Jang-kang Heo Movies

The Police Station

The police working in central Seoul attempt to carry out their duties with kindness and consideration for the citizens whom they protect. They take a special interest in helping the poor and clearing out the red light districts

Snowy Night

A woman living in poverty gives up her children to foster parents and attempts to break her pan-handling husband of his opium addiction.

Where Love Is

After failing to save the life of his wife, a surgeon refuses to perform a life-saving operation on patients suffering from a similar problem.

The Setting of My Youth

A boy is raised by an underworld boss after the death of his parents in the Korean War. As a young adult...

The Principal Visits Seoul

Paran nunui myeoneuli

The Little Swordsmen

Jeong-a and Won-guk survived the massacre of their village by pro-Japanese forces when they were children. Now adults, they seek revenge on the man they hold responsible.

Little Madame

A man in his 60's marries off his pre-teen son to a young girl because he wants to live to see his grandchildren but he is infuriated when the young couple continue to act like kids

Dangshinmaneul wihayeo

A soldier-on-leave commits fraud to get enough money to buy his sick mother's medicine. However, when the man he cheated turns up murdered, he finds himself the prime suspect and is forced ... See full summary »

The Harbormaster Returns

Hwang Pyeong-san returns to Busan to reclaim his wife and avenge the death of his best friend at the hands of an underworld crime lord

What a Happy Girl She Is

A middle-aged toystore owner raising his two daughters alone, falls in love with the widow who researches children's play habits for a doll manufacturing company

Myeongdonge yeoldu sanai

War and Love

Yeong-yi makes her way south at the outbreak of the Korean War. She joins up with a doomed group of refugees who have the same idea. However, they soon find themselves caught in the ... See full summary »

Story of a Nobleman

A peasant exchanges 200 bags of rice to purchase the title of a nobleman. However, he finds that life as a noble is more difficult than life as a farmer

Sutalkgateun sanai

Because he has gotten himself involved in too many things at the same time, a man asks his unemployed friend to take a job that he has been offered in his stead. That simple act of kindness changes the friend's life forever

A Toast

Mujeongga ilbeonja

After being betrayed by a subordiante, crimelord Yong-pyo can only escape with his life by going abroad to live...

The Salt Merchant

A merchant visits a town isolated deep in the forest and brings with him changes in the form of new machines and gizmos. However, the new technology brings other changes as well as ... See full summary »

Sword of the Flowering Star

Messenger Eung-nam is robbed of a large sum of money by bandit couple, Yang-jin and Yong-nyeo. A warrent...

Swordsman in the Twilight

Kim Tae-won remains loyal to Queen Min after the ursper Jang Hie-bin takes the throne. Queen Hie-bin's chief magistrate tyrranizes those who remain sympathetic to the old queen and attempts... See full summary »

Born in Nampodong

Four men growing up in Busan try to erase the memories of their early childhoods from their minds. One becomes a boxer, another a sailor and a third becomes a grocer. However, the fourth, Jang-ho, finds a life of crime to be the most attractive way to make a living.

Ggotsangya

The Little Groom

Young Seo Man-deok has to unravel the plot against his new bride to clear her name.

Escape from North Korea

Dr Yun is forced into cultivating germs for biological weapons. At first he resists, but finally gives in when his daughter's life is endangered. His daughter decides that the only way to ... See full summary »

3 Black Leopards