Direction: Yu Hyun-mok

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Yu Hyun-mok. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Aimless Bullet

1961 · Movie · 107 min. · South Korea

Direction Yu Hyun-mok

Cast Choi Mu-ryong · Kim Jin-kyu · Moon Jeong-suk · Seo Ae-ja

Plot A public accountant's salary is far too small for him to even get a cavity fixed, let alone support his family. However, he must somehow provide for his senile, shell-shocked...

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I'll Give You Everything

1968 · Movie · 95 min. · South Korea

Direction Yu Hyun-mok

Cast Kim Jin-kyu · Mi-ryeong Jo · Son Bang-won · Park Am

Plot A slovenly middle-aged painter and a neat-freak widow have a tempestuous relationship.

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Mom, the Star, and the Sea Anemone

1995 · Movie · 113 min. · South Korea

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Empty Dream

1965 · Movie · 100 min. · South Korea

Direction Yu Hyun-mok

Cast Shin Sung-il · Park Su-jeong · Park Am

Plot A young man and a woman come to know each other while at the dentists's office. They are put under anesthesia and in the unconsciousness they fall in a love...

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Woman

1968 · Movie · 100 min. · South Korea

Direction Kim Ki-young · Yu Hyun-mok · Jeong Jin-woo

Cast Shin Sung-il · Kim Ji-mee · Choi Eun-hee · Moon Hee

Plot The film is a melodrama about a man who falls in love with a woman while traveling to Seoraksan. The man becomes infatuated with the woman's hair. The woman, who...

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Arirang

1968 · Movie · 105 min. · South Korea

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Bright Future

1963 · Movie · min. · South Korea

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A Song Everyone Wants to Sing Together

1979 · Movie · 100 min. · South Korea

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Regret

1967 · Movie · min. · South Korea

Direction Yu Hyun-mok

Cast Oh Yeong-Il · Moon Hee

Plot Three short horror stories involving ghosts. In the first story, a wife prays to her husband's spirit for 100 days, after which they are joined in death. The second story...

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Lost Youth

1957 · Movie · min. · South Korea

Direction Yu Hyun-mok

Cast Choi Mu-ryong · Lee Kyeong-hie · Jo Seok-geun · Park Am

Plot An impoverished young electrician kills a man for money. He attempts to flee responsibility in the arms of his lover, but winds up confessing his crime and surrendering himself.

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The Great Hero, Lee Sun-shin

1962 · Movie · 120 min. · South Korea

Direction Yu Hyun-mok

Cast Yoon Il-bong · Jo Mi-ryeong · Kim Seung-ho

Plot During the Joseon period, Admiral Lee Sun-shin helps fight a Japanese invasion by building iron-clad Turtle Ships. He is later betrayed and sent to prison. Upon release he rejoins the...

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Descendents of Cain

1968 · Movie · 107 min. · South Korea

Direction Yu Hyun-mok

Cast Kim Jin-kyu · Park No-sik · Seong So-min · Yang Il-min

Plot An anti-communist film depicting North Korean confiscation of personal property.

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Lim Geok-jeong

1961 · Movie · 90 min. · South Korea

Direction Yu Hyun-mok

Cast Shin Young-kyun · Moon Jeong-suk · Choi Mu-ryong · Seong So-min

Plot Lim Geok-jeong, a butcher's son, helps fight against the tyranny of the aristocracy in the closing years of the Joseon dynasty.

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Flame

1975 · Movie · 95 min. · South Korea

Direction Yu Hyun-mok

Cast Kim Jin-kyu · Go Eun-ah · Yun So-ra · Ha Myeong-jung

Plot After learning of his father heroic death fighting against the Japanese, a young man determines to fight against communism during the Korean War.

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The Guest Who Came on the Last Train

1967 · Movie · 104 min. · South Korea

Direction Yu Hyun-mok

Cast Lee Sun-jae · Moon Hee · Seong Hun · Kim Sung-ok

Plot Yu Hyun-mok, described by some as the most intellectual filmmaker of Korea's Golden Age, adapted Guests Who Arrived by the Last Train from a noted short story by Hong Seong-won....

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Extra Humans

1964 · Movie · 100 min. · South Korea

Direction Yu Hyun-mok

Cast Kim Jin-kyu · Shin Young-kyun · Do Geum-bong · Kim Seok-gang

Plot A group in a hospital waiting room complain about their lives and affairs.

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Freely Given (Only for You)

1962 · Movie · 100 min. · South Korea

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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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Ruined Reeds

1984 · Movie · 106 min. · South Korea

Direction Yu Hyun-mok

Cast Choi Chong-min · Park Il-jun · Mun Sun-seop

Plot The film tells the story of the Korean wife of an American GI who struggles to save her mixed race son after he joins a biker gang.

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The Daughters of Kim's Pharmacy

1963 · Movie · 108 min. · South Korea

Direction Yu Hyun-mok

Cast Kim Dong-won · Um Aing-ran · Choi Ji-hie · Lee Min-ja

Plot After an aggressive man lets his anger get the better of him, his wife takes her own life and he is forced to go on the run. The son he...

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