Na Moon-hee
Also Known As: 나문희, 罗文熙, Na Moon Hee, Nah Moon Hee, Na Mun-hee, Na Mun-hui, Mun-hee Na, 罗文姬, 羅文姬
Biography: Na Moon-hee is a South Korean actress. Since 1961, Na has had a prolific acting career in television and film spanning more than five decades. She established a classic Korean mother persona with her TV dramas Even if the Wind Blows, The Most Beautiful Goodbye in the World (written by Noh Hee Kyung), My Name is Kim Sam Soon, My Rosy Life, Goodbye Solo, Amnok River Flows (based on Der Yalu fließt), and It's Me, Grandma. On the big screen, Na has received acclaim for her roles in Crying Fist, You Are My Sunshine, Cruel Winter Blues and I Can Speak. Her critically acclaimed film I Can Speak (2017) won her the Best Actress trophy in three prestigious award ceremonies: 54th Baeksang Art Awards, 38th Blue Dragon Awards, and 55th Grand Bell Awards — a feat that has yet to be repeated. After a series of comic roles in sitcoms such as Unstoppable High Kick!, the veteran actress garnered newfound popularity and played the title character in big-screen comedy Mission Possible: Kidnapping Granny K, followed by starring roles in Girl Scout, Harmony, Twilight Gangsters, and Miss Granny. She received a Lifetime Achievement Award from MBC in 2010, and the prestigious Bo Gwan Order of Cultural Merit in 2012.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Beijing, China
Birthday: November 30, 1941
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Gender: Female
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Harmony
Overview: Jeong-hye gives a birth to a baby boy in the prison. Her and other inmates create a women's choir to compete in the national choir contest, to meet and greet their families and loving ones.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2010-01-28
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Please Teach Me English
Overview: Young Ju is forced to take English classes after failing to assist a foreigner at her government office. At English class she develops feelings for classmate Moon Su, but he might not feel the same way.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2003-11-05
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Picnic
Overview: After a surprise visit from her friend Geum-sun, Eun-sim is headed to her hometown with Geum-sun. There, she catches up with Tae-ho who had feelings for her when they were teenagers. Her long-lost memories come to life one by one.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2024-02-07
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Cruel Winter Blues
Overview: A gangster's quest for revenge is sidetracked by an encounter with his target's mother in this deeply-felt hybrid of a crime thriller and a family drama.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2006-11-19
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Twilight Gangsters
Overview: For eight years three grandmothers saved their money for a VIP tour packages to Hawaii. The grandmothers have all had difficult experiences and used their dream vacation as a beacon of hope in their lives. The grandmothers then go to the bank to wire their money, but at that moment the bank is held up by robbers. The grandmothers lose their savings and the bank can't offer any assistance. It is at this moment that the grandmothers set off track the robbers down themselves...
Genres: Crime Comedy Action
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2010-03-18
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My Perfect Roommate
Overview: Grandma Geum-boon lives alone for life. Her roommate Ji-woong is a professional part-timer. A project to live with the senior who lives alone, which started to save some rent, repeats the difficulties and overcomes. Through that, they get close to each other.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2022-06-22
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May 18
Overview: The citizens of Gwangju lead a relatively peaceful life, until one day the military takes over the city, accusing the residents of conspiracy and claiming that they are communist sympathisers preparing a revolution against the current government. Seeing as the soldiers beat defenceless people, mainly students, to death, the citizens are in for retaliation and form a militia.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2007-07-25
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Lightning Atom
Overview: The story of a young boy who uses his electric super powers to help the innocent.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction Family
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1971-07-23
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Jeom-rye Is My Light
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Genres: Family Drama Comedy
Original Language: ko
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The Quiet Family
Overview: A family decides to buy a lodge in a remote hiking area. Their first customer commits suicide and the distraught family buries his body to avoid the bad publicity. But their luck gets worse, the bodies start piling up, and the family becomes frantic to rectify the situation.
Genres: Horror Comedy Thriller Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1998-04-25
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My Beautiful Girl, Mari
Overview: Kim Nam-woo struggles through life as people around him constantly leave him; his best friend, Jun-ho, is going to study in Seoul and in some ways his widowed mother is "leaving" him too by paying more attention to her new boyfriend. To escape, he goes to a dream world, where he meets a girl named Mari. The story follows Nam-woo in discovering himself and maturing.
Genres: Animation Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2002-01-11
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Saving My Hubby
Overview: Geum-soon, once a top-ranked volleyball player, is now a common housewife with a six-month old daughter and a clumsy husband. On the first day her husband goes to work, she spends the day taking care of her little daughter who never stops crying. While Gum-soon is busy cleaning her house upon hearing her parents-in-law are coming on the next day, she gets a phone call from a club that they've arrested her husband for an unpaid bill. Amidst the merciless threatening of the gang in the club, Geum-soon rushes out into the night streets, still carrying her baby on her back. It's past midnight with less than three hours to go before her in-laws arrive. In the seediest part of Seoul, Geum-soon's husband is practically being held for ransom for the alcohol he didn't drink, Geum-soon has no clue where the bar is, two rival gangs are chasing after her, the pot is boiling at home, and her daughter is wailing while Geum-soon is leaping over trash cans in a dark alley.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2002-10-18
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S Diary
Overview: A cute Korean story about a girl Jini and her memories of first loves. Her mom gave her a diary at coming of age and in the movie she goes through her past boyfriends and reflects on how they've given her memories.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2004-10-22
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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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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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You Are My Sunshine
Overview: An old bachelor Seok-joong, who has no experience in dating, falls in love at first sight with a prostitute named Eun-ha. At first Eun-ha shows no interest in Seok-joong, but gradually she begins to be flattered by his devotion and eventually falls in love with him. They marry. However, one day, Eun-ha finds out that she is infected with HIV and decides to leave Seok-joong.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2005-09-23
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Voice of a Murderer
Overview: After Gyeong-bae's son is kidnapped, he receives a call from the kidnapper asking for 100 million won. The detectives are teamed up for the case, yet the culprit gets away at every opportunity.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime Mystery
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2007-02-01
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Mission Possible: Kidnapping Granny K
Overview: Mrs. KWON has spent lifetime building a small home-made soup business into an empire with her bare hands. Now a retiring millionaire, she’s distributed most of her wealth among her children and is enjoying her life as an independent, tech-savvy granny. A band of less-than-professional criminals kidnaps her in a hope to make an easy fortune but their naïve plan goes all wrong, when the family of their difficult hostage is reluctant to pay the modest ransom of 50,000 dollars. Infuriated by this, Mrs. KWON takes the matter into her own hands and leads the pack in making the biggest kidnap case in history. Will she and her kidnappers be able to get their hands on the 50 million dollar ransom?
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2007-09-12
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Girl Scout
Overview: When the head of a credit union disappears with the credit union's money, four women create a team called Bong Chon Girl Scouts Troop #3 to recover the stolen money, and chaos ensues.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2008-06-05
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Miss Granny
Overview: An unappreciated old granny magically turns 20 years old again and decides to make the most of her newfound youth.
Genres: Drama Comedy Music
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2014-01-22
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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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Love+Sling
Overview: A former wrestler bonds with his son over the sport. But then the son's girlfriend falls in love with the father.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2018-05-09
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A Little Princess
Overview: Mal-soon is a tough granny in a shanty town in Busan. In front of her, 12-year-old Gong-ju appears with her baby sister Jin-ju on her back. Gong-ju claims that she is the daughter of Mal-soon’s runaway daughter. Mal-soon’s peaceful life becomes a mess with these little strangers, but Mal-soon doesn’t feel bad living with them.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2019-12-04
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Oh! My Gran
Overview: A man's daughter is the victim of a brutal hit-and-run car accident. The only witness is the man's dementia-ridden old mother who barely remember any details. The two must work together to find the culprit.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2020-09-02
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Honest Candidate
Overview: Sang-sook is a competent politician who captivates the public with all kinds of nice words. One day, Sang-sook visits her grandmother who lives in the isolated house. But when she returns home, she finds out that she is not able to lie anymore.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2020-02-12
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Hero
Overview: Ahn Jung-geun, a commander in the Korean Independence Army, leaves behind his country, his family and his mother Cho Maria. Ahn Jung-geun and his comrades cut off the last segment of their ring fingers as a symbol of their dedication to liberate their nation, and as a solemn oath to kill Ito Hirobumi, a man at the center of Japan’s occupation of Korea, within three years. To keep his oath, Ahn Jung-geun arrives in Vladivostok. Meanwhile, Seol-hee, the independence fighters’ informant, disguises herself to get close to Ito Hirobumi. She finds out that Ito Hirobumi will be heading to Harbin to meet with a Russian delegation, and urgently informs the independence fighters. The fateful day of October 26, 1909 arrives. Ahn Jung-geun, who has been yearning for this day does not hesitate to fire his gun at Ito Hirobumi at Harbin Station. Arrested on site, he is charged with murder and tried not in a court of Joseon but in that of Japan…
Genres: Drama History Action
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2022-12-21
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Pawn
Overview: A debt collector who looks intimidating, but actually has a warm heart, ends up becoming the guardian of a child, who has been left behind as collateral by her illegal immigrant mother.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2020-09-29
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