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1. The Housemaid (1960)
Not Rated | 109 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A composer and his wife are thrown into turmoil when a housemaid becomes more than they bargained for.
Director: Kim Ki-young | Stars: Jin Kyu Kim, Jeung-nyeo Ju, Eun-shim Lee, Aeng-ran Eom
Votes: 5,702
2. Goryeojang (1963)
90 min | Drama
Prior to the adoption of Confucianism, it was the tradition to abandon one's parents on a mountainside if they were over 70 years of age. In the ancient kingdom of Goryeo, now modern Korea,... See full summary »
Director: Kim Ki-young | Stars: Jin Kyu Kim, Jeung-nyeo Ju, Ye-chun Lee
Votes: 154
3. The Sea Knows (1961)
108 min | Drama, War
A Korean man, forced into service in the Japanese army during WWII, marries his Japanese girlfriend despite everyone's objections. Later, he becomes the sole survivor when the Americans attack.
Director: Kim Ki-young | Stars: Woon-ha Kim, Sang-sa Lee, Ye-chun Lee
Votes: 30
4. Woman of Water (1979)
117 min | Drama
The troubled life and marriage of Jin-Seok, a Korean veteran of the Vietnam war.
Director: Kim Ki-young | Stars: Jeong-cheol Kim, Kim Ja-ok, Il-woong Lee, Hwa-shi Lee
Votes: 38
5. Woman of Fire (1971)
G | 98 min | Crime, Drama
The lives of a composer and his wife, who live on a chicken farm, are thrown into turmoil when a femme fatale joins their household.
Director: Kim Ki-young | Stars: Won Namkung, Gye-hyeon Jeon, Youn Yuh-jung, Mu-ryong Choi
Votes: 231
6. Io Island (1977)
110 min | Horror, Mystery
An investor planning on developing a tourist resort begins an investigation into the legends of the mysterious Io Island in the hope of exploiting its unspoiled beauty.
Director: Kim Ki-young | Stars: Hwa-shi Lee, Jeong-cheol Kim, Yun-seok Choi, Mi-hye Kwon
Votes: 499
7. Promise of the Flesh (1975)
95 min | Drama
A suicidal woman recalls her memories of sexual abuse while on a train ride. On route, she meets a man who may be the key to finding a reason to live.
Director: Kim Ki-young | Stars: Jeong-il Lee, Ji-mee Kim, Am Park, Jeong-ja Park
Votes: 89
8. The Housemaid (2010)
Not Rated | 107 min | Drama, Thriller
A man's affair with his family's housemaid leads to dark consequences.
Director: Im Sang-soo | Stars: Jeon Do-yeon, Lee Jung-jae, Youn Yuh-jung, Woo Seo
Votes: 12,501 | Gross: $0.15M
9. Neu-mi (1980)
100 min | Drama, Romance
A deaf woman boarding with an elderly laborer suffers many hardships upon the latter's death. The old man's son offers to care for her, but she feels she must leave in order to protect the young man's reputation.
Director: Kim Ki-young | Stars: Chang Mi-hee, Ha Myeong-jung, Baek Il-seob, Mi-hye Kwon
Votes: 6
10. Pagye (1974)
112 min
A boy raised in a temple by monks must resist the test of temptation before he can become an abbot of his order.
Director: Kim Ki-young | Stars: Bool-am Choi, Byeong-ho Park, Jae-seong Jo, Im Ye-jin
Votes: 26
11. Woman Chasing the Butterfly of Death (1978)
110 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A depressed young man crosses paths with a woman who commits suicide, a book salesman obsessed with the will to live, a resurrected female corpse, and a archaeologist and his unstable artist daughter, in a fantasy tale of life and death.
Director: Kim Ki-young | Stars: Kim Ja-ok, Jeong-cheol Kim, Man Kim, Won Namkung
Votes: 270
12. Insect Woman (1972)
110 min | Drama, Horror
A schoolgirl goes from braids to bouffant when her mother makes her a bar hostess/prostitute. She cures impotence for Professor Lee and becomes his concubine. His entrepreneurial wife is ... See full summary »
Director: Kim Ki-young | Stars: Won Namkung, Youn Yuh-jung, Gye-hyeon Jeon
Votes: 196
13. Carnivorous Animal (1985)
105 min | Drama
The story of an insecure man who looks for comfort in an extramarital affair.
Director: Kim Ki-young | Star: Seong-gyeom Kim
Votes: 44
14. Yangsan Province (1955)
90 min | Drama, Romance
Two lovers are forced into suicide as the only way to maintain their forbidden love.
Director: Kim Ki-young | Stars: Sam-hwa Kim, Yong-su Jo, Am Park, Seung-ho Kim
Votes: 76
15. Hunting for Idiots (1984)
100 min
Two petty thieves wind up as errand boys for a prostitute they were hired to kidnap. However, having them around proves to be bad for business and she is kicked out of the brothel by her ... See full summary »
Director: Kim Ki-young | Star: Am Park
Votes: 16
16. Woman of Fire '82 (1982)
115 min | Horror, Thriller
This is a remake of the classic "The Housemaid" (aka Hayo). This time it takes place on a chicken farm run by the wife. This gives a new animal horror to add to Kim's trademark rats (see ... See full summary »
Director: Kim Ki-young | Stars: Jeon Moo-song, Yeong-hie Na, Ji-mee Kim, Jae-ha Yeo
Votes: 94
17. Free Maiden (1982)
95 min
A Korean woman raised in Spain with European values towards life and romance finds living in her ancestral land stifling and it eats away at her vitality.
Director: Kim Ki-young | Stars: So-yeong Ahn, Shin Seong-il, Won-seob Kim
Votes: 9
18. Be a Wicked Woman (1995)
95 min | Drama
Two women in dismal marriages agree to kill each other's husband.
Director: Kim Ki-young | Stars: Youn Yuh-jung, Kil-soo Hyeon
Votes: 14
19. Ban Geum-ryun (1982)
90 min | History
In ancient China, a salt merchant takes three wives. However their rivalry, plots and in-fighting destroy more than one family.
Director: Kim Ki-young | Stars: Shin Seong-il, Hwa-shi Lee, Kim Yeong-ae, Am Park
Votes: 18
20. Solimsa jucheongwidong (1982)
82 min | Action, Drama
Directors: Jong-seong Kim, Wang Yung Ling, Jimmy Tseng | Stars: Jae-yeong Lee, Pung Im, Keith Lee, Bao-Liang Chen
Votes: 46
21. The Boxes of Death (1955)
Action
A village youth gets trapped inside a communist hideout with his home made timebomb and must escape before it goes off.
Director: Kim Ki-young | Stars: Mu-ryong Choi, Hyo-shil Kang, Neung-kyeol No, Nam-hyeon Choi
Votes: 15
22. Lady Hong the Beauty (1969)
Horror
A man is haunted by the ghost of his murdered girlfriend who tries to tempt him into the underworld. He is also visited by the girls dead mother who is furious with him for loving her daughter.
Director: Kim Ki-young | Stars: Lee Soon-jae, Hie Mun, Mi-ja Sa, Jeong-hun Kim
24. The Twilight Train (1957)
Drama, Romance
The rivalry between two families prevents budding love from being realized in the younger generation.
Director: Kim Ki-young | Stars: Am Park, Kum-Bong Do, Sam Choi, Ji-mee Kim
25. Achime toigeunhaneun yeoja (1979)
108 min | Drama, Romance
Director: Yong-jun Park | Stars: Ko Du-shim, Ha Myeong-jung, Hwa-shi Lee
26. Len's Sonata (1969)
88 min | Action, Drama, Romance
Simon, a painter, regains the use of his hands thanks to therapy administered by Ren. Later, when Simon is kidnapped by communists and forced to paint a portrait of Stalin, Ren again helps ... See full summary »
Director: Kim Ki-young | Stars: Jin Kyu Kim, Ji-mee Kim, Mi-ja Sa, Myeong-jin Kim
27. The Asphalt Pavement (1964)
Action, Thriller
In the process of arresting a smuggler, the criminal's wife is killed. Twenty years later, the smuggler is released from prison and vows to murder the wife of the policeman who killed his spouse.
Director: Kim Ki-young | Stars: Jin Kyu Kim, Dong-hwi Jang, Jeung-nyeo Ju, Dae-yeob Lee
28. A Soldier Speaks After Death (1966)
Drama, War
Before being drafted into war, a young, sensative botanist gives his collection of seeds to his mother. He fights bravely in the war while his mother tends to his plants. Finally he is sent... See full summary »
Director: Kim Ki-young | Stars: Yeong-gyun Shin, Seok-kang Kim, Jeong-sun Hwang
29. Insa yasu (1981)
96 min | Action, War
Director: Yeong-sun Kwon | Stars: Hui-yeong Kang, Jeong-Hwan Kook, Tae-jeong Kim
30. Jongjeom (1981)
100 min | Drama
The major shareholders of a large corporation on the verge of bankruptcy share joy, sorrow, romance, and tragedy.
Director: In-yeob Jeong | Stars: Chang Mi-hee, Park Won-suk
31. Soil (1978)
125 min
A lawyer's dealings withing impoverished farmers brings him into conflict with the Japanese colonial government which seeks his arrest
Director: Kim Ki-young | Stars: Hwa-shi Lee, Jeong-cheol Kim, Bok-sun Yeom
32. A Touch-Me-Not (1956)
Action, Romance
A bandit king has fallen in love, but his romantic interest has many admirers and none are willing to give up the chance of marital bliss.
Director: Kim Ki-young | Stars: Kang-hie Na, Seok-jin Ahn, Song Baek, Il-hwa Hong
33. Hyeolyukae (1976)
100 min | Drama
North Korean agents are sent to Seoul to disrupt the visit of important international dignitaries.
Director: Kim Ki-young | Stars: Hwa-shi Lee, Won-seob Kim, Bool-am Choi, Jeon Yang-ja
34. A Sad Pastorale (1960)
Drama, Romance
Byeong-cheol rescues Do-suk from a gang and falls in love with her all the while regretting the existence of his fiance.
Director: Kim Ki-young | Stars: Choi Eun-hie, Seok-hun Kim, Ui-hyang Kim
35. Yeoseong jeonseon (1957)
Drama
The household maid becomes pregnant by her employer's husband and she flees to the countryside to raise her daughter on her own.
Director: Kim Ki-young | Stars: Mi-lyeong Jo, Am Park, Min Lee, Dong-won Kim
36. The First Snow (1958)
Drama
While protesting the urban renewal project that will destroy their hovels, a group of squatters slowly come to the conclusion that it is their own fault they are without homes. They leave to find new lives for themselves.
Director: Kim Ki-young | Stars: Ji-mee Kim, Seung-ho Kim, Am Park, Sam Choi
37. Isaeng dajunda haedo (1981)
95 min | Drama
Director: Yong-jun Park | Stars: Kim Ja-ok, Yu Jang-hyeon, Hwa-shi Lee, Jeong-cheol Kim
38. Diary of Three Sailors (1955)
38 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Kim Ki-young | Star: Kim Ki-young
39. Goedochulma (1981)
80 min | Action
Hwang Ryong, a martial arts master, trains in the ten ways of the sword in order to defend his nation from the barbarians to the north and would-be invaders from the east.
Director: Yeong-cheol Choi | Stars: Tae-seon Mun, Kil-won Ahn, Jeong-lee Hwang, So-yeong Choi
40. Naeil-ui Tae-yang (1962)
Drama
Director: Young-Keun Oh | Stars: Seok-hun Kim, Min Lee, Min-ja Lee, Geum-seong Seok
41. Yonggwon sasu (1981)
95 min | Action
Director: Shi-hyeon Kim | Stars: Ryong Keo, Yi-Min Li, Do-shik Ma
42. A Defiance of Teenager (1959)
Action, Romance
A group of juvenile delinquents pickpocket and steal for an evil boss who will not even allow them to fall in love.
Director: Kim Ki-young | Stars: Hae-nam Hwang, Aeng-ran Eom, Mi-lyeong Jo, Ahn Sung-ki
43. Yeo (1968)
Drama
Directors: Jung Jin-woo, Kim Ki-young, Hyeon-mok Yun | Stars: Shin Seong-il, Ji-mee Kim, Hie Mun, Choi Eun-hie
44. Ward of Affection (1953)
22 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Kim Ki-young | Star: Kim Ki-young