Kim Soo-ro
Also Known As: 김수로, Kim Sang-joong, 김상중, 金秀路, Kim Su-ro
Biography: Kim Soo-ro (김수로) was born on May 7, 1970 in Seoul, Korea as Sang-Joong Kim. He is an actor, known for Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War (2004), God of Study (2010) and Vampire Cop Ricky (2006).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Anseong, Gyeonggi, South Korea
Birthday: May 07, 1970
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Our School's E.T.
Overview: Sung geun, a physical education teacher, is at risk of losing his job when the school decides it needs an English teacher instead of a PE teacher. Therefore, he starts to devise a plan to change his job as an English teacher.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2008-09-11
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The Quiz Show Scandal
Overview: Due to a massive car accident and a twist of fate, passengers on four cars find out the answer to the final multimillion-dollar question in an upcoming episode of The Quiz Show. Everyone rushes to compete, their only challenge is to get to that final question.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2010-09-16
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Mr. Idol
Overview: It's hard being a Korean popstar! For every Gangnam Style, there are a hundred flameouts. K-Pop sensation Jay Park stars in this musical romp about a sassy music executive on her quest to resurrect a disgraced boy band against all odds.
Genres: Music Comedy Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2011-11-03
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Vampire Cop Ricky
Overview: A mosquito from Transylvania finds its way to Seoul where it bites Na Do-yol, a corrupt police officer. Soon after he begins to develop a thirst for blood, and finds out that he has vampire super powers whenever he becomes sexually aroused. When Do-yol's past misdeeds come back to threaten his partner and girlfriend, he decides to clean up his act and sets out for revenge.
Genres: Action Comedy Romance Horror Fantasy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2006-02-09
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The Last Witness
Overview: Based on a true story and a legendary Korean novel, this movie follows Detective Oh (superstar Lee Jung Jae) and his investigation into the mysterious murder of a North Korean. His investigation leads him to a diary, which was written by a nun who - along with her boyfriend - helped lead the escape of North Korean POWs held captive during the Korean War. Detective Oh eventually becomes emotionally involved with the case and pursues the writer of the diary and her long-lost boyfriend, hoping to crack the case and learn more about the story of the POWs.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2001-11-16
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The Foul King
Overview: A timid and extravagant bank clerk, Dae-ho is considered inefficient at his workplace. As he tries to be recognized by his superior, his efforts only cause more bad situations. But he has an explosive energy that nobody knows about. One day, after yet another day of suffering at work, he goes to a wrestling gym to persuade its owner to become his bank’s client. And, by accident, he starts to learn how to wrestle. From then, he starts to live a new life. And his personality starts to change…
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2000-02-04
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Volcano High
Overview: Kim is expelled from his eighth school and finds himself at Volcano High where students fight to possess a treasured ancient document. Kim, who must resist from using his Chi, is caught in the middle.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2001-12-08
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Romantic Heaven
Overview: The paths of three people intersect at a hospital. A lawyer who mourns the death of his wife, a taxi driver who is taking care of his grandfather that suffers from Alzheimer's, and a girl who is looking for a bone marrow donor to save the life her mother.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2011-03-24
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Hi, Dharma!
Overview: Laughs and thrills go hand-in-fist in this Korean action comedy, as a band of criminals fleeing a violent gang war hides out in a monastery. The monks in residence quickly tire of the goons’ distressing behavior and manufacture a series of activities to get even.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2001-11-09
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Big Bang
Overview: An otherwise model citizen's petty crime quickly escalates into felony when he runs away from the police station, dragging a career criminal with him.
Genres: Action Comedy Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2007-03-14
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Madeleine
Overview: The story follows the lives of two girls living together and their separate love lives as they struggle to find and maintain their new relationships. The movie mainly focuses on pretty girl Lee Hee-Jin. Hee-Jin is a hair stylist working at a salon when she meets an old classmate from junior high school. Kang Ji-Suk meets up with Hee-Jin when he arrives at her salon for a hair cut. The pair ends up deciding to try dating for a month to see how things go. All goes well in the beginning until Ji-Suks first love shows up. Sung-Hae invites Ji-Suk over to a reunion party with their old junior high school friends. Hee-Jin ends up tagging along. But she feels excluded and uncomfortable while Ji-Suk and Sung-Hae are hitting it off.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2003-01-10
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Shadowless Sword
Overview: 927 AD. The Killer-Blade Army has toppled the ruling dynasty, plunging the kingdom into chaos. The only remaining heir, Prince Jung-Hyun is living in exile, unaware of his family's dark fate. Still loyal to the dynasty, the beautiful and deadly warrior Soha sets out to find Jung-Hyun and guide him to become the great leader he was born to be. But with the Army's greatest assassins and the criminal underworld hunting them, Soha and Jung-Hyun are swept into an explosive, non-stop battle of swords, wits and bloodshed as they fight to reclaim the fallen throne.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2005-11-18
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Ghost Sweepers
Overview: Chan-young, a young journalist, is sent to investigate a village which has supposedly been possessed by demons. The incidents taking place have been so strange and terrifying that local shamans and other religious leaders have simply given up, abandoning the town. But upon her arrival, Chan-young discovers that an all-star team of supernaturally-inclined heroes has assembled to rid the village of evil. This team includes Mr. PARK the exorcist, Shi-min the monk, Wol-gwang the clairvoyant, Seung-hee the tarot master, and Seok-hyeon, an engineer. Chan-young follows the heroes as they prepare for an epic battle against the village’s evil forces.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Comedy Mystery
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2012-10-03
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The Righteous Thief
Overview: Hong Mu-Hyeok is a quiet high school music teacher with a secret. His family descends from the notorious Hong Gil-Dong, a Robin Hood styled thief. He has targeted Lee Jeong-Min, a ruthless ...
Genres: Action Adventure Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2009-11-26
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Death Bell 2
Overview: A class of students stays at school for a camp in an elite study group to finesse theirs and the school's grades. Upon the first night, the swimming coach is found murdered. As the students try to figure out what happens, a voice informs them that if they don't figure the murder out, students will begin dying in quick succession.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2010-07-28
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Windstruck
Overview: Kyung-jin, a police officer who finds herself chasing down a suspected bag-snatcher on her day off. However, the man she catches turns out to be Myungwoo, a passer-by who was himself trying to apprehend the real criminal.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2004-06-03
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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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Shiri
Overview: North Korea's 8th Special Forces hijack a shipment of CTX, a potent new liquid explosive, and threatens South Korea as part of a plot to re-unify the two countries. Ryu and Lee, special agents of O.P., South Korea's secret intelligence service, attempt to track down the terrorists and find the CTX. Meanwhile Hee, the 8th's ultra-bad female sniper, resurfaces to wreak havoc and haunt Ryu.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1999-02-13
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Life Is Cool
Overview: Il-gon is back in Korea after studying in the U.S. to find a bride to return with him, and asks his best friends, Tae-young and Sung-hoon, for help. When Il-gon finds the right woman, the other two friends' passions awaken, and they cannot help but find themselves drawn to her. Roto-scoping technique used.
Genres: Animation Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-06-12
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Awaiting
Overview: A young woman named Yeon-hee is traveling to Pyongyang with a coach full of elderly people. As she flips through old photographs, she remembers telling her husband Min-woo that she wouldn't allow him to "cross over" to North Korea given the political situation of the day. But Min-woo left anyway and never returned home, and their marriage was torn apart by the Korean War. Now, sixty years after the division of Korea, she looks forward to reuniting with her beloved Min-woo again.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2014-03-27
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Top Star
Overview: Actor Park Joong-hoon makes his directorial debut with this tale of a talent manager, Taeshik, who is discovered as an actor himself and sees his success quickly surpass that of his prior client. But Taeshik is compelled to hold on to his stardom through any vile means necessary. He recalls Alain Delon’s Tom Ripley in Purple Noon. As Tom Ripley had wanted everything the millionaire and his girlfriend had, Taeshik also wants everything that his former employer Wonjoon had. Having taken.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2013-10-24
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I Am The King
Overview: The movie depicts the three months before Choong-nyung (the future Sejong the Great) becomes king. The Annals of the Joseon Dynasty, which follows the history of the Joseon Dynasty between 1413 and 1865, leaves out records of this crucial period. While future generations would come to know him as King Sejong, the legendary figure who created the Korean alphabet and advanced the country’s scientific research and law, Prince Choong-nyung was originally dismissed as a reclusive bookworm. When his older brothers Yangnyeong and Hyoryeong fail to impress their father King Taejong, the king makes a royal command for Choong-nyung to become the next ruler of the kingdom instead.
Genres: History Comedy Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2012-08-08
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Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War
Overview: When two brothers are forced to fight in the Korean War, the elder decides to take the riskiest missions if it will help shield the younger from battle.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama History War
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2004-02-05
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All for Love
Overview: A romantic comedy which portrays the most beautiful period in the lives of different couples who have just fallen in love.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2005-10-07
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Out Live
Overview: A sweeping, epic tale of a martial arts warrior who attempts to defy a kingdom to be with his love.
Genres: Drama Action Fantasy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2000-07-01
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Five Senses of Eros
Overview: In this anthology film centered around the theme of "Eros," five seperate stories are presented by five top Korean directors. The main characters from each segment are connected with each other in one way or another.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-07-09
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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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Dance with the Wind
Overview: In a hospital parking lot, Officer Song Yeon-hwa is briefed about Park Pung-shik, an alleged gigolo who preys on rich housewives. One of his latest victims is the police chief's wife, who refuses to testify against him, despite giving him $30,000. Song is told to go undercover as a hospital patient in order to secure evidence leading to his arrest. In the hospital, she finds the mild-mannered Park and talks to him over coffee, where he mentions that he ballroom dances for a living. Song asks him why he came to become a dancer and he starts his story.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2004-04-09
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A Cruel Attendance
Overview: A financially desperate salaryman teams up with his friend to kidnap a rich girl to make a quick buck. But then he gets a call and learns that his own daughter has been kidnapped as well.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2006-11-02
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A Bold Family
Overview: Discovering that the father, who was displaced from the North Korea, made a will to his lawyer that unless the two-divided Korea become unified, his veiled property is to be veiled property is to be donated to the country after his death, the whole family decided to fool their father into thinking that the unification is finally realized. However, their bold play doesn’t go smoothly always...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2005-06-09
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Detective Mr. Gong
Overview: Gong Pil-du is a detective recruited for his athletic skills and achievement, a bronze Universiade medalist in wrestling. Since then, however, he has had little success in his career, and remains a 40-year old bachelor with a terrible credit record. His greatest crisis comes when his beloved father needs money for crucial surgery. To get the money, Gong makes a deal with a vicious crime boss. This makes him more miserable than ever, as he is now suspected as a corrupt cop. Gong goes on a quest to prove his innocence. Will he be successful for once in his life?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2006-05-11
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Take Off
Overview: Cha Heon-tae, a Korean-American, was adopted with his sister to American parents. He appears on a Korean television program in search of his mother. Since Heon-tae is a trained alpine skier, he is approached by Coach Bang who wants to recruit members for a new national ski jumping team for the approaching 1998 Winter Olympics.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2009-07-29
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My Way
Overview: During the invasion of Normandy the photograph of a slim Korean man in German uniform was found. It transpired that the man had served as a soldier in the Japanese, Russian and German armies. His incredible story inspired director Kang Je-Gyu to create this epic war drama.
Genres: Drama Action History War
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2011-12-21
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Two Cops
Overview: An easy-going corrupt detective is partnered up with a younger, more idealistic detective. The two try to influence each other to become more like themselves but must cooperate when faced with a strange case.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1993-12-28
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Last Present
Overview: The relationship of a third-rate comedian, Yong-ki, and his wife, Jung-yun is growing cold after the miscarriage of their baby. Yong-ki becomes increasingly suspicious of the wife's coldness towards him. Little does he know that Jung-yun has a terminal disease and is preparing a last present to her beloved husband when her time is sadly running out.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2001-03-24
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Along with the Gods: The Two Worlds
Overview: Having died unexpectedly, firefighter Ja-hong is taken to the afterlife by 3 afterlife guardians. Only when he passes 7 trials over 49 days and proves he was innocent in human life, he’s able to reincarnate, and his 3 afterlife guardians are by his side to defend him in trial.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Fantasy Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2017-12-20
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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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Fun Movie
Overview: Within the past ten years, Korean film industry has taken a huge leap in both quality and volume. There were hugely successful blockbusters as well as other features with vast range of subjects. Fun Movie can be considered a culmination of Korea's hugely successful film industry in so far that it solely offers parodies of Korean big screen hits. The film revolves around the 2002 Korea-Japan World Cup. Japan's ultra right-wing group, the Million Men Patriots, are setting up a plot to disrupt an up-coming historic soccer match. After going through severely harsh training, the Patriots finally select Murakami and a cold-hearted sharp-shooter named Hanako as leaders of the World Cup sabotage team. The clandestine group is dispatched to Seoul to launch their evil operation, but of course, things do not at all work out as planned and soon the luckless criminals even run out of sabotage money...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2002-04-12
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Two Cops 3
Overview: A pair of tough, unconventional cops take on the underworld.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1998-04-11
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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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Attack the Gas Station 2
Overview: It’s been 10 years since Mr. Park’s gas station was attacked by motorcycle gangs. To get his revenge, Park hires a quartet of dodgy boys: a lethal puncher, a footballer with a killer high kick, a potbellied wrestler, and a video game addict who mastered the art of bluffing. But these employees turn out to be more dangerous when they demand their overdue salaries.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2010-01-21
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Our English Teacher
Overview: A lazy gym teacher Seong Geun is completely content with his easy gig teaching high school P.E, but times are getting tough and his job is in danger. When Seong Geun's school decides to sack a gym teacher in favor of an English teacher, he too makes an important decision. To survive, he must teach English! Seong Geun whole heartedly makes the switch from PE to ET (English Teacher), but there's only one problem: he doesn't speak English.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-11
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