Lee Joo-sil
Also Known As: 이주실, Lee Joo-shil, Lee Ju-sil, Lee Ju-shil, Jushil Lee, Joosil Lee, 李珠实, Ju Sil Lee, Ju-shil Lee, لی جو-سیل
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Bucheon, Gyeonggi, South Korea
Birthday: March 08, 1944
Deathday: February 02, 2025
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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The City of Violence
Overview: Tae-su, a detective fighting organized crime, returns to his hometown for his high school friend Wang-jae's funeral. There, he meets his old friends Pil-ho, Dong-hwan and Seok-hwan and they reminisce. Suspecting something fishy about Wang-jae's death, Tae-su and Seok-hwan start investigating it, each in his own way. Their investigations lead to a land development project that Pil-ho is directing.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2006-05-25
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Hot for Teacher
Overview: Strict teachers, all those hours inside four walls, all your desires and youthful energy repressed. School is an endless drag - until she comes along. Uhm Ji Young has a perfect body and metric tons of sex appeal, and she knows it. Needless to say, all the students go crazy, and the male teachers too! They should be preparing for the annual school festival, but they're all occupied with other matters.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2006-11-16
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Punch Lady
Overview: Ha-eun, an ordinary housewife who has endured her husband's violence for 13 years, challenges her husband, who is a mixed martial arts champion, to a duel in the ring.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2007-10-25
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The Sword with No Name
Overview: Mu Myeong is a Joseon dynasty headhunter who meets and falls in love with lady Ja Yeong who will become the future Empress Myseongseong. A few years later, Ja Yeong enters the royal palace to marry King Gojong. Mu Myeong still having feelings for Ja Yeong and in an attempt to get closer to her becomes her personal body guard.
Genres: Drama Action History Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2009-09-24
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Flower Hands
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2021-12-02
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Hommage
Overview: A struggling filmmaker finds unexpected solidarity and validation when she takes on the job of restoring a classic 1960s film directed by the first known female South Korean director.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2022-05-26
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The Tower
Overview: Tower Sky, a luxurious building complex, has organised a lavish Christmas party for its VIP guests. However, things go awry when a fire breaks out and thousands of lives are endangered.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2012-12-25
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Commitment
Overview: The son of a North Korean spy decides to follow in his father's footsteps to protect his little sister. After his father's botched espionage mission, North Korean Myung-hoon and his young sister Hye-in are sent to a labor prison camp. In order to save his sister's life, Myung-hoon volunteers to become a spy and infiltrates the South as a teenage defector. While attending high school in the South, he meets another girl named Hye-in, and rescues her when she comes under attack.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2013-11-05
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Mind Universe
Overview: Mind Universe is made up of two episodes that share the same subject matter about a mind-uploaded artificial intelligence. Today Of Tomorrow is about a story of an old woman, meeting her deceased AI husband who has been mind-uploaded. Our Universe is an episode at a virtual online funeral of famous Korean composer Kim Hyung-suk and is about music, love, and family.
Genres: Science Fiction Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2022-07-10
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New Normal
Overview: New Normal is a captured record of 4 days in Seoul, 2022, which is a time of chaos that all the mankind never have been experienced before in entire human history. It depicts the unexpected risks and identity of fears that are hidden in everyday life and common space.
Genres: Horror Thriller Mystery
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2023-11-08
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Invited Heroes
Overview: With the introduction of Catholicism to Korea in 1784 came social upheaval. People who practiced the new religion were tortured into renouncing it or executed. However, these conditions do not deter Seung-hun and her brother from attempting to spread the religion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1981-10-24
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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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The Uninvited
Overview: An engaged interior designer sees two small girls on the subway train that die there. He sees them again in his apartment. A woman he meets can also see them. He talks to her about his forgotten childhood.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2003-08-08
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The Admiral: Roaring Currents
Overview: The film mainly follows the famous 1597 Battle of Myeongryang during the Japanese invasion of Korea 1592-1598, where the iconic Joseon admiral Yi Sun-sin managed to destroy a total of 133 Japanese warships with only 13 ships remaining in his command. The battle, which took place in the Myeongryang Strait off the southwest coast of the Korean Peninsula, is considered one of the greatest victories of Yi.
Genres: War Action Drama History
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2014-07-30
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Sound of the Divine Bell
Overview: Susanna is about to become a nun in three days, and she finds herself sharing a room with an older nun, Teresa. This situation leaves her feeling confused and uncertain about whether she can successfully go through with the profession rite.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2024-07-06
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Chang-ok's Letter
Overview: Housewife Eun-ha is busy every day: In addition to taking care of her husband who doesn’t help out at all and her willful daughter and son, she has to care for her nagging mother-in-law, who is nearly bedridden.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2017-02-15
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Welcome
Overview: One day, Hye-sook is tricked by her mother into visiting her hometown. When she finds out that her mother is fine and tries to leave for Seoul, she hears about the passing of Taek-gyu's father. After the funeral, Hye-sook plans to return to the city. Gi-ju, a struggling writer, tries to drown himself at Andong lake but Taek-gyu saves him. Hye-sook used to draw for Gi-ju's writings when they were young. The two were each other's first love and through the reunion, they are about to rekindle their old romance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2014-08-21
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Clown of a Salesman
Overview: Il-bum works hard to pay off his daughter’s hospital bills but one day gets fired for being wrongly accused as a molester. After series of failures, Il-bum finds a job at a PR company which provides free entertainment to old women in exchange for buying their products. Il-bum feels shameful to play dirty tricks on old women but he has no other choice. Despite his initial concerns, Il-bum starts to feel a sense of worth entertaining old women. A new team member, Ok-nim joins and Il-bum becomes a good friend to her, making her feel warm and safe which she never gets from her own son. But, the joy of their friendship won’t hold long when Il-bum’s debt reaches beyond help.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2015-04-23
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Marriage Is a Crazy Thing
Overview: Joon-yeong is a Korean professor of English literature and confirmed bachelor. But when he meets Yeon-hee on a blind date, his days of bachelorhood seem numbered.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2002-04-26
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Notebook from My Mother
Overview: A diligent mother who runs a side-dish store keeps calling her son, a part time teacher, incompetent. The son resents his mother’s prickliness, but he isn’t very sweet to her either. One day, all of a sudden, his mother gets dementia.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2018-03-15
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Antique
Overview: Jin-hyeok opens a cake shop in an old antique shop, hiring Seon-woo, Korea's best pastry chef, who fell in love with him in high school. Also there, are Su-young, crushing on Seon-woo, ex-boxer Ki-beom, and Seon-woo's French ex-boyfriend.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2008-11-13
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Running Wild
Overview: A grissled cop with tendencies towards excessive force teams up with an ambitious and righteous prosecutor to track down a dangerous crime boss whom they both want desperately to catch. But their quarry resorts to devious methods to stall their investigation and eventually turn them against each other. Now the stage is set for a dangerous triangle.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2006-01-13
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Svaha: The Sixth Finger
Overview: Pastor Park, the head of a religious investigation center that exposes cults and cult leaders, begins looking into a suspicious new religion called Deer Mount.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2019-02-20
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Train to Busan
Overview: When a zombie virus pushes Korea into a state of emergency, those trapped on an express train to Busan must fight for their own survival.
Genres: Horror Thriller Action Adventure
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2016-07-20
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Le Grand Chef
Overview: A disgraced chef tries to restore his name by competing in a culinary contest to win the knife of Korea's last royal chef.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2007-10-31
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Black House
Overview: Jun-oh, an insurance claims agent, faces off with a client who he suspects of committing murders with the intention of collecting insurance premiums.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2007-06-21
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Sunny
Overview: With hopes of reuniting with her husband, who left for the Vietnam War without telling her, a young wife joins a traveling band as the lead singer.
Genres: Drama War Music
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2008-07-23
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Blossom Again
Overview: Thirty year-old teacher In-young falls in love with her own student, Suk. What attracted her to the boy was the fact that he resembled her first love in every way, and even shared the same name. But with the sudden return of her long-lost love, and the appearance of a cute high school girl who confesses her love towards the boy Suk, In-young finds herself lost among the two first loves.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2005-09-29
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A Single Spark
Overview: Activist and law school graduate Kim is being persecuted by the mid-’70s Park regime for trying to write a book about Jeon Tae-il, a union activist who immolated himself at age 22 to protest government hypocrisy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1995-11-18
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Hello, Schoolgirl
Overview: Kwon Yeon-woo is a thirty year old low-level civil servant who works in a district office; quite innocent for his age, he has been on numerous blind dates in an unsuccessful bid to find a wife. After moving into a new place, he begins to encounter a high school girl, Soo-yeong, on his way to work every morning, and she begins to develop feelings for him. Meanwhile, Kang Sook has just started working at the district office straight out of high school, and falls head over heels for older woman Kwon Ha-kyeong.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2008-11-27
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Face
Overview: A serial killer is burning away the flesh of his victims with acid, leaving only the bones behind. The police turn to Hyun-min, a former forensic sculptor adept in reconstructing faces by examining and interpreting skulls. With the victim's bones in his house, Hyun-min's daughter begins to experience disturbing visions. As he races against time to find the answers and save his daughter, the deadly truth behind these victims reveals a sinister conspiracy that threatens everyone involved.
Genres: Horror Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2004-06-11
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Whispering Corridors 6: The Humming
Overview: After being appointed as the vice-principal of her alma mater, Eun-hee becomes plagued by hallucinations. Branded a troublemaker by the teachers, Ha-young hears strange sounds coming from the school's dilapidated restroom.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2021-06-17
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