Lee Sun-kyun
Also Known As: Lee Seon-gyun , Ли Сон Гюн, Seon-gyun Lee, 이선균, Lee Sun Gyun, 李善均, Sun-kyun Lee, لی سون-کیون
Biography: Lee Sun-kyun (March 2, 1975 – December 27, 2023) was a South Korean actor. He was best known for his roles in the films, Helpless (2012), romantic comedy All About My Wife (2012), and crime/black comedy A Hard Day (2014). He was also known for his role in the Bong Joon-ho's Academy Award-winning black comedy film Parasite for which he won a Screen Actors Guild Award along with his castmates. He received several other awards including nomination for an International Emmy Award. After beginning his career in musical theatre, for many years Lee was relegated to minor and supporting roles onscreen, only getting to play lead characters in one-act dramas on KBS Drama City and MBC Best Theater. In one such Best Theater project, he worked with TV director Lee Yoon-jung on Taereung National Village (2005), which led to him being cast in her later series Coffee Prince in 2007. Coffee Prince, along with medical drama White Tower brought Lee mainstream popularity, which he followed with Pasta (2010), Golden Time (2012) and My Mister (2018). Meanwhile, on the big screen, he received a Best Actor award from the Las Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival for his role in Paju (2009), followed by critical acclaim for mystery thriller Helpless (2012), romantic comedy All About My Wife (2012), and crime/black comedy A Hard Day (2014). Lee also continues to collaborate with auteur Hong Sang-soo, and his arthouse films with Hong include Night and Day (2008), Oki's Movie (2010), and Nobody's Daughter Haewon (2013). In 2019, he starred in Bong Joon-ho's Oscar-winning black comedy film Parasite.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: 韩国,首尔
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Birthday: March 02, 1975
Age: 50 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: December 27, 2023
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A Single Spark
Overview: Activist and law school graduate Kim is being persecuted by the mid-’70s Park regime for trying to write a book about Jeon Tae-il, a union activist who immolated himself at age 22 to protest government hypocrisy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1995-11-18
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Paju
Overview: A young woman living in the South Korean town of Paju recalls the last 8 years of her life, since a young man on the lam escaped to it from Seoul and married her older sister.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2009-10-28
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Petty Romance
Overview: A comic artist and an unemployed sex columnist are trying to work together in order to win a lucrative comic-book competition. An adult cartoon contest is announced offering a W130 million prize. Da-Rim (Choi Gang-Hee) does translation work for an adult magazine. Da-Rim wants to become a writer. Due to her creativity, Da-Rim is always making mistakes and gets fired by company. Talented cartoonist Jung-Bae (Lee Sun-Kyun) is constantly turned down by publishing companies because of his poor story lines. The two, who seemed perfectly matched, team up for the adult cartoon contest. Trouble is set to brew ...
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2010-12-01
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R-Point
Overview: On 07 January 1972, the South Korean base in Nah-Trang, Vietnam, receives a radio transmission from a missing platoon presumed dead.
Genres: Action History Horror
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2004-08-13
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Oki's Movie
Overview: Oki, a film student, gets involved in two relationships as she navigates the advances of a fellow student and grapples with her feelings for her much older professor.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2010-09-16
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Helpless
Overview: A woman suddenly disappears. Her fiance then sets out to find her and, in the process, uncovers layers of dark hidden secrets.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2012-03-08
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All About My Wife
Overview: A man asks a womanizer to seduce his wife in order to catalyze a divorce.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2012-05-17
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Our Slightly Risque Relationship
Overview: Dong Chan is a prickly broadcasting director at MBS who meets and immediately clashes with Nam Hee, a reporter he meets at a wedding reception. Through their constant bickering, they end up falling in love despite their initial dislike of each other. His passiveness in love results in a comedic struggle as the two tries to deal with their physical attraction.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2010-06-05
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Sleep
Overview: Hyun-su and Soo-jin have just gotten married. Seemingly out of nowhere, he starts talking in his sleep. 'Someone’s inside.' From that night forward, whenever he falls asleep, he transforms into someone else with no recollection of the night before. Soo-jin is overwhelmed with anxiety that he’d hurt her family while she sleeps and can barely sleep a wink because of this irrational fear. Despite sleep treatment, Hyun-su’s sleepwalking only intensifies, and she begins to feel that her unborn child may be in danger...
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2023-09-06
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Our Sunhi
Overview: Sunhi, a film major graduate, visits her school to ask her Professor Choi for a recommendation letter to study in U.S. Knowing the professor favors her, she expects a good recommendation from him. Out from her shell after a long time, Sunhi also ends up meeting two men from her past: Munsu, her ex-boy friend, and Jaehak, a director who graduated from the same film school. Through the encounters between Sunhi and the three men, they give each other an 'advice on life' with good intentions. The three men who all have strong interests in her are led to guess and define her, unable to tell how she really feels inside. Strangely, the mentioned advices and traits of her are similar and seem to pass from one person to the next. The words of 'advice on life' seem doubtable and slip away as the three men's thoughts on Sunhi become more and more irrelevant.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2013-09-12
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Officer of the Year
Overview: Two police stations from neighboring precincts are in constant fierce competition with each other, including for the Officer of the Year award. But then a high-profile case forces them to work together.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2011-05-04
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A Hard Day
Overview: After trying to cover up a car accident that left a man dead, a crooked homicide detective is stalked by a mysterious man claiming to have witnessed the event.
Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery Action
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2014-05-29
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Nobody’s Daughter Haewon
Overview: Haewon, a college student, wants to end her secret affair with her professor, Seongjun. Feeling depressed after bidding farewell to her mother who is set to immigrate to Canada the next day, Haewon seeks out Seongjun again after a long time. That day, they run into her classmates at a restaurant and their relationship gets revealed. Haewon gets more agitated and Seongjun makes an extreme suggestion to run away together… Haewon dreams often. Her dreams will be compared to her waking life, but none can be denied as being a part of her life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2013-02-28
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Night and Day
Overview: Kim Seong-nam travels to Paris to escape an arrest, leaving his wife behind in Korea. After he arrives, he meets an ex-girlfriend and is introduced to a small community of Korean artists.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2008-02-28
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Sorry Apple
Overview: A woman breaks up with her boyfriend of seven years. Devastated, she throws herself into another relationship and decides to get married, only to have her exboyfriend return to her...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2008-10-16
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Surprise Party
Overview: How do you go about detaining a total stranger for 12 hours? This is what Ha-young (Lee Yo-won) has to do for her best friend, Mi-ryung (Kim Min-hee). Mi-ryung has been planning for a surprise party for her overseas boyfriend Jun-woo (Shin Ha-gyun), but her plans are stopped short when her father finds out that Jun-woo is half-Hawaiian, and forbids the party from being held. Mi-ryung is put under even greater pressure when Jun-Woo tells her that he would arrive early, and she pleads with Ha-Young to intercept Jun-Woo at the airport, and to keep him from turning up at Mi-ryung's place before she can iron things out.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2002-07-05
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Romantic Island
Overview: Three Korean couples travel separately to the Philippines. A middle aged couple first time abroad, a convenience store clerk bumps into an incognito pop star and the runaway Soo-jin meets a businessman who is there for his father's death.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2008-12-24
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Lost in the Mountains
Overview: Hong Sang-soo's Lost in the Mountains depicts Mi-sook's suffering when she discovers her friend Jin-young has been secretly sleeping with her lover.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2009-07-31
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The Advocate: A Missing Body
Overview: When his client suddenly confesses to murder in open court, a hotshot attorney embarks on a search for truth to redeem his ruined reputation.
Genres: Thriller Action
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2015-10-08
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Show Show Show
Overview: San-hae has a habit for chasing unreachable dreams but never attaining them. His best friend, Sang-chul, is yet to find direction in his life but always lives by his life motto: to live and die for his friends. Dong-leung, a naive and timid student, consistently lacks the courage to live on his own and always submits to his father's orders. Although radically different in personalities, San-hae, Sang-chul, and Dong-leung are the best of friends. Then one day, while gambling on a card game, they inherit a run-down bar. Initially excited about their earnings, the three friends later realize that running a bar is far from easy. Then San-hae comes up with an idea to bring in customers; he decides to create a bartending extravaganza entitled "The Show", a brand new concept in Seoul during the 1970s.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2003-02-28
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Scent of Love
Overview: After much trials and tribulations, a man marries his first love. But when she gets pregnant, they find out that she has cancer.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2003-02-28
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A Special Lady
Overview: A corrupt prosecutor plans for revenge against Hyun-jung's crime organization by using her loyal partner, Sang-hoon.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2017-11-09
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The King's Case Note
Overview: A clever king of Joseon and his brilliant chronicler hunt for the truth behind a crime that threatens the throne and the stability of the country.
Genres: Adventure Action Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2017-04-26
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A Cruel Attendance
Overview: A financially desperate salaryman teams up with his friend to kidnap a rich girl to make a quick buck. But then he gets a call and learns that his own daughter has been kidnapped as well.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2006-11-02
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The Customer Is Always Right
Overview: In a peaceful barbershop, a timid barber confronts a stranger who has started to send blackmail notes. Whenever the stranger comes to the barbershop, the amount of money he demands becomes greater and greater. Driven to desperation, the barber hires a detective, who discovers a shocking truth about the blackmailer.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2006-02-23
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My Mother the Mermaid
Overview: Na-young works at a post office and is sick and tired of being around her shamefully unyielding mother and her pushover father who's excessively nice. The only thing that she can look forward to is her trip abroad in a few days. But one day, her father leaves home without any notice. Her mother doesn't care what happens to him and doesn't care to look for him. Na-young has no choice but to give up her dream trip abroad and to search for her father instead. Once she arrives at her parents' hometown, Na-young is shocked to meet someone she'd never expect, even in her dreams.
Genres: Romance Fantasy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2004-06-30
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Take Point
Overview: On the day of the U.S. presidential election in 2024, a team of elite mercenaries embark on a secret CIA mission to abduct North Korea's politician in an underground bunker below the Korean Demilitarized Zone. However, they get caught in the crossfire which causes tensions to escalate to the brink of World War III.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2018-12-26
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Parasite
Overview: All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.
Genres: Comedy Thriller Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2019-05-30
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Our Town
Overview: A writer kills his landlady and stages the body to look like the work of an active serial killer. Anxious that the police might figure out the truth, he decides to insert himself into the investigation using his detective friend.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2007-11-29
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Kingmaker
Overview: Seo Chang-dae, an ambitious political campaign strategist who ends up having ideological differences with his present client, receives a lucrative offer that will put his loyalty under the microscope.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2022-01-26
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Jo Pil-ho: The Dawning Rage
Overview: On the run from a dogged internal affairs agent, a corrupt cop reluctantly teams up with a defiant teen to unravel a conspiracy before it's too late.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2019-03-20
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Mr. Zoo: The Missing VIP
Overview: A zoophobic national security agent suddenly receives the ability to talk to animals after a freak accident.
Genres: Comedy Action Fantasy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2020-01-22
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Project Silence
Overview: Due to sudden deteriorating weather conditions, visibility on the Airport Bridge is severely impaired, leaving people stranded and at risk of the bridge collapsing due to a series of chain collisions and explosions. Amidst the chaos, the canine subjects "Echo" from the military experiment "Project Silence," who were being transported in secret, break free, and all human survivors become targets of relentless attacks.
Genres: Thriller Action Horror Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2024-07-11
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Killing Romance
Overview: Hwang Yeo-rae, a once-popular actress, faces a turbulent marriage and yearns for her old career. When she moves in next to Kim Beom-woo, her biggest fan, a desperate plan to regain her freedom and revive her career unfolds.
Genres: Thriller Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2023-04-14
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Man of Will
Overview: Young Kim Chang-soo is placed behind bars, charged with murdering a Japanese person who took part in Empress Myeongseong's assassination. In prison, Kim Chang-soo sees how Koreans are persecuted and grows into a fighter for Korean independence.
Genres: Drama History Action
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2017-10-19
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Love, So Divine
Overview: Kyu-sik is a seminary student, who one day falls during a church service, dropping a precious, pope-blessed relic. As punishment, he and his comic relief friend Seon-dal are sent away to a small church in rural Korea to work in a sort of priest limbo until they get their act together.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2004-08-05
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Make It Big
Overview: A detective and a gang of thieves trail three high-school students who found a bloody corpse and a bag of cash on top of their car.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2002-05-10
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Boss X File
Overview: In order to bust a money laundering ring, the cops must work undercover at a hostess bar. Zaniness ensues as we witness policewomen masquerading as hostesses, detectives masquerading as waiters, and other similarly awkward role-reversals.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2002-09-06
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Visitors
Overview: Hong Sang-Soo’s Lost in the Mountains (South Korea, 32min) the visitor is the supremely self-centred Mi-Sook, who drives to Jeonju on impulse to see her classmate Jin-Young – only to discover that her friend is having an affair with their married professor, who Mi-Sook once dated herself. The level of social embarrassment goes off the scale. In Naomi Kawase’s Koma (Japan, 34min), Kang Jun-Il travels to a village in rural Japan to honour his grandfather’s dying wish by returning a Buddhist scroll to its ancestral home. Amid ancient superstitions, a new relationship forms. And in Lav Diaz’ Butterflies Have No Memories (Philippines, 42min) ‘homecoming queen’ Carol returns to the economically depressed former mining town she came from – and becomes the target of an absurd kidnapping plot hatched by resentful locals. Serving as his own writer, cameraman and editor, Diaz casts the film entirely from members of his crew and delivers a well-seasoned mix of social realism and fantasy. —bfi
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2009-11-12
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A Perfect Match
Overview: Despite the fact that she works at a professional matchmaking firm, Hyo Jin cannot seem to find her Perfect match. When it comes to finding matches for other people, her advice is right on; but when it comes to herself...
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2002-08-08
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Land of Happiness
Overview: October 26, 1979, a presidential assassination shakes the nation. Taking on the defense of Park Tae-joo, the secretary involved in the presidential assassination, lawyer Jung In-hoo enters what would be South Korea's most notorious political trial. Despite Park Tae-joo facing a predetermined sentence due to his military status, Jung In-hoo fights tirelessly to ensure a fair trial, enraged by the trial's unfair proceedings.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2024-08-14
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