Kung-won Nam Movies

Every River and Mountain

Based on the life of Kim Won-shik who was a judge in ancient Korea. Travelling around the country, he tried cases involving human sacrifices, peasant uprisings, and revenge

Bis zum letzten Tag

I Love Mama

Mi-suk, Jin-suk and Seon-suk live happily with their widowed mother. They are perfomers waiting for their act to be discovered. However, they decide to take time out from their busy ... See full summary »

Princess Ok-ryeon and Hwalbindang

Bie jeojeun ibsul

Yeong and Hyeob are young underground musicians and very much in love until the day wehn Yeong witnesses Hyeob kissing a wealthy fan. She leaves him effectively breaking up their singing ... See full summary »

Affair of the Gold Bars

Secret agent Dok Su-jeon is sent to Hong Kong to thwart a North Korean plot meant to disrupt the talks between South Korea and Japan.

Light and Shadow

A young man attempts to prove that he has given up a life of crime but he finds that society is not so forgiving of an ex-convict.

Cheongnyeo

A doctor and his son both fall in love with a blind, deaf mute who is one of the father's patients.

Byeoksokui yeoja

Although happily married, Hie begins to feel an unexplained discontentment. While she cannot voice her feelings to her overprotective husband, the cause of her restlessness becomes clear ... See full summary »

The Secret Court

Queen Heon-ae becomes the regent and rules the country after the death of the king. However she is lonely and attempts to seduce her brother-in-law. Failing that, she has him arrested and tortured as she gradually becomes mad with power

A Vagabond's Night

A mother regrets having forced her son to marry the woman she chose because of the bride's sour dispostion. She encourages her son to meet his former girlfriend and cheat on his wife

Hasuginsaeng

Pilnyeo

Twice widowed Pil-nyeo vows to become self-sufficient. To this end, she takes a job at a coal mine. There she is tricked by the supervisor and raped. Feeling that she has no one to turn to ... See full summary »

The Destiny of Some Women

A woman learns about life and love as she experiences one unsuccessful romance after another

My Daughter Rescued from a Swamp

Yu-ri falls in with a group of wild teenagers and is soon imitating their behavior. She takes to skipping school and in a short time, her parents are unable to control her. One night, her ... See full summary »

No Regrets

A rich girl pretends to be working class in order to win the love and respect of an angry young social reformist. She takes a job in a factory to be near him, but he soon learns her real ... See full summary »

Farewell

After her husband dies, the young widow Hye-shil takes care of her brother-in-law and helps him through medical school. They move in together and fall in love, but marrying is impossible under Korean law.

Life

Dokshinyeo

Kidnergarten teacher Mi-rim is surprised to find Hun, a child in her class, is actually the baby she gave up at birth. She resists the temptation to reveal her identity to his parents until Hun is involved in a car accident

Dolmuji

The villagers of Dolmuji in Hwanghae Province suffer terribly under the cruelty of their oppressors in North Korea. Armed with crude farming implements, they rise up against the heavily ... See full summary »