Nam Seung-min

Born: 1911-01-01

Born in Gangwon-do in 1911, his real name is Nam Tae-won. In 1935, he entered the film industry with a small role in director Bang Han-jun's Sprinkler. Afterwards, he appeared in Lee Gyu-hwan's A New Beginning (1939) and Kim Yu-young's Daffodil (1940). He appeared in a number of propaganda and cultural films, including Choi In-gyu's Children of the Sun (1944) and Kyung-kyun Shin's Our War (1945). After liberation, he appeared in director Lee Kyu-hwan's The Adventures of Smart (1946) and director Yoon Yong-gyu's Hometown of the Heart (1949). He defected to North Korea during the Korean War.


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Dear Soldier

as Yoshiki Hiramatsu
Released: 1944-06-16

Two Korean conscripts undergo Imperial Japanese Army training, much to the pleasure of their...

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A Hometown in Heart

as Temple Cook
Released: 1949-02-09

An orphan left in the care of a Buddhist temple becomes attached to a young widow who arrives...

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The Adventure of Ttolttori

as uncredited
Released: 1946-09-07

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Teen Guerrillas

as secretary of the county committee of the Labor Party
Released: 1951-06-30

A group of boys decide to form a guerrilla unit in order to sabotage and spy on the American...

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Narcissus

as uncredited
Released: 1940-08-25

The heroine, a girl of marriageable age named Yu, married a thirteen-year-old fiancé, but he...

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Scouts

as Commander of the Puppet Army Division
Released: 1953-01-01

The film tells the story of a small group of the Korean People's Army, led by Hakcheol Lee,...

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Look Up at the Blue Sky

as Patriot
Released: 1943-04-05

A pro-Japanese film showing the bravery of soldiers defending the country and promoting the...

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Straits of Chosun

as Seki
Released: 1943-06-06

A Japanese-speaking family in occupied Korea deal with the war.

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Defenders of the native land

as Byeong-su Nam
Released: 1952-01-01

The plot revolves around a pair of hunters, Moonil Lee and Sun-deok Kim, who wage an armed...

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Love the Future

as uncredited
Released: 1959-11-01

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The Miss of Guerrillas

as uncredited
Released: 1954-01-01

Against the backdrop of the time when North Korea was fighting the war for the liberation of the...

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Village at the Demarcation Line

as Do-kyun
Released: 1961-01-01

Enemy Brigadier Seung Jin secretly intimidates Song-nie and the other village women, hoping that...

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Red Flare

as old man Choi
Released: 1960-06-01

About the struggle of the National Liberation Army of Korea against South Korean mercenaries,...

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A woman's story

as old man Liu
Released: 1960-11-01

About the heroic struggle of the Chinese people against the Japanese invaders in the 1930s. In...

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애국자

as Song Yong-sik
Released: 1959-01-01

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