Geum-ryong Lee
Acting
Biography
Lee Geum-ryong was a Korean actor.
Born: June 14, 1906
Place of Birth: Hanseong, Korean Empire [now Seoul, Republic of Korea]
Known For
Spring of Korean Peninsula
Film producer Lee Yeong-il is introduced to Jeong-hee, his friend's little sister. Unable to find an appropriate slot for her in his movie, he gets her a job in a record company and watches out for her. In time, their love grows deeper. Meanwhile, director Heo Hoon, who is making the film 'The Story of Chun-hyang' with Yeong-il, fires the lead actress of the film, Anna, when she causes too much trouble. Instead, Jeong-hee is hired in her place. Just as Jeong-hee proves herself worthy of the casting and the film-making progresses smoothly, Yeong-il and Heo Hoon face financial difficulties. Yeong-il turns to embezzlement in desperation and is thrown in jail.
Sweet Dream
Middle-class housewife Ae-soon is excessively vain and neglectful of her duties as a homemaker. Unable to tolerate her any longer, Ae-soon's husband kicks her out, and she leaves him and their daughter Jeong-hee to take up with her lover in a hotel.
Volunteer
A young man is anguished that Koreans cannot volunteer to join to Japanese Imperial Army.
The Male
The story of the miners who dealt with the cruel master of the quarry.
The Consolatory Song
Bo-shim's father sends her to a rich man to be his concubine. Her lover, Geum-ryong, becomes a Buddhist monk in the hope of forgetting her but with little success
The Story of the Royal Inspector, Park Mun-su
Screen adaptation of the ancient legend 'The Story of Pak Mun-su'.
The Dawn
An instructive film on the topic of the eradication of smuggling and democratic police.
Su-u
This is a promotional film for the police, in which an investigator calls on a priest to appoint a lawyer to free innocent Seo Yeon, who is accused of killing her smuggling husband, from custody.
Dear Soldier
Two Korean conscripts undergo Imperial Japanese Army training, much to the pleasure of their families.
Counterattack
A kind of method film sponsored by the Prosecutor's Office of the Government-General of Korea, adapted and directed by Ahn Jong-hwa from the original draft of Ogata (緖方), who served as the chief of the censorship at the Gyeonggi-do Police Department. Geum-ryong Lee, a rubber factory worker, inevitably commits murder and sentences to prison to finance his younger brother's tuition. His wife, Bok Hye-suk, abandons her daughter and leaves her house. Geum-ryong, who is released from prison, goes to find his wife, but his wife is cold. Geum-ryong then goes to visit his younger brother, Lee Gyeong-sun. His younger brother becomes a successful doctor, but he brutally beats his daughter. Geum-ryong and his daughter regret his past and set out on a path without a destination.
Filmography
as Father of Gaymei
as Neighbor
as Untae, Eiko's father
as Old man Kaneda
as landlord
as Sansiro Yamamoto
as Director of Movie Company
as Changsik Choi
as Husband