
Gwon Yeong-sun
Directing
Biography
Gwon Yeong-sun (March 9, 1923 - May 22, 1992)[1] was a Korean director. He made his directorial debut with the 1956 film Ok Dan-jun.
Known For

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.
Soil

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.
A Drifting Story

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Princess Ok-ran and Hwalbindang

Fairly obscure Taiwanese Swordplay with a very slight fantasy edge to it.
Treasure Castle

South Korean martial arts.
Hero's Blood

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The Korean Instrument with 12 Strings
While studying wild ginseng, a botanist Choi Kwang-Ho goes to the mountain, believing that people in the southern part grow wild ginseng, living almost primitive lives a like half man and half beast and leading wolves like dogs. From that time, nothing has been heard. Thirty years later, Choi Ji-Wung finds out his father Choi Kwang-Ho, but thirty years isolated period makes Kwang-Ho leave forever the mundane world contaminated with pollution. With wolves and southern people, the father goes back to the mountain, and the son climbs down the mountain looking at his father's back.
Half Man and Half Beast

Korean guerrillas fight against the Japanese as the latter try to invade China through Manchuria.
Conqueror

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.
Father and Sons
Lim Mun-Young running a Tae-Kwondo gymnasium in Manila starts finding his uncle, who disappeared with his jewel bag in the Borneo forest by the airplane crash. In the forest, there are tribes that worship snakes. His uncle was killed by a shaman Adura. Saved by Wangbina, a beautiful shaman, just before being killed, Mun-Young falls in love with her. When Mun-Young comes back to Manila, every woman he meets is killed by snakes. In Borneo, Mun-Young gets a secret to kill Adura from an old man and then, kills Adura after several crises. Finally, he comes back to Manila with Wangbina.
Human Affairs Are Nothing

Ji Su-Bin, a novelist of a prize novel 'I-A', makes a brilliant debut in the world of literature. But the novel is not hers but her sister's, Su-Hwa, who lives in a mystery after a false notice of death because her face is covered all over with wounds due to a fire. Su-Hwa described the limit of man and love with love to Sang-Hyeon. Su-Bin gains fame more and more, but Han Pil-Hun, a journalist who deduces Su-Bin's family and the world of her work, reveals the truth.
An Extinguished Window
Su-Jeong, a daughter of the lord of a castle in a beautiful country, Star, loves Ho-Dong, a brave man. The lord declares that the person who brings the most valuable treasure will be the husband of his daughter. Then, with a magic box, Ho-Dong takes part in the contest but Wang Bang Wul wins the victory with an evil plot. Frustrated Ho-Dong and Su-Jeong go in the magic box where the age is modern times. They experience there a variety of happy events, appearing on TV and winning a prize. Ho-Dong and Su-Jeong returning to Star under Wang Bang Wul's occupation rescue the lord and restore peace.
A Brave King

A new pathogen, previously unknown to the academic community, begins claiming lives in a city in Manila, Philippines. To uncover the cause, Dr. Jeong, Fuad, and Ji-suk, a team of researchers, venture into the undeveloped regions of the Philippines. However, they are captured by the indigenous people and subjected to various ordeals. Things take a dramatic turn when Ji-suk is forced into a marriage ceremony with the son of the tribal chief.
West of Eden

Qin Shi Huang (Kim Seung-ho), who unified China with an army of 500,000, takes Yong-nyeo (Kim Ji-mi), the daughter of a tribal chief, as a concubine on his way back to Hanyang; after spending a night together, she asks for a slave, and he grants her Jin Seung (Kim Jin-kyu), leading to Jin Seung eventually escaping the palace and organizing a rebellion against Qin's tyrannical rule, culminating in a victorious battle against the Qin army.