Lee Hyun-seung

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Lee Hyun-seung

Born August 18, 1961 · Seoul, South Korea (age 65)

Hyun-seung Lee is a South Korean film writer and director.

Known For

Il MareIl Mare · 2000
Il Mare
7.42000
MovieDramaRomance
A man and a woman realize they are separated by two years of time when they exchange letters from different years in a mailbox.
HindsightHindsight · 2011
Hindsight
6.52011
MovieActionDrama
A young assassin is sent to kill a retired mob boss. But things get complicated when she begins to like him.
City of the Rising SunCity of the Rising Sun · 1999
City of the Rising Sun
7.21999
MovieDramaCrime
Do-chul is a boxer who never wins a game. While trying to make some money, he gets involved with Hong-ki, a small-time crook. They somehow make friends and hang around together, but their views toward life and the world are almost opposite.
Jukdo Surfing DiaryJukdo Surfing Diary · 2020
Jukdo Surfing Diary
5.02020
MovieDrama
Soo-jeong is camping on Jukdo Beach, while Jeong-yong has left there for a long time and returned. Soo-jeong and Jeong-yong inevitably meet surfing on the beach. Besides, Jukdo Beach, which emerged as a surfing hot place, gets sick and tired of the heat as time goes by and the girl surfer Bi-joo is finally destined to leave there.
The UnforgivenThe Unforgiven · 2005
The Unforgiven
7.12005
MovieDrama
Some time after completing his mandatory military service, a man receives a distressed call from one of his subordinates, who's also an old classmate.
If You Were Me 4If You Were Me 4 · 2009
If You Were Me 4
5.02009
MovieDrama
Includes shorts: Girl on the Run, The Theory & Practice of Teenage Dream, Relay, U and Me and Blue Birds on the Desk.
If You Were MeIf You Were Me · 2003
If You Were Me
6.02003
MovieDrama
Anthology film of six shorts by leading Korean directors. Park Chan-Wook, tackles racial prejudice and the economic exploitation of immigrant workers through the real-life story of a Nepalese woman in Korea. Jeong Jae-Eun, tackles the plight of a paedophile released into the community. Yeo Gyun-Dong, invites disabled actor Kim Moon-Joo to re-enact his most famous protest. Im Soon-Rye, goes for the engrained sexism of Korean men with superb wit and, Park Jin-Pyo, confronts the horror of children forced into oral surgery to improve their English-speaking ability.
Fly, PenguinFly, Penguin · 2009
Fly, Penguin
2009
MovieDrama
Seung-yun is stressed out because he is sent to several private academies after school. His mother reproves him for not living up to her expectations. His father takes pity on him for being nagged on by his mother all the time... Ju-hun, a new employee at a company, is a vegetarian and cannot drink alcohol at all. Chang-su thinks Ju-hun is eccentric and is displeased with him... Su-hyeong sent his son and daughter with his wife to study abroad, but he grows tired of staying alone in his empty house... SONG has lived with her authoritarian husband without any serious problems, but she does not want to stay with him anymore. GWON, an old man, pretends to be calm in the face of his wife’s request for divorce. But actually he can’t do anything by himself... These are not unfamiliar fictional events but rather they reflect the lives of ordinary people in Korea at the present time. Through their stories, shows us how a society imposes normalcy on its people in their daily lives.

Filmography

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Fly, PenguinFly, Penguin · 2009
Fly, Penguin
2009
MovieDrama
Seung-yun is stressed out because he is sent to several private academies after school. His mother reproves him for not living up to her expectations. His father takes pity on him for being nagged on by his mother all the time... Ju-hun, a new employee at a company, is a vegetarian and cannot drink alcohol at all. Chang-su thinks Ju-hun is eccentric and is displeased with him... Su-hyeong sent his son and daughter with his wife to study abroad, but he grows tired of staying alone in his empty house... SONG has lived with her authoritarian husband without any serious problems, but she does not want to stay with him anymore. GWON, an old man, pretends to be calm in the face of his wife’s request for divorce. But actually he can’t do anything by himself... These are not unfamiliar fictional events but rather they reflect the lives of ordinary people in Korea at the present time. Through their stories, shows us how a society imposes normalcy on its people in their daily lives.

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