Byun Hee-bong
Also Known As: 변희봉, HeeBong Byeon, Byeon Hui-bong, Byeon Hie-bong , 边希峰
Biography: Byun Hee-bong (Korean: 변희봉; born Byun In-chul; June 8, 1942 – September 18, 2023) was a Korean actor, known for his frequent collaborations with filmmaker Bong Joon-ho.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Jangseong, South Jeolla, South Korea
Adult: No
Birthday: June 08, 1942
Age: 82 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: September 18, 2023
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Volcano High
Overview: Kim is expelled from his eighth school and finds himself at Volcano High where students fight to possess a treasured ancient document. Kim, who must resist from using his Chi, is caught in the middle.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2001-12-08
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Trap: Director's Cut
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Genres: Thriller Mystery Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-06-27
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팔불출
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1980-10-18
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Eunuch
Overview: Jeong-ho is castrated by an ambitious minister for loving above his station. The minister also happens to be the father of Ja-ok, the girl Jeong-ho loved. He sends his daughter to the king as a concubine in a bid to gain favor, but the king sees through his motives and the instead forces Ja-ok into the position of a lowly kitchen maid. Jeong-ho sole hope in life is to save his former lover.
Genres: History
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1986-09-18
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Karma
Overview: Governor Heo, worried over the plague that's sweeping the country, rebukes the Kus who make amulets to ward off evil. Heo castrates the husband when he makes superstitious claims and takes the wife as his mistress. Heo continues to be tormented by hallucinations and nightmares and begins to blame it on the Kus' curse. He kills the couple at their reunion and unable to ward off his bad karma, dies from leprosy.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1988-05-21
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Hotel At 00:00
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Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1983-05-20
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In Love and the War
Overview: In June 1950, soon after the start of the Korean War, a troop of North Korean soldiers enter a small South Korean village. Captain Jeong-woong proclaims that they came to liberate the villagers but their true agenda is to ferret out the reactionaries. The villagers and Seol-hee, who is separated from her fiance on her wedding day, offer them heartfelt hospitality and cooperation to avoid falling out of the army's favor. Eventually friendships starts to build up between the soldiers and the villagers.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2011-04-27
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Small Town Rivals
Overview: Cho Chun-sam and Noh Dae-gyu, now both in their thirties, are old friends who went to the same elementary school. In their school days, Chun-sam was always the ambitious class president, while Dae-gyu had to settle for a role as vice president. Twenty years later their roles are reversed: Chun-sam is now a humble farmer who has assumed the post of village chief in his hometown, while Dae-gyu is the newly elected county magistrate. At first, Chun-sam asks his old friend for favours regarding the development of his village, but these requests are turned down. Later, when Dae-gyu proposes building a nuclear waste disposal facility in the county, Chun-sam leads demonstrations against the plan, turning old friends into bitter rivals.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2007-03-28
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I Am The King
Overview: The movie depicts the three months before Choong-nyung (the future Sejong the Great) becomes king. The Annals of the Joseon Dynasty, which follows the history of the Joseon Dynasty between 1413 and 1865, leaves out records of this crucial period. While future generations would come to know him as King Sejong, the legendary figure who created the Korean alphabet and advanced the country’s scientific research and law, Prince Choong-nyung was originally dismissed as a reclusive bookworm. When his older brothers Yangnyeong and Hyoryeong fail to impress their father King Taejong, the king makes a royal command for Choong-nyung to become the next ruler of the kingdom instead.
Genres: History Comedy Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2012-08-08
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Au Revoir, UFO
Overview: In a town where everyone believes in UFOs, a bus driver named Sam lives out his daydreams by making special radio programs for the passengers who ride his bus. A heartwarming story of a physically challenged but outgoing girl named Kate who falls in love with this timid but lovable bus driver.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2004-01-30
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A Surrogate Father
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1992-04-10
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Making Memories of Murder
Overview: Made in 2004, this extensive documentary chronicles the production and release of Memories of Murder.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2005-08-09
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The Host : Histoires de famille
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
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The Devil's Game
Overview: Struggling artist Min Hee-do is offered three billion won to bet his life to a game against a rich old man, Kang No-sik, who is dying from a terminal illness. The game is for each man to dial a random phone number and guess if the person who answers will be male or female. Hee-do loses the bet, and after a month long brain operation, he wakes up to find that they have swapped bodies.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2008-01-30
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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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Memories of Murder
Overview: During the late 1980s, two detectives in a South Korean province attempt to solve the nation's first series of rape-and-murder cases.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2003-04-25
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Mr. Go
Overview: A 15-year-old circus ringmaster Wei-wei is left all alone with gorilla Ling-ling after grandfather passes away. Thanks to her grandfather's love for baseball, Ling-ling was trained to play baseball and has developed remarkable hitting skills.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2013-07-17
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Barking Dogs Never Bite
Overview: An idle part-time college lecturer is annoyed by the yapping sound of a nearby dog. He decides to take drastic action.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2000-02-19
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The Spies
Overview: Kim, a North Korean spy, lives in South Korea for 22 years and is contacted unexpectedly by his superior. His team plans to complete an earlier mission and steal the target's large stockpile of cash.
Genres: Drama Action Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2012-09-20
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Bronze Medalist
Overview: Lee Ji-Bong is a former Olympics bronze medalist for weight-lifting, but a career-ending injury from the games forces him into early retirement. Unable to find another vocation, he becomes destitute. Down and out, he ends up working at a shady nightclub passing out flyers until he is visited by his former coach who insists he begin a career as a coach at a high school. There, he forms a weight-lifting team comprised of a rag-tag group of outcasts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2009-07-01
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The Host
Overview: A teenage girl is captured by a giant mutated squid-like creature that appears from Seoul's Han River after toxic waste was dumped in it, prompting her family into a frantic search for her.
Genres: Horror Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2006-07-27
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To Catch a Virgin Ghost
Overview: Seok-tae runs away with a huge diamond of his gang and comes to Sisily, a peaceful village. Yang-e runs after him to get the diamond back and finds Seok-tae's trail in Sisily. But all the town people lie about everything. These people turn out to be scarier than a ghost!
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2004-08-13
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Now, We're Going to Geneva
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1988-02-18
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Okja
Overview: A young girl named Mija risks everything to prevent a powerful, multi-national company from kidnapping her best friend - a massive animal named Okja.
Genres: Adventure Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-06-28
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Sink & Rise
Overview: Under the Sungsan Bridge, in a waterside stand by the Han River, a poor and tired-looking father and daughter, Jae-mun, and In-seon, are arguing the generation gap over whether to buy boiled eggs or instant crackers. The stand owner Hee-bong hears Jae-mun suddenly declare that boiled eggs float.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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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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Crying Fist
Overview: Jobless, besieged by creditors, and abandoned by his wife, the once silver medalist Tae-shik has sunk to street hustling, becoming a human punching bag. Meanwhile, young Sang-hwan's delinquent ways land him behind bars. Both men look to boxing to turn around lives gone astray, aiming for the amateur title, ultimately pitting them against each other, but more importantly, against themselves.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2005-03-31
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Haunters
Overview: Cho-in has special powers that allow him to control everyone he can see, that is until he meets Kyu-nam, the only person he can't control. A series of events begins a confrontation that pushes both men to the brink.
Genres: Thriller Science Fiction Action
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2010-11-10
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My Teacher, Mr. Kim
Overview: A teacher attempts to lure his handful of students in a small, rural school to Seoul so that he can move on to a better school. His efforts backfire however, and his school becomes one of the highest ranked in the nation.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2003-03-28
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Lovely Rivals
Overview: A teacher and her student compete for the affection of a handsome man.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2004-11-17
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Detective Mr. Gong
Overview: Gong Pil-du is a detective recruited for his athletic skills and achievement, a bronze Universiade medalist in wrestling. Since then, however, he has had little success in his career, and remains a 40-year old bachelor with a terrible credit record. His greatest crisis comes when his beloved father needs money for crucial surgery. To get the money, Gong makes a deal with a vicious crime boss. This makes him more miserable than ever, as he is now suspected as a corrupt cop. Gong goes on a quest to prove his innocence. Will he be successful for once in his life?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2006-05-11
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Mission Sex Control
Overview: In 1971 birth control was a major policy drive of the Korean government. Nevertheless, one poor farming village went against the trend, boasting the highest fertility rate in the country. This peaceful Yongdu Village receives an unwelcome visitor, the national family planning officer Hyun-joo, to oversee the villagers nocturnal pleasures. However as a single lady with little experience of her own, Hyun-joo finds it nearly impossible persuade the residents to use contraception. She finally appoints the village head Suk-gu as the local support officer and thus begins the “0% Birth Rate Project.” Appointing him brings more turmoil to the villagers and when the President comes to inspect…
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2006-09-28
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No Woman Is Afraid of the Night
Overview: A man is paid to seduce the wife of a powerful stockbroker but realizes that he is being set up for a murder charge.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1986-10-18
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By Quantum Physics: A Nightlife Venture
Overview: An advocate of the concept ‘thoughts create reality’, Chan-woo endeavors to realize his dream of running a high-end nightclub when he finds himself caught in the center of a power game in the criminal underworld.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2019-09-25
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Habitat
Overview: After sudden unification, the Korean peninsula is struggling with economic chaos. An old laborer, Chan-ki, receives a new high-tech telephone from his son in China and goes to seek help from his neighbor, as he does not know how to use it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2018-10-08
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Spring Breeze
Overview: The cheapest and the stingiest! A man, who has never spent a dime on a date... A man, who prefers to double up on layers of thermals in the winter, instead of turning on the heater... A man, who insists on using his beeper in this 21st Century, a.k.a. The Age of Mobile Phones, to save his phone bill... He is the cheapest man alive! He's the infamous stingy writer, Seon-guk! As he wrestles with his unfinished (and very delayed) manuscript, an unexpected woman moves into his house. "I'm a respected man! I cannot live with a vulgar woman like her!"
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2003-09-05
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Digital Short Film Omnibus Project Twentidentity, Vol. 2
Overview: In order to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Korean Film Academy, 20 of the academy's former students (who are respected director's today) were invited to shoot an omnibus movie consisting of 20 short films. Overall this work was very well received by the critiques at the 17th Tokyo International Film Festival. The films include Twenty, Secrets and Lies, Looking for Sex, Race, A Runners High, Neighborhood, My Baby, It's different On Mobile Queen, At 2 O'clock and Sink & Rise.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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A Man With Color
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Genres: Drama Romance Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1985-11-02
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