Ko Seol-bong
Also Known As: Seol-bong Ko, 고설봉, Goh Seol-Bong, Го Соль Пон, Го Соль-пон, Го Сольпон, Соль-пон Го, 高雪峰, Ko Seol-bong
Biography: Ko Seol-bong was a South Korean actor.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Hongcheon, Gangwon, South Korea
Adult: No
Birthday: April 10, 1913
Age: 112 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: September 16, 2001
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Aimless Bullet
Overview: Two brothers—Chul-ho, an accountant with a toothache and a pregnant wife, and Yong-ho, an unemployed ex-soldier wounded in battle—navigate life in post-war Korea.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1961-04-13
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The Man with Three Coffins
Overview: While journeying across South Korea for a suitable place to scatter his late wife’s ashes, a widower crosses paths with a nurse and her patient - a gravely ill old man who offers him a considerable amount of money to take him to his hometown.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1987-06-11
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The Sea Knows
Overview: A Korean man, forced into service in the Japanese army during WWII, marries his Japanese girlfriend despite everyone's objections. Later, he becomes the sole survivor when the Americans attack.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1961-11-10
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A Sword Under the Moon
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Genres: Drama Action History
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1970-01-22
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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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Dream
Overview: A young Buddhist monk, Jo Sin, is attracted to Tae-su's daughter, Dal-lye. He hopes to marry her, but she becomes Mo-rye Hwa-rang's wife. One day she secretly leaves the temple and runs away with Jo Sin. Hwa-rang finds out about it and is ready to take revenge on him. Jo Sin shouts out loud and realizes that he had just had a dream.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1955-01-16
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The Martyrs
Overview: Out of fourteen ministers taken away by the communist troop, only two come back alive. The mystery behind their survival is at the issue here. Told through one of the survivor's testimony, depicts images of men troubled between the war and the religion. Although laden with anti-Communist notions from the 60's military regime.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1965-06-17
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Pagoda of No Shadow
Overview:
Genres: Romance Drama History
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1970-04-23
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Lee Chadon
Overview:
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1962-02-05
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The Earth
Overview: Ha Dong, Kyung Nam Province in 1890. Choi Chi-Su's family is a grand land lord of the region from generation to generation. His mother Mrs. Yoon gives birth to another son Hwan after she was raped by Kim Gae-Ju when he is 10 years old. Later Hwan becomes a servant of Choi family but he falls in love with Chi-Su's wife and they flee by night. Meanwhile after a reign of 40 years of King Ko Jong, cholera prevails all over the country and years of famine follows it. While people suffer from natural disasters and diseases, one of Chi-Su's maternal relative Cho Jun-Ku and his wife make a plot to take Choi family's enormous wealth and strengthen the foundation for his status. In this chaos some villagers and Seo-Hee, Chi-Su's daughter leave their village for Buk Kan Do.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1974-11-23
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A Star
Overview:
Genres: Romance History Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1961-04-05
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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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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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Goryeojang
Overview: Prior to the adoption of Confucianism, it was the tradition to abandon one's parents on a mountainside if they were over 70 years of age. In the ancient kingdom of Goryeo, now modern Korea, a nobleman defies this tradition when he refuses to leave his mother to starve to death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1963-03-15
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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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Yangsan Province
Overview: The film is a historical melodrama about a high government official who wants to marry a woman who is engaged to marry another man.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1955-10-13
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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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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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