Movies by Lee Sang-hee

Midnight

Midnight

A serial killer ruthlessly hunts down a deaf woman through the streets of South Korea after she witnesses his brutal crime.

My Name Is Loh Kiwan

My Name Is Loh Kiwan

After defecting from North Korea, Loh Kiwan struggles to obtain refugee status in Belgium, where he encounters a dejected woman who has lost all hope.

Our Love Story

Our Love Story

A fine arts student meets an attractive bartender, and the two women begin an intimate relationship.

Master and Man

Master and Man

After two years of casual sex, a pair of emotionally repressed lovers abruptly part ways. But as they start new lives, memories of the past remain.

Mothers

Mothers

The owner of a student study center gets an awkward request and suddenly faces the prospect of raising her dead husband’s teenage son by herself.

Kids Are Fine

Kids Are Fine

A 9-year-old kid goes on a short daring trip to meet his sick mother with his buddies.

Let Us Meet Now

Let Us Meet Now

In this Korean omnibus film, three stories and relationships between the North and South are explored - stories about a hopeless romance, an unknown future and an expected and coincidental comfort.

Hello

Hello

Jeong-eun is embarrassed that her mother, who is suffering from dementia, wants to meet and call her sister from who was separated with due to the Korean War. However, Jeongeun accidentally receives a wrong call from a North Korean woman and is asked a favor.

Strange

Strange

Neighbors quarrel over land. A mother and daughter's bizarre relationship. A bizarre encounter between a desolate young man and a monster. The struggle of a father who intuited the grim future of his son's generation. An unstable society, a fantastic thriller that summons anxious people.

Eyelids

Eyelids

An old man living on the island of Mireukdo lives a self-sufficient life, adhering to ascetic principles typical of a monk. Now and then the phone rings and shortly thereafter a visitor arrives; the old man dutifully prepares rice cakes for them. The cakes are the last meal these visitors will eat before embarking on the seemingly long journey to the next world. The first to arrive is an angler, then a rat, and the last a teacher and two students.

Because I Hate Korea

Because I Hate Korea

Kye-na, an average woman in her late twenties, holds a steady job and a committed boyfriend, Ji-myoung. Yet instead of feeling content, she constantly faces uncertainty, confusion and anxiety. While struggling with personal relationships and life's woes, Kye-na finally embarks for New Zealand despite everyone’s dissuasion on leaving her home behind.

Dance From Afar

Dance From Afar

2016 KBS Drama Special. One day, theater director Shin Pa-rang suddenly kills himself. He did not even leave a last will. Playwright Choi Hyun reacts calmly to his death, but she can't understand his death.

A Distant Place

A Distant Place

A sheep farmer whose remote and quiet life is disturbed by the arrival of both his lover and his twin sister.

If Tomorrow Comes

If Tomorrow Comes

The Sound of Light

The Sound of Light

According to the director’s request, film sound engineer Mr. Jung and his staff set off on a journey to find sound of light flowing out of darkness. Their effort to find the sound within the flow of time gets more persistent and their passion for the movie becomes another movie in itself.

Family Affair

Family Affair

One day, three siblings receive a postcard from their mother who left them a long time ago. But all it says is "I miss you." Three siblings are disconcerted by the sudden contact, but eventually, they go on a trip to meet their mother.

Bongcheon Tiger Lee

Bongcheon Tiger Lee

It's the return of the "The Age of the Wild Men"! Lee Sang-dae is known as the 'Bongcheon Tiger' who knocks out all fighters with his head. He begins a fight to teach his friend, Hak-cheol, a lesson, as he is on the side of the Japanese and bullying innocent people.

Gull

Gull

O-bok’s eldest daughter is about to get married to an educated, well-off young man, but she’s far from happy. It’s not just hot weather, hot flushes, her daughters’ materialism, her mother’s dementia, her husband’s drinking, or the impending gentrification of the food market where she sells fish – although all of that will push her to take a stand. After trying to cover it up, O-bok reveals to her daughter that she was raped by a fellow stallholder, the man organising the traders against their landlords. Increasingly furious, O-bok eschews t...

Disillusioned

Disillusioned

A man left the city to live in the countryside. One day, he goes fishing and catches a strange sack. Soon afterwards, he is chased by a mystery man with a lump on his chin. This sack puts the man’s life on the line.

I Can Speak

I Can Speak

A grumpy old woman befriends a young civil servant and learns English from him. She then reveals to him her shocking past.