Screenplay: Lim Hee-jae

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Lim Hee-jae. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


A Coachman

1961 · Movie · 95 min. · South Korea

Direction Kang Dae-jin

Cast Kim Seung-ho · Shin Young-kyun · Hwang Jung-seun · Mi-ryeong Jo

Plot A man tries to raise his two sons and two daughters under some of the most adverse conditions known to man. The father operates a horse-drawn cart, but in a...

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The Traveller King

1967 · Movie · 120 min. · South Korea

Direction Choi In-hyeon

Cast Shin Sung-il · Moon Hee · Park Byeong-ho

Plot King Sun-cho, the 23rd king of the Chosun Dynasty, is forced to execute his son on charges of attempting to overthrow him. The king's grandchildren are exiled to a small,...

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Mother's Diary

1968 · Movie · 91 min. · South Korea

Direction Lee Hyeong-pyo

Cast Kim Jin-kyu · Kim Ji-mee · Ko Eun-ah · Lee Ji-yeon

Plot An elementary school student lives with her father, but misses her mother. She writes in her diary everyday as if she is talking to her mother. When her mother finally...

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A Virtuous Woman

1967 · Movie · min. · South Korea

Direction Choi In-hyeon

Cast Shin Young-kyun · Nam Jeong-im

Plot In order to seek revenge on her parents enemies, a woman becomes a kisaeng, seduces and kills them after making love. She finds herself arrested and on trial, facing the...

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Hateful King

1967 · Movie · 100 min. · South Korea

Direction Choi In-hyeon

Cast Shin Young-kyun · Nam Jeong-im · Lee Sun-jae · Lee Bin-Hwa

Plot King Yeon-san meets a simple peasant girl named Dal-nim while he was on a hunting trip. Struck by her beauty, he orders her to the palace as a concubine.

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Romance Gray

1963 · Movie · 125 min. · South Korea

Direction Shin Sang-ok

Cast Choi Eun-hee · Han Eun-jin · Kim Seung-ho · Shin Young-kyun

Plot When two wives realize that their wealthy and otherwise upstanding husbands have mistresses, they invite the 'other women' to stay in their houses for awhile. Realizing that they are breaking...

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Live Stronger

1965 · Movie · 100 min. · South Korea

Direction Lee Kang-cheon

Cast Shin Young-kyun · Kim Ji-mee · Heo Jang-kang · Lee Ye-chun

Plot A nobleman is so poor that his wife secretly finds work as a seamstress. When he discovers this fact, the nobleman leaves his home in shame to seek his fortune...

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Romance Gray

1979 · Movie · 105 min. · South Korea

Direction Moon Yeo-song

Cast Choi Bool-am · Baek Il-seob · Sa Mi-ja · Kim Yeong-ae

Plot Professor Jo Yeong-hwa gets taken in by a pretty young woman who, unknown to him, supports herself by preying off the vanity of middle-aged men.

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To the Last Day

1960 · Movie · min. · South Korea

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A Bride on the Second Floor

1968 · Movie · 94 min. · South Korea

Direction Lee Seong-gu

Cast Chung Mi-kyung · Gwon Oh-sang · Hee Moon · Heo Chang-Kang

Plot A young bride moves into her husband's family and tries to modernize their lifestyle. Her plans, though, often get discouraged by her mother-in-law, a conservative lady who stresses traditional values.

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Choseol

1958 · Movie · min. · South Korea

Direction Kim Ki-young

Cast Kim Ji-mee · Kim Seung-ho · Park Am · Choi Sam

Plot 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....

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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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Prince Yeonsan

1961 · Movie · 133 min. · South Korea

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History of Love

1960 · Movie · 100 min. · South Korea

Direction Lee Kang-cheon

Cast Choi Eun-hee · Kim Jin-kyu · Shin Sung-il · Kim Hye-jeong

Plot A woman supports a young student who was a pupil of her late husband. She soon falls in love with him and sacrifices everything for his success and happiness, knowing...

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Madam White Snake

1960 · Movie · 100 min. · South Korea

Direction Shin Sang-ok

Cast Choi Eun-hee · Shin Sung-il · Han Eun-jin · Choi Sam

Plot A poisonous white snake is transformed into a beautiful woman by a demon in order to destroy a particularly pure monk who works in the service of the goddess of...

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Tyrant Yeonsan

1962 · Movie · 192 min. · South Korea

Direction Shin Sang-ok

Cast Shin Young-kyun · Choi Eun-hee · Kim Jin-kyu · Choi Nam-hyeon

Plot Continuing the story of the film, Prince Yeonsan, Yeonsan's grief and dissipated life leads him to become a cruel tyrant, ordering the decapitation of the court members who advised the...

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Seong Chunhyang

1961 · Movie · 120 min. · South Korea

Direction Shin Sang-ok

Cast Choi Eun-hee · Kim Jin-kyu · Do Geum-bong · Heo Jang-kang

Plot The daughter of a kisaeng in Namwon falls in love with Lee, a noble's son. Her lover leaves to complete his studies in Seoul and Chunhyang awaits his return. Soon,...

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Bloodline

1963 · Movie · 90 min. · South Korea

Direction Kim Soo-yong

Cast Kim Seung-ho · Hwang Jung-seun · Kim Ji-mee · Choi Nam-hyeon

Plot An anti-communist film based on a novel. The film depicts conflict between the generations in a village. The elders want their children to follow the old ways, but the children...

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Prince Yang-nyeong

1968 · Movie · 94 min. · South Korea

Direction Choi In-hyeon

Cast Shin Young-kyun · Nam Jeong-im · Kim Hie-jun · Cheong-ja Kim

Plot King Taejong disinherits his son, crown prince Yang-nyeong, for falling in love with a peasant. His brother succeeds to the throne. Taking the name King Sejong, he reverses their father's...

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Romance Mama

1968 · Movie · 82 min. · South Korea

Direction Choi In-hyeon

Cast Mi-ryeong Jo · Shin Young-kyun · Nam Jeong-im · Heo Jang-kang

Plot To show her middle-aged husband how foolish he looks in his flirtation with a young teahouse hostess, his wife starts meeting a much younger man.

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