Kim Ja-young
Also Known As: 김자영, Kim Ja-yeong, Ja-yeong Kim, Ja-young Kim
Biography: Korean actress.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: South Korea
Adult: No
Birthday: December 23, 1960
Age: 64 years old
Gender: Female
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Miracle: Letters to the President
Overview: Dreaming of making a way station for his sister and the villagers who have no choice but to commute along the dangerous train tracks every day, Joon-kyung sends many letters to the President, but with no reply. Ra-hee, who has a crush on Joon-kyung, does everything she can to help him meet the President.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2021-09-15
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Ice Bar
Overview: In 1969, a 10-year old boy's life takes a major turn when he discovers the father he never met is alive. Selling candy bars left and right to save up for a trip to see his dad, the boy embarks on a journey that could change his life forever.
Genres: Drama Comedy Family
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2006-08-24
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The Dog Days
Overview: On one of the dog days of summer, Jae-ha works at Samgye-tang (chicken soup) restaurant as a day laborer instead of her mother, who died of a stroke. There, through her mother’s co-workers, Jae-ha gets to know new aspects of her mother that she did not notice throughout her lifetime.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2019-01-01
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Sumbisori
Overview: Hae-jin, 29, struggles to adapt to life in Seoul and returns to her hometown of Jeju. There, she reunites with her mother, Ok-ran, and her grandmother, Kang-ja, who has spent her life as a haenyeo. Hae-jin decides to become a haenyeo, but Ok-ran strongly opposes it. The conflict between them intensifies, while Kang-ja is diagnosed with dementia.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2025-05-01
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4 Horror Tales: Hidden Floor
Overview: A woman moves into an apartment house with her daughter. But her daughter begins to be haunted by a mysterious ghost on a hidden floor.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2006-07-27
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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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Mothers
Overview: The owner of a student study center gets an awkward request and suddenly faces the prospect of raising her dead husband’s teenage son by herself.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2018-04-19
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Yours Truly,
Overview: Jungnam, who is hospitalized, meets Yeonsu, who likes the same TV drama as she does. The two are pushed out of the patient room, due to an argument over TV show channels. They develop a friendship as they watch their favorite TV drama together in the lounge.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2023-08-26
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Sleeping Beauty
Overview: Do-yeon, a 6th grade elementary school student, meets her cousin Sang-jun at her grandmother's funeral. On the last day of the funeral Do-yeon and Sang-jun go into an empty classroom near the funeral. There they have their first sexual experience. Lee Rae, a single women in her 50's, lives with her father who suffers from Alzheimer's. She raises ducks, but recently got rid of them because of Avian Influenza. Her father's physical and mental health has also worsened. He even asks Lee Rae to touch him inappropriately. 17 year old Su-Jin was smuggled into the country by professional brokers. She was adopted into a family that lives in a countryside farm. On her first day at the farm she was raped by her stepfather. They also share the same bedroom. Su-Jin is continuously accosted by her stepfather. Su-jin sole source of comfort is the grandson, who sympathizes with Su-jJn and her plight. He is a victim of physical abuse from the stepfather. Su-Jin then becomes pregnant.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2008-10-23
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Bok-soon’s One-day Class
Overview: Bok-soon, a Jeju Island native, lives alone in her old house, as all her grown-up children are now settled on the mainland. She is excited to know that her children, who have not come home for a while, are coming back for her birthday. She prepares food for their visit but ends up receiving calls, informing her that they are unable to come. The next day, Bok-soon feels pain on her knees and visits an orthopedic clinic where she meets Dong-i. Dong-i tells her of the yoga center opened by Dong-i’s mother. Bok-soon visits the yoga center thinking she could share the left-over food with people there. Neighbors who have not seen her in a long time welcome her, and Young-sook, whom she had loved like her niece, is now the yoga teacher, giving Bok-soon a one-day class. Without realizing, Bok-soon starts to move her aching body to follow the yoga moves.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2023-12-03
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Tazza: The High Rollers
Overview: Go-ni tries his best to worship Pyung Gyung-jang as his teacher, and promises to stop gambling after winning his money back. But people's desires are endless.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2006-09-28
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Mother & Daughter
Overview: Eunsoo, who lost her mother, starts searching for her solely based on her memories.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
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Bori
Overview: Bori, an 11-year-old girl in a seaside village, is the only family member who can hear. As an elementary school student, Bori becomes more and more accustomed to talking with her friends while finding it hard to communicate with her family in sign language.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2020-05-21
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Big Sleep
Overview: On a winter morning on the way to work, Kiyoung finds Gilho sleeping on the wooden bench in front of his house. Gilho is a teenager who has run away from home because he can no longer face the domestic violence he suffers there. Kiyoung lets Gilho stay in his house for a few days and Gilho comes to trust Kiyoung. However, as Gilho′s friends visit, conflicts happen between Kiyoung and Gilho.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2023-11-22
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The Ripple
Overview: Still feeling guilty about her granddaughter′s death, Yebun spends her days in pain. Meanwhile, Okim, Yubun’s old friend in the village, passes away from an illness. Yebun briefly takes care of Jiyeoon, Okim’s granddaughter and her own deceased granddaughter’s friend.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2023-12-06
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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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Snow Paths
Overview: Jeong-Woo is sent to a sanitarium deep in the mountains to overcome his alcoholism. There he meets a young nun named Maria who has a special ability to see inside people. In this isolated sanitarium Maria is the only person who seems to care for him and soon he feels drawn to her. While struggling with his withdrawal symptoms, Jeong-woo has a vision where his reality is different from what he believes. The further he escapes from his alcoholism, the closer he gets to confronting the past that he has denied for years.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2016-03-03
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Scary Self-driving
Overview: Rapidly advancing self-driving technology could put couriers out of work. In order to save her son's job, Mi-sook takes action.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2024-07-06
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Kissing Cousin
Overview: A love for a cousin, deeply engraved in childhood. Twelve years later, a stopped heart begins to beat again.
Genres: Family Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2016-05-12
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Coffee Noir: Black Brown
Overview: The law against coffee threatens to close down Ju-won’s coffee shop. Ju-won starts a movement against Kim’s family and big bro. The novel idea behind the plot along with its female hero stand out in this film.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2017-07-15
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In Between Seasons
Overview: When her son gets critically injured in a car accident, a mother discovers that there's more to his relationship with his friend than she had thought.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2018-02-22
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I Can Speak
Overview: A grumpy old woman befriends a young civil servant and learns English from him. She then reveals to him her shocking past.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2017-09-21
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Red Carpet
Overview: Dreaming of a box-office hit, an adult-movie director teams up with his crew of three misfits to lure a top actress into starring in his new film.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2014-10-23
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Rules of Dating
Overview: An introvert, indifferent woman joins a high school as a student teacher, under supervision of a shameless, nymphomaniac man who is a year younger than her. On a school trip, the supervisor tells the trainee that he wants to have sex with her. The movie deals with the woman willing yet indifferent to indulge in physical relationship with her professional senior. Ethics, morals, feelings, love show up and are turned down.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2005-06-10
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Nonviolent Resistance : How to Shut Up Your Wife Peacefully
Overview: In the family dinner time, mercilessly following the mother-in-law and wife's chatter, the new groom becomes confused. How to deal with violence.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2012-09-06
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Before The Summer Passes Away
Overview: Jeong-yeon decides to celebrate her 60th birthday by visiting her daughter who’s been married and living in Japan. At her arrival, Jeong-yeon is greeted not by her daughter but instead by her young granddaughter, Uekusa An.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2020-06-25
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Voice of Silence
Overview: Two guys who are working for cartels as cleaners get a request to monitor an 11-year-old kidnapped girl, but the situation gets worse when their supervisor gets killed.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2020-10-15
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Rising Star
Overview: A middle-aged lady, Myung-ja becomes one of the candidates for an amateur swimming competition. Myung-ja doesn’t want to let a teenage girl, Ji-gyu get the chance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2019-10-31
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Poetry
Overview: A sexagenarian South Korean woman enrolls in a poetry class as she grapples with her faltering memory and her grandson's appalling wrongdoing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2010-05-13
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A Long Visit
Overview: Daughter Ji-suk is now already a mother herself, but she'll always be a child in the eyes of her proud mom. The two decide to go on their first ever trip together. Over three days and two nights, their journey reveals the love and regrets, emotions and conflicts, that form a mother-daughter relationship.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2010-04-22
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To Each Your Sarah
Overview: The film portrays the anguish of an abandoned person and yet focuses on the process in which she grows more conscious of her true self. As she handles the foul giblets of slaughtered pigs, Sarah gets to realize that her real name is Jeong-ja. Every time she vomits, it seems as if the Jeong-ja inside her bursts forth. This short film shows what her real name is and who she really is. Her struggle ripens during the process of recovering her name.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2019-05-02
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Freckles
Overview: Young-shin is locked up in a fat camp against her own will. After kissing her roommate, the boring days at the camp turns into a small turmoil.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2019-05-03
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The Killing Line
Overview: Yuri heads to the victim's house for a traffic accident settlement. Victim Kihyun has something he wants to say to Yuri, but she remains silent. Just before signing the documents, Kihyun shocks everyone by committing suicide.
Genres: Fantasy Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2024-07-08
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The Aftertaste
Overview: After the reserve force training, Jun-Hong is craving for jokbal from his ex-girlfriend's restaurant. First time in five years, he visits Mi-ran's jokbal restaurant and meets the uncomfortable ones.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2018-06-28
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초대받은 사람
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Original Language: ko
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Moon's Walking
Overview: Grandma's memorial day is difficult for Jung-hee because of the grandfather's sister. She scolds about the memorial service of grandma who committed suicide without finding her runaway husband. Somehow Jung-hee feels guilty about his disappearing. She decides to go on an adventure to solve all the secrets and end mother's adolescence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2025-01-22
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Yongsoon
Overview: Yong-soon is an 18-year-old high school student. She falls in love with her gym teacher, but she thinks her teacher might have a girlfriend. Yong-Soon and her friends try to find out whether he does have a girlfriend, but they can't find any clues. Making things worse, her father brings a new stepmother from Mongolia.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2017-06-08
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Welcome to Bongtaeri
Overview: Il Woo thinks that 'owning his own house' and 'living a stable and happy life' are equivalent and therefore becomes a 'fake nature-lover' in an isolated countryside village called Bongtaeri in order to save a pharmaceutical company and earn 200% of his yearly income. Bong-sook is forced to play a trick in order to achieve her dream of becoming a police officer due to her parents' announcement to stop financially supporting her and transforms into a 'fake farmer' in Bongtaeri, the mountain village where her maternal grandfather lives. The two get involved when a mysterious shoe theft incident occurs in Bongtaeri.
Genres: Romance Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2023-10-11
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