Kim Jong-soo
Also Known As: Kim Jong-su, Jong-soo Kim, Jong-su Kim
Biography: Kim Jong-soo (김종수) is a South Korean actor. His acting career began in 1985 when he took on the role of Alan in the play Equus. He gained recognition through his performances in various theatrical productions in Ulsan, earning him several awards. In 1996, he was honored with the Gyeongnam Theater Award for Best Actor, followed by the Outstanding Acting Award at the Ulsan Theater Festival in 2000 and the Mayor's Achievement Award at the Ulsan Arts Festival in 2002. Moreover, he also held the position of president in the Ulsan Actors Association. In 2007, Kim Jong-Soo made his film debut with an appearance in Secret Sunshine, directed by Lee Chang-dong. Subsequently, he appeared in movies like No Forgiveness, Wish, War on Crime, Home Sweet Home, The King of Flattery, Man in Love, Legendary Fist and Minority Opinion. Kim has been recognized through his supporting roles in television dramas such as Six Flying Dragons, The Producers, Three Days, Misaeng: Incomplete Life, Pied Piper, Kingdom, The Emperor: Owner of the Mask, and Snowdrop. Starting from 2016, he embarked on a series of film projects, starring in The Prosecutor's Abduction, Seondal: The Man Who Sells the River, Asura: The City of Madness, Tunnel, Horror Stories 3, One Way Trip, The Map Against the World and Insane.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Busan, South Korea
Birthday: November 30, 1964
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Gender: Male
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Home Sweet Home
Overview: Tae-Su had wealth and honor. But all that changed when he certifies his friend"s debt. To avoid creditor"s suspicion Tae-Su goes to Busan and meets a girl named Se-Ra who starts a secret relationship with him. As time goes by, Tae-Su decides to go back to home. By the way, he ends up killing his wife, not knowing what to do.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2012-03-15
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Phantom
Overview: In 1933, when Korea was under Japanese occupation, five people in Gyeongseong are suspected to be "Phantom" spies of the anti-Japanese organization.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2023-01-18
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Following
Overview: Jiri Mountain is completely off-limits due to police search operations. Jeong-ok, along with other tourists on a cultural tour of Jiri Mountain, escapes the attention of the police and enters Jiri Mountain on a remote road. Jae-won, who follows this kind of Jeong-ok. Jeong-ok and Jae-won chase after each other, going deeper and deeper into Jiri Mountain...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2016-12-01
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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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Life Is Beautiful
Overview: Suddenly learning she is terminally ill, Se-yeon asks her husband, Jin-bong the absurd task of helping her find her first love, and he unwillingly joins her search. Along their journey, Se-yeon and Jin-bong are reminded of the most glittering, beautiful moments of their lives.
Genres: Music Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2022-09-28
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Hopeless
Overview: Yeon-gyu is a teenage boy who wants to escape his hometown where violence is commonly enacted among neighbors. He only hopes to have a peaceful life with his mother. However, the world never allows him to have a dream nor hope for life. When Yeon-gyu needs a hand from grown-ups, Chi-geon, a thug of the town, offers a favor. The simple favor leads Yeon-gyu to explore the world of Chi-geon. It ironically results Yeon-gyu gradually falling into Chi-geon’s life. Grasping hope to run away from where he is, he struggles between the border. Can he escape from the town at the end?
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2023-10-11
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Ransomed
Overview: In Beirut 1986, during the Lebanese civil war a Korean diplomat is taken hostage without a trace. Two years pass and long forgotten, a young diplomat Min-jun receives a phone call proving that the hostage is still alive. With the given mission, Min-jun is sent to Beirut to save the hostage with a bag of ransom money.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2023-08-02
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Socialphobia
Overview: A woman is attacked by Internet users after posting provocative remarks online. Using her personal information, they go to her place but what they find is her body; she took her own life. Who made her kill herself? Or, was she killed by someone else?
Genres: Thriller Mystery Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2015-03-12
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The Poet and the Boy
Overview: A poet in his late 30s, who has spent all his life in Jeju Island, lives off his sturdy wife. Despite his wife's constant nagging about his inability as a breadwinner, all he does is thinking about and writing poetry. One day, the poet meets a teenage boy working at a donut shop and helplessly develops feelings he has never had before.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2017-09-14
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Hunt
Overview: After a high-ranking North Korean official requests asylum, KCIA Foreign Unit chief Park Pyong-ho and Domestic Unit chief Kim Jung-do are tasked with uncovering a North Korean spy, known as Donglim, who is deeply embedded within their agency. When the spy begins leaking top secret intel that could jeopardize national security, the two units are each assigned to investigate each other.
Genres: Action Mystery Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2022-08-10
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Poongsan
Overview: Poongsan has the unenviable - and death-defying - job of delivering messages across the North and South Korean border to separated families. When South Korean government agents ask him to smuggle in In-ok, the lover of a high-ranking North Korean defector, into the South, the damsel and rescuer fall in love instead.
Genres: Action Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2011-06-23
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Dr. Cheon and the Lost Talisman
Overview: For generations, the eldest son of the village has been the protector, but the current heir, Dr. Cheon, is a fake exorcist who doesn't believe in ghosts. Using his penetrating insight into people's minds, he performs fake exorcisms and resolves cases brought to him. However, Yoo-kyung, a client who can see ghosts, approaches him with an offer too tempting to refuse. With his assistant In-bae, Dr. Cheon heads to Yoo-kyung’s house, and gets involved in a series of strange phenomena. As they delve into the mysteries there, they uncover the secrets of a talisman known as ‘Seolkyung’...
Genres: Fantasy Mystery
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2023-09-27
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Alienoid: Return to the Future
Overview: Ean has a critical mission to return to the future to save everyone. However, she becomes trapped in the distant past while trying to prevent the escape of alien prisoners who are locked up in the bodies of humans. Meanwhile, Muruk, who helps Ean escape various predicaments, is unnerved when he begins sensing the presence of a strange being in his body. Traveling through the centuries, they are trying to prevent the explosion of the haava.
Genres: Action Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2024-01-10
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Baseball Girl
Overview: A girl baseball player who is about to graduate from high school will try to enter the professional baseball world forbidden to women.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2020-06-18
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Twenty
Overview: A story about three friends who just turned twenty; an age where you can do whatever you want, love whoever you want with opportunities abroad.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2015-03-25
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The Mayor
Overview: For the first time in Korean history, the mayor of Seoul attempts a third term in office, with his entire campaign team ready to soil their hands.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2017-04-26
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Woman Who Grabbed The Rod
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1984-05-05
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Revolver
Overview: Su-young, a police detective who went to prison for someone else, is surprised when a mysterious woman named Yoon-sun arrives to collect her on her day of release. As she discovers that the promised compensation for her time behind bars has vanished, Su-young embarks on a mission to reclaim what rightfully belongs to her.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2024-08-07
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Hijack 1971
Overview: Pilots Tae-in and Gyu-sik are set to fly to Gimpo. Under the guidance of flight attendant Ok-soon, passengers are busy boarding. However, shortly after takeoff, a homemade bomb explodes, turning the cabin into chaos.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2024-06-21
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The Unfair
Overview: Residents, who are evicted from their homes in a designated urban renewal, demonstrate against their removal. The police arrive and attempt to end the demonstration. Death happen that lead to the bigger problem.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2015-06-24
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Our Love Story
Overview: A fine arts student meets an attractive bartender, and the two women begin an intimate relationship.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2016-11-17
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Insane
Overview: A woman gets kidnapped in the middle of the day and is tortured in a psychiatric hospital. A Journalist gets on the trace of the case and tries to find out the truth.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2016-04-07
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Asura: The City of Madness
Overview: A shady cop finds himself in over his head when he gets caught between Internal Affairs and the city’s corrupt mayor.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2016-09-28
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Bogotá: City of the Lost
Overview: After moving to Bogotá for a chance at a better life, a young Korean man rises through the Colombian black market — risking peril for a shot at success.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2024-12-31
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The Sheriff In Town
Overview: After he leaves the police force, Dae-ho establishes himself as the sheriff of his town. He then investigates Jong-jin, a businessman, because of his alleged ties to drugs.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2017-05-03
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Room No.7
Overview: In a DVD-themed sex hotel, a young employee has hidden drugs in room #7 for criminals in exchange for wiping off his debt. But then his boss hides a dead body in the same room and locks the door. And a dangerous battle of wits ensues between a man who must lock away the secret behind the door, and another, who must go inside.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2017-11-15
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1987: When the Day Comes
Overview: In 1987 Korea, under an oppressive military regime, a college student gets killed during a police interrogation involving torture. Government of officials are quick to cover up the death and order the body to be cremated. A prosecutor who is supposed to sign the cremation release, raises questions about a 21-year-old kid dying of a heart attack, and he begins looking into the case for truth. Despite a systematic attempt to silence everyone involved in the case, the truth gets out, causing an eruption of public outrage.
Genres: Drama History Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2017-12-27
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Your Noir
Overview: Hyeong-Ju is a gang member. He begins to follow a woman. The woman is the wife of a prosecutor investigating his gang. The woman was also Hyeong-Ju's teacher when he was younger and he liked her at the time. Hyeong-Ju still has feelings for her.
Genres: Action Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2013-10-09
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Mongolian Princess
Overview: One day, you fell from the sky. I never knew loving somebody could bring so much happiness. I see the world differently because of you. I am a different person because you live in my heart.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2015-03-19
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One Way Trip
Overview: Four best friends, Yong-bi, Ji-gong, Sang-woo and Doo-man who just turned twenty and just came of age took the road to Pohang, a small city near the beach—since one of the friends, Sang-woo, is enlisting in the marine corps the day after. On the last day before Sang-woo goes off to the army, a life-changing incident dawns in front of them. The four best friends now face a situation beyond their control, and are forced through an irrevocable day.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2015-10-01
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Extreme Job
Overview: A drug squad attempts to take down a criminal organization and they must go undercover to do so, so they begin working at a chicken restaurant, that becomes famous for its delicious chicken. Due to the unexpected popularity, the detectives find themselves in a situation they never expected.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2019-01-23
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Dark Figure of Crime
Overview: A serial killer is caught for his seventh murder. A cop tries to solve the first six cases with the killer's help, but starts to suspect that he has ulterior motives. Based on a true story.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2018-10-03
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Money
Overview: Get caught up in the tale of a new stock broker who dreams of becoming rich. Those dreams make him susceptible to a stock market scam that threatens to get him in trouble.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2019-03-20
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The Drug King
Overview: Busan, South Korea, 1970s. Lee Doo-sam is a small-time smuggler. After helping a drug gang to smuggle meth, he falls into the dark crime world. Quick-witted and full of ambition, he eventually takes over the drug underworld and starts to lead a double life: a good community leader during the day but an infamous drug lord during the night.
Genres: Crime Action Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2018-12-19
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Nameless Gangster
Overview: A corrupt customs official joins forces with a vicious gangster to form the most powerful crime partnership in Busan.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2012-02-02
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Innocent Witness
Overview: An old man is found dead, and his housekeeper is charged with the murder. Her defense attorney is surprised to learn the only witness to the crime is a teenage girl with autism.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2019-02-13
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Bring Me Home
Overview: Jung-yeon receives a tip-off that her son who went missing six years ago is in a fishing village. Local officers get in her way, trying to cover up a secret that might be related to her case.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2019-11-27
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Start-Up
Overview: Two boys are becoming real adults during a turbulent time as they experience a world that doesn't go their way.
Genres: Drama Action Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2019-12-18
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Before I Grow Up
Overview: Many banners has been put up all over a town. The banners read, “Asshole living in room 302 in Rainbow villa has carried on with my wife for five years. I will kill him without fail.” A boy asks his first love if she would like to him to remove them. She answers, “Fuck you.”
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2016-04-28
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Dream
Overview: With hard work and dedication on lock, a group of homeless men trains to compete in a global tournament — despite a cranky coach.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2023-04-26
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Samjin Company English Class
Overview: In mid '90s, 3 female high school-grad office workers take up English classes together to get promotions and they team up to uncover corruption within their company.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2020-10-21
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Secret Sunshine
Overview: Shin-ae moves to her recently late husband’s hometown. Despite her efforts to settle in this unfamiliar and too-normal place, she finds that she can’t fit in. After a sudden tragedy, Shin-ae turns to Christianity to relieve her pain, but when even this is not permitted, she wages a war against God.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2007-05-23
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Daddy in the Bag
Overview: While her father remains in a vegetative state. His daughter carries around a robot that stored her father’s memory in her bag.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2019-06-29
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Horror Stories 3
Overview: Three horror stories, with each set in the past, present and future.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2016-06-02
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Smugglers
Overview: During the 1970s, in Kunchon, there were women divers who were able to dive without equipment, including two best friends Choon-ja and Jin-sook, Jin-sook's brother and Hammer. They always collected seafood under water for living. But, as fewer factories started to be built near the beach, the women divers started to have trouble with what they were doing for living. Without any choice, the ship crews decided to join the smuggling business in the water to seek a way for their living. But the smuggling business in their village got too big for Jin-sook's family to handle and the peaceful village was gradually broken.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2023-07-26
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Okay! Madam
Overview: A working class family wins a free vacation to Hawaii. But when their plane takes flight, it gets hijacked by terrorists. To save her family and the other passengers, the wife must reveal her secret past and fight back.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2020-08-12
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Tunnel
Overview: A man is on his way home when the poorly constructed tunnel he is driving through collapses, leaving him trapped leaving himself for the unexpected whilst emergency services struggle to help.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2016-08-10
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Seondal: The Man Who Sells the River
Overview: In the late Joseon Dynasty, Bongyi Kim Seon-dal is the best conman who sells water from the Taedong River.
Genres: History Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2016-07-06
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The Killers
Overview: Four master helmers from Korea reload the hitman flick. Vampire sleaze, assassin slapstick, neo-noir, and an avant-garde mind-bender to die (kill) for!
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2024-10-23
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