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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.
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13 March 1981
Seo Mun-kyung, a merchant in ancient China where polygamy is legal, monopolizes the salt sales business.
03 October 1977
A company hopes to open a spa hotel named after Ieodo, a mythical island inhabited by the souls of drowned sailors.
13 May 2010
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.
26 July 1975
Mild-mannered and modest Sook-young looks like your usual middle-aged woman, but happens to be a man-killing murderess.
03 November 1960
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.
15 March 1963
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.
02 December 1978
A melodrama about a man who survives an attempted double suicide with a stranger while picnicking with friends.
06 October 1972
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.
29 October 1982
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.
05 October 1976
North Korean agents are sent to Seoul to disrupt the visit of important international dignitaries.
13 June 1980
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.
09 November 1974
Chim-Ae, an orphan, is saved by an old monk of Seo San Temple, Mu Bul Dang while he is wandering in war fires.
25 March 1978
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.
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.
01 April 1971
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.
10 April 1964
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.
23 March 1985
A social drama about a man with an inferiority complex to his wife. When he seeks consolation in an m
26 June 1982
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.
13 October 1955
The film is a historical melodrama about a high government official who wants to marry a woman who is engaged to marry another man.
01 December 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.
08 August 1969
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.
01 March 1957
A housemaid becomes pregnant by her employer's husband and she flees to the countryside to raise her daughter on her own.
15 July 2021
Two housewives, wounded by their husbands' betrayals, meet by chance. They decide to carry out "exchange murders" and work towards the perfect alibis.
16 October 1969
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.
31 October 1957
The rivalry between two families prevents budding love from being realized in the younger generation.
10 November 1956
A historical melodrama about a love triangle within a group of bandits.
10 November 1961
A Korean man, forced into service in the Japanese army during WWII, marries his Japanese girlfriend despite everyone's objections.
01 January 1953
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.
21 April 1979
Jin-seok returns from the Vietnam war, injured and marries Sun-ok. But financial difficulties cause them to argue.
22 June 1955
A village youth gets trapped inside a communist hideout with his home made timebomb and must escape before it goes off.
