Ju Jeung-nyeo
Ju Jeung-ryu (February 11, 1926 – 1980) was South Korean actress whose fame peaked in the 1950s and 1960s. She starred in about 400 films. Ju was born in Yonghung, Hamkyongnam-do, nowadays in North Korea. While attending Hamnam Girls' High School, Ju became an ardent play fan. When she became eighteen, she ran away from home and joined in the theater company, Gohyeop. Her first role as an actress was a maid in Muyeongtap (무영탑) written by Yu Chi-jin.
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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 1.75 |
Birthday | 1926-02-12 |
Place of Birth | South Hamgyong, North Korea |
Also Known As | Jeung-nyeo Ju, 주증녀, Ju Jeung-ryu, |
1964
The Barefooted Young
6.4/5
Jo Doo-soo, a member of a gang, comes across and helps Joanna, a college student who is about to have her handbag robbed by the bullies on her way hom...
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The Barefooted Young
1968
A Young Zelkova
7/2
Suk-hee's mother is remarried to a man who has a son a year senior than Suk-hee. The two don't get along well first, but soon they grow intimate. Suk-...
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A Young Zelkova
1962
A Salaryman
0/0
A man is a chief of accounting who does business honestly, never cheating anyone in his 10 years at the company. But his boss is a completely differen...
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A Salaryman
1960
The Housemaid
7.2/167
A piano composer's family moves into a new house; when his pregnant wife collapses from working to support the family, he hires a hot housemaid to hel...
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The Housemaid
1960
A Sad Pastorale
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A Sad Pastorale
1964
The Teacher with Ten Daughters
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The Teacher with Ten Daughters
1964
Her Majesty Yeonghwa
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At the close of the reign of Sin the Great in Goguryeo (B.C.37-A.D.668), royalist Uso is executed by a false incrimination made by a treacherous retai...
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Her Majesty Yeonghwa
1964
The Heartbreaking Story
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The Heartbreaking Story
1966
Nilliri
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Nilliri
1966
Ok-i Makes a Judge Cry
0/0
After her father, failed at stock investment and was shocked to death, a girl enters a textile factory and supports her family. But living on her smal...
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Ok-i Makes a Judge Cry
1962
Tyrant Yeonsan
6/3
Prince Yeonsan-gun turns into a tyrant out of grief for his mother's death. He orders beheadings of all the officials who displease him or who advised...
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Tyrant Yeonsan
1966
I Am a King
4.8/4
Trainer Meng Doo-ho spots Young-chul in a bar fight and decides to turn him into a boxing champion.
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I Am a King
1974
The Testimony
4/1
June 25, 1950. When second lieutenant Jang has a date with his girl friend during weekend, numerous North Korean jet fighters make sudden air raids to...
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The Testimony
1962
The Country Left Behind
7/1
Before the Korean War (1950-1953), a daughter of a Russian soldier stationed at Heungnam falls in love with a young Korean anti-Communist. Their love...
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The Country Left Behind
1970
Mi-ae
8/1
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Mi-ae
1974
Wives on Parade
5/3
A newlywed wife, Ji-sun moves to her husband's village in a rural area called Sambatgol where it is customary to have glossy charades, incompetence is...
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Wives on Parade
1966
The Last Empress
0/0
Queen Yun reigned with King Sunjong since she was just 13 years old. She hid the royal seals needed to complete an agreement between Korea and Japan w...
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The Last Empress
1967
Flame in Valley
5.3/3
During the Korean War, a widow living in a village in a mountainous region in the South of the Korean Peninsula that has lost most of its men to the w...
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Flame in Valley
1968
Potato
0/0
Bok-nyeo gets married to a poor Joseon's aristrocrat and lives a hard life to survive.
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Potato
1976
Similar Toes
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Similar Toes
1974
Ecstasy
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Ecstasy
1975
Bird of Paradise
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Bird of Paradise
1956
The Enemy of Woman
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The Enemy of Woman
1959
The Romantic Train
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The Romantic Train
1960
The Moral of Youth
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The Moral of Youth
1974
The Earth
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Ha Dong, Kyung Nam Province in 1890. Choi Chi-Su's family is a grand land lord of the region from generation to generation. His mother Mrs. Yoon gives...
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The Earth
1957
Love
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Love
1957
Life of the Woman
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Life of the Woman
1969
Rebirth
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Rebirth
1963
A Sad Story of Danjong
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A Sad Story of Danjong
1960
Mother's Power
0/0
Seoul, under a drizzling spring rain; Korea is under the rule of Japan. A gisaeng(Korean geisha) named Jeong-ok (Ju Jeung-nyeo) and Myeong-gyu (Lee Mi...
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Mother's Power
1959
It's Not Her Sin
6/1
After the woman who nearly killed her is brought to trial, Eun-hie finds that she must take the stand to give evidence. However, the defense attempts...
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It's Not Her Sin
1967
Full Ship
0/0
A film picturing the lives and adversities of fishermen who live and die in the sea.
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Full Ship
1976
Windmill of My Mind
0/0
Yeong-Ho is a son of second wife and enters his stepmother's as an heir. His stepbrother, Young-Min, is physically weak and frequently gets sick even...
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Windmill of My Mind
1961
The Sea Knows
7/1
A Korean man, forced into service in the Japanese army during WWII, marries his Japanese girlfriend despite everyone's objections. Later, he becomes t...
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The Sea Knows
1959
Dongsimcho
4/1
Lee Suk-hui (Choe Eun-hui) lost her husband to the Korean War eight years ago. She runs a dressmaking shop that has fallen into debt. When Kim Sang-gy...
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Dongsimcho
1970
The Little Bridegroom's Return
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The Little Bridegroom's Return
1967
Children in the Firing Range
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Children in the Firing Range
1968
Salt Pond
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Salt Pond
1960
Romance Papa
5.2/4
A middle-aged man is laid off from work but is too proud to tell his family. His children, however, learn of the situation and take jobs of their own...
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Romance Papa
1960
Ah! Baekbeom Kim Ku
4/0
Kim Chang-su, who participated in the Donghak Movement, escapes to Manchuria after being chased by the Japanese army, finally making his way home. Ang...
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Ah! Baekbeom Kim Ku
1961
A Flower of Evil
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A doctor of biology succeeds in making a flower of evil. He has dedicated long years to the research for revenge. When he orders, the flower drinks hu...
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A Flower of Evil
1961
Lady Jang
6/2
King Sukjong exalts a greedy concubine to the status of Bin, which is next to that of the Queen. The new Bin, who is now called Jang Hui-bin, drives o...
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Lady Jang
1961
Prince Yeonsan
8.2/4
A historical drama about Prince Yeon-san of Joseon as a prince trying to restore the status of his mother, the deposed and executed Queen Yun.
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Prince Yeonsan
1963
The Classroom of Youth
0/0
While the students, full of vigor in their twenties, make a stand against their parents who regard dating as a sin, they enjoy their springtime of lif...
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The Classroom of Youth
1963
Rulers of the Land
0/0
In Manchuria, some a group of Korean guerrillas joins forces with the Chinese Nationalist Army to free some prisoners of war from the Japanese Imperia...
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Rulers of the Land
1963
Goryeojang
7.3/7
Prior to the adoption of Confucianism, it was the tradition to abandon one's parents on a mountainside if they were over 70 years of age. In the ancie...
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Goryeojang
1964
Asphalt
0/0
In the process of arresting a smuggler, the criminal's wife is killed. Twenty years later, the smuggler is released from prison and vows to murder the...
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Asphalt
1965
Sorrow Even Up in Heaven
8/1
Lee, Yun-bok in his fourth grade lives in a poor family. His father is indulged in gambling, and his mother, who can no longer tolerate the cruelty of...
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Sorrow Even Up in Heaven
1967
Mist
6/5
Yun Gi-jun has become the executive director of a pharmaceutical company by marrying the widowed daughter of the company CEO. With the general shareho...
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Mist
1968
Desire
0/0
A doctor is shocked to learn that his girlfriend had formerly been the mistress of a married man.
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Desire
1969
Women of Yi-Dynasty
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Four short stories examing the lives of women in the last 18th and 19th century Story 1: 'Wives Should Be Submissive'--A father tries to marry his dau...
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Women of Yi-Dynasty
1970
Revenge of the Snake Woman
0/0
Yong-nyeo, who was sacrificed for love and had lost her life, is reincarnated as a snake and takes the form of a woman. She seduces Ji-eon, the son-in...
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Revenge of the Snake Woman
1976
Blue Days
0/0
A woman refuses to give into her fiance's desire that she take a job as a secretary in his father's office. Instead she eventually decides to try to m...
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Blue Days
1977
Night Journey
5.3/3
A bank employee dissatisfied with the casualness and secrecy of her relationship with her boyfriend, a superior at work, is suddenly given a few days...
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