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Love Of Blood Relations is a film of genre Drama directed by Kim Ki-young with Lee Hwa-si
Love Of Blood Relations (1976)
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Add to a movie listLove of Blood Relations (혈육애 - Hyeolyukae) is a 1976 South Korean film directed by Kim Ki-young. When the South Korean government pressured Kim to make an anti-Communist film, he responded with this film. By focusing on a femme fatale from North Korea, Kim was able to transcend the propagandistic origins to make a characteristically personal work.
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Based on a novel by Kim Won-dae, the film is an anti-Communist melodrama in which personal affairs affect international relations between North and South Korea and Japan.Actors
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, 1h52Directed by Kim Ki-young
Genres Drama
Themes Films about religion, Films about Buddhism
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Rating61%
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Directed by Kim Ki-young
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Horror, Romance
Actors Namkoong Won, Kim Ja-ok, Park Am, Lee Hwa-si
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A melodrama about a man who survives an attempted double suicide with a stranger while picnicing with friends. He goes on a cave expedition for a famous archaeologist where he discovers a skeleton several thousand years old. He meets the spirit of the skeleton in a dream, and then becomes romantically involved with the archeologist's daughter.
Soil (1978)
, 2h5Directed by Kim Ki-young
Genres Drama
Actors Lee Hwa-si, Park Am
During the Japanese occupation, a Korean lawyer devotes his work to rural development, believing this is the only way to preserve Korean identity. Interpreting these actions as anti-Japanese, the Japanese authorities imprison the lawyer for five years. When he is released, he finds his wife continuing his work.
Water Lady (1979)
, 1h57Directed by Kim Ki-young
Genres Drama
Actors Kim Ja-ok, Lee Hwa-si, Park Am
Rating63%
A literary drama telling the story of Jin-seok, a Korean veteran of the Vietnam War, and his marital life. His wife Sun-ok, runs a company that makes goods from bamboo. Her habitual stutter is passed on to their son. Jin-seok has an affair with Chu-wol, a femme fatale who schemes to ruin his family. Jin-seok manages to escape the bad influence of Chu-wol, and his son's stutter is cured.
Ieoh Island (1977)
, 1h50Directed by Kim Ki-young
Genres Drama
Actors Lee Hwa-si, Park Am
Rating65%
When a man from an island ruled by women disappears, the man suspected of killing him investigates his past.
The Deaf Worker (1980)
, 1h40Directed by Kim Ki-young
Genres Drama
Actors Chang Mi-hee, Hah Myung-joong, Lee Hwa-si, Baek Il-seob, Park Am
A melodrama about a mute woman who works at a brick factory.
Ban Geum-ryeon (1982)
, 1h30Directed by Kim Ki-young
Actors Lee Hwa-si, Shin Seong-il, Kim Young-ae
Rating41%
A historical drama set in ancient China.
The Sea Knows (1961)
, 1h57Directed by Kim Ki-young
Genres Drama, War
Actors Kim Ji-mee, Kim Jin-kyu, Ju Jeung-ryu, Kim Seung-ho, Park Am, Park Noh-sik
Rating58%
A wartime melodrama about Aroun, a Korean living in Japan and conscripted into the army. He endures cruel treatment at the hands of the Japanese soldiers, and objections from the mother of his Japanese girlfriend. The film concludes with a U.S. bombing which kills all the Japanese soldiers, but leaves Aroun alive.
Woman of Fire (1971)
, 1h38Directed by Kim Ki-young
Genres Drama, Horror, Crime
Actors Namkoong Won, Youn Yuh-jung, Choi Moo-ryong
Rating65%
A variation on Kim's classic The Housemaid (1960). The lives of a composer and his wife, who live on a chicken farm, are thrown into turmoil when a femme fatale joins their household.
Goryeojang (1963)
, 1h30Directed by Kim Ki-young
Genres Drama
Actors Kim Jin-kyu, Ju Jeung-ryu, Park Am, Jeon Ok
Rating71%
The film tells the story of a poor farm-worker who, according to local tradition, must take his 70-year-old mother into the mountains to die. Deciding to break the custom, he instead returns home with his mother. The Japanese films, The Ballad of Narayama (1958) (Keisuke Kinoshita) and The Ballad of Narayama (1983) (Shohei Imamura) deal with a similar subject.