Country: North Korea

Direction Choe Ik Kyu · Pak Hak

Cast Han Chon Sob · Hong Yong Hui · Kim Ren Rin · Ko So Am

Direction Kyun Soon Jo · Choi Eun-hee

Cast Ryung Jo Kim · Mi Ran Oh · Yeon Ock Song

Synopsis In this very popular North Korean production of the 1980s, Jin Son Rim (O Mi-ran, the "People's Actor") endeavors to transform her humble mountain hometown into a model socialist village. Released as the economy of the DPKR tanked, Bellflower "praises...

Direction Kil In Kim

Cast Chang Son Hui · Gwan ri · Riyonun Ri · Ri Yong-Ho

Direction Gyong-Sun Cho

Cast Robin Lee · Hyun Chang-Gyeol · Gyong-Sun Cho · Choe Chang-su

Direction Shin Sang-ok

Cast Chang Son Hui · Ham Gi Sop · Jong-uk Ri · Gwan ri

Synopsis In feudal Korea, the evil King becomes aware that there is a peasant rebellion being planned in the country. He steals all the iron farming tools and cooking pots from the people so that he may make weapons to fend...

Direction Jang In-hak

Cast Pak Mi-hyang · Kim Jin-mi · Kim Cheol · Kim Jeong-mi

Synopsis A student experiences different conflicts as she works toward being a scientist.

Direction Jang In-hak

Cast Kim Hyang-suk · Ryung Min Kim · Jung Taik Park

Synopsis During the Korean War, a young nurse in the small town of Chunamri, North Korea, saves a wounded South Korean soldier left behind during battle. Brought together by war, theirs is a fateful meeting that tests the limits of separation.

Direction Kim Yu-Sam

Cast Hyun Chang-Gyeol · James Joseph Dresnok · Jung Eui-Gyeom · Kim Jeong-Woon

Synopsis This is not a “good” film in the sense that it has a compelling plot, characters, dialogue, music, or cinematography. It doesn't. But there are a couple of interesting features. For one, the film shows a North Korean narrative of...

Direction Shin Sang-ok

Cast Choi Eun-hee

Direction Kim J. Ok

Synopsis A black dragon possesses a magic stone that gives him eternal power. One day he kidnaps the princess of a nearby kingdom and her lover, a fisherman, goes on a dangerous journey to save her and destroy the magic stone.

Direction Pak Sang Bok

Synopsis In a town where the local women have a history of supporting the soldiers going back to the war– taking care of them and having relationships with them–one of the soldiers is blinded in an explosion. His girlfriend Un Ha...

Direction Shin Sang-ok

Cast Choi Eun-hee

Direction Rim Chang-bom · Jon Kwang-il

Cast Gyong-hi Ri

Synopsis The film is a drama, which involves a coach who is preparing a group of schoolchildren for the May Day mass games and a former colleague who has now become his superior. She feels that he is being too demanding...

Direction Gil-sen Om · Shin Sang-ok · Eldor Urazbaev

Cast Andrei Martynov · Chhan-su Chve · Oleg Anofriev · Yon-hi Chon

Synopsis After the liberation of the North Korean Red Army from Japanese rule in August 1945, junior lieutenant Yakov Novichenko remains with the Koreans to help them rebuild the ruined country. But the country is still uneasy: the bourgeois Koreans, who...

Direction Ryu Ho-Son

Cast Yun Chan · Kim Chong-nam · Yi Sor-hui

Synopsis Mr. Komak, a musician from one foreign power, and Ra Sol Ju, Navy communicator of DPRK, who also does have a sense of music, met twice. First, on the Korean War, where she captured him, and then at the Festival...

Direction Kim Chun-sik

Synopsis The hero of this film toiled was a lighthouse keeper before Korea's liberation in World War II. He suffered many indignities and mistreatment by the Japanese, who were then occupying Korea. After the liberation, he leads a better life, and...

Direction Riyong Gyu Yun

Cast Hak Su Kim · Hyo Gyong Dzo · Un Bong Che · Sob Pak

Direction Yoon Yong-Gyu

Cast Tian Ki-duk · Tek Sik-jin · Kim Yong-bin

Synopsis One of the first North Korean movies, filmed during the war. It is a propaganda image about young boys who decide to form guerrilla unit after Americans temporarily take over on of the cities conquered by communists. They are sabbotaging...

Direction Kim Song Gyo

Synopsis Having been arrested by the American forces, a Korean engineer tries to save a North-Korean engine from the possession of the enemy by pretending he is working for them.

Direction Kil In Kim

Cast Lee In-sik · Jo Seong-soo · Bae Yong-sam