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The Sea Knows is a film of genre Drama directed by Kim Ki-young with Kim Ji-mee
The Sea Knows (1961)
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Add to a movie listThe Sea Knows (Hangul: 현해탄은 알고 있다; RR: Hyeonhaetaneun algoitta) is a 1961 South Korean film directed by Kim Ki-young.
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Synopsis
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.Actors
Kim Ji-mee
(Kyunghee Han)
Kim Jin-kyu
(Nakamura)
Ju Jeung-ryu
(Hideko's Mother)
Kim Seung-ho
(Saito)
Park Am
(Miyamura)
Park Noh-sik
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, 1h48Directed by Kim Ki-young
Origin Coree du sud
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
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Promise of the Flesh (1975)
, 1h35Directed by Kim Ki-young
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Actors Kim Ji-mee, Lee Jung-gil, Park Am
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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.
Woman (1968)
, 1h40Directed by Kim Ki-young
Genres Drama
Actors Shin Seong-il, Moon Hee, Kim Ji-mee
The film is a melodrama about a man who falls in love with a woman while traveling to Seoraksan. The man becomes infatuated with the woman's hair. The woman, who has a terminal illness, promises to leave her hair to the man after she has died. Later the man finds that the woman has died, and her hair has been sold to someone else. He then has a romantic relationship with another woman who turns out to be his mother.
Twilight Train (1957)
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Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Do Kum-bong, Kim Ji-mee, Ahn Sung-ki, Park Am
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Woman of Fire '82 (1982)
, 1h55Directed by Kim Ki-young
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors Kim Ji-mee, Jeon Moo-song, Na Young-hee, Kim Hae-sook
Rating60%
A variation on Kim's classic The Housemaid (1960). The lives of a composer and his chicken-farming wife are thrown into turmoil when a young woman comes to work as a maid.
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, 1h40Directed by Kim Ki-young
Genres Drama, War
Actors Lee Hwa-si, Choi Bool-am, Park Am
Based on a novel by Kim Won-dae, the film is an anti-Communist melodrama in which personal affairs affect international relations between North and South Korea and Japan.
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.