Cha Seung-won
Also Known As: 차승원, 車勝元, 车胜元, Cha Seoung-won, ชาซึงวอน, چا سونگ-وون
Biography: Cha Seung-won (차승원) is a South Korean actor. Born on 7th June 1970 in Anyang, Gyeonggi.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Anyang, Gyeonggi, South Korea
Birthday: June 07, 1970
Adult: No
Gender: Male
TMDb-Id: 1248450
IMDb-Id: nm0149226
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Known For
Uprising
Overview: In the Joseon Dynasty, two friends who grew up together — one the master and one the servant — reunite post-war as enemies on opposing sides.
Genres: Action Drama History
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2024-10-02
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Believer 2
Overview: A determined detective continues his search for the truth behind Asia's largest drug organization and its elusive boss he has unfinished business with.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2023-10-05
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Man on High Heels
Overview: Ji-wook is a virile detective with a reputation, but deep down in his heart, he always considered himself as a woman and finally decides to get a transsexual operation. However, his plan falls apart as vicious gang members start their revenge on him.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2014-06-01
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Secret
Overview: A detective suspects that his wife murdered a gangster's brother. As he tries to misdirect the police and the bloodthirsty gangster while independently investigating his wife, terrible secrets slowly begin to surface.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2009-12-03
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Eye For An Eye
Overview: The devious brain behind a heist draws a top police detective, on the eve of his retirement, into an elaborate plot of robbery and revenge.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2008-07-31
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Jail Breakers
Overview: Two inmates break out of a prison only to discover afterwards that they are up for parole. Desperate to get their lives back on track, they realize their best move is to break back into the prison without being noticed.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2002-11-20
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Blades of Blood
Overview: Lee Mong-hak and a skilled blind swordsman Hwang Jeong-hak, both long to wipe away corruption and heal the world. Lee Mong-hak creates a rebel army to achieve his goal and get rid of the King.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2010-04-28
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Break Out
Overview: How far would you go to recover a cigarette lighter? A pulsing mix of hard-hitting action, wry social commentary, and black humor, director Jang Hang Joon's Break Out takes a simple premise and spins it into a spiraling film experience. Penniless and slothful Bong Gu (Kim Seung Woo) loses his cheap lighter in the Seoul train station washroom, and it falls into the hands of gangster leader Chul Gon (Cha Seung Won). Bong Gu, determined to retrieve his lighter, follows Chul Gon to Pusan, but the task turns out to be a lot more difficult than he had imagined.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2002-07-17
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Libera Me
Overview: An arsonist is terrorizing Seoul and the fire investigators are hot on his trail.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2000-11-11
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Ghost in Love
Overview: A battle is on to save the soul of a woman who must decide whether or not to become a vengeful spirit.
Genres: Fantasy Horror Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1999-08-14
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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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Blood Rain
Overview: In 1808, an imperial investigator arrives on an idyllic island to investigate a series of grisly murders. The locals believe that a ghost is responsible, taking revenge for a wrongful execution seven years ago. But the investigator suspects that something else may be behind it all.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2005-05-04
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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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Ghost House
Overview: Park Pil-gi’s family has never owned a house for three generations. They have to live in a rented room all their lives. Quite understandably, his father’s will at his death bed was ‘get your own house,’ which became Pil-gi’s goal in life. He works at a shipyard by day and as part-time chauffeur by night. After 10 years he finally manages to buy a two-storey house near the beach in Geoje-do, with some loans and mortgage. On the day he moves in, he shouts “Father… I did it! I bought my own house!” But his joy soon turns to fear. A knife flies toward him, the actor on TV suddenly shouts at him to leave the house, and even crawls out of the screen.…
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2004-09-17
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Athena: Goddess of War
Overview: Sometime in the near future, the Korean peninsula attempts to reunify. The South Korean government, which needs enormous funds for the unification to succeed, develops a landmark new technology called the TWR. The TWR is a high speed nuclear reactor and other countries want the technology. To prevent terror in the aftermath of the TWR breakthrough, the government establishes a new organization named NTS (National Anti-Terror Service). Jung-Woo (Jung Woo-Sung) is transferred to the NTS group from the NIS. He's excited about the transfer and hopes to live the life of a real agent, but then discovers his main responsibility is to watch North Korean defectors.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2011-02-13
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71: Into the Fire
Overview: In August 1950, waiting for UN troops to arrive, the South Korean army assembled to protect Nakdong River. Only 71 student-soldiers are left behind to guard the city of Pohang. Now they are on a mission to defend the country from North Korean troops.
Genres: War
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2010-06-16
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Over the Border
Overview: After learning that his grandfather is alive and living in Seoul, a North Korean musician must leave his fiancee behind and accompany his family to South Korea.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2006-05-04
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Kick the Moon
Overview: Choi Ki-dong, who becomes a teacher, and Park Young-jun, who becomes a gang member, meet again after 10 years. To compete for Min Ju-ran, they start a fierce battle remembering their high school days, when the situation was completely different.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2001-06-23
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Project X
Overview: In Prague Of Czechoslovakia, there is a triad organization. Arlumit which is in fierce discrepancy between the Conservative party and the Reform party regarding on the new heir of the organization. Karon, Leia and Behr, the merciless killers, are hired by the Conservative party and the Reform party to root each other out. Karon and Leia of the Reform party are ordered to kill the computer expert and Behr of the Conservative part. At the moment, Leia realized that Behr is her first love when they were young. She doesn't have the heart to shoot Behr. Karon is so disappointed and try to get rid of Behr on his own and get into the point of no return...
Genres: Crime Action Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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End of the Century
Overview: An intricately put together story that brings to the screen Korea's most sensitive issues. Through the lives of various Seoulites, the film features an unfettered look into Korea's modern society by presenting them into four chapters - Moratorium, Amorality, Moral Hazard, and Y2K.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1999-12-11
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Murder, Take One
Overview: A woman is killed in a hotel room. The ensuing police investigation is conducted in front of TV cameras for the entire country to watch as it unfolds.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2005-08-11
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The Map Against The World
Overview: Kim Jeong-ho's father died due to an erroneous map. Because of this, Kim Jeong-ho has a strong desire to make his own map. He begins a complete block map of Joseon.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2016-09-07
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No Other Choice
Overview: After being unemployed for several years, a man devises a unique plan to secure a new job: eliminate his competition.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller Comedy
Original Language: ko
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If the Sun Rises in the West
Overview: The classic love story between the famous actress and the plain ordinary man.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1998-12-19
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My Son
Overview: Lee Gang-sik sits in jail with a life sentence because of murder. His good behavior the last 15 years earns him the opportunity to be released for one day & visit his family. But how will his son, whom he let down for 15 years, react?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2007-05-01
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Holiday in Seoul
Overview: A hotel bellboy having recently been dumped falls in love with a leg model who's a regular guest at the hotel' she and her lover meet regularly in room 901. One day, her lover gets killed in a hit-and-run accident. Also around this hotel is a telephone operator, whom wishes to waste her time. Her fixation is with a taxi ride. When she gets into a cab, she doesn't tell the driver where to go, and the driver doesn't ask. They just speed along the city at night.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1997-03-21
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Black Honeymoon
Overview: Newlyweds Jun-ho and Eun-jin join six other couples as they all embark on a honeymoon excursion to Cheju Island. But the trip takes a tragic turn when Jun-ho's eyeless corpse is discovered the next morning and detective Pyun-shik must find the killer.
Genres: Thriller Drama Mystery
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2000-03-11
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Cry Cry
Overview: Eunjung and Qri star as a pair of delinquent thieves who wind up in a huge mess when the bag they lifted from a club turns out to have been stuffed with drugs. A flashback sequence reveals that Qri originally was Jiyeon, but after a run-in with a couple of gangsters, they mauled her face and she ends up with plastic surgery leaving her looking like Qri, and unrecognizable to the man played by Cha Seung Won, whom she once loved.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-11-08
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Believer
Overview: After a traumatic event, a drug trafficker turns sides and conspires with a dangerously ambitious undercover police officer to bring down the mysterious kingpin of a major drug cartel.
Genres: Crime Action Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2018-05-22
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Cheer Up, Mr. Lee
Overview: Chul-soo is a man with an intellectual disability. One day, Chul-soo finds out that a young girl, Saet-byul, who is in hospital is his daughter. And soon, Saet-byul sneaks out of the hospital and travels by herself to a faraway city for her friend's birthday. As Chul-soo accompanies Saet-byul's journey, friendship develops between the two.
Genres: Drama Comedy Family
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2019-09-11
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Night in Paradise
Overview: An assassin named Tae-goo is offered a chance to switch sides with his rival Bukseong gang, headed by Chairman Doh. Tae-goo rejects the offer that results in the murder of his sister and niece. In revenge, Tae-goo brutally kills Chairman Doh and his men and flees to Jeju Island where he meets Jae-yeon, a terminally ill woman. Though, the henchman of the Bukseong gang, Executive Ma is mercilessly hunting Tae-goo to take revenge.
Genres: Crime Thriller Action
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2020-09-03
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Sinkhole
Overview: A working class family move into a new condo purchased after 11 years of hard work. They throw a housewarming party to show his co-workers when overnight a heavy downpour creates an extremely deep sinkhole that engulfs the entire building.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2021-08-11
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Attack the Gas Station!
Overview: A quartet of disaffected Korean youths have robbed a Seoul gas station. After taking the gas station over, their wacky antics ensue; forcing the manager to sing, kidnapping customers that complain about the service, and staging fist-fights between street gang members and gas station employees; all of these reflect their own gripes against society.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1999-10-02
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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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Mr. XXX-Kisser
Overview: Oh Dong-sik is the completely rigid character who has always led a text-book life. Dong-sik is threatened by loan sharks when his mother signs up for a private loan in order to advance Dong-sik’s father’s promotion into the principal position. Dong-sik decides to become the best insurance seller in his newly transferred insurance sales team, but sales is a major challenge for the completely tactless and obstinate Dong-sik. Then one day, Dong-sik has a chance encounter with Hyugosoo, the legendary ‘master of tongue’ of insurance sales industry. Hyugosoo bends his rules and accepts Dong-sik as his pupil, and Dong-sik begins to learn Hyugosoo’s secrets of flattery after a great struggle. Will his teachings indeed reinvent Dong-sik into ‘Mr. Ass-Kisser’?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2012-06-21
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T-ARA - Cry Cry & Lovey-Dovey
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Genres: Music
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2012-04-25
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