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Lee Man-hee (director)
Lee Man-hee (October 6, 1931 – April 13, 1975) was a South Korean film director who worked prominently in South Korea's film industry during the 1960s and early 1970s. His works include ''Assassin'' (1969). He died in 1975 from liver cancer. His daughter, Lee Hye-young (actress, born 1962), Lee Hye-young, is an actress. Movies *''Kaleidoscope'' (1961) *''A Disobedient Son'' (1961) *''Call 112'' (1962) *''Until I Die'' (1962) *''Don't Look Back'' (1963) *''The Marines Who Never Returned'' (1963) *''The Twelve Nyang Life'' (1963) *''Han Seok-bong'' (1963) *''Soldiers of YMS504'' (1963) *''Where Can I Stand?'' (1964) *''The Evil Stairs (aka The Devil's Stairway)'' (1964) *''The Intimidator'' (1964) *''Black Hair'' (1964) *''The Chaser'' (1964) *''Myohyang's Elegy'' (1964) *''Market (1965 film), Market'' (1965) *''Heukmaek'' (1965) *''The Seven Female POW's'' (1965) *''Heilong River'' (1965) *''A Hero without Serial Number'' (1966) *''Late Autumn''(1966) *''Unforgettable Woman'' (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seoul
Seoul, officially Seoul Special Metropolitan City, is the capital city, capital and largest city of South Korea. The broader Seoul Metropolitan Area, encompassing Seoul, Gyeonggi Province and Incheon, emerged as the world's List of cities by GDP, sixth largest metropolitan economy in 2022, trailing behind New York metropolitan area, New York, Greater Tokyo Area, Tokyo, Greater Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Paris metropolitan area, Paris, and London metropolitan area, London, and hosts more than half of South Korea's population. Although Seoul's population peaked at over 10 million, it has gradually decreased since 2014, standing at about 9.6 million residents as of 2024. Seoul is the seat of the Government of South Korea, South Korean government. Seoul's history traces back to 18 BC when it was founded by the people of Baekje, one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea. During the Joseon dynasty, Seoul was officially designated as the capital, surrounded by the Fortress Wall of Seoul. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Day Off
''A Day Off'' () is a South Korean drama film directed by Lee Man-hee. Shot and completed in 1968 but not released due to censorship, it opened to the public in 2005, 37 years later, after the original print was rediscovered during the reorganization of the Korean Film Archive's warehouse. Regarded as one of the masterpieces of 1960s Korean film and its representative modernist film, ''A Day Off'' was selected near the top of the top 100 Korean films list in 2014. Plot One winter Sunday, a penniless young man named Huh Wook (Shin Seong-il) sets off to meet his beloved Ji-yeon (Ji Yun-seong). Unable to start a family, Ji-yeon, who is pregnant, needs an abortion. Cast * Shin Seong-il Shin Seong-il (; May 8, 1937 – November 4, 2018) was a South Korean actor, film director, producer, and former politician. A legendary actor with 500 films in over 40 years, Shin debuted in director Shin Sang-ok's 1960 film ''A Romantic Papa'' ... as Huh Wook * Ji Yun-seong as Ji-yeon References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Korean Screenwriters
South is one of the cardinal directions or compass points. The direction is the opposite of north and is perpendicular to both west and east. Etymology The word ''south'' comes from Old English ''sūþ'', from earlier Proto-Germanic ''*sunþaz'' ("south"), possibly related to the same Proto-Indo-European root that the word ''sun'' derived from. Some languages describe south in the same way, from the fact that it is the direction of the sun at noon (in the Northern Hemisphere), like Latin meridies 'noon, south' (from medius 'middle' + dies 'day', ), while others describe south as the right-hand side of the rising sun, like Biblical Hebrew תֵּימָן teiman 'south' from יָמִין yamin 'right', Aramaic תַּימנַא taymna from יָמִין yamin 'right' and Syriac ܬܰܝܡܢܳܐ taymna from ܝܰܡܝܺܢܳܐ yamina (hence the name of Yemen, the land to the south/right of the Levant). South is sometimes abbreviated as S. Navigation By convention, the ''bottom or down-f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1931 Births
Events January * January 2 – South Dakota native Ernest Lawrence invents the cyclotron, used to accelerate particles to study nuclear physics. * January 4 – German pilot Elly Beinhorn begins her flight to Africa. * January 22 – Sir Isaac Isaacs is sworn in as the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia. * January 25 – Mohandas Gandhi is again released from imprisonment in India. * January 27 – Pierre Laval forms a government in France. * January 30 – Charlie Chaplin comedy drama film ''City Lights'' receives its public premiere at the Los Angeles Theater with Albert Einstein as guest of honor. Contrary to the current trend in cinema, it is a silent film, but with a score by Chaplin. Critically and commercially successful from the start, it will place consistently in lists of films considered the best of all time. February * February 4 – Soviet leader Joseph Stalin gives a speech calling for rapid industrialization, arguing that only strong indus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1975 Deaths
It was also declared the ''International Women's Year'' by the United Nations and the European Architectural Heritage Year by the Council of Europe. Events January * January 1 – Watergate scandal (United States): John N. Mitchell, H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are found guilty of the Watergate cover-up. * January 2 ** The Federal Rules of Evidence are approved by the United States Congress. ** A bomb blast at Samastipur, Bihar, India, fatally wounds Lalit Narayan Mishra, Minister of Railways. * January 5 – Tasman Bridge disaster: The Tasman Bridge in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, is struck by the bulk ore carrier , causing a partial collapse resulting in 12 deaths. * January 15 – Alvor Agreement: Portugal announces that it will grant independence to Angola on November 11. * January 20 ** In Hanoi, North Vietnam, the Politburo approves the final military offensive against South Vietnam. ** Work is abandoned on the 1974 Anglo-French Channel Tunnel scheme. * January ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Road To Sampo
''The Road to Sampo'' () is a 1975 South Korean film starring Baek Il-seob, Kim Jin-kyu and Mun Suk. The final and posthumous work of director Lee Man-hee, it is adapted from an original short story of the same name by Hwang Sok-yong. Lee collapsed during the editing phase of the film. He was admitted to a hospital and soon died. According to Baek Kyeol, a screenwriter, Lee's health was already at its worst when he took on the project and may have known that he might not live to see the film's completion. Plot With little money left and no work during winter, Roh Young-dal (Baek Il-seob), a young construction worker is at a loss where to go when he meets a middle-aged man named Jeong ( Kim Jin-kyu) who is on his way back to his hometown. Jeong gets by doing odd jobs using skills he learned while serving time in prison. After more than ten years' absence, he is homesick and dreams of his hometown, Sampo, where he can fish in the sea and tend his crops. Young-dal and Jeong meet Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Assassin (1969 Film)
''Assassin'' () is a 1969 South Korean thriller film. Plot A man is given a task to kill Hwang To-jin, a North Korean spy who turned himself in to South, and penetrates into the South. He meets Hwang To-jin's daughter and comes to feel skeptical of his behavior. Then he receives an order to hurry the assassination. He finally realizes that he has been foolish and turns himself to the police to help round up the spy network. Cast *Jang Dong-he * Namkoong Won *Park Am Park Am (born November 11, 1924 – March 22, 1989) was a South Korean actor. Park was born in Seoul in 1924. He graduated from the college of Dentistry at Seoul National University. Filmography *Note; the whole list is referenced. ' Awards * 1 ... *Kim Hea-kyung *Oh Ji-myung *Jeon Young-sun *Choe Bong *Lee Hae-ryong *Park Ki-teak *Kim Ki-bum References External links * * 1969 films 1960s spy thriller films South Korean spy thriller films Films directed by Lee Man-hee (director) 1960s Korean-language fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coming Back (film)
''Coming Back'' () is a 1967 South Korean film directed by Lee Man-hee. It was chosen as Best Film at the Grand Bell Awards The Grand Bell Awards (), also known as the Daejong Film Awards, is an awards ceremony presented annually by The Motion Pictures Association of Korea for excellence in film in South Korea. The Grand Bell Awards retains prestige as the oldest co .... Plot A melodrama about the wife of a handicapped war-veteran writer. Their marriage is tested when the wife is tempted by a romance with a younger man. Cast * Kim Jin-kyu as Choe Dong-u *Moon Jung-suk as Ji-yeon *Jeon Gye-hyeon as Choe I-yeong Bibliography * * Contemporary reviews *August 5, 1967. "「 ��화단평영육 갈등 여심의 방황, 」". '' The Dong-a Ilbo''. References External links * 1967 films 1960s Korean-language films Best Picture Grand Bell Award winners South Korean drama films Films directed by Lee Man-hee (director) 1967 drama films Korean-language drama films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Korea
South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the southern half of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and borders North Korea along the Korean Demilitarized Zone, with the Yellow Sea to the west and the Sea of Japan to the east. Like North Korea, South Korea claims to be the sole legitimate government of the entire peninsula and List of islands of South Korea, adjacent islands. It has Demographics of South Korea, a population of about 52 million, of which half live in the Seoul Metropolitan Area, the List of largest cities, ninth most populous metropolitan area in the world; other major cities include Busan, Daegu, and Incheon. The Korean Peninsula was inhabited as early as the Lower Paleolithic period. Gojoseon, Its first kingdom was noted in Chinese records in the early seventh century BC. From the mid first century BC, various Polity, polities consolidated into the rival Three Kingdoms of Korea, kingdoms of Goguryeo, Baekje, and Sil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Market (1965 Film)
''Market'' () is a 1965 South Korean film directed by Lee Man-hee. It was awarded Best Film at the Blue Dragon Film Awards. Plot Bok-nyeo, a mentally handicapped woman, supports her lazy husband by selling apples at the public marketplace. When her husband abandons her for another woman, another man who sympathizes with Bok-nyeo, kills him. Cast * Shin Young-kyun * Moon Jung-suk * Kim Seung-ho * Heo Jang-kang Heo Jang-gang (May 9, 1925 – September 21, 1975) was a South Korean actor, one of the representative actors in the 1960s and 1970s. He mainly took supporting roles such as villains or comical characters. He died of a heart attack after playing ... Bibliography English * * * Korean * * Notes 1965 films Best Picture Blue Dragon Film Award winners 1960s Korean-language films South Korean drama films Films directed by Lee Man-hee (director) 1965 drama films Korean-language drama films {{SouthKorea-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Evil Stairs
''The Evil Stairs'' (; also known as ''The Devil's Stairway'') is a 1964 South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the southern half of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and borders North Korea along the Korean Demilitarized Zone, with the Yellow Sea to the west and t ...n mystery film directed by Lee Man-hee. Synopsis 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. After disposing of the nurse's body in a lake, he becomes tormented by her spirit, and in a confused mental state, kills his fiancée.Synopsis from Cast * Kim Jin-kyu as Hyeon Gwang-ho *Moon Jung-suk as Nam Jin-suk *Bang Seong-ja as O Jeong-ja *Jeong Ae-ran *Choi Nam-Hyun *Yu Gye-seon *Jo Hang *Kim Ung *Jeong Cheol *Ji Bang-yeol References Bibliography * * * * 1964 films 1960s Korean-language films 1960s mystery films South Korean mystery films Films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
