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The Sea Knows is a film of genre Drama directed by Kim Ki-young with Kim Ji-mee
The Sea Knows (1961)
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Add to a movie listThe Sea Knows (Hangul: 현해탄은 알고 있다; RR: Hyeonhaetaneun algoitta) is a 1961 South Korean film directed by Kim Ki-young.
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Synopsis
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.Actors
Kim Ji-mee
(Kyunghee Han)
Kim Jin-kyu
(Nakamura)
Ju Jeung-ryu
(Hideko's Mother)
Kim Seung-ho
(Saito)
Park Am
(Miyamura)
Park Noh-sik
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There are 35 films with the same actors, 31 films with the same director, 61634 with the same cinematographic genres (including 3168 with exactly the same 2 genres than The Sea Knows), to have finally 70 suggestions of similar films.If you liked The Sea Knows, you will probably like those similar films :
Elegy of Ren (1969)
, 1h43Directed by Kim Ki-young
Genres Drama, Action, Romance
Actors Kim Jin-kyu, Kim Ji-mee, Park Am
A wartime melodrama about an artist and a woman who helps him to paint.
The Housemaid (1960)
, 1h48Directed by Kim Ki-young
Origin Coree du sud
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Ahn Sung-ki, Kim Jin-kyu, Lee Eun-shim, Ju Jeung-ryu, Um Aing-ran
Rating71%
The film is a domestic horror thriller telling of a family's destruction by the introduction of a sexually predatory femme fatale into the household. A piano composer has just moved into a two-story house with his wife and two children. When his pregnant wife becomes exhausted from working at a sewing machine to support the family, the composer hires a housemaid to help with the work around the house. The new housemaid behaves strangely, catching rats with her hands, spying on the composer, seducing him and eventually becoming pregnant by him.
Twilight Train (1957)
Directed by Kim Ki-young
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Do Kum-bong, Kim Ji-mee, Ahn Sung-ki, Park Am
A melodrama about love and conflict in an orphanage.
Woman (1968)
, 1h40Directed by Kim Ki-young
Genres Drama
Actors Shin Seong-il, Moon Hee, Kim Ji-mee
The film is a melodrama about a man who falls in love with a woman while traveling to Seoraksan. The man becomes infatuated with the woman's hair. The woman, who has a terminal illness, promises to leave her hair to the man after she has died. Later the man finds that the woman has died, and her hair has been sold to someone else. He then has a romantic relationship with another woman who turns out to be his mother.
Promise of the Flesh (1975)
, 1h35Directed by Kim Ki-young
Genres Drama
Actors Kim Ji-mee, Lee Jung-gil, Park Am
Rating64%
A melodrama about a female prisoner who meets a man while on leave to visit her mother's grave. Not knowing that the man is a thief, she promises to meet him at a park two years later, after she is released from prison.
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.
Asphalt (1964)
Directed by Kim Ki-young
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Kim Jin-kyu, Ju Jeung-ryu, Park Am
A revenge melodrama about a criminal whose wife is killed during his arrest. After serving 20 years in prison he attempts to kill the arresting officer's wife out of revenge, but fails and is again imprisoned.
Woman of Fire '82 (1982)
, 1h55Directed by Kim Ki-young
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors Kim Ji-mee, Jeon Moo-song, Na Young-hee, Kim Hae-sook
Rating59%
A variation on Kim's classic The Housemaid (1960). The lives of a composer and his chicken-farming wife are thrown into turmoil when a young woman comes to work as a maid.
Love Of Blood Relations (1976)
, 1h40Directed by Kim Ki-young
Genres Drama, War
Actors Lee Hwa-si, Choi Bool-am, Park Am
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.
Yangsan Province (1955)
, 1h30Directed by Kim Ki-young
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Kim Seung-ho, Park Am
Rating60%
The film is a historical melodrama about a high government official who wants to marry a woman who is engaged to marry another man.