Yoon Yong-gyu

Yoon Yong-gyu (born 1913), also known as Yun Yong-kyu, was a Korean film director. He made his first film A Hometown in Heart (1949) 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. He defected to North Korea before the outbreak of the 1950–1953 Korean War, and worked as director of North Korea's National Film Studio in 1952.

The classic A Hometown in Heart, released on DVD in 2011 by the Korean Federation of Film Archives and on Blu-ray in 2023 by Blue Kino, 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: Nyeoseong yeong-ung gwangbu
 * 1960: Dangyeol-ui norae
 * 1972: Ab yeon gong deul (codirected by Deok Kyu Kim)
 * 1980: The Tale of Chun Hyang (codirected by Won Jun Yu)