Kim Yeon-sil
Birthday: 1911-01-01
Place of Birth: Suwon, Empire of Japan [now Gyeonggi province, South Korea]
Biography: In 1927, Kim Yeon-sil debuted in the film industry as a country girl in Na Un-gyu's first production, A Farewell. Kim Yeon-sil's interest in film was largely influenced by her brother Kim Hak-geun, who was her lawyer. Her cameraman, Kim Hak-seong, was also her biological younger brother. She is said to have been active as a public singer after 1930. After liberation, she defected to North Korea. In North Korea, she served as an actress at the Joseon Art Film Studio, and she was awarded the title of People's Actress. She died in August 1997.
Movies
Village of strong guys
About the pastor's daughter, who reconciled the irreconcilable fighters - the inhabitants of two nei...
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A Ferry Boat that Has No Owner
A farmer sells his land to go to Seoul and become a rickshaw driver....
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Wheel of Fire
The film shows the hard life and labor disputes of urban workers, as well as the harsh reality of Ko...
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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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Scouts
The film tells the story of a small group of the Korean People's Army, led by Hakcheol Lee, deputy c...
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Crossroads of Youth
After spending 7 years as a man-servant in his fiancé's house, Young-bok gets kicked out of the plac...
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Sorrowful Song in the Buddhist Monastery
The story of a man and a woman who fell in love without knowing that they were half-brother and sist...
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The Story of Sim Cheong
Film opera. The legend of the young Cheon Sim who throws herself into the Indangsu sea sacrificing h...
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How can we live apart?
Yong Nam was separated from his mother by the war on the Korean Peninsula (1950-1953): the boy remai...
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Her Life Path
Using the fate of an ordinary woman as an example, the film shows how life has changed in liberated ...
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Prelude to the struggle
About the last days of the government of Syngman Rhee, about the struggle against his regime of Seou...
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Centre Forward
In-Son is a young benchwarmer with aspirations of breaking into the first team, which is littered wi...
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People Who Are Fighting against the Sea
The people of Murendo Island make their living by fishing. Once, strangers from the city came to thi...
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Su-il and Sun-ae
Su-il's life is turned upside down when he learns that his lover Sun-ae is getting married to the we...
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The Street Named Jongno
The film is a melodrama in which Na Woon-gyu's character breaks up with his girlfriend and becomes a...
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Ex-Convict
Kyungsun Lee, the son of a blind father, committed many crimes and was away from home. One day, he m...
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The Story of Chun-hyang
Chun-hyang, the daughter of a geisha in the Namwon region, and Lee Mong-ryong are engaged. When Lee ...
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The Story of Hong Gil-dong
The Korean equivalent of Robin Hood, in which the brave Hong Gil-dong stands up for the poor....
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Challenge
Satou and his party are attacked by a band of thieves. Satou's group is annihilated, but only Sato's...
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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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Jackals
A screen adaptation of Han Sorya's novel 'Jackals', which tells the story of a Korean boy killed by ...
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Son of the Land
Told in three parts, Yong Min, who prior to the liberation of Korea received all sorts of humiliatio...
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The Ringing of a Bell
Wonyong and Yeonsil are in love with each other. The gangster Gyeong-seon also has a crush on Yeon-s...
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