The best Kim Hee-kap’s movies

Kim Hee-kap

Kim Hee-kap

13/07/1923- 18/05/1993
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A Female Boss

A Female Boss
5.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 16/12/1959
  • Character: Assistant Editor (Mr. Huh)
Would-be feminist Yoanna, running her own company, is insulted in a phone booth by a stranger named Yong-ho. While searching for a job, Yong-ho applies to a magazine named 'The Modern Woman,' not knowing that the company's boss is in fact Yoanna. She hires him with the intention of paying back the humiliation she received. But his masculine attitude captivates her and she ends up marrying him. She resigns her post and becomes a housekeeper, handing over the company to her husband.

Big Monster Wangmagwi

Big Monster Wangmagwi
5.2/10
This sci-fi film features a space creature named Wangmagwi (big devil) that land in the Earth in a flying object to occupy the planet. Koreans of every corner of the society fight against the monster in unison but it is not wavered and destroys buildings and facilities. In the end united Korean forces defeat Wangmagwi that commits suicide by bombing itself out of desperation.

My Mother and Her Guest

My Mother and Her Guest
6.9/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 26/08/1961
  • Character: Egg tradesman
Six-year-old Ok Hee is glad when Mr. Han comes to board at her house full of women. She plays messenger for Mr. Han and her widowed mother as they quietly fall in love, but is her support enough to guard their love?

Kam-bo

Kam-bo
  • Release: 15/03/1986
Kam-bo is released from jail after serving five years for smuggling. He looks for his accomplice, Dong-il, and his wife. Dong-il has cleaned up his old life, determined to start anew. Kam-bo goes to the racetracks to kill time. A hustler pickpockets Kam-bo but he is rendered helpless by Kam-bo's strength when he catches up with him. The two become friends. The hustler gives Kam-bo a watch. Unwittingly, Kam-bo becomes a suspect in a murder due to the watch. Kam-bo and the hustler stick their noses into the murder investigation as they try to find out where the stolen watch came from. The parties behind the murder use a cute delinquent girl named Na-young as a front to take the fall. However, Kam-bo narrowly escapes death numerous times to finally break their organization and clear his name.

A Bride on the Second Floor

A Bride on the Second Floor
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 29/12/1968
A young bride moves into her husband's family and tries to modernize their lifestyle. Her plans, though, often get discouraged by her mother-in-law, a conservative lady who stresses traditional values. But the bride's father-in-law who understands the charms of her daughter-in-law's modern lifestyle, helps her to get what she wants. Eventually, they become one happy family living a modern lifestyle.

Mr. Park

Mr. Park
6.7/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 05/10/1960
  • Character: Seobang Hwang (Friends of Seobang Park)
Mr. Park raises his children by repairing charcoal pits. Although ignorant and stubborn, Mr. Park has a good heart. He is displeased, however, with his eldest daughter, Yong-sun (Jo Mi-ryeong), because of her close relationship with Jae-cheon (Hwang hae), who is a scamp in his eyes. He is also unsatisfied with his second daughter, Myeong-sun (Eom Aeng-ran), for liking Ju-sik (Bang Su-il). Only his eldest son, Yong-beom (Kim Jin-gyu), is the apple of his eye, as he approves of his son's wife, Jeom-rye (Kim Hye-jeong). When Yong-beom is sent to a foreign branch office, Mr. Park is against it at first but approves of it, as he knows what it means for his son's future. Eventually, too, he begins to approve of his two daughters' relationships.

My Sister is a Tomboy

My Sister is a Tomboy
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 27/10/1961
  • Character: Wedding guest
The master of a Judo dojo turns his daughter into a master of the martial art as she is growing up. But now that she has reached marrying age, he finds it difficult to find her a husband that can accept her tomboy ways.

The Coachman

The Coachman
6.5/10
A man tries to raise his two sons and two daughters under some of the most adverse conditions known to man. The father operates a horse-drawn cart, but in a city that is modernizing after the destruction of the Korean War, automobiles are making carts obsolete. The children are experiencing difficulties as well. The eldest son has flunked the bar exam twice and is not hopeful of passing it a third time to become a lawyer. The eldest daughter is mute and married to an abusive husband. The younger daughter tries to pose as a rich university student to move up in life. The youngest son has a penchant for petty theft.

A Petty Middle Manager

A Petty Middle Manager
6.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 04/05/1961
When his wife sees him helping his boss' lover, a low-level manager finds his marriage in shambles

Yu Gwan-Sun

Yu Gwan-Sun
This film is about of the life of the young patriotic martyr Yu Gwan-sun, who fought for the liberation of her country during the Independence Movement in 1919. As the Independence Movement becomes more and more intense among Korean students, the Japanese authorities order schools closed temporarily. Yu Gwan-sun (Do Geum-bong) persuades her neighbors to join the national movement, and continues her aggressive struggle against Japanese rule. An independent campaign at Aunae, a market site, is successful with the passionate participation of many people. She is arrested by the Japanese police for leading the campaign and has to endure horrible tortures. But she never gives up her fight, encouraging her cell mates to participate in the movement. She is finally taken to an underground room by the Japanese police and murdered.

Hyperbola of Youth

Hyperbola of Youth
6.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 12/02/1957
Myeong-ho (Hwang Hae), a middle school teacher who had grown up in poverty, and Bu-nam (Yang Hun), the first son of the president of a trading company, attend the same university. A doctor suggests that Bu-nam, who is sick due to overeating, and Myeong-ho, who suffers from malnutrition, should switch life styles for two weeks. While living in each other's house, they fall in love with each other's younger sister and get married at a joint wedding ceremony.

Setting Sun

Setting Sun
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 13/05/1979
Dok-gu who has seen his son's family off to America lives alone, keeping a close relationship with Bok-rye who lives at an old people's home. Won also likes Bok-ye. Since he finds out his son cannot come back, he marries Bok-rye out of anger and Won falls into sickness. One day, Dok-gu has a stroke and Bok-rye takes care of him selling snacks on the street. His son offers to take him to America but he insists on staying with his wife. Won dies blaming Dok-gu for putting Bok-rye in such hardship. Dok-gu falls out of shock at the death of Won and dies.

Bumpkin Oh-bok

Bumpkin Oh-bok
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 11/11/1961
Kind-hearted country bumkin O-bok leads a simple life working as a long-time farmhand for the rich landlord Soon-young. When Soon-young discovers that his son Jae-seok has fallen for local girl Soon-yi, he protests the relationship and arranges for Soon-yi to be wed to O-bok instead. Despite the initial heartbreak, Soon-yi grows fond of O-bok over time and they have a daughter together named Sook-hee. However, when Jae-seok returns into Soon-yi’s life, she cannot resist his charms and runs away with him, leaving Jae-seok to raise Sook-hee on his own. Years later, Sook-hee is now a grown woman working in the city and in close contact with her father. However, a series of coincidences threaten to forcibly reunite O-bok and Sook-hee with Jae-seok and Soon-young in the most dramatic way possible.

Teacher Waryong's Trip to Seoul

Teacher Waryong's Trip to Seoul
  • Release: 01/01/1962

Tosuni: The Birth of Happiness

Tosuni: The Birth of Happiness
6.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 08/02/1963
Ttosun, a young hard-working woman with a good heart, falls in love with a driver but her father disapproves of the match.

Father and Sons

Father and Sons
There is a happy family of a father and four sons. In this comedy, the four sons find love one after another and have a joint wedding in the end.

Miss Chicken

Miss Chicken
  • Release: 16/01/1970

Nostalgia

Nostalgia
  • Release: 02/07/1966

아름다운 팔도강산

아름다운 팔도강산
  • Release: 01/01/1972

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