Kim Hee-ra

Kim Hee-ra

Birth : 1947-03-23, Seoul, South Korea

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Kim Hee-ra is a South Korean stage, film and television actor.

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Kim Hee-ra
Kim Hee-ra

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Poetry
Elder Kang
Grandmother Mi Ja works part-time as a caretaker, and struggles to raise a teen grandson by herself. Despite her tough situation, she speaks softly, dresses fashionably, and approaches the world with child-like curiosity. Enrolling in a poetry class, she endeavors to capture life in verse form, but her simple dream of completing a poem is stalled by the early signs of Alzheimer's disease and the heavy financial and emotional burden of her grandson's shocking wrongdoing.
Bloody Tie
Lee Taek-jo
A crystal meth dealer with a tragic past is forced to team up with a renegade cop to take down a powerful crime lord.
The Story of Two Women
Byun Geum-ryun
Rooster
Doo-chil, a 46 Year old small poultry farm owner, is the head of the family, yet with no authority rather intimidated by aggressive wife, mother-in-law, and three daughters. One day, Doo-chil makes delivery of chickens to a slaughter house and meets Ok-ja who works there as an accountant. Ok-ja prostitutes at night at motels and barbershops to support her family and pay for her brother's education. Doo-chil goes out for a drink with Duk-bae, the egg seller, who tries to persuade Doo-chil into marrying his daughter and later they end up at a high class barbershop where he runs into Ok-ja. He is disappointed, but since then, feeling compassion toward her, he approaches Ok-ja. Ok-ja's mind also gradually slants toward him, moved by his honesty and sincerity. One day, upon arrival at a beach about dawn, two of them witness the dazzling sunrise over the horizon and realize the beginning of their passionate relationship.
If you want
Gi-yeon is burdened by her half-brother's insidious gaze, but one day when he enters the bedroom, she decides to run away. Gi-yeon, who comes to Seoul for the first time, is caught by gangsters, but with the help of lightning, she gets out of trouble and lives with him in his apartment. Lightning, a member of a criminal organization, rejects Gi-yeon's pure love and for the sake of money, he makes Saron's regular customers Song Jeon-mu and Gi-yeon live. One day, Ki-yeon finds out that she is having a child of lightning. Lightning coolly shakes off Gi-yeon's hand, begging for her to live with her.
신의 아들
Red Cherry 3
Near the end of the Chosun Dynasty, a vagabond named Eok-swoi wandered over all of Korea. In the end, Eok-swoi settles in a remote village where he becomes the servant of Magistrate Ahn, a man of influence. Eok-swoi engages in an innocent love with Keum-sun, a maiden servant of Ahn. Though he is over the age of 50, Ahn is still childless. He treats his young second wife badly and finally, he turns his eye to Keum-sun. After being alone night after night, the young wife unintentionally starts an affair with Eok-swoi which Ahn discovers. Out of guilt, Keum-sun had rejected all of Ahn's advances to the end. She runs away with Eok-swoi. Afterwards, Ahn becomes disabled and deeply repents his wrongdoings.
Cabbage in a Pepper Field
Lee Dae-ho
Having been a college student for the past seven years, there are not many people who take Kim Su-hwan seriously. That, combined with personal issues of his sexual prowess, drives his girlfriend into the arms of a man who is more confident and unafraid of life.
The Oldest Son
Forced to leave their home because of the construction of a new dam which will flood their village, the eldest son in the family prepares land and money to construct a new house in Seoul for his family. However, he shirks his duty shortly after and leaves overseeing the construction of the house to his younger brother while he goes to live seperately.
Adultery Tree
Farmer
The matriarch of a highly respected family orders one of her daughter-in-laws to kill herself unless she can produce a child within a year.
Even the Sun is Sobbing
Manager Tsuei
Park Mei Ji receives a phone call from a woman who says she and Mei Ji's husband, Inn Min, are living together in Taipei and raising a son. Mei Ji immediately leaves Seoul and flies to Taipei with a friend at the woman's request, discovering that the situation is much more complex and tragic than she initially thought.
Daughter of the Flames
Hwa-ryong
A man married to a Christian, but from a shamanistic upbringing, attempts to come to terms with the spirit of his mother who visits him in dreams.
People in the Slum
In the poor district of town, there lived a woman known as the Black Glove. Taking her young son, she remarries a man named Tae-sub whom nobody knows anything about. Tae-sub has an enormous secret. He relies on the Black Glove to support him. One day, Ju-seok, her ex-husband shows up. He's been released from jail and is now a cabbie. The almost ruined Kil-ja yearns for the neighborhood minister, Gong. The Black Glove decides to give up her ex-husband and her son. An innocent widow who has lost her husband shows up and reveals Tae-sub's secret. Tae-sub had committed murder but the stature of limitations is almost over on the crime. Tae-sub changes due to the widow's compassion. The Black Glove and her son leave the district.
Abengo Green Beret
Abengo Corps is under the direct control of headquarters of Gen. Douglas MacArthur. In order to conceal the Inchon Landing Operation, Abengo is assigned to the Wonsan Landing Operation as a decoy mission. With the operation soon at hand, the members of this operation go on a special vacation to Busan. Among them is Il-gyu. He meets with Bae Su-na, a refugee, and they spend a passionate, touching night of love together. The members perform their duties as ordered. Lieutenant Colonel Koh receives a coded message from the headquarters. Koh realizes that his men are a diversion for the Inchon Landing Operation. Lieutenant Koh is angered and resentful. And Lieutenant Sung is chosen to enter the battle instead of Lieutenant Colonel Koh. During the January 4 Retreat, Lieutenant Sung meets Su-na, who has had Il-gyu's son. Lieutenant Sung helps her out.
Children Of Darkness Part 1, Young-ae the Songstress
Young-ae is a prostitute who obsesses over money after losing her daughter to illness. Her co-workers are jealous of her. When a prostitute named Mrs. Kangwon dies after giving a birth, Young-ae takes the baby under her care and leaves the brothel district. Although she struggles to make ends meet and provide a home for the child, the child is taken away by the authorities because she is single. She decides that her old life is the only ground for living she has and returns to it.
Even If You Take Everything
Min Su-hyung, an entrepreneur, lives with his wife Han Mi-yun and daughter Ji-suk with their nanny Kang Young-suk. While Su-hyung is away on a business trip, Yu-jin, the company executive comes to Mi-yun and rapes her. Soon after, Su-hyung's business falls apart and he dies shortly after from an accident. Young-suk takes Ji-suk and raises her and sends her to college. Mi-yun manages a restaurant and raises Sung-hi an orphan girl. Mi-yun sees Young-suk at Sung-hi's school orientation day and secretly helps Ji-suk. Ji-suk passes the law exam. When Yu-jin comes to her asking for money, she stabs and kills him. She is taken custody by Ji-suk. When Young-suk finds out, she tells Ji-suk that Mi-yun is her mother. They embrace in tears.
Love Me Once Again '80 Part 2
Shin-ho wants to visit his son but Hye-yeong refuses to allow them to meet due to his past treatment of the boy. Hye-yeong feels that it is time to put the past behind her and, leaving her son in the care of a friend, she leaves Korea with a new lover.
Mrs. Kangbyun
Good Windy Days
Mr. Jo
Three friends, Duk-bae, Chun-sik, and Kil-nam, work each at a suburban Chinese restaurant, a barbershop, and a motel. The three friends are clueless about their future. They just share the drinks and love stories. Kil-nam is in love with Jin-ok working at a hair salon and Chun-sik is after Yu who also works at the barbershop. Naive Duk-bae's mind is torn between Chun-sun who works at a factory and an uptown girl Myung-hi. Their daily lives are never quiet. Chun-sik goes to jail for assault and Kil-nam departs to serve in the military. Three of them part with a promise that they will never give in to the hardships of life.
Jagko
Two old adversaries meet by chance in a rehab center and realize that the conflict which has dominated their lives since the Korean War has run out of road. Both men are in ruins. One is a former cop, the other a former communist guerrilla; the flashbacks to their sad backstories show Im's skill in anchoring the currents of modern Korean history in wrenching emotional drama.
Lonely Star of Osaka
Kanemoto served five years in prison for attacking Masao of the pro-North Korean organization, the killer of the president of the company who brought him up. Released from prison, Kanemoto gets injured fighting Masao again. Harumi, who lives with her brother Genichi, takes care of Kanemoto. When Genichi visits Korea and reveals the pro-North Korean organization's lies, he becomes their target. This also places the life of Harumi and their family at risk and only Kanemoto can save them.
Love Me Once Again '80
Kindergarten teacher Jeon Hye-yeong brings her son to the child's father, Shin-ho, to be raised. However, the child is unhappy with his father's family and dreams about living with his mother causing Shin-ho's growing frustration with the boy to turn to violence.
Admiration of Nights
College boxer Jin-kyu falls in love with a college girl Min-hye while chatting on the phone. Min-hye gives him her virginity but her family forces her to get engaged to In-myung and get rid of the baby with Jin-kyu. Broken hearted, Jin-kyu fights as a professional boxer while seeing Yeon-hi who runs a salon. He loses the match on the verge of championship and suffers failure. Min-hye feels sympathy for him who struggles and embraces life.
Divine Bow
There is trouble in a fishing village on a remote southern island. The catch has been meagre and Wang-nyeoni, the local shaman, is on strike: she refuses to perform a ritual to turn fortunes around. In flashback we learn how she married into a shaman (dang-gol) family, tried her best to help her husband succeed as fisherman, but found both their lives blighted by Pan-su, the village boss and main ship-owner. After agreeing to return to duty, blessing the fishing fleet, Wang-nyeoni will serve up cold revenge in spectacular style.
The Sleep Deeper Than Death
The Magnificent Duo
Lee Sung-sun is nicknamed Sirasoni (means a baby tiger) for his gentle personality. Because of his strong sense of justice, Sung-sun gets into a fight with Japanese students and this keeps him from going on his honeymoon. He flees to China. There, he helps a Chinese woman being harassed by the Japanese and ends up working with the Chinese dock laborers. The dock manager doesn't pay the workers fairly and represses them. When Sung-sun loses a friend because of this, he confronts the Japanese and puts a big dent in their pride. - KMDB
Naked Woman
Gwang-ho retires as the principal of an elementary school in the Chungcheong province. In the past, he'd married the beautiful and young Yeon-ha. He came to the village and became the object of envy for the villagers. After the Korean War erupted, Gwang-ho went to Seoul for the school principals meeting. But when he returned, his school had changed into a clinic for the wounded soldiers of North Korean army and Yeon-ha had been dragged by communist soldiers and sexually abused. Yeon-ha was permitted to work as the cook for injured soldiers. After the enemy retreated, Yeon-ha appeared before Gwang-ho, who'd been wounded in battle, and committed suicide as a psychologically shattered woman.
The March of Fools Part 2
Byung-tae's brother-in-law
Byung-tae joins the army after being dumped by Young-ja. With two months until discharge, Young-ja comes to visit him. She sends him a letter saying she'll never forget him and that she was marrying Ju-hyuk, a doctor.
I Am Lady Number 77
Due to her father's debts, Yun Go-na marries Song Kye-nam but she is unhappy because of Kye-nam's self-indulgent lifestyle. Go-na takes her daughter, Min-hi, and goes to Seoul where she gets a job as a hostess. One day, Mun Byung-kil proposes to Go-na. Troubled by her situation, Go-na turns him down. But Go-na is touched by his sincerity and marries him. The three live happily as a family but then Kye-nam shows up and demands his daughter Min-hi. However, Ky0e-nam goes away when he realizes which is real happiness of his daughter.
Climax
The Evergreen Tree
Two Korean college graduates arouse the suspicions of Japanese authorities after modernizing a rural community with a school and a youth hall.
Miss O's Apartment
Mi-yeong informs her boyfriend that she is becoming a prostitute to help her poverty striken family. Although she tries not to, she ends up falling in love with wealthy Dae-seon and moves into an apartment that he supplies. She is satisfied with this arrangement until she learns that Dae-seon's wife is her classmate.
The Grass Tombs
So-dol, serving a prison sentence after being accused of murdering his friend, gets a 7 day leave from the prison when his mother dies. As soon as he and the guard assigned to him arrive in the village, strange events begin to occur. A 5-year old corpse is discovered floating in the harbor and the entire seaweed harvest spoils. So-dal's guard begins an investigation and find that the supernatural is very real in this remote island.
Wonsan Secret Operation
Dozens of people begin dying daily in the city of Wonsan shortly after the outbreak of the Korean War. Fearing a plague, the United Nations asks that the situation be investigated before they will commit troops.
Bare Feet in the Snow
Hye-seon grew up in an orphanage with Myeong-gu. They marry when they get older but strain on there relationship tears them apart. Pregnant and alone, Hye-aeon wonders where to turn.
The March of Fools
The story is set in the 1970s during the period of military dictatorship. Schools were frequently closed and society seemed to face bleak prospects on all fronts. Nonetheless, Byung Tae, a college student, enjoys pursuing romance in blind group dates. It's during one of these ventures that he meets Young-ja, a French literature student.
It Rained Yesterday
Young-Hu and Young-Wuk are half brothers and felt uncertain intimacy even though their personalities are totally different. At the first moment he saw Min-Jeong, Young-Wuk's girl friend, Young-Hu fell in love. He avoided her intentionally but the day his biological mother remarried, he happened to spend a night with her in a complicated feeling. After that Young-Hu got the blues due to sense of guilty and Young-Wuk was despair as Min-Jeong confessed him she loves Young-Hu. As he found Min-Jeong's pregnancy, Young-Hu hated shady new life and made fun of Min-Jeong and himself. Thus enraged Young-Wuk madly drove his car to the running train with Min-Jeong.
The Tragedy of Deaf Sam-yong
Kwang-shik misunderstands his wife's motherly attentions for mute Sam-yong, a servant on his land, leading to Sam-yong being fired. Kwang-shik is having an affair of his own and when his mistress' husband finds out, he plans to take revenge on all of Kwang-shik's household.
Oyster Village
The villagers of a remote fishing village on the west coast of Korea have a belief that if someone drowns in the sea, his spirit cannot depart until the next person dies. The drowning of one fisherman sets in motion a series of tragic events.
A Second Mother
Nam-Ok who has Yun-Ho and Yun-Suk remarries widowed Heung-Yeol who has Hyeong-Tae and Hyeong-Ja. Nam-Ok are concerned about frequent quarrels between half brothers and sisters, but manages to deal with them wisely. As Yun-Ho who went to fishing with him falls into the water, Heung-Yeol tries to save him only to drown himself to death. Fifteen years later, Hyeong-Tae goes abroad to study while Hyeong-Ja lives in extravagance in Seoul. Yun-Suk gets to know Dong-Oh on the train, and Dong-Ho gets to like her, but later misunderstands her due to Hyeong-Ja's scheme, which causes Yun-Suk to commit suicide.
White Fox
Three brothers of Jang-Su, Man-Su, and Jong-Su, and Bo-Ki, Su-Ni, and Jang-Su's wife Sam-Ok live together. A group of bandits kidnap Sam-Ok and demands that Jang-Su bring the skin of the white fox. Three brothers succeed in killing the white fox, but the evil spirit of the white fox begins to haunt them. The dead white fox gets incarnated as Sam-Ok, who is killed by three brothers, and Jin-Jin, an incarnated female white fox, marries Man-Su. Jin-Jin kills Bo-Ki who knew she is a fox, and kills also Man-Su and Jong-Su. Su-Ni succeeds in killing the evil fox which tried to kill her, also.
When the Jewel Box is Broken
Young-ho
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
Beauty in Black Rose Castle
Hye-ryeon suddenly loses her parents and stays in the Black Rose Castle alone. One day, she says the castle is haunted and asks for help to friend Ji-suk. Ji-suk goes to the castle with boyfriend Yeong-uk, a newspaper reporter. Just as Hye-ryeon has said, they see a ghost, but Yeong-uk feels that someone is playing a prank. He waits for the ghost in the woods, and when it finally appears, Yeong-uk fights it off. The ghost misses a step and falls off a cliff. It turns out Hye-ryeon has been suffering from a mental disease and has been playing as a ghost.
An Old Potter
A lonely old potter saves the life of a young woman. She is grateful to him, but does not return the love he feels for her. However she feels obligated to marry him. In time, her former boyfriend finds her and takes a job working with the potter until he can convince her to run away with him.
Eagle of Wild Field