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1980s Korean-language Movies

Public list by WPS with 49 movies or TV shows/series

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Suddenly in the Dark(1981)

1h 35min | Horror, Mystery, Drama
3.2/5 (with 6 votes)

A wife starts to suspect her husband's infidelity after the arrival of their new, young housekeeper, who carries a mysterious wooden doll with herself.

Directed by Go Yeong-nam - With Kim Young-ae

Adultery Tree(1985)

2h 5min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

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.

Directed by Jung Jin-woo - With Won Mi-kyung

Sabangji(1988)

1h 34min | Romance / Love
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Sabangji, who was born with both sexes from the body of a vicious criminal and a mad woman, grows up in Mireuksa Temple with the help of Sijuseung. The blue widow Lee So-sa and Sabangji, who came to her husband's Tal-sang rite, come down to the inner world by a fateful encounter and share a spiritual love that goes beyond the dimension of carnal desire.However, their love is discovered by the elders of the family, and So-sa betray everywhere The shaman who escaped...

Madame Aema(1982)

1h 42min | Drama
1.7/5 (with 2 votes)

Oh Su-bi's husband, Shin Hyun-wu, is in jail for involuntary homicide. For the past two years, Su-bi has visited her husband every week. Though she is anguished by Hyun-wu's affairs, Su-bi is unable to divorce him even though everyone thinks she should. While visiting her husband, Su-bi meets Kim Dong-yub, a student of art, and feels his sincerity. One day, Su-bi runs into an old boyfriend, Kim Mun-ho, who lives in the same apartment complex. They engage in an affair. However, Su-bi is unable to bear the perverted sexual preferences of Mun-ho. She goes to Dong-yub and engages in a pure love. Hyun-wu asks for a divorce. When Su-bi is in the country, Dong-yub comes to her and promises to take her to France. However, the day they are supposed to leave for France, Hyun-wu is released from jail on a special pardon. Though she was on her way to Dong-yub, Su-bi finds herself greeting Hyun-wu, unable to free herself from the shackles of marriage.

Directed by In-yeob Jeong - With Ahn So-young

Adada(1987)

1h 58min
2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

The life of a mute woman.

Directed by Im Kwon-taek

Mandala(1981)

1h 57min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 9 votes)

A story that follows the lives and interactions of two Buddhist monks living in South Korea.

Directed by Im Kwon-taek - With Ahn Sung-ki

Mulberry(1986)

1h 54min | Drama
3.2/5 (with 5 votes)

Sam-po is a gambler living without concern for how his wife will manage their houselhold without his earning money. In order to get food and provisions, his wife An-hyeob, sleeps with various merchants in the village. One of the few men she does not sleep with, a lustful servant named Sam-dol, decides to reveal her activities to her husband for revenge.

Directed by Lee Doo-yong - With Lee Mi-sook

Come Come Come Upward(1989)

2h 14min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 6 votes)

This story of two Buddhist nuns is an exploration of the Korean experience of the relationship between hardship and religious salvation. Trainee Soon-nyeo is forced to confront her True Path by walking among the people, while venerable Jinseong must pursue enlightenment through her inner practice.

Directed by Im Kwon-taek - With Kang Soo-youn

Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East?(1989)

2h 24min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 17 votes)

About three monks in a remote monastery; an aging master, a small orphan and a young man who left his city life to seek Enlightenment.

Directed by Bae Yong-kyun

The Surrogate Womb(1987)

1h 35min | History, Drama
3.6/5 (with 8 votes)

A barren noblewoman encourages her husband to take a young peasant as a surrogate to secure the male line.

Directed by Im Kwon-taek - With Kang Soo-youn

The Village of Mist(1983)

1h 34min | Drama
4.1/5 (with 1 vote)

Su-ok, a young teacher, moves into an isolated mountain village whose inhabitants are all related except for a mysterious dimwitted vagabond.

Directed by Im Kwon-taek

Woman of Fire '82(1982)

1h 55min | Thriller
2.2/5 (with 2 votes)

Intrigue and murder on a small poultry farm outside of Seoul when a young maid starts working on the farm and is seduced by the local farm hand.

Directed by Kim Ki-young - With Kim Ji-mee, Na Young-hee
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Chilsu and Mansu(1988)

1h 49min | Drama, Comedy
3.6/5 (with 5 votes)

Chilsu and Mansu focuses on Chilsu, a smooth-talking billboard painter who struggles to hold down a job, and his evolving friendship with Mansu, a capable and intelligent worker who is held back in life because his father is an unreformed Communist sympathizer.

Gilsoddeum(1986)

1h 45min | Drama
2.9/5 (with 3 votes)

Hwa-yeong leaves her middle-class life in Busan to search for the son she lost during the Korean war.

Directed by Im Kwon-taek - With Kim Ji-mee

The Blazing Sun(1985)

1h 40min | Drama
2.4/5 (with 2 votes)

Chun-ho and his wife Sun-hie wander Korea in search of a way to make a living under Japanese colonial occupation. They settle in a mining village where Sun-hie is forced to put up with her husband's gambling and beatings. Eventually he forces her to go to a loanshark so he can get enough money to run away with a prostitute.

Directed by Hah Myung-joong - With Hah Myung-joong

The Avenger with a Flute(1986)

1h 48min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
3.2/5 (with 5 votes)

This movie tells the story of Hong Kil Dong, a legendary 15th century Korean Robin Hood figure. It is a mildly entertaining action film with an anti-feudal message.

Directed by Kim Kil-in - With Kenpachirō Satsuma

The Last Witness(1980)

2h 38min | Crime, Mystery, Drama, War
3.4/5 (with 4 votes)

Detective Oh goes searching for the murderer of Yang, a small-time brewer bludgeoned to death by a quiet riverside with no witnesses, no apparent motive. As he wanders about the winter landscape of South Jeolla Province and Seoul, he finds himself caught in a story of treachery, rape and murder.

Directed by Lee Doo-yong - With Hah Myung-joong

Lee Jang-ho's Baseball Team(1986)

2h 5min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 1 vote)

Hye-sung grew up poor but he has a gifted talent for baseball. Eom-ji has watched over him since they were young. Hye-sung falls in love with Eom-ji but when she transfers to another school, they don't see each other for years. Hye-sung and Eom-ji meet again at a baseball field but Um-ji is now the girlfriend of the exceptional hitter of high school, Ma Dong-tak. Hye-sung competes endlessly with Dong-tak over Eom-ji. But he ends up with a serious shoulder injury and gives up baseball. Then Manager Sohn Byung-ho gathers up dismissed baseball players and forms a team. Manager Sohn puts his team through extreme training and Hye-sung returns to the baseball world. He competes once more with Dong-tak, who is by Eom-ji's side.

Directed by Lee Jang-ho - With Ahn Sung-ki

Come Down to a Lower Place(1982)

1h 42min

Yo-han is the son of a Christian minister. Following his father's career, he joins the seminary without much enthusiasm, then drops out. After doing his military service as a KATUSA, he teaches at the U.S. educational center. When he is given a job teaching in America, he hastily marries in preparation for the move. He is suddenly struck blind, then begins contemplating suicide. Instead he has a religious vision and dedicates himself to the ministry, and opens a church for the blind.

Spinning the Tales of Cruelty Towards Women(1984)

1h 40min | Drama
2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

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.

Directed by Lee Doo-yong - With Won Mi-kyung

Good Windy Days(1980)

1h 53min | Drama
3.2/5 (with 4 votes)

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.

Directed by Lee Jang-ho - With Ahn Sung-ki

The Diary of King Yonsan(1988)

1h 58min | Drama, History

A historical drama about the life of Prince Yeonsan of Joseon,.

Directed by Im Kwon-taek - With Yu In-chon, Kim Jin-a, Kwon Jae-hee, Kim Young-ae, Yoon Yang-ha, Kim In-mun, ...

Field of Honor(1986)

1h 33min | War, Drama
1.2/5 (with 2 votes)

Korea 1951: After a Chinese attack Dutch mercenary sergeant De Koning is left alone by his army. While trying to survive, he meets a woman who is attempting to save her little brother. The image of the boy in shock changes him.

Hunting for Idiots(1984)

1h 40min | Drama

Seok-ho is unable to overcome his fear that he will not graduate from college for only a limited number of the class will get their diplomas. Seok-ho tries to kill himself and ends up in a mental institution. Then he persuades his fellow patient, Hong-ik, to escape with him. After dealing with several incidents, they become miners. They meet a simple young woman. In order to construct an ideal land, they head for a deserted island in the South Sea. However, just before they're about to leave for the island, Seok-ho realizes that the island is a fantasy of an insane man so he runs off with the woman. Left behind, Hong-ik is disheartened but he gets together with the elderly innkeeper couple whose own son died of a mental illness. They head for the deserted island on a boat.

Directed by Kim Ki-young

Love, Love, My Love(1985)

The plot is based on the Korean folk tale, The Tale of Chunhyang. Chunhyang falls in love with the upper-class Ri Mong-ryong, but they must marry in secret. Mong-ryong is sent away to become a government official. While he is away, Chunhyang is imprisoned by a corrupt governor. Mong-ryong returns just in time to save her from execution and the two can publicly proclaim their love.

Directed by Shin Sang-ok

The Deaf Worker(1980)

1h 40min | Drama

A deaf woman boarding with an elderly laborer suffers many hardships upon the latter's death. The old man's son offers to care for her, but she feels she must leave in order to protect the young man's reputation.

Directed by Kim Ki-young - With Chang Mi-hee

The Age of Success(1988)

1h 50min | Drama, Comedy
2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

Kim Pan-chok (means “sales promotion”) is assigned to work in the sales promotion department of Yumi Inc., a sweetener manufacturer. He falls ill after a heated sales war with Gammi Inc., a leading competitor and is hospitalized. He devises a genius plan while in the hospital.

Directed by Jang Seon-u - With Ahn Sung-ki

Seoul Emperor(1986)

2.7/5 (with 2 votes)

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.

Directed by Jang Seon-u - With Kim Myung-gon

Free Woman(1982)

1h 35min | Drama

A Korean woman raised in Spain with European values towards life and romance finds living in her ancestral land stifling and it eats away at her vitality.

Directed by Kim Ki-young

The Dragon's Snake Fist(1982)

1h 50min | Action
3.5/5 (with 3 votes)

In central China, the Dragon Fist and the Jeet-Kune are two competing martial arts schools. When Dragon Fist master, Ho Cho, breaks his leg in a competition between the schools, he vows revenge. The Jeet-Kune school is damaged and student Lee Jin battles to regain the school in a death-duel!

Directed by Godfrey Ho - With Dragon Lee
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