Park Ji-hwan
Also Known As: 박지환, 朴智煥, Park Ji-hwan
Biography: Park Ji Hwan is a South Korean stage and screen actor. He was born on September 5, 1980 and made his film debut in 2006. Since then, he has appeared in numerous films and several television dramas, including “The Outlaws” (2017), “Untouchable” (2017), “Touch Your Heart” (2019), and “Black Dog” (2019).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Donghae, Gangwon, South Korea
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The Roundup: No Way Out
Overview: Detective Ma Seok-do changes his affiliation from the Geumcheon Police Station to the Metropolitan Investigation Team, in order to eradicate Japanese gangsters who enter Korea to commit heinous crimes.
Genres: Action Crime Comedy Thriller Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2023-05-31
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Exhausted
Overview: Uncompromising and shocking portrayal of the life of a French pimp and his wife exploited by him as a prostitute, who stay together in an almost post-apocalyptic post-industrial landscape. Shot on grungy Super-8. The first hour focuses on the everyday activities of the man and woman. They consume cheap food, watch TV and nasty porno, they receive customers and combat each other with psychological power games. Despite emotional numbness, the woman tries to escape. She makes friends with another woman, but then decides that returning to the man is the easiest option. The return of the other woman heralds the very shocking finale. Not for the squeamish.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2008-10-03
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Asura: The City of Madness
Overview: A shady cop finds himself in over his head when he gets caught between Internal Affairs and the city’s corrupt mayor.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2016-09-28
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Anti-Gas Skin
Overview: A fresco mixing the satirical, the surreal and the fantastical to portray the social and political evils of today’s Korea. A gas mask-wearing serial killer is spreading terror. Four people are on his tail on election day: Miju – a wolf-girl who leads a sect of youths who are planning their mass suicide, Bosik – a traffic cop who’s convinced he is a super hero, Patrick – a US Marine on the brink of madness following the serial killer’s murder of his Korean girlfriend, and Ju Sanggeun, the favourite of the candidates for the mayoral seat of Seoul, who has received a disturbing death threat. The man behind the mask remains a mystery. The killer is everywhere or perhaps he is simply inside each of us. –Venice Film Festival
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2010-10-07
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Man in Love
Overview: Tae-Il lives a fast life as low level thug. He then learns that he has a terminal illness and not much time left to live. Then, for the first time in his life, he falls in love.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2014-01-22
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Way Back Home
Overview: Jeong-yoon and Jong-bae own a car body repair shop together that gets in financial trouble. To help cover the losses and take care of her family, Jeong-yoon decides to smuggle thirty kilograms of cocaine.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2013-12-11
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Big Match
Overview: Choi Ik-Ho is a martial arts star with talent for action and humor. But one day, he is framed for murder. Ace is a game planner, who makes a game for the Korean upper class. He is a villain who makes a city into a big gameboard through technology. Ace and Choi Ik-Ho become adversaries as Choi Ik-Ho jumps into the game to save his brother.
Genres: Comedy Action Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2014-11-26
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The Roundup: Punishment
Overview: 'Monster Cop' Ma Seok-do investigates an illegal online gambling business led by a former STS Baek and an IT genius CEO Chang. Ma proposes an unexpected alliance to Jang and begins hunting down the criminals.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2024-04-24
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Boss
Overview: Soon-tae, aspiring to start his dream restaurant franchise, is nominated as the next boss of the gang. He hopes to pass the role to Kang-pyo, the grandson of the former boss, but Kang-pyo dreams of becoming a tango dancer instead. A fierce competition between two strong candidates begins with the goal of losing the election to pursue their individual dreams! To add chaos to the mix, troublemaker Pan-ho, who is unwanted by everyone, decides to join the boss election!
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: ko
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The City of Violence
Overview: Tae-su, a detective fighting organized crime, returns to his hometown for his high school friend Wang-jae's funeral. There, he meets his old friends Pil-ho, Dong-hwan and Seok-hwan and they reminisce. Suspecting something fishy about Wang-jae's death, Tae-su and Seok-hwan start investigating it, each in his own way. Their investigations lead to a land development project that Pil-ho is directing.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2006-05-25
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The Great Actor
Overview: A breakthrough opportunity comes when internationally - renowned director Park announces an open call for his new film, and Jang begins intense preparation for the role of his life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2016-03-30
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Hijack 1971
Overview: Pilots Tae-in and Gyu-sik are set to fly to Gimpo. Under the guidance of flight attendant Ok-soon, passengers are busy boarding. However, shortly after takeoff, a homemade bomb explodes, turning the cabin into chaos.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2024-06-21
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Bogotá: City of the Lost
Overview: After moving to Bogotá for a chance at a better life, a young Korean man rises through the Colombian black market — risking peril for a shot at success.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2024-12-31
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Warriors of the Dawn
Overview: A crown prince emerges as a leader during the war between Korea and Japan in 1592.
Genres: War Adventure Action
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2017-05-31
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1987: When the Day Comes
Overview: In 1987 Korea, under an oppressive military regime, a college student gets killed during a police interrogation involving torture. Government of officials are quick to cover up the death and order the body to be cremated. A prosecutor who is supposed to sign the cremation release, raises questions about a 21-year-old kid dying of a heart attack, and he begins looking into the case for truth. Despite a systematic attempt to silence everyone involved in the case, the truth gets out, causing an eruption of public outrage.
Genres: Drama History Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2017-12-27
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A Cheonggyecheon Dog
Overview: A trans person is contemplating on the "New Seoul" rising from the "Old and ugly Seoul" while strolling along a river, Cheonggyecheon River in the middle of downtown Seoul, where they meet a talking dog. The two start talking and the dog guides the stranger through a weird multidimensional world. The male side of their personality sees Seoul one way and the female side sees something complete different.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2008-08-22
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Hosanna
Overview: Hosanna is an ancient cry of jubilation and entreaty, which according to the New Testament, was used by the crowds greeting Jesus when he rode into Jerusalem on a donkey. In a remote village in Korea lives a boy with the power to heal. He can resurrect the dead. And that is exactly what he does. Curing people of death, he gives them back life. However, the new life doesn’t cure them, on the contrary. Rejecting the chance proffered by rebirth, the fighting, killing and murder continue. They punish, spit upon and antagonise the boy. Refusing to be deterred, he goes his own way. The boy and the villagers move about in rigorously framed shots, practically devoid of emotion. There is no cry of jubilation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2015-02-06
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Believe It or Not
Overview: Over many years of division, North and South Korea have become like a hall of mirrors where it is difficult to tell the real from the false. Inspired by real people who have traveled between North and South amid this division, this film depicts a relationship between the two that is so deeply skewed that it is impossible to tell what anyone is working to achieve.
Genres: Drama Thriller Action
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2018-03-09
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Unstoppable
Overview: Dong-chul and Ji-soo are a happily married couple. One day, Dong-chul comes home to find his house in disarray and his wife missing.
Genres: Crime Action Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2018-11-22
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The Drug King
Overview: Busan, South Korea, 1970s. Lee Doo-sam is a small-time smuggler. After helping a drug gang to smuggle meth, he falls into the dark crime world. Quick-witted and full of ambition, he eventually takes over the drug underworld and starts to lead a double life: a good community leader during the day but an infamous drug lord during the night.
Genres: Crime Action Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2018-12-19
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The Battle: Roar to Victory
Overview: Over a 4 day period, a fierce battle takes place between Korean independence militias and imperialist Japanese forces in Manchuria, China. The militia includes a master swordsman and an expert marksman.
Genres: History Action War
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2019-08-07
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The Shameless
Overview: A homicide detective tries to flush out a mob enforcer by befriending the suspect's beautiful girlfriend, but soon develops romantic feelings for her.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2015-05-15
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Beasts Clawing at Straws
Overview: A struggling restaurant owner, caring for his sick mom, finds a bag of cash in a sauna locker, while a customs officer gets into trouble when his girlfriend runs off with money he borrowed from a loan shark.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2020-02-19
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Spiritwalker
Overview: Unable to remember anything about his life, a man begins regaining consciousness in a new body every 12 hours. Now, he must piece together his identity, all while evading attacks from pursuing agents and dangerous criminals alike.
Genres: Action Mystery Thriller Fantasy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2021-10-17
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A Violent Prosecutor
Overview: After a prosecution lawyer is framed and convicted for murder, he tries to catch the real murderer from jail with the help of a con artist.
Genres: Crime Comedy Action
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2016-02-03
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The Outlaws
Overview: In Chinatown, law and order is turned upside down when a trio of feral Chinese gangsters arrive, start terrorizing civilians, and usurping territory. The beleaguered local gangsters team up with the police, lead by the badass loose cannon Ma Seok-do, to bring them down. Based on a true story.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2017-10-03
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Hansan: Rising Dragon
Overview: In 1592, admiral Yi Sun-sin and his fleet face off against the might of the invading Japanese navy and its formidable warships. As the Korean forces fall into crisis, the admiral resorts to using his secret weapon, the dragon head ships known as geobukseon, in order to change the tide of this epic battle at sea.
Genres: War Action Drama History
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2022-07-27
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The Pirates: The Last Royal Treasure
Overview: A gutsy crew of Joseon pirates and bandits battle stormy waters, puzzling clues and militant rivals in search of royal gold lost at sea.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2022-01-26
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The Roundup
Overview: The 'Beast Cop' Ma Seok-do heads to a foreign country to extradite a suspect, but soon after his arrival, he discovers additional murder cases and hears about a vicious killer who has been committing crimes against tourists for several years.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller Adventure
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2022-05-18
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Handsome Guys
Overview: Brothers Jae-pil and Sang-gu move into their dream rustic-style house in the woods. When unwanted visitors arrive and awaken a sealed evil spirit in the basement, a dark aura begins to envelop the house.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2024-06-26
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Ground Zero
Overview: A short action movie depicting the '1983 Hosan Prison Riot,' an important event in the 'PUBG Universe'.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2021-06-26
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The Man Who Lives with the King
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Genres: History
Original Language: ko
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The Berlin File
Overview: When an illicit arms deal goes bad, North Korean spy Pyo Jong-seong finds himself targeted not just by the South Koreans but also his own bosses.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2013-01-30
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