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Insect Woman is a film of genre Drama directed by Kim Ki-young with Youn Yuh-jung
Insect Woman (1972)
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Add to a movie listThe Insect Woman (Hangul: 충녀; RR: Chungnyeo) is a 1972 South Korean film directed by Kim Ki-young.
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A melodrama about a professor under psychiatric care because of a mental breakdown due to the stress brought on by an extramarital affair.Actors
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Woman of Fire (1971)
, 1h38Directed by Kim Ki-young
Genres Drama, Horror, Crime
Actors Namkoong Won, Youn Yuh-jung, Choi Moo-ryong
Rating65%
A variation on Kim's classic The Housemaid (1960). 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.
Directed by Kim Ki-young
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Horror, Romance
Actors Namkoong Won, Kim Ja-ok, Park Am, Lee Hwa-si
Rating62%
A melodrama about a man who survives an attempted double suicide with a stranger while picnicing 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.
Be a Wicked Woman (2021)
, 1h38Directed by Kim Ki-young
Genres Drama
Actors Youn Yuh-jung
Rating55%
Two women with unfaithful husbands make a deal to kill each other's husbands.
Beasts of Prey (1985)
, 1h45Directed by Kim Ki-young
Genres Drama, Horror
Rating58%
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.
Lady Hong (1969)
Directed by Kim Ki-young
Genres Drama, Horror
Themes Ghost films
Actors Lee Soon-jae, Moon Hee
A man whose fiancee and her family have died, reluctantly marries another woman. When the ghost of his fiancee visits him, he is tempted to join her in matrimony.
Elegy of Ren (1969)
, 1h43Directed by Kim Ki-young
Genres Drama, Action, Romance
Actors Kim Jin-kyu, Kim Ji-mee, Park Am
A wartime melodrama about an artist and a woman who helps him to paint.
Yangsan Province (1955)
, 1h30Directed by Kim Ki-young
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Kim Seung-ho, Park Am
Rating60%
The film is a historical melodrama about a high government official who wants to marry a woman who is engaged to marry another man.
The Sea Knows (1961)
, 1h57Directed by Kim Ki-young
Genres Drama, War
Actors Kim Ji-mee, Kim Jin-kyu, Ju Jeung-ryu, Kim Seung-ho, Park Am, Park Noh-sik
Rating58%
A wartime melodrama about Aroun, a Korean living in Japan and conscripted into the army. He endures cruel treatment at the hands of the Japanese soldiers, and objections from the mother of his Japanese girlfriend. The film concludes with a U.S. bombing which kills all the Japanese soldiers, but leaves Aroun alive.
Goryeojang (1963)
, 1h30Directed by Kim Ki-young
Genres Drama
Actors Kim Jin-kyu, Ju Jeung-ryu, Park Am, Jeon Ok
Rating71%
The film tells the story of a poor farm-worker who, according to local tradition, must take his 70-year-old mother into the mountains to die. Deciding to break the custom, he instead returns home with his mother. The Japanese films, The Ballad of Narayama (1958) (Keisuke Kinoshita) and The Ballad of Narayama (1983) (Shohei Imamura) deal with a similar subject.
Asphalt (1964)
Directed by Kim Ki-young
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Kim Jin-kyu, Ju Jeung-ryu, Park Am
A revenge melodrama about a criminal whose wife is killed during his arrest. After serving 20 years in prison he attempts to kill the arresting officer's wife out of revenge, but fails and is again imprisoned.