Moon Jeong-suk

Moon Jeong-suk

Birth : 1927-03-29, Sonchon, Korea

Death : 2000-03-01

History

Born in 1927 in Sonchon, modern day North Korea. She graduated from an all female high school in 1947. Moon started her career as a theater actor. She debuted her film career in the movie 악야, "The Evil Night, directed in 1952 by Shin Sang-ok.

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Moon Jeong-suk
Moon Jeong-suk

Movies

Farewell My Darling
When old Mr. Park dies, his first son Chan-Wu, a film director, and his troublesome daughter Mi-Seon hurriedly come back to their rural hometown, and third son Chan-Se comes back to Korea from America. As the quiet country village gets busy preparing funeral, the house in mourning becomes a meeting place where villagers gather to ask how they are getting along and meet old friends. The children mourn their father's death and above all Mi-Seon, who caused her parents a lot of grief, can't stop crying. Chan-Wu, the chief mourner, has a revelation about his career, and Chan-Se prepares to sing hymns for the Confucian funeral service. Old Man Park's sister sells insurance products and gradually the funeral service becomes for the living rather then the dead.
Thunderhawk 6 - Third Generation Thunderhawk
Even the Sun is Sobbing
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.
Spinning the Tales of Cruelty Towards Women
Ki-rye, from a respectable but poor family, is married off to the deceased son of a powerful government official. Her father-in-law takes pity on her miserable and lonely condition and helps her to run away. She becomes a servant in Minister Choi's house. She marries again to a low-level noble, but finds herself in dire straits when it appears that she is unable to produce a male child to carry on the bloodline.
Oh My Love
Young-ju's wedding is cancelled when it is revealed that her mother was a prostitute for American soldiers. Young-ju, pregnant by her fiance, gives birth to a child, but her ex demands that she give up custody to him as she has no future.
Under an Umbrella
Dong Won is a down-and-out artist who suffers from despair and dissatisfaction and suicidal tendencies. During a trip to Sorak mountain, he tries to kill himself. He falls in love with Sun Hee, the cabin owner's daughter. For a short time, he experiences true love. But they break up because of Sun Hee's mother. Dong Won becomes a fork crane driver but cannot escape his unhappiness. One day, he travels to Sorak mountain and meets Sun Hee and their son.
Cheongnyeo
Inji
A doctor and his son both fall in love with a blind, deaf mute who is one of the father's patients.
Relationship
Jun-ho's mother
Code-Named: Tokyo Expo
Orders go out from North Korea to kidnap South Korean tourists at the Tokyo Expo and bring them to the north.
Confess of Woman
When her husband goes away to America to study for three years, she gets lonely and begins to meet a young doctor. While troubled from guilty feeling, she approaches a young sculptor, In-cheol. As the anguish adds up, she writes a letter to her husband and confesses what has happened. The husband hurries to get a divorce but decides to forgive the wife in the end.
Legend of Ssarigol
During the Korean War (1950~1953) Second Lieutenant Kim asks an old citizen Gang of Ssarigol village to hide seven stranglers of his unit, and then he leaves to follow his ranks. An armed force official from the North side, who used to be a farm servant of the town, enters the town with armed forces and threatens the town members to hand the hidden soldiers of the South side over to them. The seven South Korean soldiers cannot but to start a combat with the North Korean soldiers. By the time, Second Lieutenant Kim's unit arrives at the town to help them to defeat the enemy. Ssarigol restores peace as usual.
Homebound
Ji-yeon
A writer who was disabled during the Korean War (1950-1953) is now contributing a serial to a newspaper. His wife, who once adored him, is tempted by a young man she happens to know. But he overlooks her affair thanking her for her utmost care up until that time. Then the young man asks her to leave with him for a faraway place...
Swindler Mr. Heo
Late Autumn
A well behaved female prisoner, on parole, is set to return to prison. On the train ride back to prison she encounters a man who is actually a fugitive.
A Hero without a Serial Number
In around the 1950s. A man in charge of a guerilla unit is hiding in the Masingryeong Mountains. On the other hand, his brother, a high government official in the North Korean Ministry of Defense has his father killed blaming him a reactionary. He suffers greatly from the guilt of killing his father and finally decides to give himself up to his brother's guerilla unit. Tragically, however, he is shot to death on his way to the unit to surrender. At his last breath, in his brothers arms, he gives his brother the logistics secrets of the North Korean army.
Yeraishyang
A student protester is injured when police break up a demonstration. He is aided by a prostitute and falls in love with her despite their age difference. His employer know the situation but his daughter loves the student. He comes up with a plan to reveal the prostitute's past and publically humiliate her.
Yeraehyang
Une danseuse
A self-supporting student injured during the 4.19 Student Uprising gets help from a mistress at a night club. They fall in love with each other. Meanwhile, he becomes a private tutor for a rich family and his student falls madly in love with him. To get him to marry their daughter, the rich family throws a party and invites the mistress. They divulge her background in front of all the guests. Humiliated, the mistress runs away from the house and dies in a car accident.
Yeraishang
A self-supporting student injured during the 4.19 Student Uprising gets help from an older woman, a madam at a nightclub. They fall in love with each other. Meanwhile, he becomes a private tutor for a rich family, and his student falls madly in love with him. To convince him to marry their daughter, the rich family throws a party and invites his girlfriend.
Market
Bok-nyeo, a mentally handicapped woman, supports her lazy husband by selling apples at the public marketplace. When her husband abandons her for another woman, another man who sympathizes with Bok-nyeo, kills him
7 Women P.O.W's
A North Korean officer sends the POW's, nurse officers under guard. On the way, they meet the Communist Chinese army. When they try to rape the captives, the North Korean officer kills all of them. After that he surrenders voluntarily to South Korea with his men and the nurse officers.
The Devil's Stairway
Jin-sook
A chief surgeon kills the nurse with whom he is having an affair after he becomes engaged to be married to the hospital director's daughter. He becomes tormented by her spirit.
Black Hair
Yeon-Sil
"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.
Conqueror
Korean guerrillas fight against the Japanese as the latter try to invade China through Manchuria.
Rulers of the Land
In Manchuria, some a group of Korean guerrillas joins forces with the Chinese Nationalist Army to free some prisoners of war from the Japanese Imperialist Army.
A Woman Judge
The newly-restored film by one of Korea's first female director follows a female judge's struggles in balancing her duties as a mother and a public official.
The Way of Hwarang
Half moon princess
His parents captured by the Baekje armies, prince Eo-jin infiltrates the enemy castle alone to seek revenge. His plot is ruined when he falls in love with a princess there and is forced to choose between betraying his parents and nation or the woman he loves.
As Time Passes, Love and Sorrow Will...
"As Time Passes, Love and Sorrow Will ..." - A woman give birth to a illegitimate child, she leaves her husband and disappear completely. The husband hire a nanny to foster the child. The nanny and the child become very close.
Farewell to the Duman River
Kim Yeon-hwa
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.
Bumpkin Oh-bok
Heo Sun-i (Sook-hui's mother)
Kind-hearted country bumpkin O-bok leads a simple life working as a long-time farmhand for the rich landlord Soon-young. When Soon-young discovers that his son Jae-seok has fallen for local girl Soon-yi, he protests the relationship and arranges for Soon-yi to be wed to O-bok instead. Despite the initial heartbreak, Soon-yi grows fond of O-bok over time and they have a daughter together named Sook-hee. However, when Jae-seok returns into Soon-yi’s life, she cannot resist his charms and runs away with him, leaving Jae-seok to raise Sook-hee on his own. Years later, Sook-hee is now a grown woman working in the city and in close contact with her father. However, a series of coincidences threaten to forcibly reunite O-bok and Sook-hee with Jae-seok and Soon-young in the most dramatic way possible.
My Sister is a Tomboy
Ahn Soon-ae
The master of a Judo dojo turns his daughter into a master of the martial art as she is growing up. But now that she has reached marrying age, he finds it difficult to find her a husband that can accept her tomboy ways.
A Dream of Fortune
Ok-hee (Son Chang-su's wife)
Son Hak-su (Kim Seung-ho) is a middle school teacher who barely gets by on his income because he's paying off a monthly mortgage for his welfare housing facility sold by the government. One day, Mr. Son and his wife make the acquaintance of a U.S. immigrant Charlie Hong (Heo Chang-kang) who is engaged in the smuggling business.
Aimless Bullet
Wife
Two brothers—Chul-ho, an accountant with a toothache and a pregnant wife, and Yong-ho, an unemployed ex-soldier wounded in battle—navigate life in post-war Korea.
A Drifting Story
This melodrama follows the trials and tribulations of a single mother who dares to love. Hyun Hee (Mun Jeong Suk) makes a living running a coffee house. She has to support her illegitimate daughter and mother, and bear the scorn of those who look down on her. Hyun Hee falls in love with a married writer (Kim Jin Kyu), while another customer (Choi Mu Ryong) holds a torch for her. The romantic triangles that unfold lead to tragic consequences.
Soil
Jeongseon Yoon
Heo Seung, who states that he was “born from soil, will live in soil, and die in soil”, becomes a lawyer in Seoul. However when villagers in his hometown are imprisoned for protesting against Japanese oppression, he decides to return to his village and rediscovers the true way to help his country.
The Bell Tower
Yeong-sil
A woman is sold to a forced labor camp as a 'comfort woman' to entertain the guards, a sex slave of the Japanese army. She falls in love with a prisoner there and they make plans to escape.
Holiday in Seoul
A newspaper reporter becomes a witness to a murder and finds himself relentlessly pursued by the killer.
The Youth
In the latter years of the Korean Empire, Lee In Hwa, disguises herself as a man so she can join a group of young men determined to overthrow the colonial government. They fight together with young national activists presided by Hwal Min and supported by Daewon-gun, the Prince Regent, against Min Gyeom Ho and his peers. But Min and his team perform a surprise attack on Hwal Min and his peers.