Youn Yuh-jung
Also Known As: 윤여정, Youn Yuhjung, Yoon Yeo-jeong, Yoon Yeo-jung, Yoon Yuh-jung, Yun Yeo-jeong, 尹汝貞, 尹汝贞, یون یو-جونگ
Biography: Youn Yuh-jung (born June 19, 1947) is a South Korean actress. In a film and television career spanning nearly 40 years, Youn is best known for starring in Kim Ki-young's Woman of Fire (1971), Im Sang-soo's The Housemaid (2010), The Taste of Money (2012), and Minari (2020) for which she gained international fame along with numerous awards from this performance, winning an award each from Critics Choice, SAG, BAFTA, and Academy Awards for her supporting performance.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Gaeseong, Gyeonggi, Korea
Adult: No
Birthday: June 19, 1947
Age: 77 years old
Gender: Female
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Dog Days
Overview: Min-sang, a meticulous planner and tidy single man, is frustrated daily by his tenant, Jin-young, a veterinarian who turns his newly mortgaged building into a mess. During another quarrelsome day with Jin-young, Min-sang encounters an elderly lady at the animal hospital, who turns out to be the world-renowned architect Min-seo. Desperate for Min-seo's approval for an ongoing project, Min-sang starts to persuade Jin-young and her cared-for puppy to impress Min-seo. Meanwhile, Hyun, the leader of a small band, is left bewildered while looking after his absent girlfriend's dog, especially when her ex-boyfriend Daniel shows up unexpectedly, demanding to see the dog, claiming he used to raise it together and insisting on visiting the dog once a month...
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2024-02-07
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The Taste of Money
Overview: The assistant of a wealthy socialite reveals her husband's salacious affair. The fallout entangles him in a web of sex, love and deceit that could threaten his life and career.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2012-05-17
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A Good Lawyer's Wife
Overview: A woman, married and with a child but becoming increasingly distant from her husband who is already cheating on her, reluctantly enters a secret relationship with her neighbor, a teenage boy.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2003-08-14
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Behind the Camera
Overview: An odd director leaves for Hollywood to shoot a film via Skype and cellphones. 14 actors and actresses are devastated after being dumped by the director. Now, the 14 actors and actress prepare for the counterattack.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2013-02-28
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In Another Country
Overview: A young woman and her mother run away to the seaside town of Mohang to escape their mounting debt. The young woman begins writing a script for a short film in order to calm her nerves: There are three women named Anne, and each woman consecutively visits the seaside town of Mohang. A young woman tends to the small hotel by the Mohang foreshore owned by her parents. A certain lifeguard can be seen restlessly wandering up and down the beach that lies nearby. Each Anne stays at this small hotel, receives some assistance from the owner's daughter, and ventures onto the beach where they meet the lifeguard.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2012-05-31
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The Housemaid
Overview: Eun-yi is hired as a maid in a mansion owned by a wealthy businessman. He quickly starts seducing his employee who seemingly has little choice but to comply with his sexual advances. Soon the women of the family plot against Eun-yi who must fight an equally devious battle to protect herself.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2010-05-13
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A Tale of Legendary Libido
Overview: A monk gives an impaired man the secret to a strong arousal. The man had been teased and tortured until the travelling man decides to help him out.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2008-04-30
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Boomerang Family
Overview: Based on an original written by Cheon Myeong-gwan, a 48 year-old movie director moves into the house where his mother and 50 year-old brother lives until his sister moves in with her niece.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2013-05-09
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Hindsight
Overview: A young assassin is sent to kill a retired mob boss. But things get complicated when she begins to like him.
Genres: Action Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2011-08-31
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The Actresses
Overview: When six famous Korean actresses gather for a Vogue fashion photo shoot, egos collide in funny and touching ways in this ingenious mockumentary, where all actresses involved play (not so) fictional versions of themselves.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2009-12-10
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Ha Ha Ha
Overview: Over drinks, two friends agree to swap fond memories of their recent trips to the same seaside town. As the stories unfold in flashback, it becomes evident their accounts take place at the same time and with the same people.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2010-05-06
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The Old Garden
Overview: Activist Hyun-woo is released from prison after a 17-year stint. Journeying back to the village where he spent some time as a fugitive he recalls the time spent with Yoon-hee, a woman who gave him shelter and companionship.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2006-09-24
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Maundy Thursday
Overview: Yu-jeong is suicidal, yet she reluctantly goes to prison for volunteer work. There, she meets a prisoner who is waiting for death penalty. The two quickly fall in love despite their differences, yet they do not have much time.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2006-09-14
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Hill of Freedom
Overview: Kwon, a language school instructor, stops by her old workplace and receives a thick envelope addressed to her. A Japanese instructor named Mori had proposed to her two years ago. She turned him down. Mori had immediately gone back to Japan, but now was back in Korea looking for her. The envelope enclosed letters he had written to her during his search through Seoul. After Kwon finishes the first letter in the lobby, she grows faint coming down the staircase and drops the letters. She gathers them off the floor and sees there are no dates on the letters. She now has no way of knowing the order in which they were written.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2014-09-04
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Woman of Fire
Overview: The lives of a composer and his wife, who live on a chicken farm, are thrown into turmoil when a femme fatale joins their household.
Genres: Crime Drama Horror
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1971-04-01
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Hwang Jin Yi
Overview: Although born a daughter of an aristocratic family, Jin-yi discovers the secret behind her birth and enters into a life in a brothel as a gisaeng.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2007-06-06
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Springtime
Overview: A struggling musician takes a job teaching music to middle school children in a rural mining town.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2004-09-16
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Insect Woman
Overview: A schoolgirl goes from braids to bouffant when her mother makes her a bar hostess/prostitute. She cures impotence for Professor Lee and becomes his concubine. His entrepreneurial wife is initially shocked but soon accepts the arrangement and even gives the girl an allowance.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1972-10-06
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Salut d'Amour
Overview: Sung-chil works at the Jang-soo Store which is owned by Jang-soo. Sung-chil is stubborn and has a bad temper, but he changes after meeting Geum-nim. Geun-nim runs a flower shop and her daughter Min-jung does not like her meeting Sung-chil.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2015-04-09
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The Wedding Banquet
Overview: Frustrated with his commitment-phobic boyfriend Chris and running out of time, Min makes a proposal: a green-card marriage with their friend Angela in exchange for her partner Lee's expensive IVF. Elopement plans are upended, however, when Min's grandmother surprises them with an extravagant Korean wedding banquet.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-04-18
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Canola
Overview: A girl who went missing after an accident returns 10 years later and reunites with her grandmother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2016-05-19
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List
Overview: While waiting at a seaside town with her mother for a relative, a young woman creates a list of things she wants to do during her time there.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2011-10-07
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The Bacchus Lady
Overview: So-young, an elderly prostitute working in Seoul, tries to take care of a young Korean-Filipino child she meets in a hospital and make ends meet. So-young's life takes a dark turn when several of her old clients try to reconnect with her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2016-10-06
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Right Now, Wrong Then
Overview: Chun-su arrives in Suwon one day earlier than scheduled. He has a special lecture to give the next day. Chun-su decides to visit a palace and meets Hee-jung there. Hee-jung is a painter and she lets Chun-su see her workroom with her paintings. In the evening, they go out eat and drink together. There, Chun-su reveals something unexpected to Hee-jung.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2015-09-24
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Keys to the Heart
Overview: An older brother is a washed-up boxer. His younger brother is a genius pianist with physical disability. The brothers make up through their mother who is full of stories of her past.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2018-01-17
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Woman Requiem
Overview: After the rape and subsequent suicide of a college student, her mother takes revenge on those responsible.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1985-11-01
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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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Minari
Overview: A Korean American family moves to an Arkansas farm in search of its own American dream. Amidst the challenges of this new life in the strange and rugged Ozarks, they discover the undeniable resilience of family and what really makes a home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-02-12
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Be a Wicked Woman
Overview: Two housewives, wounded by their husbands' betrayals, meet by chance. They decide to carry out "exchange murders" and work towards the perfect alibis. Under what they know to be perfect plans, they kill each other's husbands. Although the police are able to prove that they're guilty, these two women are found innocent by the court of law.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1990-09-28
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Lucky Chan-sil
Overview: With the death of her long-time director, Chan-sil, a film producer, is now unemployed. While working as a cleaning lady at an actress' house, she meets a young man. Attracted to him, Chan-sil realises old anxieties are about to emerge: her already gone-youth, messed-up love life, and broken career.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2020-03-05
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The President's Last Bang
Overview: On October 26, 1979, President Park Chung-hee, who had ruled South Korea since 1961, was assassinated by his director of intelligence. The film depicts the events of that night.
Genres: Comedy Drama History Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2005-02-03
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Ladies Of The Forest
Overview: Soon-shim, a spinster from an unknown planet, comes to the Earth to find her husband. However, no man is in sight. Soon-shim encounters Dal-rae, who was collecting wild greens on a mountain. One day, they save a deer from a hunter, and it wants to repay them by making their wish come true. This is an allegorical love story that comically depicts the journey of seeking true love and happiness.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2017-09-21
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Heaven: To The Land of Happiness
Overview: Two gentlemen meet by chance and decide to go on an adventure together. Their journey becomes a quest for happiness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2021-10-06
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Intimate Enemies
Overview: At a car accident site, Ji-Noo (Ryoo Seung-Bum), Na-Mi (Koh Joon-Hee), Jung-Sook (Ryoo Hyoun-Kyoung) and Yakuboo (Samuel Okyere) find a bag filled with money. They become involved in a dangerous case.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2015-06-25
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The Day and Night of a Korean-American
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1978-04-08
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Tto Sun Yi, a college girl
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1973-02-23
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Earl.
Overview: Earl. profiles the inspiring and complex life of an unknown, brilliant American composer. Earl's story crosses boundaries from classical music to politics, education, cultural self-awareness, war, human rights, and even weapons of mass destruction. Most of all, it is a story of the profound power of music to change lives.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-03-26
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