Kim Nam-gil
Also Known As: Lee Han, Kim NamGil, 김남길, NamGil Kim, 이한, Kim Nam-kil, 金南佶, کیم نام-گیل
Biography: Kim Nam-gil (김남길) is a South Korean actor, producer, singer and philanthropist. He was born on March 13, 1981. He is best known from leading roles in disaster blockbuster Pandora (2016); crime thriller The Shameless (2015); adventure film The Pirates (2014) and period drama Portrait of a Beauty (2008). His breakthrough role was Bidam in the hit television period drama Queen Seondeok (2009). Kim is also the founder and CEO of a non-profit organization Gilstory that focuses on preserving cultural heritage, promoting arts and raising special purpose relief funds.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Seoul, South Korea
Birthday: March 13, 1981
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Gender: Male
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Hunt
Overview: After a high-ranking North Korean official requests asylum, KCIA Foreign Unit chief Park Pyong-ho and Domestic Unit chief Kim Jung-do are tasked with uncovering a North Korean spy, known as Donglim, who is deeply embedded within their agency. When the spy begins leaking top secret intel that could jeopardize national security, the two units are each assigned to investigate each other.
Genres: Action Mystery Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2022-08-10
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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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Lovers Vanished
Overview: An escaped convict and a woman, who both contracted HIV from the same man, fall in love.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2010-04-01
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Portrait of a Beauty
Overview: Born to a family of established court painters, seven-year-old Yoon-jeong is a young girl gifted at painting. However, the pressure is on her brother to carry on the proud family tradition, as women aren’t allowed to become professional painters. While her brother trains to take his place in the court, Yoon-jeong helps him out by secretly painting for him. The little girl’s life is turned upside down when her brother kills himself. In order to preserve the family honor, she is forced to take her brother’s name and lives as a man. Yun-bok’s genius and talent captures the heart of another great master of the time, Kim Hong-do. But her daring depictions of women are condemned by the royal institute as obscene. Yun-bok meets Kang-mu and falls deeply in love. For the first time, she feels the strong desire to abandon everything she has built and simply be a woman in front of the man she loves. Kang-moo sacrifices all for his love as well.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2008-11-13
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The Pirates
Overview: At the cusp of the founding of Joseon Dynasty, an envoy from China is delivering Emperor’s Ming’s Royal Seal. But nature in the form of a giant whale intervenes and swallows the royal seal. When a generous reward is offered to whomever can retrieve the royal seal from the belly of the whale, the race is on. A group of mountain bandits led by Jang Sa Jung and a group of pirates led by Yeo Wol go after the lost treasure, but who will get to to it first?
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2014-08-06
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Modern Boy
Overview: During the Japanese occupation, a Korean modern boy, who wants to fit in with the Japanese, falls in love with a Korean freedom fighter.
Genres: War Romance Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2008-10-02
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Tears in the Amazon
Overview: A documentary about environment destruction in the Amazon and the tribes living there. Produced for the 48th anniversary of MBC, Korea. A brilliant records of the itinerary for 250 days through the Amazon.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2010-03-25
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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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Handphone
Overview: A talent manager loses his handphone which contains a scandalous video which could destroy his career. He is then contacted by a mysterious caller who has found the phone and blackmails him into committing a series of crimes.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2009-02-19
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Low Life
Overview: A sprawling story of one man's tumultuous life within the context of the South Korean political situation during the second half of the 20th century.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2004-05-21
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The Sound of a Flower
Overview: During the Joseon Dynasty, lowborn Chae-sun challenges the rule that states only men allowed to sing while navigating devotion to her teacher and the demands of the king's father.
Genres: Romance Drama History Music
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2015-11-25
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No Regret
Overview: Sumin is an orphan trying to balance work in a factory with study at an art college and an evening job. One night, a rich young businessman makes an advance on him during one of his driving jobs.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2006-11-16
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Don't Look Back
Overview: Jung-Hee (Kim Hye-Na) is a 21-year-old dancer who struggles with insecurities and other problems after her father abandoned her family 15 years ago. One day, Jung-Hee's brings back their father. Keun-Woo (Lee Sang-Woo) is a 25-year-old low level telephone technician. One day, his friend shows him a picture of a woman he is trying to extort money from. The woman is having an affair with a married man. Keun-Woo taps into the woman's telephone line and begins to eavesdrop on her conversations. After a few evenings, Keun-Woo falls in love with the woman, but the woman doesn't even know he exits. In-Ho (Kim Tae-Woo) is a 30-year-old soldier. He is about to be discharged from the military after serving for 2 years. In-Ho then gets his last leave of absence and decides to give his wife a surprise visit. When he arrives his wife isn't home. When he does finally see her his wife has changed and seems distant.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2006-05-13
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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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Memoir of a Murderer
Overview: A former serial killer with Alzheimer's fights to protect his daughter from her mysterious boyfriend who may be a serial killer too.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2017-09-07
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One Day
Overview: A man, who witnessed his wife's suicide, gradually cures his emotional scars through a fateful encounter with the spirit of a woman in coma.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2017-04-05
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Glory For Everyone
Overview: A story of children dreaming of being professional soccer players someday.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2014-05-09
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Zombie for Sale
Overview: When a pharmaceutical company's illegal experiments inadvertently create a zombie, the strange Park family finds it and tries to profit from it.
Genres: Comedy Horror Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2019-02-13
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The Closet
Overview: After moving into a new house, a young girl begins displaying strange and disturbing behavior until, one day, she disappears behind a closet. While the devastated father is left with no clue about his daughter's disappearance, an exorcist shows up to help.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2020-02-05
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A Man of Reason
Overview: After spending a decade in prison, a hitman learns that he has a daughter and just wants a chance at a normal life. But his former mob boss wants him back at any cost, sending merciless assassins after him.
Genres: Action Thriller Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2023-08-15
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Emergency Declaration
Overview: While investigating a terroristic threat that goes viral online, Korean authorities discover that a suspect has recently boarded an international flight bound for the United States. When a healthy passenger on the same flight suddenly dies a gruesome death of unknown cause, panic erupts both in-flight and on the ground. With steadily decreasing fuel and international refusals to offer aid, the captain and crew will be forced to take unprecedented emergency measures in an attempt to save the lives of their passengers.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2022-08-03
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Return
Overview: The story of Admiral Yi Sun-sin, the turtle ship, and the crew aboard the ship, which unfolded for two months from the Battle of Hansan to the Battle of Busanpo during the 7-year period of the Japanese Invasion of Korea.
Genres: History
Original Language: ko
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Okay! Madam
Overview: A working class family wins a free vacation to Hawaii. But when their plane takes flight, it gets hijacked by terrorists. To save her family and the other passengers, the wife must reveal her secret past and fight back.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2020-08-12
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Nocturnal
Overview: Min-tae, a once-notorious gangster who now leads a peaceful retired life, discovers the bloody corpse of his only next of kin: his younger brother Seok-tae. With his brother’s missing wife Moon-young as the prime suspect, Min-tae uncovers a suspicious last phone call between her and a mysterious novelist, sparking a vicious hunt for the truth despite his seemingly deceitful former crime syndicate and the police in hot pursuit.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2025-02-05
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Several Questions That Make Us Happy
Overview: Several Questions That Make Us Happy is composed of six different stories in a omnibus way, describing mondern society's loneliness, misunderstanding between couples, trust with others, courtesy between lovers, and self-centered blame for others, etc. It is based on the sincere question why we are so unhappy and how I can make happiness.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2007-05-31
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How to Open the Door
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Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2024-11-20
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