Shin Seong-il
Birthday: 1937-05-08
Place of Birth: Daegu, Korea
Biography: Shin Seong-il was a Korean actor (1937-2018). Born in occupied Korea, as Kang Shin-yeong, he attended Geonguk University, majoring in Korean Literature. He made his film debut in director Shin Sang-ok's Romance Papa in 1960 and appeared in more than 500 movies. He won several awards for best actor or best supporting actor for films such as Private Tutor (1963) and Moonlight Hunter (1987). In 1979, he became the chairman of the Korean Actors League and held the position for several consecutive terms. After a long career as an actor and having directed and even produced, Shin Sung-il retired from the film industry in favour of pursuing a career in politics. He was elected to the National Assembly.
Movies
The Beautiful Maid
A woman is in domestic service after going up to Seoul. She loves a university student of a rich fam...
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A Young Zelkova
Suk-hee's mother is remarried to a man who has a son a year senior than Suk-hee. The two don't get a...
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The Three-Day Reign
During the last days of the Yi dynasty, conflict arises between the China-leaning conservatives, and...
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General's Son 3
Following the final events of General's Son 2, Kim Du-han is forced to go on the lam but eventually ...
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A Year-End Medley
A romantic comedy of a young man and woman that is told in the background of hotel 'Emross'. It has ...
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Living in the Sky
The film, which was shot to promote the Korean air force team, depicts the story of air force studen...
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A Hero without a Serial Number
In around the 1950s. A man in charge of a guerilla unit is hiding in the Masingryeong Mountains. On ...
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Confess of Woman
When her husband goes away to America to study for three years, she gets lonely and begins to meet a...
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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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Under an Umbrella
Dong Won is a down-and-out artist who suffers from despair and dissatisfaction and suicidal tendenci...
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My Old Sweetheart
A 36-year old detective falls in love with a nihilistic 19-year old shop-lifter and wonders if the r...
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Who Saw The Dragon's Claws?
Ji-won, a news anchor woman, witnesses Jung Yong-wook, an emerging leader of the ruling party, being...
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Dancing daughter
Su-hee, who grew up with a single father, decides to give up her studies due to the recurrence of he...
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For My Husband
His own father had hated Crown Prince Sado. The king finally orders to kill him by locking him up in...
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I Am a King
Trainer Meng Doo-ho spots Young-chul in a bar fight and decides to turn him into a boxing champion....
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Femme Fatale, Jang Hee Bin
King Sukjong assigns Jang Ok-nan, a court lady, as a concubine overnight. Jang plots to drive the cu...
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Five Hostesses for the Resistance
A patriot Park No-Hun is dispatched by Shanghai Provisional Government for Independence to assassina...
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Ring of Hell
Ka-chi who spent a miserable childhood starts out looking for Eom-ji, who used to be at the orphanag...
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Special Agent X-7
The Korean Intelligence Agency receives information that a huge amount of gold is being smuggled by ...
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Green Rain
Cheol, an auto mechanic, and Yeong-hui, a maid meet. Cheol lies and tells Yeong-hui that he is the s...
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Vega
As the daughter-in-law of a prestigious family, she had to live in a tearful marriage with strict mo...
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Door to the Night
After the death of his wife, Jong-Sub (Kang Shin Sung Il) raised his son alone. He lost his son in a...
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Is Your Husband Like This Too?
Minsu and Insuk are a happily married couple until Minsu's chance encounter with a woman named Young...
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The Great Sokgulam Cave Temple
This film portrays the construction of Seokguram Grotto during King Gyeongdeok's reign in Silla. It ...
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Wind, Please Tell Me
Wanho and Kyunghui go camping, but Gwisun secretly loves Wanho. After an accident, Wanho and Gwisun ...
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A Woman on the Verge
Ha Kook-jin, a physician, meets Noh Ae-ri and his group who came to broadcast at the ski resort wher...
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A Forest Where a Woman Breathes
Dong-hoon, a CF director, decides to marry Su-hee, a young lady, with the introduction of Jun-seok, ...
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Beyond the Mountain
In a quite mountain temple Chim-hae follows a path of asceticism under the instruction of the High P...
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Yes, Goodbye for Today
A boxer, recently released from prison after serving sentences for throwing a fight and assault, fin...
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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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Why a Cuckoo Cries
The only son of a government official Yun loves Ok-hwa, the daughter of former gisaeng Gye-seon. But...
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You Become a Star, Too
A butterfly flies from the mountain to the city. Sang-Kyu, who works in a company, buys a house in t...
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Legends
Three traditional Korean folktales. Story 1: The kindness and good deeds of a poor couple earns them...
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Herb of Desire
Two traditional stories. In the first, a girl marries the bravest man in the village so she can send...
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Gate of Woman
In 1900, there lived two widows in a village : Mrs. Seo and her daughter-in-law Ok-Nyeo. Water carri...
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Temporary Government in Shanghai
The story deals with the life of Kim Gu, who dedicated his life for the good of his country and peop...
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The Daughters of Kim's Pharmacy
After an aggressive man lets his anger get the better of him, his wife takes her own life and he is ...
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A Barren Woman
Ji-won, a playwright, tries to make her promiscuous husband, to drop his bad habits. But he continu...
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The Midnight Sun
Jang Jung-Han is a commander of 330 unit who is with his wife and son Kyu-Shik. By chance Kyu-Shik m...
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A Day Off
One Sunday, a penniless unmarried young South Korean couple meet, as they do every Sunday; while the...
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A Student Boarder
A melodrama about a man whose girlfriend leaves him for another man after his face is disfigured. Th...
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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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An Empty Dream
While under the effects of anasthesia in a dentist's office, a young man and woman fantasize a roman...
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Betrayal
To prevent an investigation into a fraudulent bidding case, Woorim Engineering & Construction drives...
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The Starting Point
Crime ring leader Lee hires prostitute Seon to kill his subordinate Seok-gu who has threatened to ta...
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Kinship
The story takes place on a mountain slope where defectors from North Korea live. These families sell...
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The General's Mustache
The movie begins with the mysterious death of a journalistic photographer named Kim Cheol-hun. Veter...
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The Barefooted Young
Jo Doo-soo, a member of a gang, comes across and helps Joanna, a college student who is about to hav...
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Horse-year Bride
It is the year of the white horse that arrives every sixty years. Three women avoid sleeping with th...
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The Oldest Son
Forced to leave their home because of the construction of a new dam which will flood their village, ...
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The Eunuch
A nobleman sends his daughter to the king as a concubine in order to gain personal power and favors ...
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Mayumi: Virgin Terrorist
Two North Korean terrorists posing as Japanese tourists under the names of Shin Icho and Ma Yumi, bl...
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Watercolors in Rain
The story of Ji-su who life was torn by two women in his life. One of them is his step-sister and th...
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Come Down to a Lower Place
Yo-han is the son of a Christian minister. Following his father's career, he joins the seminary with...
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Heavenly Homecoming to Stars
A man and a woman fall for one another, but she is haunted by her troubled history with men....
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Night Journey
A bank employee dissatisfied with the casualness and secrecy of her relationship with her boyfriend,...
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Mist
Yun Gi-jun has become the executive director of a pharmaceutical company by marrying the widowed dau...
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A Misty Grassland
A woman attempts to seduce a rich man so she can convince him to help him pay for her dying sister's...
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Two Sons
Recently released from prison, Cheol-ho is expelled from his brother's house after he beats his sist...
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Lost Love
Su-il goes overseas to study with his future father-in-law's financial assistence. Over time he fall...
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Winter Woman
Based on a serial novel by Cho Hae-il, "Winter Woman" deals with the sexual awakening of Yi-hwa, the...
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Ban Geum-ryeon
Seo Mun-kyung, a merchant in ancient China where polygamy is legal, monopolizes the salt sales busin...
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Ascetic
How big is the gap between friendship and love between women? Can one separate the moral principles ...
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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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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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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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Who Saw The Dragon's Claws?
Ji-won, a news anchor woman, witnesses Jung Yong-wook, an emerging leader of the ruling party, being...
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Stroller
An old member of Namsadang (a wayfaring group of Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910)) leaves his daughter Gye...
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Desire
A doctor is shocked to learn that his girlfriend had formerly been the mistress of a married man....
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Typhoon
A vengeful refugee-turned-pirate steals nuclear materials to attack and obliterate the Koreas in a N...
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Late Autumn
A well behaved female prisoner, on parole, is set to return to prison. On the train ride back to pri...
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The Continental Spy
During the Chinese-Japanese War (1937-1945) a nightclub dancer is given a dangerous mission by her d...
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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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Free Woman
A Korean woman raised in Spain with European values towards life and romance finds living in her anc...
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The Classroom of Youth
While the students, full of vigor in their twenties, make a stand against their parents who regard d...
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The Lost Sun
A bar manager deals drugs on the side and tries to recruit her employees, friends and customers....
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Private Tutor
Two half brothers love a private tutor hired by their parents. She is more fond of the younger broth...
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Gunsmoke
O Jin-u of a rich family and a female private tutor at his house are in love, but his family are aga...
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The Three Hen-pecked Generations
A grandfather, his son, and grandson are all henpecked husbands. A comedy picturing these three henp...
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Starting Point
Sang-hun, a painter, and Yeong-hun, a doctor, are brothers. Sang-hun's girlfriend left him for anot...
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Sound of Magpies
Bong-su, who has been missing since the Korean War, returns to his hometown. A death notice for him ...
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Wildflowers on the Battleground
A look at the Korean War through the eyes of a mute boy who was kept as a mascot by a regiment of so...
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The Chrysanthemum and the Clown
The spy Im Su-myung refuses to speak. Kang Sin-jung is the lawyer appointed for Su-myung's defense. ...
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Gilsodom
A middle-aged woman in Busan searches for the son she lost in Gilsodom during the Korean War....
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The Rose That Swallowed Thorn
College girl Jang-mi, has trouble coping after her break up with with Kyu-sik. She suffers from the ...
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Woman Requiem
After the rape and subsequent suicide of a college student, her mother takes revenge on those respon...
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The Eunuch 2
After Queen Shin is dethroned, a power struggle erupts among King Jung-jong's concubines who hope to...
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Yeraishang
A self-supporting student injured during the 4.19 Student Uprising gets help from an older woman, a ...
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A Second Mother
Nam-Ok who has Yun-Ho and Yun-Suk remarries widowed Heung-Yeol who has Hyeong-Tae and Hyeong-Ja. Nam...
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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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Hedgehog of the Third Dock
The famous detective called 'the Hedgehog' finds himself the reluctant pawn of a North Korean spy wh...
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Festival
While awaiting the publication of his fairytale about his dementia-stricken octogenarian mother, an ...
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America, America
A young Korean-American accidently kills someone and spends the next 7 years in prison. When release...
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Deep in My Heart
Overseas student Zheng Yihua and her native Korean classmate Soo-ok are bosom friends. Suspecting ap...
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Chorus of Trees
Cheol-woo, a Korean law student at Waseda University in Tokyo, secretly leads a student reading club...
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