Lee Jang-ho
Director · b. 1945
Lee Jang-ho (born May 15, 1945) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter.
Movies4
Movie7.0DocumentaryHistoryHong Kong, 1978. South Korean actress Choi Eun-hee is kidnapped by North Korean operatives following orders from dictator Kim Jong-il.
The Lovers and the Despot
2016 · 33 votes
Movie10.0DocumentaryKIM Dong-ho is the founder of the Busan International Film Festival and one of the key figures in the rise of Korean cinema. Starting his career as a civil servant, he dedicated his whole life to the sheer passion for films. With his deep commitment and instinctive creativity, he will keep “walking in the movies.”
Movie6.8DramaComedyBeginning with the suicide of a film director, this work represents the Korean New Wave Cinema movement that focused on criticizing the Korean society in the 1980s through satire and humor. The journey taken by the characters, who lead low lives at the margins of the society, award them with a sense of liberation, however brief.
Movie5.6DocumentaryA personal consideration of the Korean cinema by director Jang Sun-Woo, looking at it’s history of outside influence and censorship.