The best Moon Jeong-suk’s movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Moon Jeong-suk’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Moon Jeong-suk.
Aimless Bullet
7.2/10
Two brothers—Chul-ho, an accountant with a toothache and a pregnant wife, and Yong-ho, an unemployed ex-soldier wounded in battle—navigate life in post-war Korea.
Farewell to the Duman River
6/10
Patriotic university student Youngwoo and his friends, led by their teacher Lee Sung, along with a British friend bid farewell to their families and become freedom fighters in Manchuria fighting against the Japanese occupation around the Tumen River.
A Drifting Story
6.3/10
This melodrama follows the trials and tribulations of a single mother who dares to love. Hyun Hee (Mun Jeong Suk) makes a living running a coffee house. She has to support her illegitimate daughter and mother, and bear the scorn of those who look down on her. Hyun Hee falls in love with a married writer (Kim Jin Kyu), while another customer (Choi Mu Ryong) holds a torch for her. The romantic triangles that unfold lead to tragic consequences.
The Youth
Choi Eun-hie disguises herself as a man so she can join a group of young men determined to overthrow the colonial government
Black Hair
6.2/10
"Black Hair" Yeon-sil (Moon Jeong-suk) is the lover of crime boss Dong-il (Jang Dong-he). She pays off one of the boss's henchmen, Man-ho (Chae Rang), with whom she once had an affair; Man-ho is an opium addict, and he has been blackmailing Yeon-sil by threatening to disclose their past relations.
My Sister is a Tomboy
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 Devil's Stairway
6.6/10
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. He becomes tormented by her spirit.
Late Autumn
8.3/10
A well behaved female prisoner, on parole, is set to return to prison. On the train ride back to prison she encounters a man who is actually a fugitive.
Oh My Love
4.3/10
Young-ju's wedding is cancelled when it is revealed that her mother was a prostitute for American soldiers. Young-ju, pregnant by her fiance, gives birth to a child, but her ex demands that she give up custody to him as she has no future.
Thunderhawk 6 - Third Generation Thunderhawk
A Woman Judge
6.6/10
The newly-restored film by one of Korea's first female director follows a female judge's struggles in balancing her duties as a mother and a public official.
The Way of Hwarang
His parents captured by the Baekje armies, prince Eo-jin infiltrates the enemy castle alone to seek revenge. His plot is ruined when he falls in love with a princess there and is forced to choose between betraying his parents and nation or the woman he loves.
Soil
Heo Seung, who states that he was “born from soil, will live in soil, and die in soil”, becomes a lawyer in Seoul. However when villagers in his hometown are imprisoned for protesting against Japanese oppression, he decides to return to his village and rediscovers the true way to help his country.
As Time Passes, Love and Sorrow Will...
"As Time Passes, Love and Sorrow Will ..." - A woman give birth to a illegitimate child, she leaves her husband and disappear completely. The husband hire a nanny to foster the child. The nanny and the child become very close.
Homebound
6.4/10
A writer who was disabled during the Korean War (1950-1953) is now contributing a serial to a newspaper. His wife, who once adored him, is tempted by a young man she happens to know. But he overlooks her affair thanking her for her utmost care up until that time. Then the young man asks her to leave with him for a faraway place...
Spinning the Tales of Cruelty Towards Women
6.6/10
Ki-rye, from a respectable but poor family, is married off to the deceased son of a powerful government official. Her father-in-law takes pity on her miserable and lonely condition and helps her to run away. She becomes a servant in Minister Choi's house. She marries again to a low-level noble, but finds herself in dire straits when it appears that she is unable to produce a male child to carry on the bloodline.
The Young Woman
A doctor and his son both fall in love with a blind, deaf mute who is one of the father's patients.
Code-Named: Tokyo Expo
Orders go out from North Korea to kidnap South Korean tourists at the Tokyo Expo and bring them to the north.
The Bell Tower
6.8/10
A woman is sold to a forced labor camp as a 'comfort woman' to entertain the guards, a sex slave of the Japanese army. She falls in love with a prisoner there and they make plans to escape.
Swindler Mr. Heo
