Koreans Update Project – Kim Hak-joon

[J.J.Hayden]

Koreans Update Project – Kim Hak-joon
https://hkmdb.com/db/people/view.mhtml?id=18580&complete_credits=1&display_set=eng

This one took a bit of back and forth.

He'd already been credited on: 10 Shaolin Disciples; Deadly Shaolin Longfist; Magnificent Natural Fist; The Undertaker In Sohwa Province; and Invincible Obsessed Fighter. But on Invisible he'd been miscredited as Jeon Hak-joon, this wasn't a HKMDB editor's fault though, I remember that the KMDB had got it wrong to begin with. They'd misread the Hanja, which they do more often than you'd think, it's funny how a non-Korean who knows barely any Chinese has to correct it for them

I've also had to change the DOB as well to 1963, I'm not sure where the DOB 22Apr1971 came from, but that would make him about 10yo in his films, which is made all the funnier by the fact he often plays old men with a long grey beard

The only other things to add were his gender and name in Hangul, his credits for Dragon Against Vampire; Eagle Vs. Silver Fox; Shaolin Drunken Monkey; and the cut & paste film Zodiac Power: The Super Master, and of course ID's for all his films (also tagged Gaijin's images on Longfist too).

One image might look familiar, as I mis-ID'd him as Choe Ha-seop in Undertaker (I was about 50/50 at the time), but after getting a version that has less blurred movement I'm confident that it's actually Kim Hak-joon playing more than one role (which he did quite a bit).


Eagle Vs. Silver Fox [1980]
https://hkmdb.com/db/movies/view.mhtml?id=9166&display_set=eng


Shaolin Drunken Monkey [1981]
https://hkmdb.com/db/movies/view.mhtml?id=10343&display_set=eng


10 Shaolin Disciples [1981] --- 2 roles
https://hkmdb.com/db/movies/view.mhtml?id=9096&display_set=eng



Deadly Shaolin Longfist [1982] --- 2 roles
https://hkmdb.com/db/movies/view.mhtml?id=19173&display_set=eng



Invincible Obsessed Fighter [1982] --- 3 roles
https://hkmdb.com/db/movies/view.mhtml?id=10341&display_set=eng




Magnificent Natural Fist [1983]
https://hkmdb.com/db/movies/view.mhtml?id=10057&display_set=eng


The Undertaker In Sohwa Province [1983] --- 2 roles
https://hkmdb.com/db/movies/view.mhtml?id=10920&display_set=eng



Dragon Against Vampire [1985]
https://hkmdb.com/db/movies/view.mhtml?id=10345&display_set=eng


Cheers

[J.J.Hayden]

Here's the other one, another 3rd role (the Koreans sure did make the most out of their stuntmen), Kim Hak-joon as one of the royal escorts.

The Undertaker Of Sohwa Province [1983] --- role3
https://hkmdb.com/db/movies/view.mhtml?id=10920&display_set=eng


Hopefully a BluRay will make this easier, as I had to mess about a bit with these two. All my different DVD versions of theis film have been pretty poor quality, the one I've used for most of my pics is decent for some of the close ups, but as soon as people move it turns into mush, as what happened when trying to get that shot of Hwang Dae-pyung as the farmer. So for that I found what I believe is a VHS rip, where the overall quality is lower, but when it comes to movement it still bests all the DVDs. Weird.