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Choi Eun-hee (November 20, 1926 – April 16, 2018) was a South Korean actress, who was one of the country's most popular stars of the 1960s and 1970s. In 1978, Choi and her then ex-husband, movie director Shin Sang-ok, were abducted to North Korea, where they were forced to make films until they sought asylum at the US Embassy in Vienna in 1986. They returned to South Korea in 1999 after spending a decade in the United States.
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15 October 1964
A beautiful nightclub owner finds herself desired by many men, but she is saving herself for the one man she cannot have .
19 July 1967
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.
28 January 1960
A middle-aged man is laid off from work but is too proud to tell his family. His children, however, learn of the situation and take jobs of their own to help him save face.
18 January 1966
THE MONKEY GOES WEST is the first entry in the studio’s epic, four-part screen adaptation of “Journey to the West,” a 16th-century novel recounting the efforts of a Buddhist monk and his magical companions to travel to India and bring back Buddhist sutras.
16 January 1955
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.
10 September 1965
Choi Eun-hee’s directorial debut The Girl Raised as a Future Daughter-In-Law is the story of ups and downs of a future daughter-in-law who, due to poverty, married an infant rich groom.
28 June 1947
Three men who have been taken to the compulsory labour under the Japanese colonialism turn back to their hometown, a fishing village.
20 December 1967
A man dedicated to exploring a mining region in the foothills of Mountain Taebaek goes to Seoul to secure investment.
01 May 1959
A young man is in love with a waitress, but his father opposes their relationship. The father approaches the waitress telling her that if she truly loved his son, she would abandon him.
12 July 1958
Choi So-young (Choi Eun-hee), a poor female law student is in trouble because her grandmother, who had been sending her tuition money, passes away.
12 September 1964
In order to exact revenge upon him, a young woman (Lin Dai) marries the Emperor Chou (Shin Young-kyun), who killed her father.
31 December 1961
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.
23 December 1968
A man meets a woman on his hiking trip to Mountain Seorak, but she suffers from incurable diseases. He becomes infatuated with her hair.
13 September 1962
Based on the traditional story of a girl who makes her blind father see by donating 300 bags of rice to Bongwon Temple.
04 April 2002
Keeping the Vision Alive is a documentary film containing the voices and images of Korean women filmmakers-both senior filmmakers and also the peers of director Yim.
14 October 1958
A medical doctor, Ko, has three daughters. The first daughter, Suk-hee, confesses her past when her husband asks her to forgive his past, on the first night of their honeymoon.
09 February 1967
An old couple who has a son and six daughters launch a journey to visit them around the nation as the seven children live throughout the country.
26 August 1961
Six-year-old Ok Hee is glad when Mr. Han comes to board at her house full of women. She plays messenger for Mr.
09 July 1959
Lee Suk-hui (Choe Eun-hui) lost her husband to the Korean War eight years ago. She runs a dressmaking shop that has fallen into debt.
16 November 1963
The poor farmers of Muju in Cheonbuk Province cannot get enough water to irrigate their rice. They attempt many times to build a canal to the Geum River, but fail each time.
01 May 1984
Song Ryul returns to the countryside to see his ill father. After his cousin conspires with the Japanese occupiers to sell their crop, Song Ryul is forced to emigrate to Kando (Jiandao) in Manchuria.
25 January 1963
When two wives realize that their wealthy and otherwise upstanding husbands have mistresses, they invite the 'other women' to stay in their houses for awhile.
01 May 1986
A woman has just been newly christened in her job as a Pyongyang traffic supervisor. On her first assignment, she encounters a man who is using his work truck for personal use, along with driving unsafely.
28 April 1967
King Kong-min tried to govern the country wisely but, after the death of his wife, he neglects hs state duties.
01 June 1963
When King Heon-kong falls ill, a power struggle erupts over who will inherit the throne. Tired of all the infighting, the ministers arrange for a branch of the king's family, which had lost all its wealth and was living on remote Ganghwa Island, to inherit.
28 January 1961
Chun-hyang, the only daughter of an old gisaeng named Wolmae, falls in love with Lee Mong-nyong and promises to marry him.
01 July 1948
A policy film aimed at eradicating smuggling, in which Detective Min-wan takes down a large-scale smuggling ring operating secretly using a cabaret as a hideout.
31 October 1958
Jang Gyeong Ho visits fellow student Kim Dong Hwan's hometown, and falls in love with his sister, Kim Ok Gyeong.
01 January 2002
"I'll Be Seeing HER" is an approach to images of women in Korean cinema with a new genre, ‘Fanta Docu’, which shows beautiful and adventurous Korean actresses in the 1950s.
08 March 1962
Jinsa Maeng's daughter is contracted to marry a nobleman's son, however, Jinsa Maeng is upset when he hears about a rumor that the fiance of his daughter is lame.
12 October 2024
The love of Kim Jong Il, the former dictator of North Korea, for cinema and his adventures, including the kidnapping of a director.
09 March 1958
The Money is about a poor farmer whose bid for a better life ends up bringing calamity to his family.
20 April 1958
In post-Korean War Seoul, a young man from the countryside discovers that his older brother has become romantically involved in a prostitute and has no intentions of returning home.
01 January 1985
The plot is based on the Korean folk tale, The Tale of Chunhyang. Chunhyang falls in love with the upper-class Ri Mong-ryong, but they must marry in secret.
20 September 1961
Yeong-shin and Dong-hyuk graduate from college with a cause. They plan to bring education and modernization to farmers living in the rural area of their hometown.
09 February 1949
An orphan left in the care of a Buddhist temple becomes attached to a young widow who arrives there to mourn her recently deceased son.
02 October 1960
A thousand-year-old snake that has transformed itself into a human, Madame White Snake (Choe Eun-hui), falls in love with a young pharmacist named Heo-Seon.
31 October 1975
1975 Korean film
12 July 1985
Set in Gando in the 1930s, a family hides a wealthy Chinese-Korean merchant while the father is killed in a fight between the Japanese police and Chinese bandits.
01 January 1985
Musical film based on the traditional story of the same name.
01 October 1959
Dr. Nam, in his will, requests that his eldest daughter, Jeong-hui(Choe Eun-hui), marry a painter named Dong-su (Nam Gung-won).
13 December 1962
The widow of a nobleman bears a son after having an affair with her servant. The servant and the baby are driven from the home by the woman's irate in-laws when the truth is discovered.
27 June 1968
A Manchurian Action movie modeled on George Stevens' "Shane."
26 March 1964
South Korean Air Force pilots engage in perilous missions against Communist North Koreans during the Korean War.
05 February 1962
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.
01 January 1984
An Emissary of No Return retells the story of a real historical event in 1907 known as the Hague Secret Emissary Affair.
01 January 1987
While serving as a journalist in World War 2 for the Imperial Army of Japan, "Takahashi Minoru" (Pak Ki Ju) sees first-hand the impact on Koreans who have had their national identity forcibly taken from them by the Japanese occupation of their country.
13 November 1964
The film is based on the 1925 short story of the same title by Na Do-hyang and revolves around the story of a deaf farm hand who is in love with a landlord's daughter-in-law.
27 July 2009
Having already added to the tensions between North Korea and Japan, a university professor finds that her views are considered even more dangerous now.
15 December 1961
An oriental doctor Kim Hak-gyu is a cantankerous man who is the longest-term householder in a small village in Seoul.
27 July 2009
Forty years after her father's return from North Korea a Japanese university professor is subject to harassment for advancing his views on this country.
01 January 1965
Queen Min makes regent Prince Daewon withdraw from ruling with the help of the Min Seung-ho Party.
22 September 2016
Hong Kong, 1978. South Korean actress Choi Eun-hee is kidnapped by North Korean operatives following orders from dictator Kim Jong-il.
