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Lee Man-hee
Director 1931 - 1975

Lee Man-hee

Hawangsimni-dong, Seoul, South Korea

One of the most important Korean filmmakers in the 1960s and 70s, LEE Man-hee established his reputation as a master of genre cinema, at a time the industry had yet to embrace horrors and thrillers, which have since become staples of the local film scene.

Directed Films

Every film this person directed

9 titles
Sampoganeun kil

Sampoganeun kil

Lee Man-hee 1975 1h 41m

Passing through a jail and a construction site, a young laborer meets a middle-aged man returning to Sampo after ten years' absence. Together, they track down a young woman who ran away from the restaurant she was waitressing at, but instead of turning her in for a reward, the trio decide to go on an adventure together.

1950nyeon 4shi

1950nyeon 4shi

Lee Man-hee 1972 1h 32m

A look at the incidents of June 25, 1950 which marked the beginning of the Korean War and which found the South to be woefully unprepared.

Hyuil

Hyuil

Lee Man-hee 1968 1h 14m

One Sunday, a penniless unmarried young South Korean couple meet, as they do every Sunday; while the pregnant young woman believes they are not ready to bring a child into the world, the young man decides to go visit his friends to borrow money for delivery.

Wonjeom

Wonjeom

Lee Man-hee 1967 1h 38m

Crime ring leader Lee hires prostitute Seon to kill his subordinate Seok-gu who has threatened to take his place. Seon tempts Seok-gu to go to Mountain Seorak to assassinate him. But she falls in love with him in the journey and confesses everything to him. In fact, they have been shadowed by the spies Lee sent and bloody fight breaks out.

Gwilo

Gwilo

Lee Man-hee 1967 1h 31m

A writer who was disabled during the Korean War 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.

Mullebanga

Mullebanga

Lee Man-hee 1966 1h 32m

There is a poor farmer couple. The landowner, an old man, covetous of the tenant's wife, tries to seduce her and sometimes threatens her. The wife spends every night with the old man at the water mill. Her husband, hearing the news, runs to the water mill and witnesses them together.

Maui gyuedan

Maui gyuedan

Lee Man-hee 1964 1h 48m

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.

Geomeun meori

Geomeun meori

Lee Man-hee 1964 1h 45m

Yeon-shil is the lover of crime boss Dong-il. She pays off one of the boss's henchmen, Man-ho, with whom she once had an affair; Man-ho is an opium addict, and he has been blackmailing Yeon-shil by threatening to disclose their past relations.

Toraoji annun haebyong

Toraoji annun haebyong

Lee Man-hee 1963 1h 50m

A division of marines survive a battle with the Chinese army but find themselves stranded without contact on the wrong side of the front.

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