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
Direction Yu Hyun-mok
Cast Lee Young-ha · Na Young-hee · Ahn Sung-Kee · Jang Dong-hwi
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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
Direction Yu Hyun-mok
Cast Park No-sik · Hong Se-mi · Nam Kung-won · Yun Il-bong
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Bright Future
1963 · Movie · min. · South Korea
Direction Yu Hyun-mok
Cast Nam Seok-hun · Tae Hyeon-shil · Kim Jin-kyu
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A Song Everyone Wants to Sing Together
1979 · Movie · 100 min. · South Korea
Direction Yu Hyun-mok
Cast Jeong Hee · Lee Dae-kun · Yang Il-min
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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
Direction Yu Hyun-mok
Cast Lee Min-ja · Shin Sung-il · Heo Jang-kang
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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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