Shin Sang-ok
Born: 1926-10-18 in Chongjin, Korea
Died: 2006-04-11
Known For: Directing
Biography
Shin Sang-ok (born Shin Tae-seo; October 11, 1926 – April 11, 2006) was a South Korean filmmaker with more than 100 producer and 70 director credits to his name. His best-known films were made in the 1950s and 60s, many of them collaborations with his wife Choi Eun-hee, when he was known as "The Prince of South Korean Cinema". In 1978, Shin and Choi were kidnapped by North Korean leader Kim Jong-il for the purpose of producing critically acclaimed films. The two remained in captivity for 8 years until 1986, when they escaped and sought asylum in the United States. Shin continued to produce and direct films in America, now under the pseudonym "Simon Sheen", before eventually returning to South Korea for his final years. He received posthumously the Gold Crown Cultural Medal, the country's top honor for an artist.
Filmography
2024
- Cinema in the Land of Comrade Kim as Himself
2023
- Winter Story ... (Director)
2016
- The Lovers and the Despot as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2009
- The Country I Saw, Part 3 ... (Director)
1998
- The Gardener ... (Producer)
1997
- Galgameth ... (Original Film Writer)
1995
- 3 Ninjas Knuckle Up ... (Director)
1994
- 3 Ninjas Kick Back ... (Writer)
- Vanished ... (Director)
1990
- Mayumi: Virgin Terrorist ... (Director)
1987
- My Happiness ... (Director)
- The Country I Saw ... (Director)
1986
- Pulgasari ... (Director)
- A Traffic Controller on Crossroads ... (Producer)
1985
- The Tale of Shim Cheong ... (Director)
- Salt ... (Director)
- Love, Love, My Love ... (Director)
1984
- Runaway ... (Director)
- An Emissary of No Return ... (Director)
1976
- Woman Prisoner No. 407 II ... (Director)
- Woman Prisoner No. 407 ... (Director)
1975
- Blood and Rose ... (Screenplay)
- I Love Mama ... (Director)
1973
- The Ghost Lovers ... (Director)
- The Great Duel
- The Three-Day Reign ... (Director)
- Farewell ... (Director)
1972
- Five Fingers of Death ... (Producer)
- A Story of Two Sisters ... (Producer)
- Finger of Doom ... (Producer)
- The Last Flight to Pyongyang ... (Director)
- Lady of the Court ... (Director)
- Filial Daughter Simcheong ... (Director)
1971
- Six Assassins ... (Producer)
- War and Human Being ... (Director)
1970
- A Ghost Story of Joseon Dynasty ... (Director)
- The Evening Bell ... (Director)
1969
- The Partisan Lovers ... (Producer)
- Women of Yi-Dynasty ... (Director)
- A Thousand Year-Old Fox ... (Director)
- The Snake Woman ... (Director)
- A Man And a Gisaeng ... (Director)
- The Eunuch 2 ... (Producer)
1968
- Past Loves ... (Producer)
- Over the Hill ... (Producer)
- Desire ... (Producer)
- The Eunuch ... (Director)
- Prince Daewon ... (Director)
- A Male Housekeeper ... (Producer)
- The Homeless Wanderer ... (Director)
1967
- Traces ... (Screenplay)
- The Goddess of Mercy ... (Director)
- The King with My Face ... (Producer)
- Mounted Bandits ... (Director)
- The Phantom Queen ... (Director)
- The Violator ... (Producer)
- Mountain ... (Director)
1965
- The International Secret Agent ... (Producer)
- The Girl Raised as a Future Daughter-in-law ... (Producer)
- Sorrow Even Up in Heaven ... (Producer)
- The Story of Bae Local Offcial ... (Director)
- The Sino-Japanese War and Queen Min the Heroine ... (Producer)
- The Heir ... (Producer)
1964
- The Last Woman of Shang ... (Producer)
- Red Scarf ... (Director)
- Deaf Sam Yong ... (Director)
- The Teacher with Ten Daughters ... (Producer)
1963
- A Reluctant Prince ... (Director)
- The Cloud Bridge of Gratitude ... (Producer)
- Love Affair ... (Director)
- Rice ... (Director)
1962
- Bound by Chastity Rule ... (Director)
- The Story of Sim Cheong ... (Producer)
- Tyrant Yeonsan ... (Director)
- Teacher Waryong's Trip to Seoul ... (Producer)
- Heartlessness ... (Producer)
- Revenge ... (Producer)
1961
- Prince Yeonsan ... (Producer)
- The Evergreen ... (Producer)
- Mother and a Guest ... (Director)
- Iljimae the Chivalrous Robber ... (Producer)
- Seong Chun-hyang ... (Director)
- An Upstart ... (Producer)
1960
- To the Last Day ... (Producer)
- Romance Papa ... (Producer)
- A Returned Man ... (Producer)
- Madam White Snake ... (Director)
1959
- A Sister's Garden ... (Producer)
- Independence Association and Young Rhee Syngman ... (Director)
- Dongsimcho ... (Director)
- It's Not Her Sin ... (Art Direction)
- Chun Hui ... (Director)
1958
- The Flower in Hell ... (Director)
- A College Woman's Confession ... (Adaptation)
1957
- The Shadowless Pagoda ... (Producer)