Kim Ki-young

Kim Ki-young

Kim Ki-young (October 10, 1919 – February 5, 1998) was a South Korean film director, known for his intensely psychosexual and melodramatic horror films, often focusing on the psychology of their female characters. Kim was born in Seoul during the colonial period, raised in Pyongyang, where he became interested in theater and cinema. In Korea after the end of World War II, he studied dentistry while becoming involved in the theater. During the Korean War, he made propaganda films for the United States Information Service. In 1955, he used discarded movie equipments to produce his first two films. With the success of these two films Kim formed his own production company and produced popular melodramas for the rest of the decade.

  • Title: Kim Ki-young
  • Popularity: 0.6532
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1919-10-10
  • Place of Birth: Seoul, South Korea
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  • Also Known As: Ki-young Kim, 김기영, Kim Gi-yeong, 金绮泳
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Kim Ki-young Movies

  • 1961
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    The Sea Knows

    The Sea Knows

    7 1961 HD

    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.

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  • 1961
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    The Sea Knows

    The Sea Knows

    7 1961 HD

    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.

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  • 1955
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    Yangsan Province

    Yangsan Province

    4.5 1955 HD

    The film is a historical melodrama about a high government official who wants to marry a woman who is engaged to marry another man.

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  • 1955
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    Yangsan Province

    Yangsan Province

    4.5 1955 HD

    The film is a historical melodrama about a high government official who wants to marry a woman who is engaged to marry another man.

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  • 1960
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    The Housemaid

    The Housemaid

    7.1 1960 HD

    A piano composer's family moves into a new house; when his pregnant wife collapses from working to support the family, he hires a housemaid to help with housework.

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  • 1960
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    The Housemaid

    The Housemaid

    7.1 1960 HD

    A piano composer's family moves into a new house; when his pregnant wife collapses from working to support the family, he hires a housemaid to help with housework.

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  • 1977
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    Io Island

    Io Island

    6.5 1977 HD

    A company hopes to open a spa hotel named after Ieodo, a mythical island inhabited by the souls of drowned sailors. During a study trip to the proposed location of the hotel, a journalist disappears under mysterious circumstances. One of the contractors goes to Ieodo's neighboring island, populated by widows of the dead sailors, to unravel the mystery.

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  • 1978
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    A Woman After a Killer Butterfly

    A Woman After a Killer Butterfly

    5.5 1978 HD

    A melodrama about a man who survives an attempted double suicide with a stranger while picnicking with friends. He goes on a cave expedition for a famous archaeologist where he discovers a skeleton several thousand years old. He meets the spirit of the skeleton in a dream, and then becomes romantically involved with the archeologist's daughter.

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  • 1971
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    Woman of Fire

    Woman of Fire

    4.9 1971 HD

    The lives of a composer and his wife, who live on a chicken farm, are thrown into turmoil when a femme fatale joins their household.

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  • 1963
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    Goryeojang

    Goryeojang

    7.2 1963 HD

    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.

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  • 1963
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    Goryeojang

    Goryeojang

    7.2 1963 HD

    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.

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  • 1976
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    Love Of Blood Relations

    Love Of Blood Relations

    1 1976 HD

    North Korean agents are sent to Seoul to disrupt the visit of important international dignitaries.

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  • 1982
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    Woman of Fire '82

    Woman of Fire '82

    3.75 1982 HD

    Intrigue and murder on a small poultry farm outside of Seoul when a young maid starts working on the farm and is seduced by the local farm hand.

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  • 1975
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    Promises

    Promises

    4 1975 HD

    Mild-mannered and modest Sook-young looks like your usual middle-aged woman, but happens to be a man-killing murderess. On a train trip to Mokpo, she remembers an earlier trip as a prisoner on furlough accompanied by a menacing but kind butch female guard. On the train they meet Hoon, a young man who falls for Sook-young. The guard lets them be alone at a bizarre marriage in a hill-top graveyard.

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  • 1972
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    Insect Woman

    Insect Woman

    4.889 1972 HD

    A schoolgirl goes from braids to bouffant when her mother makes her a bar hostess/prostitute. She cures impotence for Professor Lee and becomes his concubine. His entrepreneurial wife is initially shocked but soon accepts the arrangement and even gives the girl an allowance.

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  • 1972
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    Insect Woman

    Insect Woman

    4.889 1972 HD

    A schoolgirl goes from braids to bouffant when her mother makes her a bar hostess/prostitute. She cures impotence for Professor Lee and becomes his concubine. His entrepreneurial wife is initially shocked but soon accepts the arrangement and even gives the girl an allowance.

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  • 1955
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    Yangsan Province

    Yangsan Province

    4.5 1955 HD

    The film is a historical melodrama about a high government official who wants to marry a woman who is engaged to marry another man.

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    The Housemaid

    The Housemaid

    6.4 2010 HD

    Eun-yi is hired as a maid in a mansion owned by a wealthy businessman. He quickly starts seducing his employee who seemingly has little choice but to comply with his sexual advances. Soon the women of the family plot against Eun-yi who must fight an equally devious battle to protect herself.

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  • 1985
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    Beasts of Prey

    Beasts of Prey

    3.6 1985 HD

    A social drama about a man with an inferiority complex to his wife. When he seeks consolation in an extramarital affair, his mistress and wife conspire to set up a plan for sharing him

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  • 1985
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    Beasts of Prey

    Beasts of Prey

    3.6 1985 HD

    A social drama about a man with an inferiority complex to his wife. When he seeks consolation in an extramarital affair, his mistress and wife conspire to set up a plan for sharing him

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  • 1969
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    Lady Hong

    Lady Hong

    1 1969 HD

    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.

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  • 1990
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    Be a Wicked Woman

    Be a Wicked Woman

    3.4 1990 HD

    Two housewives, wounded by their husbands' betrayals, meet by chance. They decide to carry out "exchange murders" and work towards the perfect alibis. Under what they know to be perfect plans, they kill each other's husbands. Although the police are able to prove that they're guilty, these two women are found innocent by the court of law.

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  • 1979
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    Water Lady

    Water Lady

    1 1979 HD

    Jin-seok returns from the Vietnam war, injured and marries Sun-ok. But financial difficulties cause them to argue. One day, Sun-ok brings bamboo trees from her parents' home and succeeds in running a bamboo ware manufacturing company. Sun-ok has a stuttering problem and their son inherits the habit and he is sent to a special school. Meanwhile Jin-seok falls for Chu-wol and begins abusing Sun-ok...

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  • 1961
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    The Sea Knows

    The Sea Knows

    7 1961 HD

    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.

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  • 1979
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    Water Lady

    Water Lady

    1 1979 HD

    Jin-seok returns from the Vietnam war, injured and marries Sun-ok. But financial difficulties cause them to argue. One day, Sun-ok brings bamboo trees from her parents' home and succeeds in running a bamboo ware manufacturing company. Sun-ok has a stuttering problem and their son inherits the habit and he is sent to a special school. Meanwhile Jin-seok falls for Chu-wol and begins abusing Sun-ok...

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  • 1984
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    Hunting of Fools

    Hunting of Fools

    6 1984 HD

    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 tries to kill himself and ends up in a mental institution. Then he persuades his fellow patient, Hong-ik, to escape with him. After dealing with several incidents, they become miners. They meet a simple young woman. In order to construct an ideal land, they head for a deserted island in the South Sea. However, just before they're about to leave for the island, Seok-ho realizes that the island is a fantasy of an insane man so he runs off with the woman. Left behind, Hong-ik is disheartened but he gets together with the elderly innkeeper couple whose own son died of a mental illness. They head for the deserted island on a boat.

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  • 1984
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    Hunting of Fools

    Hunting of Fools

    6 1984 HD

    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 tries to kill himself and ends up in a mental institution. Then he persuades his fellow patient, Hong-ik, to escape with him. After dealing with several incidents, they become miners. They meet a simple young woman. In order to construct an ideal land, they head for a deserted island in the South Sea. However, just before they're about to leave for the island, Seok-ho realizes that the island is a fantasy of an insane man so he runs off with the woman. Left behind, Hong-ik is disheartened but he gets together with the elderly innkeeper couple whose own son died of a mental illness. They head for the deserted island on a boat.

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  • 1971
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    Woman of Fire

    Woman of Fire

    4.9 1971 HD

    The lives of a composer and his wife, who live on a chicken farm, are thrown into turmoil when a femme fatale joins their household.

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  • 1974
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    Transgression

    Transgression

    5.5 1974 HD

    Chim-Ae, an orphan, is saved by an old monk of Seo San Temple, Mu Bul Dang while he is wandering in war fires. Then he enters the priesthood and trains himself a mountaineering asceticism. When he becomes an eminent young priest, the last trial to receive the mantle of the preceding abbot applies on him. The old monk sends the fairest of the fair, Myo-Hyang of cottage Ni Am to Chim-Ae to form a connection with her. But Chim-Ae quickly removes his earthly desires towards woman and goes through this hardship by fasting meditation. However the old monk recognizes that love sprouted between two youngsters and shows Chim-Ae the face of transgression which he mentally violated without hesitation to make Chim-Ae and Myo-Hyang go back to mundane existence.

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  • 1974
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    Transgression

    Transgression

    5.5 1974 HD

    Chim-Ae, an orphan, is saved by an old monk of Seo San Temple, Mu Bul Dang while he is wandering in war fires. Then he enters the priesthood and trains himself a mountaineering asceticism. When he becomes an eminent young priest, the last trial to receive the mantle of the preceding abbot applies on him. The old monk sends the fairest of the fair, Myo-Hyang of cottage Ni Am to Chim-Ae to form a connection with her. But Chim-Ae quickly removes his earthly desires towards woman and goes through this hardship by fasting meditation. However the old monk recognizes that love sprouted between two youngsters and shows Chim-Ae the face of transgression which he mentally violated without hesitation to make Chim-Ae and Myo-Hyang go back to mundane existence.

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  • 1978
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    Soil

    Soil

    1 1978 HD

    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.

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  • 1968
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    Woman

    Woman

    1 1968 HD

    A man meets a woman on his hiking trip to Mountain Seorak, but she suffers from incurable diseases. He becomes infatuated with her hair. When he tells her about his feeling she promises him that she would leave her hair after she dies as part his heritage for the man. But when he looks for her later she is already dead, and her hair was already sold to another person. He meets another woman he becomes intimate with, but finds that she is his biological mother.

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  • 1981
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    Ban Geum-ryeon

    Ban Geum-ryeon

    1 1981 HD

    Seo Mun-kyung, a merchant in ancient China where polygamy is legal, monopolizes the salt sales business. The magistrate of the province collapse families of Hwa Ja-heo and Hwang Mu-dae through Mun-kyung. When Ja-heo's wife Byung-ah fakes her death and disappears with Ja-heo, Seo is angered. But when he sees Mu-dae's wife Ban Geum-ryun, he is satisfied and this causes Mu-dae to end his own life. Geum-ryun makes Seo's concubines Chun-ae and Kyo-ah lose their sight and she takes Byung-ah to Seo. When Byung-ah has Seo's baby, antagonism and jealousy grows between the two women. Geum-ryun's jealousy kills Byung-ah's whole family and also kills Seo. Geum-ryun chooses to join her husband in death.

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  • 1956
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    Touch-Me-Not

    Touch-Me-Not

    1 1956 HD

    A historical melodrama about a love triangle within a group of bandits.

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  • 1957
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    A Woman's War

    A Woman's War

    1 1957 HD

    A housemaid becomes pregnant by her employer's husband and she flees to the countryside to raise her daughter on her own.

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  • 1956
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    Touch-Me-Not

    Touch-Me-Not

    1 1956 HD

    A historical melodrama about a love triangle within a group of bandits.

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  • 1956
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    Touch-Me-Not

    Touch-Me-Not

    1 1956 HD

    A historical melodrama about a love triangle within a group of bandits.

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  • 1957
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    A Woman's War

    A Woman's War

    1 1957 HD

    A housemaid becomes pregnant by her employer's husband and she flees to the countryside to raise her daughter on her own.

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  • 1955
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    Boxes of Death

    Boxes of Death

    4.2 1955 HD

    A village youth gets trapped inside a communist hideout with his home made timebomb and must escape before it goes off.

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  • 1957
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    Twilight Train

    Twilight Train

    1 1957 HD

    The rivalry between two families prevents budding love from being realized in the younger generation.

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  • 1957
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    Twilight Train

    Twilight Train

    1 1957 HD

    The rivalry between two families prevents budding love from being realized in the younger generation.

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  • 1959
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    Defiance of a teenager

    Defiance of a teenager

    1 1959 HD

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  • 1966
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    A Soldier Speaks after Death

    A Soldier Speaks after Death

    1 1966 HD

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  • 1960
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    A Sad Pastorale

    A Sad Pastorale

    1 1960 HD

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  • 1958
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    The First Snow

    The First Snow

    1 1958 HD

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  • 1960
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    A Sad Pastorale

    A Sad Pastorale

    1 1960 HD

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  • 1966
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    A Soldier Speaks after Death

    A Soldier Speaks after Death

    1 1966 HD

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  • 1958
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    The First Snow

    The First Snow

    1 1958 HD

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  • 1966
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    A Soldier Speaks after Death

    A Soldier Speaks after Death

    1 1966 HD

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  • 1969
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    Elegy of Ren

    Elegy of Ren

    5 1969 HD

    Simon, a painter, regains the use of his hands thanks to therapy administered by Ren. Later, when Simon is kidnapped by communists and forced to paint a portrait of Stalin, Ren again helps him by assisting in his escape. Simon's wife, however, is less than pleased at their growing friendship and becomes determined to keep them apart.

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  • 1964
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    Asphalt

    Asphalt

    1 1964 HD

    In the process of arresting a smuggler, the criminal's wife is killed. Twenty years later, the smuggler is released from prison and vows to murder the wife of the policeman who killed his spouse.

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  • 1964
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    Asphalt

    Asphalt

    1 1964 HD

    In the process of arresting a smuggler, the criminal's wife is killed. Twenty years later, the smuggler is released from prison and vows to murder the wife of the policeman who killed his spouse.

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  • 1968
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    Woman

    Woman

    1 1968 HD

    A man meets a woman on his hiking trip to Mountain Seorak, but she suffers from incurable diseases. He becomes infatuated with her hair. When he tells her about his feeling she promises him that she would leave her hair after she dies as part his heritage for the man. But when he looks for her later she is already dead, and her hair was already sold to another person. He meets another woman he becomes intimate with, but finds that she is his biological mother.

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  • 1980
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    The Deaf Worker

    The Deaf Worker

    1 1980 HD

    A deaf woman boarding with an elderly laborer suffers many hardships upon the latter's death. The old man's son offers to care for her, but she feels she must leave in order to protect the young man's reputation.

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  • 1982
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    Free Woman

    Free Woman

    1 1982 HD

    A Korean woman raised in Spain with European values towards life and romance finds living in her ancestral land stifling and it eats away at her vitality.

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  • 1980
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    The Deaf Worker

    The Deaf Worker

    1 1980 HD

    A deaf woman boarding with an elderly laborer suffers many hardships upon the latter's death. The old man's son offers to care for her, but she feels she must leave in order to protect the young man's reputation.

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  • 1963
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    Goryeojang

    Goryeojang

    7.2 1963 HD

    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.

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  • 1963
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    Goryeojang

    Goryeojang

    7.2 1963 HD

    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.

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  • 1960
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    The Housemaid

    The Housemaid

    7.1 1960 HD

    A piano composer's family moves into a new house; when his pregnant wife collapses from working to support the family, he hires a housemaid to help with housework.

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  • 1982
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    Woman of Fire '82

    Woman of Fire '82

    3.75 1982 HD

    Intrigue and murder on a small poultry farm outside of Seoul when a young maid starts working on the farm and is seduced by the local farm hand.

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  • 1953
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    I Am a Truck

    I Am a Truck

    8 1953 HD

    Worldy renowned for his masterpiece The Housemaid (1960), Kim Ki-young debuts with his first short film I Am a Truck (1953), which was sponsored by UN and made a year after the armistice of the Korean War. This film is a fascinating glimpse into the mind of a soon-to-be powerful auteur and influential filmmaker in the post-war Korean cinema, if not the whole history of Korean cinema.

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  • 1980
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    The Deaf Worker

    The Deaf Worker

    1 1980 HD

    A deaf woman boarding with an elderly laborer suffers many hardships upon the latter's death. The old man's son offers to care for her, but she feels she must leave in order to protect the young man's reputation.

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  • 1990
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    Be a Wicked Woman

    Be a Wicked Woman

    3.4 1990 HD

    Two housewives, wounded by their husbands' betrayals, meet by chance. They decide to carry out "exchange murders" and work towards the perfect alibis. Under what they know to be perfect plans, they kill each other's husbands. Although the police are able to prove that they're guilty, these two women are found innocent by the court of law.

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  • 1993
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    Boccaccio '93

    Boccaccio '93

    1 1993 HD

    Two inseparable male models promise each other never to fall in love with a woman. However they both find themselves inexplicably attracted to a wealthy and ambitious aerobics instructor.

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