Ji Gye-sun
Also Known As: Gye-sun Ji, 지계순, Ji Gye-soon
Biography: Ji Gye-sun (July 3, 1918 – June 16, 1990 ) was a South Korean actress.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Hamheung, Hamgyeongnam, Korea
Birthday: July 03, 1918
Deathday: June 16, 1990
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Mother and a Guest
Overview: Six-year-old Ok Hee is glad when Mr. Han comes to board at her house full of women. She plays messenger for Mr. Han and her widowed mother as they quietly fall in love, but is her support enough to guard their love?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1961-08-26
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The Heartbreaking Story
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Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1964-01-04
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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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Femme Fatale, Jang Hee Bin
Overview: King Sukjong assigns Jang Ok-nan, a court lady, as a concubine overnight. Jang plots to drive the current Queen into exile.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1968-01-27
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A Second Mother
Overview: Nam-Ok who has Yun-Ho and Yun-Suk remarries widowed Heung-Yeol who has Hyeong-Tae and Hyeong-Ja. Nam-Ok are concerned about frequent quarrels between half brothers and sisters, but manages to deal with them wisely. As Yun-Ho who went to fishing with him falls into the water, Heung-Yeol tries to save him only to drown himself to death. Fifteen years later, Hyeong-Tae goes abroad to study while Hyeong-Ja lives in extravagance in Seoul. Yun-Suk gets to know Dong-Oh on the train, and Dong-Ho gets to like her, but later misunderstands her due to Hyeong-Ja's scheme, which causes Yun-Suk to commit suicide.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1972-01-13
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Five Hostesses for the Resistance
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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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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One-sided Love of Princess
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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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 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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Full Ship
Overview: A film picturing the lives and adversities of fishermen who live and die in the sea.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1967-01-20
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Man with a Reputation (Somunnan namja)
Overview: Rural youth Boknam, with the determination to succeed as soon as possible and be filial to his mother, left for the city without any specific plans and ended up working at a film shooting location. From that point on, he immersed himself in acting practice to become an actor. Eventually, due to unavoidable circumstances, he took on the role of a certain actor's stand-in, and his innate acting talent was recognized, making him an instant star. As a result, Boknam became able to show filial piety to his mother.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1970-11-13
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Wives on Parade
Overview: A newlywed wife, Ji-sun moves to her husband's village in a rural area called Sambatgol where it is customary to have glossy charades, incompetence is prolific, and thus poverty is endemic. She starts to endeavor to break down all these vices. Her family and neighbors point accusing fingers at her first, but soon they are influenced by her to combine forces with her. In the meantime, longtime absent father of Gang-du returns to hids wife, who is Ji-sun's strong supporter and the chairperson of the village women's association. Gang-du's father, however, turns out to be an espionage agent sent from North Korea. He makes his mind up to denounce himself by persuasion of his wife, but he and his wife get killed by other espionage agents. At the funeral of these two, Ji-sun and the village people march in resolution of succeeding her will to make more endeavors in the developmental plan of the village.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1974-05-16
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A Salt Peddler
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1966-06-11
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Jagko
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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Hong Gil-dong
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Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1969-08-22
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The Evergreen Tree
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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Ecstasy
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Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1974-09-05
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A Plateau
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Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1969-02-16
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Heartlessness
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1962-12-29
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Soil
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1967-05-18
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Soil
Overview: While working on a case with farmers, lawyer Heo Seung comes to believe that the rural development movement is the only lasting way to preserve the identity of the country. With conviction, Seung throws himself into the rural area. However, this position is against the Japanese occupation policies and eventually, even his wife, Yun Jung-sun, ends up leaving him. The Japanese judge Masaki Hiroshi determines that Seung's rural development activities are actually a rebellion against Japan. He has Seung imprisoned as an ideology criminal. After spending five years in jail, Seung returns to the country to see his wife, Jung-sun, continuing her husband's work and waiting for him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1978-03-25
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The Public Cemetery Under the Moon
Overview: Kisaeng Wol-ha marries Kim Han-su, but soon dies because of a false accusation made up by her mother-in-law and very own servant. Now, the ghost of Wol-ha wants revenge!
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1967-08-25
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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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A Male Housekeeper
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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Chang-Su's Heydays
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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