Kim Seung-woo
Also Known As: Kim Seung-Wu, Kim SeungWu, Seungwoo Kim, 김승우, Seung-woo Kim, Kim Seungwoo, 金承佑
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Seoul, South Korea
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Heaven's Soldiers
Overview: Modern day soldiers travel back in time and meet Admiral Lee, the greatest soldier of all time, and motivate him to drive out invaders.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2005-06-14
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Reversal of Fortune
Overview: His life in shambles after youthful dreams of becoming a golf champion yield disappointing results, bored stock exchange worker Seungwan receives a second chance at success after a freak accident puts his life back on track. Severely beaten after inexplicably angering local mob boss Ma Gangseong, Seungwan passes out after meeting a man who appears to be his clone. Upon regaining consciousness, Seungwan learns that the life he knew is no more; he is no longer a miserable failure, but a famous golf champion. Though his marriage had been heading down a rocky road for some time, his new found success and passion finds him and his wife Jiyeong falling back in love. Though everything suddenly seems to be falling into place for Seungwan, an upcoming golf championship threatens to unravel his ideal world unless he is able to pull it all together for one shot at a life of happiness.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2003-06-05
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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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Yesterday
Overview: In 1990, number of children suddenly disappear. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Defense selects an elite group of scientists for a top-secret mission. Then, 30 years later ... The year is 2020 on a reunified Korean Peninsula. A string of murders is committed against retired scientists. The Special Investigations (SI) unit staffed by a crack team from the former North and South Koreas and outfitted with the latest technology is brought in to investigate. The killer, however, far from being deterred, taunts them with a signature pendant at every murder scene. In an act of devilish boldness he even kidnaps the son of the investigation team's leader, Seok
Genres: Action Crime Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2002-06-13
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Iris: The Movie
Overview: Hyunjun and Sawoo, close friends and rivals from the South Korean special forces, are recruited by the secret agency NSS. They both fall for Seunghee, the beautiful but lethal profiling specialist at NSS. When they are faced against each other in a nuclear terrorist attack, they are forced to make their final decision and Seunghee's formidable secret is revealed.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2010-03-21
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Woman on the Beach
Overview: Stymied by writer's block while crafting his latest script, director Kim Jung-rae persuades his friend Won Chang-wook to drive him to a beach resort where he promptly becomes involved with Chang-wook's girlfriend. Abandoning her and taking up with another woman, Jung-rae winds up creating enough drama to inspire his writing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2006-08-31
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The 101st Proposition
Overview: Between her and me .. always 101cm Koo Young-seop (Moon Seong-geun), the chief of the construction company, has seen the line 99 times, but he is a bachelor who is retired. However, Young-seop sees the cellist garden (Kim Hee-ae) and Zen for the 100th time, but knows that she is too undeserved of her, but makes every effort to open her heart. The garden, which could not escape the shadow of the dead fiance, begins to open his heart to sincere and pure love. However, a man named Joon-ki appears so much like a dead fiancé who Garden cannot forget.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1993-06-19
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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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President Jung Yak Yong
Overview: It relates a time-slip story which takes Jung Yak Yong, known as Dasan, one of the greatest thinkers in the later Joseon period, from the past in 1818 to the present in 2022, as he becomes elected as the 20th president of the Republic of Korea. Jung Yak Yong was a Korean agronomist, philosopher, and poet. During his time, he wrote highly influential books about philosophy, science and theories of government and held significant administrative positions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2022-04-09
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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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Between Love and Hate
Overview: Young-Hoon works for his mother’s restaurant, but he prefers hanging out with his friends. He then meets Yeun-ah, a tough lady that works in a room salon as a barmaid. She takes the initiative by coming to his restaurant, when he is working, and propositions him in a playful way. They become a couple, but their relationship is always volatile. They fight constantly (physically and verbally), but the next moment kiss and make up. Meanwhile, Young-Hoon already has another girlfriend, who is his finance!
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2006-09-07
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Horny Family
Overview: From the outside, the Suhs seem like a loving, cookie-cutter, middle-class family with their lives in perfect order. In reality, everyone is hiding some secrets. The father has the hots for a young grad student. The mother is flirting around with a photographer she's posing for. The daughter is engaged but has a sex partner on the side. The son has a girlfriend, but he's been stalking the same student his father likes! What will happen to this perfect family when the secrets spill?
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2013-01-17
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I Am a Father
Overview: A corrupt detective infiltrates a gang and tries to save his daughter. One day he finds out the heart his daughter would receive as a transplant is from a magician he falsely accused.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2011-04-14
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Deep Blue
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1997-11-15
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A Growing Business
Overview: A peaceful yet somewhat boring small town has everything the townspeople need: a beauty shop, a pharmacy, a convenience store, and a Chinese restaurant. 'Chung-Wha-Roo' is the only Chinese restaurant in town until a new Chinese restaurant by the name 'A-Bang-Goong' opens right across the street. At first, A-Bang-Goong seems less than enthusiastic about their business; the exterior of the restaurant resembles a warehouse without a signboard, and all the employees are grotesque and brusque, even lacking the willpower for decent service including delivery. Despite the fact they serve only two dishes on the menu, their incredible gourmet flavor quickly becomes the toast of the town. As A-Bang-Goong becomes a local and nationwide phenomenon,, WANG, the owner of Chung-Wha-Roo becomes desperate. WANG visits his rival's to taste the famous dishes. However, he falls faint after discovering a human finger in his food.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1998-05-01
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Scent of a Man
Overview: One foggy spring day, the 12-year-old Hyeok-su meets the young Eun-hye and determines then and there that he will love her for the rest of his life. Many years later, Hyeok-su is preparing to enter college when he rescues a woman from assault. It turns out to be Eun-hye. Despite the passage of time, neither had forgotten the other and they renew their relationship. However, fate places another smitten man in Eun-hye's life. He is also determined that he will marry Eun-hye. Eventually, Eun-hye is forced to choose between them.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1998-09-12
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Chasing
Overview: Seung-ju, robbed clean of his wallet and phone by four high schoolers! Jung-taek, swept into the chase only to have his gun snatched away by the same teens. An erratic pursuit by two men, stripped of their precious possessions and completely run down and four teenagers, running the grown-ups through a proper drill right in the middle of the night. The furious chase has begun.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2016-01-07
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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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Twenty Again
Overview: A female eye doctor and a male film director run into each other on the airplane to Milan. The two were lovers in the past, and are now in their middle ages. After their chance encounter in Torino, they travel around Tuscany together, appreciating the works of Caravaggio. They begin to notice they are hiding their own wounds from each other. In Korea, he goes to her eye clinic, and they confess love to each other for the first time. In the end, they go their separate ways.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2016-11-03
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Passion Portrait
Overview: Failing to enter the university of his choice, a young man is forced to enter a local college, but a series of disappointments causes him to give up his studies and begin a life of aimless travel.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1991-03-16
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Ghost Mama
Overview: Ghost Mama is a 1996 South Korean romance fantasy film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1996-12-21
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Straight
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Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1990-07-28
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Secret Tears
Overview: A man becomes involved in some extra-sensory experiences after hitting a woman while driving drunk and bringing her home. She has amnesia and cannot speak, but that doesn't prevent her from communicating with him in other ways...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2000-06-03
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General's Son
Overview: In Japanese-occupied South Korea, a young man, newly-released from prison, is accepted into a gang for his fighting skills and quickly rises to the top. Based on the life of South Korean mobster and politician Kim Du-han.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1990-06-09
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Millions In My Account
Overview: Chun Dalsoo, a scoundrel who has nothing better to do, makes his living by attending military exercises in place of his friends. One day, he goes to the bank with Eunji, a cashier in a cafe. To Dalsoo’s surprise, he finds ten billion won in his bank account.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1995-12-16
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Once Upon a Time in a Battlefield
Overview: Set in the 7th century AD during the Korean peninsula's division into three perpetually warring kingdoms, Once Upon A Time In A Battlefield focuses on the Shilla's king Kim Choon-chu efforts to conquer his rivals: Koguryo and Baekche. To achieve this goal, he allies with mainland China's Tang empire, the superpower of the era, and together the two polities plan to attack first the weakest Baekche at its main fortress of Hwangsanbul, guarding the only easy access to the mountainous interior. But the fortress commander General Kye Baek (Park Joong-hoon) will be resisting to the end...This comedy relays on clash between ancient time and modern language combined with irony and distance to the war.
Genres: History War Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2003-10-17
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General's Son 3
Overview: Following the final events of General's Son 2, Kim Du-han is forced to go on the lam but eventually returns to Jongro where he attempts to rebuild his gang with the brothers that are still alive and loyal and defeat Hayashi's Yakuzas once and for all.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1992-09-11
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Corset
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Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1996-06-08
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Man with Flowers
Overview: A production company hires an enforcer nicknamed Tyson to retrieve a runaway screenwriter who failed to complete a commissioned scenario on time. Meanwhile the writer, Yeong-su, is heading for Pusan with Jeong-min, a waitress who has offered to help him and let him stay with her until his troubles blow over
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1997-11-08
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Curling Love
Overview: A group of high school girls learn to play the game of curling.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-02-24
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Tie a Yellow Ribbon
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1998-05-16
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Forgotten Love
Overview: People who feel how love feels in different situtations. "Will love last forever?" 'Even if I miss them, I couldn't meet them... Even if I can't forget, I can live without seeing them.'
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2020-12-31
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Do You Believe in Jazz?
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1996-09-21
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