about her, as their relationship takes an unexpected turn.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1981-11-20
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The Story of Bae Local Offcial
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Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1965-08-14
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The Story of Yellow Village
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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A Seagull's Dream
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1974-08-02
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Lee Chadon
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Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1962-02-05
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Echo of Love and Death
Overview: Kang-wook, a law student at Seoul National University, finds himself in a tight spot financially after losing contact with his family in North Korea. He sells his own blood at a hospital to make ends meet, and there he meets and grows close to nurse Jin-young. As Kang-wook faces financial difficulties, Ki-yong, a son of a landlord's agent, appears and tricks Kang-wook into joining left-wing activities. Ki-yong's true identity is revealed by Yoon-ae, a friend from hometown, leading to his arrest. Meanwhile, Kang-wook and Jin-young marry with the blessings of Professor Park and their friends, while Kang-wook's friend Do-hyeon struggles to hide his feelings for Jin-young. Their sweet days together come to an end with the outbreak of the Korean War, separating them. Jin-young, unable to wait for Kang-wook any longer, decides to flee the war with Do-hyeon. Kang-wook, hiding at Yoon-ae's house, is eventually arrested by Ki-yong and the leftists, who had been freed from prison.
Genres: Romance War Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1991-10-19
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The Woman Coming in Fall
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Genres: Crime Romance Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1965-09-22
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Entanglements
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Genres: War
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1960-07-21
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Cattle
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1975-12-05
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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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A Sad Story of Danjong
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Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1963-01-25
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Touch-Me-Not
Overview: A historical melodrama about a love triangle within a group of bandits.
Genres: Action Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1956-11-10
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Border Line
Overview: A Korean family is separated during the Japanese colonial period and end up in different parts of Asia, and on different sides of the Korean Civil War.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1964-09-19
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The Shadowless Pagoda
Overview: On the eighth of April of King Gyoeng-deok's 10th year of the reign of the Unified Silla Period, Guseulagi, a daughter of Yu Jong, joins the king's parade to Bulguksa Temple, where she meets a stonemason named Asadal from Buyeo. Having a crush on him, she visits Sakyamuni Pagoda, a masonic site; only to find that Asadal had broken down from exhaustion. While she takes care of him, her love for him grows. But Asadal misses his wife who is waiting for him in Buyeo. Meanwhile, Geum Seong who has a crush on Guseulagi, asks his father, Geum Ji, to propose on behalf of him. But Yu Jong is so dissatisfied with Geum Ji because he is a treacherous subject, that he turns down the proposal, instead of hurrying up his daughter's marriage with Gyeongsin, a faithful subject. Asanyeo who has been waiting for her husband Asadal in Buyeo goes to Bulguksa Temple after her father-in-law had died.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1957-01-31
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The Flower in Hell
Overview: In post-Korean War Seoul, a young man from the countryside discovers that his older brother has become romantically involved in a prostitute and has no intentions of returning home.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1958-04-20
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Yu Gwan-Sun
Overview: This film is about of the life of the young patriotic martyr Yu Gwan-sun, who fought for the liberation of her country during the Independence Movement in 1919. As the Independence Movement becomes more and more intense among Korean students, the Japanese authorities order schools closed temporarily. Yu Gwan-sun (Do Geum-bong) persuades her neighbors to join the national movement, and continues her aggressive struggle against Japanese rule. An independent campaign at Aunae, a market site, is successful with the passionate participation of many people. She is arrested by the Japanese police for leading the campaign and has to endure horrible tortures. But she never gives up her fight, encouraging her cell mates to participate in the movement. She is finally taken to an underground room by the Japanese police and murdered.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1959-05-21
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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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Madam White Snake
Overview: A thousand-year-old snake that has transformed itself into a human, Madame White Snake (Choe Eun-hui), falls in love with a young pharmacist named Heo-Seon. Although they encounter difficulties, they are wed, and their love for each other does not change. However, Beophaeseonsa (a Zen priest) and Gwaneumbosal (the Buddhist goddess of mercy) order Madame White Snake, who had transformed into human without being granted permission to do so, to return back to the world of the gods before July 7. Grieving, she prepares to say goodbye to her beloved husband. But before she can return to the world of the gods in time, she falls into a trap set by Dae-yun (Choe Sam), who is attracted to her. Because of the trap, she is not able to keep the promised deadline, and ends up risking her life to save her husband.
Genres: Fantasy Horror Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1960-10-02
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