Jang Dong-hwi

Jang Dong-hwi

Birth : 1920-06-22, Incheon, South Korea

Death : 2005-04-02

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Jang Dong-hwi
Jang Dong-hwi

Movies

Two Flags
Based on Oh Yu-kwon's novel, A Mountain Hut In No-Man's Land, in which a woman helps two men who seek refuge in her humble mountain home at the start of the Korean War. However, her generosity and kindness leads to her losing her family, house and land.
A War Diary
Admiral Lee Sun-shin designs and builds the 'Turtle Ships' in preparation of the Japanese invasion during the Injin War. He is promoted after his victories, but due to his expanding influence and increased popularity in military circles, the king comes to fear him and has him imprisoned. A year later, the Japanese navy attempts another invasion and the king is required to enter the prison and beg the admiral's assistance.
A Woman Pursued
At the death of her father, A-mi returns to Korea and realises he was implicated in the theft of a chest full of gold bars. She then becomes the target of a criminal organisation.
Three Generations of Men
The Devil and the Beauty
When a doctor's beloved wife passes away, he puts her in a glass tub and revives her by injecting fresh blood to her every night. In return, he has to kill a number of other lives, including one of his friends. The victim's daughter suspects the death of her father and gets a job as a nurse at the doctor's office. She discovers the terrible secret and takes revenge for her father.
I Want to Be Human
Natasha, an officer at the Soviet Embassy in North Korea, is in love with Seok-bong. But Seok-bong has already planned his wedding with Bok-hui. Natasha grows jealous and threatens Bok-hui to leave somewhere else. Meanwhile Bok-hui's brother, Tae-yeong, is executed after participating in an anti-communist march. Seok-bong is accused of taking a part in the march. Seok-bong starts to feel pessimistic about his communist belief. He tries an escape to the South, but he is captured by the authority and executed.
School Excursion
A school teacher on a remote island has to convince skeptical parents to allow him to take his class of young children to Seoul to experience modern, urban civilization for the first time.
Eagle of Wild Field
Living in the Sky
The film, which was shot to promote the Korean air force team, depicts the story of air force students who are assigned to their base after hard training.
Descendants of Cain
Gae-teol
Shortly after Korea gained independence from Japan (1945), North Koreans decide to extort civilians' property in the name of revolutionalizing its land and settle class struggles for proletariats. The film depicts an anti North-Korean concept, detailing the country's situation after the independence. South Korea's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1968.
광야의 결사대
A man's brother is killed by rogue troops following the end of World War II. He joins up with the roving band, intent on slaying them in vengeance from within their ranks
Three Gangsters of Songhwa River
During the 1920's, because the colonization of Korea by Japan, there was an exodus of the Korean population to Manchuria. Three freedom fighters disguise themselves as migrants in order to contact the Independence Army at the Songhwa River and organize the citizens to stop the Japanese advance.
The Continent in Flames
Dongmin Han
The activities of a group of Korean independence fighters in Mongolia, who try to steal a valuable item from the Japanese Army.
The Martyrs
Out of fourteen ministers taken away by the communist troop, only two come back alive. The mystery behind their survival is at the issue here. Told through one of the survivor's testimony, depicts images of men troubled between the war and the religion. Although laden with anti-Communist notions from the 60's military regime.
The Soviet-Manchurian Border
Clashes between Korean Independence fighters, the retreating Japanese military, the Soviet Army, and bandits at the end of WWII.
The Lost Sun
A bar manager deals drugs on the side and tries to recruit her employees, friends and customers.
Black Hair
"Black Hair" Yeon-sil (Moon Jeong-suk) is the lover of crime boss Dong-il (Jang Dong-he). She pays off one of the boss's henchmen, Man-ho (Chae Rang), with whom she once had an affair; Man-ho is an opium addict, and he has been blackmailing Yeon-sil by threatening to disclose their past relations.
Asphalt
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.
Soldiers of YMS504
YMS 504 was one of the best light war vessels of South Korean navy at the time of the Korean War (1950-1953). When the war breaks out, the ship ventures over the enemy's line and blows up an enemy fortress. And on its way back, it also sinks a boat of the enemy.
The Great Plain
During the colonial period, some Korean students give up their studies to fight the Japanese in Manchuria.
The Marines Who Never Returned
Squad Leader
A division of marines survive a battle with the Chinese army but find themselves stranded without contact on the wrong side of the front.
View from an Alley
Mr. Song
One father finds life nearly impossible to live as he attempts to raise his nine children on a pitifully small salary.
When Acacias Bloom
Takahashi (Japanese Military Police)
A man assists a woman in danger, but through her actions, she unintentionally causes his death. Everyone in the village knows that she visits his tomb every spring, but no one knows the details of her story.
Farewell to the Duman River
Wakino (Military general)
Patriotic university student Youngwoo and his friends, led by their teacher Lee Sung, along with a British friend bid farewell to their families and become freedom fighters in Manchuria fighting against the Japanese occupation around the Tumen River.
A Wanted Man
Kwon Pil-myeon
In order to gain revenge on the killers of his parents, a man joins an organized crime ring as a hit man. The brutality of his slayings in his quest for vengeance makes him a man that the police desperately want to collar. ※ Only the first 32 minutes of the film currently exist today. The plot summary has been added in the form of title cards to aid the viewing experience.