Cinematography: Yong-kil You

The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Yong-kil You. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.


I'll Become a Man

1969 · Movie · 96 min. · South Korea

Direction Yu Hyun-mok

Cast Kim Jin-kyu · Go Eun-ah · Kim Hye-jeong

Plot A Russian woman working at the embassy in North Korea is in love with Seok-bong, a North Korean who is engaged to someone else. Seok-bong's brother is executed for participating...

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I Wish for What Is Forbidden to Me

1994 · Movie · 115 min. · South Korea

Direction Chang Kil-Soo

Cast Choi Jin-shil · Lim Seong-min · Yoo Oh-sung · Kim Byeong-se

Plot A woman decides to take revenge for the violence she has witnessed towards other women. She chooses a movie star as her target because of his high profile and because...

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Gagman

1989 · Movie · 127 min. · South Korea

Direction Lee Myung-se

Cast Ahn Sung-Kee · Sin-Hye Hwang · Bae Chang-ho · Jeon Mu-son

Plot Lee Jong-se is a third-rate comedian who believes himself to be a creative genius. He desires nothing more than to be a movie director. When he befriends barber, Mun Do-seok...

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The Black Republic

1990 · Movie · 100 min. · South Korea

Direction Park Kwang-su

Cast Jin-hui Kim · Min-oe Kim · Il-woo Lee · Mun Seong-kun

Plot In a mining village layered in gray dust, a man posing as Kim Ki-Young finds refuge from winter and the law.

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My Love, My Bride

1990 · Movie · 108 min. · South Korea

Direction Lee Myung-se

Cast Park Joong-hoon · Choi Jin-shil · Kim Bo-yeon · Jeon Mu-son

Plot Young-min and Mi-yeong are college sweethearts who naively believe that their love will remain unchanged forever at the time of their wedding. But their married life gets off to a...

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Because You Are a Woman

1990 · Movie · 105 min. · South Korea

Direction Kim Yu-jin

Cast Mi-kyeong Won · Lee Young-ha · Suk Son · Lee Kyung-young

Plot A housewife is sexually assaulted by two young teenagers on her way home late at night. In self-defense, she bites her assailant's tongue. She soon finds herself arrested when the...

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The Lovers of Woomook-baemi

1990 · Movie · 114 min. · South Korea

Direction Jang Sun-woo

Cast Myeong-Gil Choi · Lee Dae-kun · Park Joong-hoon · Seo Kap-suk

Plot Bae Il-do, grown up in a country unappreciated, ran away from home and works as a taylor. His wife also went through a lot growing up under the step mother’s...

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The Age of Success

1988 · Movie · 110 min. · South Korea

Direction Jang Sun-woo

Cast Ahn Sung-Kee · Choe Bong · Choi Ki-yeong · Gong Sang-suk

Plot Kim Pan-chok (means "sales promotion") is assigned to work in the sales promotion department of Yumi Inc., a sweetener manufacturer. He falls ill after a heated sales war with Gammi...

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To the Starry Island

1993 · Movie · 102 min. · South Korea

Direction Park Kwang-su

Cast So-young Ahn · Ahn Sung-Kee · Hyung-in Choi · Choi Woo-Hyeok

Plot Moon Chae-Ku and his friend Kim Chul try to bring the body of Moon's father back to his native Kwisong Island for burial. Their ferry is intercepted by resentful islanders...

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Two Husbands

1970 · Movie · 100 min. · South Korea

Direction Yu Hyun-mok

Cast Kim Jin-kyu · Moon Hee · Lee Nak-hun

Plot Two men, Haeng-sik and Seon-bok, are both in love with Chun-sil, the daughter of a ginseng seller. Chun-sil's father gives Haeng-sik permission to marry his daughter, however Chun-sil leaves home...

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The Flower and the Snake

1975 · Movie · 85 min. · South Korea

Direction Lee Won-se

Cast Park Geun-hyeong · Yun Cho-hie · Kim Ji-hae · Lee Jong-man

Plot Lee Seon-ok is murdered while her husband is performing in a play. Detectives investigating the case, learn that their are several reasons why someone might want him dead.

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Passage to Buddha

1993 · Movie · 136 min. · South Korea

Direction Jang Sun-woo

Cast Mi-kyeong Won · Oh Tae-kyung · Hye-seon Kim · Hae-young Lee

Plot A young boy mourns the death of his father, and begins a quest to find his mother. He encounters many people on the way who quote Buddhist precepts: an eccentric...

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A Single Spark

1995 · Movie · 96 min. · South Korea

Direction Park Kwang-su

Cast Kyoung-In Hong · Kim Bo-kyeong · Sun-Jae Kim

Plot The film intercuts two stories, one in black and white, one in color. From 1965 to 1970, we follow Jeon Tae-Il, a poor young man who quits street vending to...

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Rainy Days

1979 · Movie · 114 min. · South Korea

Direction Yu Hyun-mok

Cast Lee Dae-kun · Hwang Jung-seun · Kim Seok-hun · Kim Shin-jae

Plot During the Korean War in early 1950s, mother’s family comes and stays at Dong-man’s house. His uncle on father’s side is a North Korean partisan and the uncle on mother’s...

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Bun-rye's Story

1971 · Movie · 102 min. · South Korea

Direction Yu Hyun-mok

Cast Lee Sun-jae · Heo Jang-kang · Yu Jeong-hie

Plot Bun-rye is a poor girl who is raped by Yong-pal. She becomes a concubine of the impotent gambler, Young-Cheol. Young-Cheol takes out his frustrations on Bun-rye, eventually disowning her. When...

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