Kim Hee Soo

Kim Hee Soo was a South Korean film editor, born in Chongju, North Pyongan, North Korea.

JJ Feild

JJ Feild is an British-American film, television and theatre actor. He started his television career in 1999. Feild played Fred Garland in Philip Pullman's The Ruby in the Smoke and The Shadow in the North television adaptations. In 2007, he starred as Henry Tilney in the television film Northanger…

Nam Bo Won

Kim Deok Yong, known professionally as Nam Bo Won, was a South Korean comedian and actor born in what today is part of North Korea. His family was one of the first families to be displaced after the Korean War as the area where they lived fell right in between both countries, and political discussions…

Kim Hak Soon

Kim Hak-soon is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. Kim wrote and directed the naval thriller film Northern Limit Line (2015) which depicts a real-life naval skirmish with North Korea in June 2002. It drew more than 6 million viewers 29 days after its release on June 24, 2015, making it one…

Tsuchiya Tsuneji

One of the first cameramen in Japanese cinema history. A former carpenter, Tsuchiya travelled to North America to help in the construction of a Japanese garden and tea house at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. After learning film techniques on how to operate a camera and develop film in December 1898…

Yoon Bong Chun

Yoon Bong Chun was a South Korean director and actor, born in Hoeryong, North Hamgyeong Province, South Korea. His son was the late Yoon Sam Yook (윤삼육), also a South Koran director and screenwriter.

Kim Sung Won

Kim Sung Won was a Korean actor, voice actor, and theater actor. He was born in 1936 in Pyongyang, South Pyongan Province (which became part of North Korea) but spent his childhood in Wonju City in Gangwon Province, remaining in South Korea after the nation divided. After graduating from Seorabeol University…

Sim Jun Woo

Sim Jun Woo, known mononymously as Junwoo, is a South Korean singer, dancer and member of LUN8 (루네이트) born in Chungju City, North Chungcheong, South Korea. He graduated from Youngdong High School. In June 2023, he made his debut as LUN8's main dancer with their 1st mini-album "Continue?" under…

Sun Nan

Sun Nan is a pop singer from Dalian in mainland China. His songs include "Be there or Be Square", "The Wind Goes to North", "Save", and his song for the 2008 Summer Olympics, "Forever Friends". He has released 12 albums with over 10 million sales in total, and has held over 30 concerts in Asia and over…

Bang Su Il

Bang Su Il was born Kim Young So in 1932 in Hamju, South Hamgyeong Province, Korea (Now North Korea). In October 1957, as one of the 30 first-year trainees of the actor training centre at the capital film company, he began his career as an actor after six months of training. After auditioning in 1958,…

Beautiful Korea

7.0

A music composer tries to escape from North Korea to avoid prosecution.

The Rendezvous

6.8

During a long train ride heading north of Japan, a young man addresses an older woman in front of him. At first, she doesn't respond, but he finally gets her into a conversation when he offers her lunch. Thus begins…

Descendants of Cain

5.7

An anti-communist film depicting North Koreans extorting the land and property of civilians in the name of revolution after the liberation from Japan in 1945. (Source: Wikipedia)

DMZ, Demilitarized Zone

6.9

Set in the demilitarized zone (DMZ) between North and South Korea.

Secret Reunion

8.0

A fired South Korean agent and a deserted North Korean spy meet by chance after six years and start a business partnership, each with the intention of stealing information from the other. (Source: IMDb)

The Suspect

8.1

Dong Chul was the best special field agent in North Korea, but he’s abandoned by his government during a mission. While on the run, he looks for his wife and child, who were sold as slaves to China, only to discover…

The King 2 Hearts

8.2

Kim Hang A is a legendary top female instructor working for North Korea’s elite special forces unit. With stamina, training tactics, and strength in all areas, she is the perfect female soldier; however, she has…

Secretly Greatly

8.3

A group of spies called the 5446 Corps were trained by North Korean elite special forces since their youth, ostensibly towards the lofty goal of unifying Korea. They are ambitiously dispatched to South Korea, where…

6/45

8.3

“6/45” tells the comic story of South Korean and North Korean soldiers meeting up secretly when the wind blows a first prize lottery ticket past Korea’s military demarcation line and into North Korea. (Source:…

71: Into the Fire

8.5

The story of 71 students who fight hundreds of North Korean soldiers in front of a middle school on August 11, 1950, during the Korean War. Gap Jo was formerly a student who was convicted of murder. While serving his…