Mun Ye-bong
Acting
Biography
Mun Ye-bong was a Korean actress. She died on March 26, 1999 in North Korea.
Born: January 3, 1917
Place of Birth: Hamhung, South Hamgyong Province, Empire of Japan (now Democratic People's Republic of Korea)
Known For
The Regained Name
The landlord kidnaps the child because of the family's debt. When a new life begins after being released, the kidnapped Sunhi regains her real name and mother after 30 years thanks to the assistance of the new government.
Military Train
Jeom-yong Kim (Pyeong Wang) is a train conductor who wants to drive a military train. Won-jin (Eun-gi Dog) is his best friend and both live together. When a spy for the resistance approaches Won-jin for information on the Japanese military train in exchange for money, he puts the life of his best friend in danger.
Tuition
A film based on the memoir of a 4th grade student who received the grand prize in a writing contest sponsored by Gyeongseong Daily. A boy, whose parents sell brass spoons on the street while his grandmother is sick in bed, never has money for his tuition. Fortunately, his aunt offers to pay for his tuition and his classmates raising funds for him. To top it all off, his parents return a few days later to promise him that they will pay for his tuition the next time.
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.
Angels on the Street
Myeong-ja, a flower vendor in Seoul, and her young brother Yong-pil, are orphans who have been taken in by some very bad people. Yong-pil finds refuge in a private orphanage and Myeong-ja takes her chances with a flower customer.
Teen Guerrillas
A group of boys decide to form a guerrilla unit in order to sabotage and spy on the American enemy after one of the communist-controlled cities falls to them.
My Home Village
This was the first feature film to be produced after the liberation of North Korea. It gives a pictures of boundless joy and emotion of the Korean people who are now liberated from the colonial yoke of Japanese imperialism thanks to the glorious anti-Japanese struggle organized and led by the great leader Comrade Kim Il-Sung. Unable to endure the insult of the landlord, Gwan Pil gives vent to his rage. Because of this, the Japanese imperialists deprive him of his tenant land and put him in jail where he gains class consciousness under the influence of a KPA operative.
A Ferry Boat that Has No Owner
A farmer sells his land to go to Seoul and become a rickshaw driver.
The Miss of Guerrillas
Against the backdrop of the time when North Korea was fighting the war for the liberation of the Korean peninsula (1950-1953), the main character, Ok-khi Cho, participates in a guerrilla war in a village occupied by the American military.
Filmography
as Mother
as Gama's Mother
as orphanage director
as Ten Seon-hee, Ho-chul's mother
as Yeon-hee, foreman of the female brigade
as Ok-khi Cho
as Lee Kuai-nam's Mother
as Ryong Young
as Ok-tan
as Boksun, Eiko's mother
as Kinshuku
as Makiyama's Mother
as Kinoshita's wife
as Sun-i
as Maria
as Bun-ok
as Mother
as Kim Yeong-sim
as Ae-soon
as Chun-hyang
as Chunsam's daughter