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
- The Country I Saw ... (Director)
- My Happiness ... (Director)
1986
- Pulgasari ... (Director)
- A Traffic Controller on Crossroads ... (Producer)
1985
- One Second for a Feat ... (Director)
- Salt ... (Director)
- Love, Love, My Love ... (Director)
- The Tale of Shim Cheong ... (Director)
1984
- An Emissary of No Return ... (Director)
- Runaway ... (Director)
1976
- Woman Prisoner No. 407 II ... (Director)
- Woman Prisoner No. 407 ... (Director)
1975
- Blood and Rose ... (Screenplay)
- I Love Mama ... (Director)
1973
- The Three-Day Reign ... (Director)
- The Ghost Lovers ... (Director)
- The Great Duel
- Farewell ... (Director)
1972
- Five Fingers of Death ... (Producer)
- The Last Flight to Pyongyang ... (Director)
- Finger of Doom ... (Producer)
- Lady of the Court ... (Director)
- A Story of Two Sisters ... (Producer)
- 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 Thousand Year-Old Fox ... (Director)
- Women of Yi-Dynasty ... (Director)
- A Man And a Gisaeng ... (Director)
- The Eunuch 2 ... (Producer)
- The Snake Woman ... (Director)
- The Partisan Lovers ... (Producer)
1968
- The Eunuch ... (Director)
- The Homeless Wanderer ... (Director)
- A Male Housekeeper ... (Producer)
- Over the Hill ... (Producer)
- Desire ... (Producer)
- Past Loves ... (Producer)
- Prince Daewon ... (Director)
1967
- The King with My Face ... (Producer)
- The Goddess of Mercy ... (Director)
- The Phantom Queen ... (Director)
- The Violator ... (Producer)
- Mountain ... (Director)
- Traces ... (Screenplay)
- Mounted Bandits ... (Director)
1965
- Sorrow Even Up in Heaven ... (Producer)
- The Sino-Japanese War and Queen Min the Heroine ... (Producer)
- The Story of Bae Local Offcial ... (Director)
- The Heir ... (Producer)
- The International Secret Agent ... (Producer)
- The Girl Raised as a Future Daughter-in-law ... (Producer)
1964
- The Last Woman of Shang ... (Producer)
- The Teacher with Ten Daughters ... (Producer)
- Deaf Sam Yong ... (Director)
- Red Scarf ... (Director)
1963
- The Cloud Bridge of Gratitude ... (Producer)
- Love Affair ... (Director)
- A Reluctant Prince ... (Director)
- Rice ... (Director)
1962
- Tyrant Yeonsan ... (Director)
- Teacher Waryong's Trip to Seoul ... (Producer)
- Revenge ... (Producer)
- Bound by Chastity Rule ... (Director)
- Heartlessness ... (Producer)
- The Story of Sim Cheong ... (Producer)
1961
- Prince Yeonsan ... (Producer)
- Mother and a Guest ... (Director)
- The Evergreen ... (Producer)
- Seong Chun-hyang ... (Director)
- Iljimae the Chivalrous Robber ... (Producer)
- An Upstart ... (Producer)
1960
- Romance Papa ... (Producer)
- A Returned Man ... (Producer)
- To the Last Day ... (Producer)
- Madam White Snake ... (Director)
1959
- A Sister's Garden ... (Producer)
- Dongsimcho ... (Director)
- Chun Hui ... (Director)
- Independence Association and Young Rhee Syngman ... (Director)
- It's Not Her Sin ... (Art Direction)
1958
- The Flower in Hell ... (Director)
- A College Woman's Confession ... (Adaptation)
1957
- The Shadowless Pagoda ... (Producer)