Kang Shin-il
Also Known As: 강신일, Gang Sin-il, Shin-il Kang, 姜信日, 姜信一, Gang Shin Il
Biography: Kang Shin-il (hangul: 강신일; born November 26, 1960) is a South Korean actor. Kang graduated from Kyung Hee University with a degree in electronic engineering, but he soon put aside his studies and spent most of his time in Daehangno, Seoul's theater district, where he formed a troupe called Testimony that performed at smaller venues. In 1985, he made his acting debut in Chilsu and Mansu, and soon gained fame as a stage actor in plays such as Kimchigook Goes Crazy and Chronicles of Han. He appeared onscreen for the first time in the 1988 film adaptation of Chilsu and Mansu and became a prolific supporting actor in Korean cinema and television (notably in Kang Woo-suk's Public Enemy franchise), while continuing to do theater. In 2007, Kang was diagnosed with liver cancer, but after recovering from surgery, he resumed his acting career.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: South Korea
Birthday: November 26, 1960
Adult: No
Gender: Male
TMDb-Id: 109060
IMDb-Id: nm1120328
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Known For
My Heart Puppy
Overview: Min-soo is about to get married when his fiancée suddenly admits that she is allergic to dogs. Now the guy's best friend, the golden retriever Rooney, needs a new family. With the help of his cousin and social media, Min-soo starts looking for a new home for Rooney.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2023-03-01
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Mr. Socrates
Overview: A low-life scumbag gets kidnapped by a mysterious gang and put through inhumane training to become a mole inside the police force.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2005-11-11
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Another Public Enemy
Overview: A criminal psychopath from a wealthy family is confronted with Chul-jung Kang, a former classmate who no longer likes his activities.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2005-01-27
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Public Enemy
Overview: A notorious dirty cop makes an honest attempt to catch a serial killer who even murdered his own parents.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2002-01-25
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Legend of the Evil Lake
Overview: A thousand years ago, an evil spirit was kept imprisoned in a lake by the first emperor of the Chilla empire. Now unleashed, it possesses the body of Ja Woon-bi, the wife of general Biharang, with the aim to bring down the very dynasty that destroyed his people. Biharang is torn; to kill the spirit, he has to also kill his wife.
Genres: Action Fantasy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2003-11-28
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Can We Get Married?
Overview: Sun-woo and Woo-jung are about to get married. Their rosy future shatters when Sun-woo’s divorced father with bad credit history has a stroke. Sun-woo is left with a huge treatment fee, and his mother insists that Sun-woo’s dad should be selected as a basic livelihood recipient. Can Sun-woo get through this disastrous incident and get married successfully?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2024-10-23
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Public Enemy Returns
Overview: Kang Chul-jung has been a detective fighting crime for 15 years and is at it again against a mob boss who recruits young kids to do his dirty work.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2008-06-19
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Moss
Overview: A city boy visits a remote village to find out the reason behind his father's strange death. The locals are watching his every move and are eager to see him leave. As he starts to investigate, the village's sinister secrets begin to unravel.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2010-07-14
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Black House
Overview: Jun-oh, an insurance claims agent, faces off with a client who he suspects of committing murders with the intention of collecting insurance premiums.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2007-06-21
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Jail Breakers
Overview: Two inmates break out of a prison only to discover afterwards that they are up for parole. Desperate to get their lives back on track, they realize their best move is to break back into the prison without being noticed.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2002-11-20
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Silmido
Overview: On 31 January 1968, 31 North Korean commandos infiltrated South Korea in a failed mission to assassinate President Park Chung-hee. In revenge, the South Korean military assembled a team of 31 criminals on the island of Silmido to kill Kim Il-sung for a suicide mission to redeem their honor, but was cancelled, leaving them frustrated. It is loosely based on a military uprising in the 1970s.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2003-12-24
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Triangle
Overview: A tense standoff between a wealthy young widow with a collection of world-famous art, a swindler with an eye on her collection, and a strange woman who blackmails him into including her in the con.
Genres: Comedy Romance Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2009-11-19
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Fists of Legend
Overview: Three men who share a past participate in a mixed martial arts reality show where they have to fight against other contestants to win the prize money.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2013-04-10
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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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Hanbando
Overview: The President of South Korea races against time to prove the seal on documents from long dead King Gojong is fake by charging outspoken historian Choi Min-jae, and a descendant of the royal bloodline Kim Yu-shik, to find the long lost seal in order to prove that the Japanese claim to railroads is false, a claim that will stop the reunification of the two Koreas.
Genres: Mystery Thriller History
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2006-07-13
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Blood and Ties
Overview: A young woman's happy life with her father takes a downward turn when she begins to suspect that he's a kidnapper.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2013-10-24
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Pandora
Overview: When an earthquake hits a Korean village housing a run-down nuclear power plant, a man risks his life to save the country from imminent disaster.
Genres: Thriller Drama Action
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2016-12-07
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My Girlfriend Is an Agent
Overview: Ahn Soo-ji and Lee Jae-joon, who are oblivious to each other's real profession as secret agents, are in an ill-fated relationship. Three years later, they accidentally meet targeting the same enemy.
Genres: Action Comedy Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2009-04-04
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Duck Town
Overview: Hee-jung hopes to leave Daegu and transfer to a university in Seoul. She works at a ticket office for paddle boats to save up for her tuition. One day while she dozes off, someone attempts suicide.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2018-04-19
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Roman Holiday
Overview: A comedy about a hopeless trio who live to become robbers and hold hostages.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2017-08-30
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A Little Pond
Overview: The Korean war does not start well for the US. They are being routed by the North Koreans and In July 1950, the early stage of the Korean War, at the Jugok Village in the middle of the Korean Peninsula, Chang-yee and his friends grow excited over the amateur singing contest knowing nothing about what is going on around them. At the time, the US Army keeps losing and are pushed back to the village, evacuating all villagers to head south. The villagers took refuge like going on a picnic believing that the US Army is protecting them, they just follow their orders moving south bound.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller War
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2010-06-23
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Some
Overview: Action thriller featuring a dramatic race against time and death. After 10 billion won worth of drugs mysteriously disappear, police officer Kang Sung Joo is faced with the unenviable task of tracking down the perpetrators of the clever coup. During his risky mission for justice, he stumbles into news reporter Seo Yoo Jin who has the gift to foresee the future. To his shock, Kang learns that he will be murdered within 24 hours.
Genres: Action Crime Mystery
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2004-10-22
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See, Beethoven
Overview: On one hot summer day in a cafe by a university, three high school girls get together. They talk about coffee, smoking and love, but none of them are truthful.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2014-03-27
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The Prison
Overview: An imprisoned ex-police inspector discovers that the entire penitentiary is controlled by an inmate running a crime syndicate and becomes part of the crime empire.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2017-03-23
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Love Phobia
Overview: On a sunny day, a boy named Jo-kang meets Ari, a girl in a yellow raincoat, and they become friends. Jo-kang falls helplessly in love with the quirky but attractive Ari, but one day, she suddenly disappears. Ten years pass and Jo-kang, now a high school student, gets a call from Ari and meets her again in a temple. Although they have not seen each other for ten years, they have such a great time together. Then, Ari disappears again. Jo-kang is devastated. Why has she disappeared again? What will become of them?
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2006-04-27
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Project Cheonan Ship
Overview: Interpreting an event of ROKS Cheonan corvette, torpedoed and sunken by North Korea, this documentary rebuilds the event with a different insight. No one can tell if the investigation of Cheonan has reached compelling conclusion. But the film tells and reveals how unreasonable Korean society is.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2013-09-05
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Sword In The Moon
Overview: Kingdom of Joseon, ancient Korea. A usurper has conquered the throne. His ministers are being systematically eliminated by a mysterious assassin. An arrogant master swordsman is in charge of putting an end to the carnage.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2003-07-15
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Deranged
Overview: People binge eat and suffer from extreme thirst, which leads them to go crazy for water. They cannot control themselves because they are brainwashed by a parasite.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2012-07-05
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I Want to Know Your Parents
Overview: An eighth grade student kills himself but not before writing the names of the students who victimized him. Their parents are called into the school and a battle goes on regarding the will.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2022-04-27
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I Am Home
Overview: Eun-seo struggles repeatedly to find her own place. Her father Jin-cheol lives alone in a house where his family has left. Eun-seo unexpectedly returns her childhood home to live with her father. There, she faces traces of her family she had forgotten.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2019-11-28
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Black Money
Overview: A prosecutor is falsely accused of sexual assault in a suicide note from a woman that he is convinced was actually murdered. As he investigates her death to clear his name, he realizes that the truth lies in a huge financial scandal.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2019-11-13
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Beyond That Mountain
Overview: "Beyond That Mountain" is a biopic that portrays the early life of the late Stephen Kim Sou-hwan, Korea's first Roman Catholic cardinal.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2020-04-30
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Always
Overview: A former boxer turned parking lot attendant finds hope in the love of the blind telemarketer who walks into his booth one day.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2011-10-20
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Closer to Heaven
Overview: A funeral director meets a man who has been battling Lou Gehrig's disease since he was young. The two fall in love and hope for a cure that can keep him alive.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2009-09-24
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Maundy Thursday
Overview: Yujeong 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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Chilsu and Mansu
Overview: An aimless young man and his sign-painter friend draw a crowd when they climb to the top of a high-rise billboard.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1988-11-26
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Friend
Overview: Despite their different family backgrounds, four friends grew up together in the wearisome years of the 70s. But as time goes by, each of them takes a different life path.
Genres: Action Drama Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2001-03-31
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Heartbeat
Overview: One middle aged women is admitted to the hospital in a coma. Yeon-hee, who has been searching for a heart to transplant to her daughter, who has critical heart disease, is begging middle aged women's gangster son, Whee-do, by giving him a fortune. But when the reasons for Whee-do's mom are revealed one by one, Yeon-hee, who became desperate, is teaming up with dangerous people.
Genres: Drama Action Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2011-01-05
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My Lovely Angel
Overview: A life-changing story of a man who has lived as a loner his entire life. Jae Shik begins to live together with a child with a hearing-visual disability, as they change each other's lives and try to find a way to communicate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2021-05-12
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Glove
Overview: Star baseball player and national hero Sang-nam finds his career in jeopardy when he gets involved in a drunken brawl. His promoter, Charles, advises him to volunteer his time somewhere sympathetic to improve his public image. The place: a school for the deaf. The service: coaching its baseball team.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2011-01-20
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The Uprising
Overview: In the late 19th century Catholicism was gaining a foothold on Jeju island, much to the horror of the Confucian community, who were seeing their influence diminishing as well as getting increased taxes from Catholic-friendly government officers. The conflict became a religious war that resulted in a rebel Confucian army massacring hundreds of Christians in little more than a matter of days. The Uprising details the events leading up to the assault, focusing on the story of Yi Jae-su, the young man destined to become the leader of the rebel army.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1999-04-01
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1980: The Unforgettable Day
Overview: There is HWAPYONG Restaurant with full of hopes of the family of three generations. Grandfather, the first-generation owner, and the first son, the second-generation owner, who lives as a fugitive after being branded as a communist and his wife and Cheol-soo’s mom who has to work hard by juggling work and family without complaint. The second son, Cheol-soo’s uncle, who sometimes acts like a child with an excuse of being the second son but loves Cheol-soo more than anyone and seriously cares about the restaurant. To the third generation, young Cheol-soo, family is the most precious. By the time when ‘Seoul Spring’ longing for democratization came to nothing due to ‘Retreat from Seoul Station’ in 1980, there were a series of peaceful protests in Gwangju, Jeolla Province. In warm May, a large dark cloud is looming over HWAPYONG Restaurant, the home and everything of this ordinary family of Cheol-soo, in the middle of Gwangju.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2024-03-27
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