Yoon Yong-gyu (filmmaker)

Yoon Yong-gyu (; born 1913, date of death unknown), also known as Yun Yong-kyu, was a Korean film director. He made his first film A Hometown in Heart in South Korea before defecting to the North to pursue his filmmaking career.

Biography Yoon was born in 1913 in Daegu, Korea, Empire of Japan. was one of the most important films made in Korea after its liberation from Japan. Based on Ham Se Deok's play Tongseung (A Little Monk), it tells the story of Do-seong, a child monk (Yoo Min) who longs for his mother, who has abandoned him. Meanwhile, a childless widow (Choi Eun-hee) takes to the child. Stanley Park remade the film in 2014 as A Hometown in my Heart .

Teen Guerrillas was one of the first North Korean films, shot during the war.

Filmography 1949: A Hometown in Heart 1951: Teen Guerrillas or Boy Partisans 1952: Defenders of the Native Land 1954: The Miss of Guerrillas or Partisan Girl 1955: The Newlyweds (codirected by Dong-in Joo) 1957: Village People 1958: Suribong (codirected by Youngseob Joo) 1959: Legend of Chunhyang 1960: Yeoseong yeongung gwangbu 1960: Dangyeolui norae 1972: Abyeon gongdeul (codirected by Deok Kyu Kim) 1980: The Tale of Chun Hyang (codirected by Won Jun Yu)