Lee Soon-jae
Also Known As: Lee Soon Jae, Soon-jae Lee, 이순재, Lee Sun-jae, Lee Sung-jae, 李顺才, 李順載, لی سون جه
Biography: Lee Soon-jae (이순재) is a South Korean actor. He was born in Japanese-occupied Korea in what is now North Korea, but moved to Seoul at age 4.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Hoeryong, North Hamgyong, Korea
Birthday: October 10, 1935
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Late Blossom
Overview: Follows the lives of two couples who live in the same neighborhood. Kim Man-Suk delivers milk on a motorbike at dawn. He curses a lot, but actually has a warm heart. One day when he goes up a slope, he meets Ms. Song - a lonely woman who works hards by collecting and selling scrap paper. Man-Suk feels something special toward Ms. Song. Jang Kun-Bong works in a parking lot. Jang Kun-Bong has a wife who suffers from Alzheimer's. He works from dawn until late at night. After work he comes home and takes care of his wife.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2011-02-17
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Chulsaegado
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1968-09-22
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Cruel Revenge
Overview: President Choi of Dongseo Shipping is at the verge of bankruptcy because one of his ships has sunk. Right on time, a man comes to Choi and offers to lend money by taking his remaining real estates as security and staying at his place. The man turns out to be a son that Choi has abandoned. The mother has died after living a hard life, and he wants revenge.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1969-09-11
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Nostalgia
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Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1967-12-08
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Lady in Dream
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Genres: Horror
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1968-08-01
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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
Overview:
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1975-03-08
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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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Escaping Shanghai
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Genres: Romance Action
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1969-05-31
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Good Morning President
Overview: Good Morning President is an abridged version of the politics and life of three different presidents. The three are: the older President Kim Jung-ho at the end of his term, the young President Cha Ji-wook, a skillful manipulator of foreign policy and with great determination, and a female President Han Kyuong-ja. They are distressed over the choices they have to make between politics and ethics. The affliction of Kim Jung-ho who wins the lottery, the agony of Cha Ji-wook who donates an organ, and the troubles of Han Kyuong-ja who faces the crisis of divorce.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2009-10-22
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Traces
Overview: A Japanese fine art teacher helps a Korean independence fighter to escape from a threat of being arrested by the Japanese police. The Korean man introduces him a gisaeng (Koran geisha) who learned Korean traditional court dance and he falls in love with her. However she hates Japanese because her parents were killed in the war.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1967-10-11
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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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I've Sacrificed Everything
Overview: Yeon Ha returns from overseas after 7 years. She holds a hurtful memory of being betrayed by Jin Woo to whom she offered unconditional love. For revenge, she works for Hae Jin Trading Co., a rival of Il Sung Trading where Jin Woo works and manages to bankrupt Il Sung. Then she realizes that it brings suffering rather than joy to her so gives him a large amount of fund for his restart. He regrets his behaviour and sees her off when she goes to America.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1980-11-14
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My Girl and I
Overview: Su-ho is a plain high school boy, and Su-eun is a bright and beautiful girl in the same school. For some unknown reason, Su-eun has a crush on the boy, and for equally mysterious reasons she rescues Su-ho in the sea though he doesn't know who actually saved him.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2005-12-22
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Family Matters
Overview: Min-kyung, once a promising young dancer, is now running a small, shabby dance school in town. Her life gets even harder since her entire family is notoriously troublesome. Her father Won-jo is a dotard, her husband Sang-hoon, who aspires to become a film director but can't get himself to finish a screenplay, is jobless, and her son is reckless, calling his dad, ' Uncle '. However, she manages quite well despite their endless troubles until one day, she finds out that her husband has been cheating on her.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2006-03-24
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Lady Hong
Overview: A man is haunted by the ghost of his murdered girlfriend who tries to tempt him into the underworld. He is also visited by the girls dead mother who is furious with him for loving her daughter.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1969-08-08
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Regret
Overview: Dr. Go, an authority in botany, lives in Buldang Village. His house is haunted by the ghost of Ok-nyeo, who has loved his friend, Choe Seong-ho. She has been killed unjustly, and the ghost comes to Dr. Go every night, asking for fresh blood from young women. One day, Jeong-ju, the daughter of Choe Seong-ho and a student of botany, comes to the region with boyfriend Chang-il to collect samples. Dr. Go is possessed by Ok-nyeo and tries to kill Jeong-ju, but Chang-il saves her. When Dr. Go comes back to his mind, everything turns out to be his dream.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1969-10-08
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A Regret
Overview: This film is a compilation of three short horror stories. They include a story of a wife ghost who was separated by death with her husband. She met him after praying for meeting a husband for 100 days. The wife ghost finally leads him to death. In the second story, a ghost of a dead wife who is jealousy of her husband's love of a barmaid sets them on fire. In the third, a male ghost tests a chaste woman's will not to be tempted by men.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1967-08-12
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Ghost Story
Overview: An omnibus of the story of three women. In the first, a ghost takes revenge on the man who killed her sister. In story two, a woman decides it's payback time for a sexual predator. The final story tells the tale of a woman's opium addiction leading to a gruesome death.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-05-23
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A Horrible Breath
Overview: An old man Park's daughter Eun-Sil happened to know that her biological father is not him and her mother died accidentally at the foot of Seo Rak Mountain. Eun-Sil tries to find out her mother's cause of death and makes sure that his father Song Deok-Sil killed Eun-Sil's mother, his fiacee then, to marry to a daughter of a ChaeBol. To revenge for her mother Eun-Sil gets a job as a governess in Song Deok-Sil's house. But she finds that not only she but also old man Park and Mrs. Choo, a maidservant, threaten Song and his wife. However his wife stately stands against their threats and asks Eun-Sil to forgive.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1974-08-20
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You Become a Star, Too
Overview: A butterfly flies from the mountain to the city. Sang-Kyu, who works in a company, buys a house in the suburbs and lives with his wife and daughter, Yun-Jeong. But Yun-Jeong becomes a somnambulist because of the illusion of a butterfly flying to the house. Sang-Kyu happens to know Mi-Wu, a singer, who loves Song Cheol-Ho but wanders in her life after his death. On the other hand, Yun-Jeong regains her consciousness with the help of an English psychicist and a nun. After Sang-Kyu has a sex with Mi-Wu, he falls out of the window and loses his consciousness. As she feels affection for Sang-Kyu, Mi-Wu becomes a butterfly in the soul world and leaves him.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1975-08-23
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Bun-rye's Story
Overview: Bun-rye, the eldest daughter in a poor family, is violated by Yong-pal, who is a married man, and out of desperation she becomes a concubine of Young-cheol, a gambler who is impotent. Kong Jo-shi is in love with Bun-rye, though she still has feelings for Yong-pal. After losing his money, Young-cheol takes out his anger on Bun-rye and throws her out of his house. In retaliation, Jo-shi kills Young-cheol, and Bun-rye is driven to madness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1971-05-06
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Even the Sun is Sobbing
Overview: Park Mei Ji receives a phone call from a woman who says she and Mei Ji's husband, Inn Min, are living together in Taipei and raising a son. Mei Ji immediately leaves Seoul and flies to Taipei with a friend at the woman's request, discovering that the situation is much more complex and tragic than she initially thought.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1984-03-10
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Love Me Once Again '80
Overview: Kindergarten teacher Jeon Hye-yeong brings her son to the child's father, Shin-ho, to be raised. However, the child is unhappy with his father's family and dreams about living with his mother causing Shin-ho's growing frustration with the boy to turn to violence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1980-06-21
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Love Me Once Again '80 Part 2
Overview: Shin-ho wants to visit his son but Hye-yeong refuses to allow them to meet due to his past treatment of the boy. Hye-yeong feels that it is time to put the past behind her and, leaving her son in the care of a friend, she leaves Korea with a new lover.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1981-05-23
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Pyro-Sonata
Overview: Kim Myung-wu studies modern music in Germany and meets Ji-suk, a pianist. She disappears on the day of his recital to get money for her mother's treatment in hospital and no word from her for a month since. He sees through her mother's funeral when she's gone. When there's a fire in the village, Myung-wu witnesses Ji-suk playing piano at the church watching the flame. She sets a fire at a store she was trying to get the money from but the owner reported her. She blamed her mother's death on the store owner and revenged with the fire. She completes the Pyro-Sonata with help of Myung-wu hiding her from police.
Genres: Drama Romance Music
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1979-08-29
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Lee Jung-Seob, a Painter
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1975-03-29
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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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Saint and Witch
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1969-05-10
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Love
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Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1968-02-11
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Great King Sejo
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Genres: History
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1970-12-15
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Special Investigation Unit: The Life of Miss Kim Su-im
Overview: Kim Su-im, the mistress of an American colonel, is arrested and charged with being a North Korean spy. While not denying the charge, Miss Kim takes the trial as an opportunity to relate her life as an explanation of why she committed treason as a spy.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1974-05-04
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Yeong-ja’s Heydays
Overview: Chang-su recalls the girl whom he loved before he entered the military. At that time she had been working as a housemaid. They meet again years later at a police station and the girl, Yeong-ja reveals that she quit her job after being raped by the son of her employer. Her life got steadily worse until finally she lost an arm in a car accident and had to work as a prostitute to pay for an artificial limb.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1975-02-11
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Son of a Man
Overview: A detective searching for the cause of a young man's death uncovers a melodramatic story involving prostitutes and religion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1980-09-24
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The Artist: Reborn
Overview: Oh In-sook, who goes by Gisele in the art world, is a failed artist with nothing going for her. During her shift at her part time job, she meets a cunning and canny art sales representative Jae-bum. Jae-bum believes that Gisele has the potential to become a prominent artist and decides to represent her. He and his colleague James, through their ingenious sales efforts, begin to raise the value of Gisele’s paintings, causing Gisele to gain immense fame. As she is ready to bathe in her success, she unexpectedly dies of reasons unknown shocking the art community. Jaebum sees this as an opportunity to hike the prices on his deceased client’s paintings and decides to go all-in in doing so. However, Gisele miraculously gains consciousness like the Lazarus syndrome, denting Jae-bum’s scheme. In order to save his career, Jaebum suggests to Gisele to stay “dead” and aims to strike a deal with her.
Genres: Mystery Drama Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2017-03-09
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A Misty Grassland
Overview: A woman attempts to seduce a rich man so she can convince him to help him pay for her dying sister's hospital bill.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1967-03-17
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Eulhwa
Overview: Eul-hwa discovers that she has a talent for shamanism. She sends her son away to be raised by monks while she delves into shamanistic rituals and spells. Eventually she becomes a powerful shaman. However, with Christianity taking hold in Korea, Eul-hwa finds her way of life threatened and herself at odds with her religious son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1979-09-28
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Wasteland
Overview: At the end of the Japanese rule, Jeom-Rye, a daughter of a poor farmer, bares a son of a Japanese policeman Yamada, but she gets married to Park Hang-Koo and lives a happy life with their daughter, Se-Yeon, after Yamada and his son run away after Liberation of Korea. During the Korean War, Hang dies and then, she happens to meet Flanders, a lieutenant of the U.S. Army. She bears a mixed-blood son but lets him go with Flanders returning to U.S. Yamada's son and Flanders II, who became American soldiers, come to Jeom-Rye, who is working on a farm with Se-Yeon who grows up now. Accepting the past and present situations, Jeom-Rye behaves wisely. While Se-Yeon is meeting Flanders II, she cries with rage for the Communist Party.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1975-10-24
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Stand by Me
Overview: A grandpa finds out he is not going to live for much longer so he decides to prepare for his grandson's future with something special.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2018-04-05
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Forbidden Quest
Overview: A noble, high-class scholar starts to write erotic novels in 18th century of Chosun dynasty and falls in love with a king's woman.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2006-02-23
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Miss O's Apartment
Overview: Mi-yeong informs her boyfriend that she is becoming a prostitute to help her poverty striken family. Although she tries not to, she ends up falling in love with wealthy Dae-seon and moves into an apartment that he supplies. She is satisfied with this arrangement until she learns that Dae-seon's wife is her classmate.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1978-03-31
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Yongary, Monster from the Deep
Overview: Earthquakes in central Korea turn out to be the work of Yongary, a prehistoric gasoline-eating reptile that soon goes on a rampage through Seoul.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1967-08-13
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Admiration of Nights
Overview: College boxer Jin-kyu falls in love with a college girl Min-hye while chatting on the phone. Min-hye gives him her virginity but her family forces her to get engaged to In-myung and get rid of the baby with Jin-kyu. Broken hearted, Jin-kyu fights as a professional boxer while seeing Yeon-hi who runs a salon. He loses the match on the verge of championship and suffers failure. Min-hye feels sympathy for him who struggles and embraces life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1980-03-15
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When the Buckwheat Blooms
Overview: Heo, an itinerary market dealer, had a short and passionate love with a girl called Bun when he was young and still cherishes that memory in his heart. One day, he happens to meet a young market dealer who is left-handed like him. While talking to him, he finds out that the man is actually his son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1967-12-15
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Past Loves
Overview: During a concert in Japan a singer encounters his childhood sweetheart and their old love is rekindled with new passion. However their love is a problem for the singer because he is already engaged to the daughter of his mentor.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1968-08-09
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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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Intimate Strangers
Overview: A group of people meet for the first time in a long time and play a game that reveals each other's secrets.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2018-10-31
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Romang
Overview: 75-year-old Cho Nam-bong and 71-year-old Lee Mae-ja are a couple suffering with dementia. After being married for 45 years, the couple couldn’t even remember when they were in a good relationship. However, as their memories fade by the day, their dreams and romance that have been forgotten rekindle.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2019-04-03
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Gunsmoke
Overview: O Jin-u of a rich family and a female private tutor at his house are in love, but his family are against their marriage and send him to America. Before he leaves for America, they hold their own wedding and vow to love forever. But once out of sight, her devotion weakens with time and falls in love with Jin-u's friend Seong-hun. Hearing about the fact, Jin-u hurriedly returns to fight a duel with him...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1966-12-08
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A Letter from Heaven
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1979-08-18
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The White Crow
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1967-03-29
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Little Namgung Dong-ja
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1977-11-19
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Starting Point
Overview: Sang-hun, a painter, and Yeong-hun, a doctor, are brothers. Sang-hun's girlfriend left him for another man, and he draws her portrait everyday. Yeong-hun, the older of the two, makes a medical mistake, and his young patient dies. Because of the guilty conscience, he abandons the career as a doctor and devotes himself to writing a novel. However, the brothers have high self-esteem and finally overcome their weaknesses to make a fresh start.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1969-02-02
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Salt Pond
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1968-10-19
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Mr. Zoo: The Missing VIP
Overview: A zoophobic national security agent suddenly receives the ability to talk to animals after a freak accident.
Genres: Comedy Action Fantasy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2020-01-22
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Guests Who Arrived by the Last Train
Overview: This film concentrates on a group of people who have trouble adjusting to mainstream society. From a woman running away from her previous life, to a man with a terminal disease, to a pop artist misunderstood by his contemporaries, the film looks on with sympathy and compassionate humor on a set of people who, for whatever reason, just don’t fit in.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1967-12-14
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Trees Stand on Slope
Overview: A man's jealousy of his friend's pure love for his girlfriend makes his friend sleep with a prostitute. But the friend agonizes over the depraved conduct and at last kills himself. He also feels guilty of his friend's death. However one day he meets the dead friend's girlfriend, and meeting her makes him convinced that it is not he, but she who leads the friend to death. He violates her chastity, kills a man who beat the friend before he died and turns himself to the police.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1968-04-13
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Good morning
Overview: When Sumi, a high school senior raised at an orphanage, decides to suicide, hospice nurse Seojin dramatically stops her. Nowhere else to go, Sumi visits Seojin's hospital to find a way to end her life. For the first time, she finds attention, love, and comfort from those who are spending their last moments in life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2022-05-25
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About Family
Overview: Mu-ok is the self-made owner of the established restaurant 'Pyongmanok' that has been drawing long lines of customers before social media existed. He is deeply troubled by his only son, Moon-seok, whom he hoped would inherit the family legacy, becoming a monk, leaving him with no one to carry on the family name. While Mu-ok is devasted by the thought that his family line would end with him, young kids come to his restaurant claiming Moon-seok as their father! Mu-ok, now given a chance to continue his family’s legacy, enjoys happiness like never before. Meanwhile, Moon-seok revisits his life before becoming a monk—and stumbles upon a shocking revelation…
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2024-12-11
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우리에게 내일은 있다
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1976-12-10
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눈 나리는 밤
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1969-03-22
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팔도며느리
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1970-12-05
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밀월
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1989-01-28
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