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