Known For
Complete Filmography

Potato
1987
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. Becomin...

Byun Kang-swoi
1986
Kang-soe and his wife Ong-nyeo settle down in a new village but tragedy strikes when Kang-soe dies while chopping wood. Ong-nyeo announces that she wi...

Hunting of Fools
1984
Seok-ho is unable to overcome his fear that he will not graduate from college for only a limited number of the class will get their diplomas. Seok-ho ...

A White Feathered Gull
1983

Invited Heroes
1981
With the introduction of Catholicism to Korea in 1784 came social upheaval. People who practiced the new religion were tortured into renouncing it or ...

Battle with Top-Class Samuri
1980
In an effort to take advantage of the political chaos during the reign of King Ko-jong, the emporer of Japan sends several warriors to infiltrate Kore...

The Ascension of Han-ne
1977
In 19th century Korea, a woman is saved from a suicide attempt and brought back to the village of her rescuer. Here, she is regarded with fear and sus...

Commando on the Nakdong River
1976

Bird of Paradise
1975

Weeds
1973
A depiction of the life and fate of a physically weak woman who has strong maternal love.

Special Investigation Unit: The Case of College Girl Lee Nan-hee
1973
Nan-hee is slowly coerced into a life of crime by her boyfriend, Park. She is trained in assassination techniques and sent to assassinate the head of ...

Tokyo-Seoul-Bangkok Drug Triangle
1973
A truck driver arrives in Seoul to receive his dead sister's ashes. While there, he discovers the death may not have been an accident after all, and h...

The Big Chase
1973

Seize the Precious Sword
1972
as Kinoshida
After the Japanese Invasion of Korea in 1592, Iljimae, a master of the interlaced sword method, heads to Japan to find the national treasure, the Cheo...

One Who Comes Back and the Other Who Has To Leave
1972
as Yong-pal

Cruel history of Myeong Dong
1972
as Chang-ho (ep. 3)
An omnibus of three stories all taking place in the Myeongdong district of Seoul.

Long Live the Island Frogs
1972
as Man-su
A husband-wife teaching team arrive on isolated Sachi Island. They try to start a school against the opposition of the islanders. To attract students,...

Woman with Long Eyelashes
1970
as Yong-i
Suk-jin, a naive Young woman lives on her own in Seoul. When her brother dies following a car accident, she finds out he had been having an affair wit...

A Man Who Arrived by Night Train
1970

A Woman Pursued
1970
as One-eyed
At the death of her father, A-mi returns to Korea and realises he was implicated in the theft of a chest full of gold bars. She then becomes the targe...

Girls from Eight Provinces
1970

Pagoda of No Shadow
1970

The Little Boy Swordsman
1970
Just after the Japanese attack on Joseon in the late 16th century, Bak Seong-dal, a magistrate of the Dong-nae, Busan conspires with a Japanese spy an...

Naked Love
1970
shaw production
The Legend of Departed Soul
1970
A devoted son hears that, he must pay one thousand 'nyang' (old Korean currency) to save his father who is in jail for unknown reason. At that time, a...

I Want to Be Human
1969
Natasha, an officer at the Soviet Embassy in North Korea, is in love with Seok-bong. But Seok-bong has already planned his wedding with Bok-hui. Natas...

School Excursion
1969
A school teacher on a remote island has to convince skeptical parents to allow him to take his class of young children to Seoul to experience modern, ...

A Man Like the Wind
1968
as Rock

Lost People
1967

Soil
1967

Tiger of the Plains
1965
A man called 'Tiger' slips into a Japanese camp to rescue the POW's. While escaping, the group discovers a bridge that is a weak link in the Japanese ...

Black Hair
1964
as Jang-il
Yeon-shil is the lover of crime boss Dong-il. She pays off one of the boss's henchmen, Man-ho, with whom she once had an affair; Man-ho is an opium ad...

The Devil's Stairway
1964
as Detective
A chief surgeon kills the nurse with whom he is having an affair after he becomes engaged to be married to the hospital director's daughter. He become...

The Teacher with Ten Daughters
1964

The Heartbreaking Story
1964
as Im Seon-mi

When Acacias Bloom
1962
as Sentry
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...

Farewell to the Duman River
1962
as Park Myeong-gu
Patriotic university student Youngwoo and his friends, led by their teacher Lee Sung, along with a British friend bid farewell to their families and b...

Lady Jang
1961
as [Gambler]
King Sukjong exalts a greedy concubine to the status of Bin, which is next to that of the Queen. The new Bin, who is now called Jang Hui-bin, drives o...

A Wanted Man
1961
as Chang-o's subordinate
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 f...

Bonanza
1961
A young sailor arrives in Busan Harbour; an outrageous-looking, woolly bear of a man appears in downtown Busan with a shotgun over one shoulder, a hea...

The Coachman
1961
as Kim Byung-guk
A man tries to raise his two sons and two daughters under some of the most adverse conditions known to man. The father operates a horse-drawn cart, bu...

Mr. Park
1960
as Bully
Mr. Park raises his children by repairing charcoal pits. Although ignorant and stubborn, Mr. Park has a good heart. He is displeased, however, with hi...