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
- Love, Love, My Love ... (Director)
- The Tale of Shim Cheong ... (Director)
- Salt ... (Director)
1984
- Runaway ... (Director)
- An Emissary of No Return ... (Director)
1976
- Woman Prisoner No. 407 ... (Director)
- Woman Prisoner No. 407 II ... (Director)
1975
- Blood and Rose ... (Screenplay)
- I Love Mama ... (Director)
1973
- The Ghost Lovers ... (Director)
- Farewell ... (Director)
- The Three-Day Reign ... (Director)
- The Great Duel
1972
- Five Fingers of Death ... (Producer)
- Finger of Doom ... (Producer)
- Lady of the Court ... (Director)
- A Story of Two Sisters ... (Producer)
- The Last Flight to Pyongyang ... (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
- A Man And a Gisaeng ... (Screenplay)
- The Eunuch 2 ... (Director)
- A Thousand Year-Old Fox ... (Director)
- The Partisan Lovers ... (Producer)
- Women of Yi-Dynasty ... (Director)
- The Snake Woman ... (Director)
1968
- Desire ... (Producer)
- The Eunuch ... (Director)
- Over the Hill ... (Producer)
- Past Loves ... (Producer)
- The Homeless Wanderer ... (Director)
- Prince Daewon ... (Director)
- A Male Housekeeper ... (Producer)
1967
- The Goddess of Mercy ... (Director)
- Traces ... (Screenplay)
- The King with My Face ... (Producer)
- Mounted Bandits ... (Director)
- The Phantom Queen ... (Director)
- The Violator ... (Producer)
- Mountain ... (Director)
1965
- The Sino-Japanese War and Queen Min the Heroine ... (Producer)
- The Girl Raised as a Future Daughter-in-law ... (Producer)
- The International Secret Agent ... (Producer)
- The Story of Bae Local Offcial ... (Director)
- Sorrow Even Up in Heaven ... (Producer)
- The Heir ... (Producer)
1964
- Red Scarf ... (Director)
- The Last Woman of Shang ... (Producer)
- The Teacher with Ten Daughters ... (Producer)
- Deaf Sam Yong ... (Director)
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)
- Teacher Waryong's Trip to Seoul ... (Producer)
- Tyrant Yeonsan ... (Director)
- Heartlessness ... (Producer)
- Revenge ... (Producer)
1961
- Iljimae the Chivalrous Robber ... (Producer)
- Mother and a Guest ... (Director)
- Seong Chun-hyang ... (Director)
- Prince Yeonsan ... (Producer)
- The Evergreen ... (Producer)
- An Upstart ... (Producer)
1960
- To the Last Day ... (Producer)
- Romance Papa ... (Producer)
- Madam White Snake ... (Director)
- A Returned Man ... (Producer)
1959
- Dongsimcho ... (Director)
- Chun Hui ... (Director)
- Independence Association and Young Rhee Syngman ... (Director)
- It's Not Her Sin ... (Art Direction)
- A Sister's Garden ... (Producer)
1958
- The Flower in Hell ... (Director)
- A College Woman's Confession ... (Adaptation)
1957
- The Shadowless Pagoda ... (Producer)