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)
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, Part 3 ... (Director)
- My Happiness ... (Director)
- The Country I Saw ... (Director)
1986
- A Traffic Controller on Crossroads ... (Producer)
1985
- Pulgasari ... (Director)
- One Second for a Feat ... (Director)
- The Tale of Shim Cheong ... (Director)
- Love, Love, My Love ... (Director)
- Salt ... (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)
1973
- The Great Duel
- The Three-Day Reign ... (Director)
- Farewell ... (Director)
- The Ghost Lovers ... (Director)
1972
- Five Fingers of Death ... (Producer)
- Finger of Doom ... (Producer)
- The Last Flight to Pyongyang ... (Director)
- Lady of the Court ... (Director)
- A Story of Two Sisters ... (Producer)
1971
- Six Assassins ... (Producer)
- War and Human Being ... (Director)
1970
- A Ghost Story of Joseon Dynasty ... (Director)
- The Evening Bell ... (Director)
1969
- The Snake Woman ... (Director)
- A Man And a Gisaeng ... (Director)
- Women of Yi-Dynasty ... (Director)
- A Thousand Year-Old Fox ... (Director)
- The Eunuch 2 ... (Producer)
1968
- A Male Housekeeper ... (Producer)
- The Eunuch ... (Director)
- Over the Hill ... (Producer)
- Desire ... (Producer)
- Past Loves ... (Producer)
- Prince Daewon ... (Director)
- The Homeless Wanderer ... (Director)
1967
- The Goddess of Mercy ... (Director)
- The King with My Face ... (Producer)
- The Violator ... (Producer)
- Traces ... (Screenplay)
- Mountain ... (Director)
- The Phantom Queen ... (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
- The Cloud Bridge of Gratitude ... (Producer)
- Love Affair ... (Director)
- A Reluctant Prince ... (Director)
- Rice ... (Director)
1962
- Tyrant Yeonsan ... (Director)
- Heartlessness ... (Producer)
- Teacher Waryong's Trip to Seoul ... (Producer)
- Revenge ... (Producer)
- The Story of Sim Cheong ... (Producer)
- Bound by Chastity Rule ... (Director)
1961
- Prince Yeonsan ... (Producer)
- Mother and a Guest ... (Director)
- Seong Chun-hyang ... (Director)
- An Upstart ... (Producer)
- Iljimae the Chivalrous Robber ... (Producer)
- The Evergreen ... (Producer)
1960
- Romance Papa ... (Producer)
- To the Last Day ... (Producer)
- A Returned Man ... (Producer)
- Madam White Snake ... (Director)
1959
- Chun Hui ... (Director)
- It's Not Her Sin ... (Art Direction)
- Dongsimcho ... (Director)
- Independence Association and Young Rhee Syngman ... (Director)
- A Sister's Garden ... (Producer)
1958
- A College Woman's Confession ... (Adaptation)
- The Flower in Hell ... (Director)
1957
- The Shadowless Pagoda ... (Producer)