Kim Myung-gon

Kim Myung-gon

Birth : 1952-12-03, Jeonju, North Jeolla, South Korea

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Kim Myung-Gon (김명곤) is a South Korean actor, screenwriter, and music director.

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Kim Myung-gon
Kim Myung-gon
Kim Myung-gon

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Hansan: Rising Dragon
Tōdō Takatora
In 1592, admiral Yi Sun-sin and his fleet face off against the might of the invading Japanese navy and its formidable warships. As the Korean forces fall into crisis, the admiral resorts to using his secret weapon, the dragon head ships known as geobukseon, in order to change the tide of this epic battle at sea.
Three Days of Heo Hwang Ok: 2000 Years of Lost Memories
The narration
As the historical community regards the marriage voyage of the 'Indian Princess, Heo Hwang Ok' 2,000 years ago as a myth or a legend, the roots of 8 million descendants, including the Kim and Heo clans in Gimhae are always shaken, and the beginning of Gaya Buddhism as well as the history of Gaya are pushed back hundreds of years. The documentary traces the three-day honeymoon record of 'Indian Princess Heo Hwang Ok' in the Memorabilia of the Three Kingdoms, drawing a unique historical reality in a scientific way that no one has predicted or attempted to try before.
Steel Rain 2: Summit
Li Hongzhang
A futuristic film about a crisis near the brink of war after three leaders are kidnapped by a North Korean nuclear submarine in a coup d’état during a summit between the two Koreas and the United States.
The Story of an Old Couple
Samsara
Four monks gather at a temple to see their esteemed mentor Do-Bub, but none of them are particularly enlightened. From the calculating chief monk and the meat-eating womanizer to the silver-tongued moneymaker and the vain Instagram heartthrob, they all seem more interested in self-gain than asceticism. Nevertheless, the worldly monks have to respond to an unsavoury truth about Do-Bub. In the subsequent days, memories are awakened and characters tested as the monks reflect on their experiences, desires, and fears, as well as the realization that someone will have to be Do-Bub’s successor.
The Memory of Water
Narrator
The secretive rules of nature spread out to be extraordinary beauty. Water is a lifeform that remembers and reflects everything. Following the nature of this water and the mysterious record of the ecosystem leads to the wonderful four seaons of the Bongha Village and the late Roh Moo-hyun's ambitious visions. What is the future he dreamt of back in his home, carrying out biological agricultural technology?
Idol
Lawmaker Choi
In this political thriller, a politician finds his wife in the garage. She is cleaning her son's bloodstained car, which has just run over a person.
Along with the Gods: The Last 49 Days
Gang Moon-jik
As the deceased soul Ja-hong and his three afterlife guardians prepare for their remaining trials for reincarnation, the guardians soon come face to face with the truth of their tragic time on Earth 1,000 years earlier.
Warriors of the Dawn
Minister Jung
A crown prince emerges as a leader during the war between Korea and Japan in 1592.
Crimson Moon
King Yeongjo
Crown Prince Sado spirals down due to his own insanity and his father King Yeongjo's complex.
The Admiral: Roaring Currents
Todo Takatora
The film mainly follows the famous 1597 Battle of Myeongryang during the Japanese invasion of Korea 1592-1598, where the iconic Joseon admiral Yi Sun-sin managed to destroy a total of 133 Japanese warships with only 13 ships remaining in his command. The battle, which took place in the Myeongryang Strait off the southwest coast of the Korean Peninsula, is considered one of the greatest victories of Yi.
Masquerade
Park Chung-seo
Though it places his own life in danger, a look-alike commoner secretly takes the place of a poisoned king to save his country from falling into chaos.
My Heart
Deok-soon
Seventeen-year old Soonie is married to the ten-year old son of the local Korean medecine doctor. Married to a child, Soonie is subjected to the hard life of the traditional daughter-in-law. Ten years pass and her husband, who has gone away to study, returns with a stylish 'modern woman' dressed in Western clothes. When Soonie finds out that the woman is carrying her husband's child, she quietly packs her bag and leaves. The film is divided into five episodes, following her life.
Chunhyang
Writer
A governor's son falls for Chunhyang, a commoner, and illegally marries below his station; when he has to leave her for several years, a local official attempts to corrupt her.
A+ Life
Father
A man struggles with his responsibities to his father and his desire for true love.
The Bait
Ma-seob
A pair of professional con-men who swore never to meet again, get together again to pull off one more swindle.
Wind Echoing in My Being
A young man living alone in his attic, wishes to publish a book of his dreams. He records his dreams on a small tape recorder while he falls in and out of sleep. Then when he awakens, he writes of these dreams on paper. His dreams consist mainly of memories and recollections of his youth.
48 + 1
Declaration of Genius
A strange man appears in Pagoda Park. His name is Young-sung. Another man stands in a corner, carefully takes in his every move and tapes him with a camcorder. His name is Ahn Sang-gi, a self-proclaimed film director. Young-sung spots a high school girl and begins to follow her. Her name is Jin-kyung. The three meet in a cafe and become inseparable in a matter of hours. Madame Sul-hee, owner of an exclusive club, introduces them to many high level officials. Young-sung begins to tell fortunes for the many individuals they meet including a powerful politician to a corrupt national hero and Sang-gi collects fees. In the midst of all this, Jin-kyung schemes to get pregnant with Young-sung's child, and Sang-gi is convinced that he is close to realizing his dream of becoming a film director. Little do they know that Young-sung's clairvoyance is not permanent.
The Eternal Empire
Jeong Yak-Yong
This film depicts the struggles of the Royal Party and the Old Party to obtain political power. In 1800, The Royal Party insisted that the political power should be centralized to the King, but the other party (The Old Party) insisted that the political power should be centralized to the majority of the ministers. One day, official Jang was ordered by the King to arrange and edit the record of the former King Yeongjo. All of a sudden, Jang dies. Soon it was disclosed that Jang was killed by the Old Party because of their connection with the book. For this incident , the King tried to get rid of key members of the Old Party, but the Old Party resists the King's will. What was in the book? Who was involved? Why? The political intrigue will keep you on the edge of your seat.
The Taebaek Mountains
Yeom Sang-jin
Based on the great river story, The Taebaek Mountains chronicles the lasting generational conflict between proprietors and peasants in South Korea.
A Casual Trip
Writer
A Casual Trip
Sopyonje
Writer
A former pansori performer travels across South Korea in search of the student he studied with.
Sopyonje
Yu-bong
A former pansori performer travels across South Korea in search of the student he studied with.
Myong-Ja Akiko Sonia
The life of a woman through the tumultuous years of Korea's modern history.
Kot-ji
Dong-jin
Kot-ji is born by an affair between a hostess and president Kim of a trading company. Living with her mother, she is unusually smart but envies friends with both parents as she plays alone with dolls or watching TV. One day, on her way home, Kot-ji runs into a woman who offers to take her to her father and follows her. All has been planned by Jin-ah conspiring to make money out of her situation. Dong-jin who is secretly in love with Kot-ji's mother threatens Kim about Kot-ji and get money from him but things do not work out the way he thought. Dong-jin stabs Kim unintentionally and in panic takes Kot-ji into woods. While he quarrels with Jin-ah, Kot-ji makes her way to escape feeling danger. Kot-ji's pure heart moves Dong-jin and he returns her to her mother.
Park Cheol-Su's Hello Lim Guk-Jeong
Chun-bo and Bong-dal are members of a bandit who voluntarily claim to be Im Kek-jeong's subordinates. They didn't even know that there was a horse plaque on the clothes of the fishermen, and they were yangban and decided to play the role of a real female haenger. They perform good deeds such as scolding Tamgwan-duck for the unfair and powerless people and distributing grain to poor residents.
The Man with Three Coffins
An isolated, depressed widower in search of meaning and redemption and still trying to come to terms with the circumstances of his wife's death three years earlier is gradually making his way towards her home town near the Korean border when his path crosses that of a dying company director (whose last wish is to go home to the same village to die) and his nurse.
Seoul Jesus
Escaping from a hospital for the mentally disturbed, a man calling himself Jesus goes to Seoul. He feels he must save Seoul from judgement by fire by finding a woman who knows the meaning of true love.
Er Woo Dong: The Entertainer
Er Woo Dong translates to "entertainer," a rough approximation of the duties of 14th-century Korean courtesan Er Yoon Chang. After a lifetime "in service," Er Yoon Chang retires to a faraway village. Meanwhile, her powerful father, ashamed of his daughter's lifestyle, dispatches an assassin to do her in. Er Yoon Chang is protected by her faithful deaf-mute bodyguard, but only up to a point.
Declaration of Fools
Dong-cheol
Beginning with the suicide of a film director, this work represents the Korean New Wave Cinema movement that focused on criticizing the Korean society in the 1980s through satire and humor. The journey taken by the characters, who lead low lives at the margins of the society, award them with a sense of liberation, however brief.
Widow Dancing
A group of widows come with several frauds and scams in an effort to cheat the system which marginalizes them and to make a better life for themselves and their children.