Choi Eun-hee
Birthday: 1926-11-20
Place of Birth: Gwangju, South Korea
Biography: Choi Eun-hee (November 20, 1926 – April 16, 2018) was a South Korean actress, who was one of the country's most popular stars of the 1960s and 1970s. In 1978, Choi and her then ex-husband, movie director Shin Sang-ok, were abducted to North Korea, where they were forced to make films until they sought asylum at the US Embassy in Vienna in 1986. They returned to South Korea in 1999 after spending a decade in the United States.
Movies
Iljimae the Chivalrous Robber
Iljimae's parents were killed due to a conspiracy when he was young. Many years later he became a ch...
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Love, Love, My Love
The plot is based on the Korean folk tale, The Tale of Chunhyang. Chunhyang falls in love with the u...
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Six Daughters
An old couple who has a son and six daughters launch a journey to visit them around the nation as th...
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A Country Girl
Jang Gyeong Ho visits fellow student Kim Dong Hwan's hometown, and falls in love with his sister, Ki...
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Chun Hui
A young man is in love with a waitress, but his father opposes their relationship. The father approa...
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The Evergreen
Yeong-shin and Dong-hyuk graduate from college with a cause. They plan to bring education and modern...
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The Sun of Night
A policy film aimed at eradicating smuggling, in which Detective Min-wan takes down a large-scale sm...
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Prince Yeonsan
A historical drama about Prince Yeon-san of Joseon as a prince trying to restore the status of his m...
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The Monkey Goes West
THE MONKEY GOES WEST is the first entry in the studio’s epic, four-part screen adaptation of “Journe...
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Mountain
A man dedicated to exploring a mining region in the foothills of Mountain Taebaek goes to Seoul to s...
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Dream
A young Buddhist monk, Jo Sin, is attracted to Tae-su's daughter, Dal-lye. He hopes to marry her, bu...
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A New Oath
Three men who have been taken to the compulsory labour under the Japanese colonialism turn back to t...
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The Sino-Japanese War and Queen Min the Heroine
Queen Min makes regent Prince Daewon withdraw from ruling with the help of the Min Seung-ho Party....
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Red Scarf
South Korean Air Force pilots engage in perilous missions against Communist North Koreans during the...
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The Flower in Hell
In post-Korean War Seoul, a young man from the countryside discovers that his older brother has beco...
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A College Woman's Confession
Choi So-young (Choi Eun-hee), a poor female law student is in trouble because her grandmother, who h...
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It's Not Her Sin
After the woman who nearly killed her is brought to trial, Eun-hie finds that she must take the stan...
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Romance Papa
A middle-aged man is laid off from work but is too proud to tell his family. His children, however, ...
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The Love Marriage
A medical doctor, Ko, has three daughters. The first daughter, Suk-hee, confesses her past when her ...
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Love Affair
When two wives realize that their wealthy and otherwise upstanding husbands have mistresses, they in...
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When Night Falls at Myeongdong
A beautiful nightclub owner finds herself desired by many men, but she is saving herself for the one...
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Bound by Chastity Rule
The widow of a nobleman bears a son after having an affair with her servant. The servant and the bab...
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Tyrant Yeonsan
Prince Yeonsan-gun turns into a tyrant out of grief for his mother's death. He orders beheadings of ...
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Under the Sky in Seoul
An oriental doctor Kim Hak-gyu is a cantankerous man who is the longest-term householder in a small ...
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Women of Yi-Dynasty
Four short stories examing the lives of women in the last 18th and 19th century Story 1: 'Wives Shou...
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Mother and a Guest
Six-year-old Ok Hee is glad when Mr. Han comes to board at her house full of women. She plays messen...
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Seong Chun-hyang
Chun-hyang, the only daughter of an old gisaeng named Wolmae, falls in love with Lee Mong-nyong and ...
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Madam White Snake
A thousand-year-old snake that has transformed itself into a human, Madame White Snake (Choe Eun-hui...
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A Sister's Garden
Dr. Nam, in his will, requests that his eldest daughter, Jeong-hui(Choe Eun-hui), marry a painter na...
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The Lovers and the Despot
Hong Kong, 1978. South Korean actress Choi Eun-hee is kidnapped by North Korean operatives following...
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Dongsimcho
Lee Suk-hui (Choe Eun-hui) lost her husband to the Korean War eight years ago. She runs a dressmakin...
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The Story of Sim Cheong
Based on the traditional story of a girl who makes her blind father see by donating 300 bags of rice...
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Woman
A man meets a woman on his hiking trip to Mountain Seorak, but she suffers from incurable diseases. ...
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A Reluctant Prince
When King Heon-kong falls ill, a power struggle erupts over who will inherit the throne. Tired of al...
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The Last Woman of Shang
In order to exact revenge upon him, a young woman (Lin Dai) marries the Emperor Chou (Shin Young-kyu...
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Deaf Sam Yong
The film is based on the 1925 short story of the same title by Na Do-hyang and revolves around the s...
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The Phantom Queen
King Kong-min tried to govern the country wisely but, after the death of his wife, he neglects hs st...
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A Happy Day of Jinsa Maeng
Jinsa Maeng's daughter is contracted to marry a nobleman's son, however, Jinsa Maeng is upset when h...
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A Returned Man
Park Nam-ho works at a Japanese pharmaceutical company and lives happily with his wife, Gyeong-hui, ...
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Salt
Set in Gando in the 1930s, a family hides a wealthy Chinese-Korean merchant while the father is kill...
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A Hometown in Heart
An orphan left in the care of a Buddhist temple becomes attached to a young widow who arrives there ...
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Rice
The poor farmers of Muju in Cheonbuk Province cannot get enough water to irrigate their rice. They a...
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The Girl Raised as a Future Daughter-in-law
Choi Eun-hee’s directorial debut The Girl Raised as a Future Daughter-In-Law is the story of ups and...
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Keeping the Vision Alive
Keeping the Vision Alive is a documentary film containing the voices and images of Korean women film...
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The Shadowless Pagoda
On the eighth of April of King Gyoeng-deok's 10th year of the reign of the Unified Silla Period, Gus...
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I'll Be Seeing Her
"I'll Be Seeing HER" is an approach to images of women in Korean cinema with a new genre, ‘Fanta Doc...
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The Youth
In the latter years of the Korean Empire, Lee In Hwa, disguises herself as a man so she can join a g...
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Runaway
Song Ryul returns to the countryside to see his ill father. After his cousin conspires with the Japa...
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The Money
The Money is about a poor farmer whose bid for a better life ends up bringing calamity to his family...
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To the Last Day
Captain Kim is grievously wounded in the first days of the war. When the northern troops continue th...
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Cinema in the Land of Comrade Kim
The love of Kim Jong Il, the former dictator of North Korea, for cinema and his adventures, includin...
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The Cloud Bridge of Gratitude
A royal delegation faces death when it returns with a document from the King of China with the royal...
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