329 Films & TV Shows Set In South Korea
-
Salt
🇰🇷 South Korea The 20th CenturySalt (Sogum, 1985): A story set in Gando in the 1930s. In the film, Choi Eun-hee plays Song-ryul's wife. The family hides a wealthy Korean-Chinese merchant, and the father is killed in a fight between the Japanese police and the Chinese bandits. She believes that her husband died because of the communists.
-
Runaway
🇰🇷 South Korea 🇨🇳 China The 20th CenturySong Ryul returns to the countryside to see his ill father. After his cousin conspires with the Japanese occupiers to sell their crop, Song Ryul is forced to emigrate to Kando (Jiandao) in Manchuria. His family faces numerous adversities there and after a row with a local pharmacist, he is imprisoned. The prison is raided by Kim Il-sung and his guerrillas, who free the inmates, who take revenge on the Japanese by blowing up a railway.
-
Inchon
🇰🇷 South Korea Tokyo Prefecture The 1950sLOVE. DESTINY. HEROES. War Changes Everything. — A noisy and absurd re-telling of the great 1950 invasion of Inchon during the Korean War which was masterminded by General Douglas MacArthur.
-
The Last Witness
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1970s The 1960s The 1950sDetective Oh goes searching for the murderer of Yang, a small-time brewer bludgeoned to death by a quiet riverside with no witnesses, no apparent motive. As he wanders about the winter landscape of South Jeolla Province and Seoul, he finds himself caught in a story of treachery, rape and murder.
-
Game of Death
🇰🇷 South Korea 🇭🇰 Hong KongBruce Lee challenges the underworld to a Game of Death. — A martial arts movie star must fake his death to find the people who are trying to kill him.
-
Unsung Heroes
🇰🇵 North Korea (DPRK) 🇰🇷 South Korea 🇭🇰 Hong Kong The 1950sThe film follows Yu Rim, a Korean expatriate in the United Kingdom working as a journalist, who is ordered by the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea to proceed to Seoul and gather intelligence on the United States Forces Korea.
-
MacArthur
🇯🇵 Japan 🇵🇭 Philippines 🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950s The 1940sThe film portrays MacArthur's (Gregory Peck) life from 1942, before the Battle of Bataan, to 1952, the time after he had been removed from his Korean War command by President Truman (Ed Flanders) for insubordination, and is recounted in flashback as he visits West Point.
-
Io Island
🇰🇷 South KoreaA company is studying the possibility to open a spa hotel named after a mythical island, Ieodo. The island is inhabited by the souls of drowned sailors. During a study trip to the location of the hotel lost a journalist under mysterious circumstances. One of the contractors go to Ieodo's neighboring island, populated by widows of the dead sailors, to unravel the disappearance.
-
When Taekwondo Strikes
🇰🇷 South Korea The 20th CenturyThe story is about the Japanese occupation of Korea during World War II. A Korean patriot played by Carter Wong gets into a fight with some Japanese people and is chased into a church. The priest there is captured and tortured. Trying to secure his release, the leader of the resistance, Jhoon Rhee is himself captured and tortured by the Japanese. Carter Wong, Angela Mao and Anne Winton have to now try and rescue him. This leads to an explosive climax with the heroes having to fight the likes of Wong In Sik (Hwang In-Shik), Sammo Hung and Kenji Kazama.
-
Hapkido
🇰🇷 South Korea 🇨🇳 China The 1930s The 1940sHere Comes the Unbreakable China Doll Who Gives You the Licking of Your Life! — Korea, 1934. During the Japanese occupation, there is open warfare between rival martial arts schools. There is a fight in the marketplace, and three Chinese students can't stand the unfair way of students that side up with the invasors, when they gang assault one of the fighting men. Between the three, they send the aggressors away. Retaliation is heavy: their school is destroyed, and they are banished. They return to China, and start their own school, and set out on good-will visits to the other martial arts schools, only to find that everybody in their neighbourhood is already dominated by the Japanese. They have many kung fu fights to win, before they eventually manage to establish peace.
-
The Flower Girl
🇰🇷 South Korea The 20th CenturyThe country is occupied by the Japanese imperialists. Koppun is selling flowers at the market to get some money to buy medicine for her sick mother. Her brother is imprisoned, her father dead and her sister blind.
-
Northeast of Seoul
🇰🇷 South KoreaThree adventurers--at times competing with each other, at other times allied with each other--search South Korea for a magical sword that is supposed to imbue its owner with wealth and power.
-
The Reluctant Heroes
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950sAn army tale about an egghead ninety-day-wonder who relies on ancient tactics he remembers from the history books to save his beleaguered squad on an important mission in Korea.
-
M*A*S*H
🇰🇷 South Korea 🇯🇵 Japan The 1950sM*A*S*H Gives A D*A*M*N. — The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and high jinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war.
-
Sergeant Ryker
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950sDuring the Korean War Sergeant Paul Ryker is accused of defecting to Communist China and then returning to his unit as a spy.He's court-martialed and sentenced to death but his attorney believes Ryker's innocent and asks for a new trial.
-
Yongary, Monster from the Deep
🇰🇷 South KoreaA Monster from another age ... with terrifying destructive powers ... — Earthquakes in central Korea turn out to be the work of Yongary, a prehistoric gasoline-eating reptile that soon goes on a rampage through Seoul.
-
Iron Angel
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950sA seasoned Sargent with a sorry unit, led by an angry 1st Lt., to take out an enemy hold for a convoy to proceed. After their success the Sarge and the crew meet up with another Lieutenant - Female nurse.
-
Red Scarf
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950sSouth Korean Air Force pilots engage in perilous missions against Communist North Koreans during the Korean War.
-
The Hook
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950sThis is a story of men in war not men at war. — Three soldiers in Korea go through inner torment when they're ordered to execute an enemy soldier.
-
The Manchurian Candidate
New York 🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950sWhen you've seen it all, you'll swear there's never been anything like it! — Near the end of the Korean War, a platoon of U.S. soldiers is captured by communists and brainwashed. Following the war, the platoon is returned home, and Sergeant Raymond Shaw is lauded as a hero by the rest of his platoon. However, the platoon commander, Captain Bennett Marco, finds himself plagued by strange nightmares and soon races to uncover a terrible plot.
-
War Hunt
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950sThere's A Fine Line Between Soldier ... And Killer. — Recruits head to the front lines towards the close of the Korean War. The interaction between two of the soldiers...an idealistic newcomer and a psychotic who goes on one-man patrols slitting enemy throats under cover of night...and the orphan boy who comes between them is examined. The Cease-Fire brings the three to a final resolution.
-
War Is Hell
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950sIRON-GUTS GUYS IN ACTION! — During the Korean War, a glory-hunting sergeant leads his platoon on a mission against the enemy--not telling them that a cease-fire has just been declared--so that he can win medals. Trouble arises when some members of platoon begin to suspect that something is fishy.
-
The Nun and the Sergeant
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950sIt pulls the pin on the screen's most explosive war drama! — A weary sergeant in Korea commands military prisoners on a dangerous mission and is joined by a nun and a group of schoolgirls in enemy territory.
-
Cry for Happy
🇯🇵 Japan 🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950sYou'll cry for happy, happy, happy when four U.S. sailors take over a geisha house...geisha girls and all ! — Army photographers on leave in Japan take over a geisha house.
-
Marines, Let's Go
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950sFollowing combat duty in Korea, a group of United States Marines (Tom Tryon, David Hedison and Tom Reese) are given a furlough in Japan.
- load more