Lee Dong-hwi
Also Known As: Lee Dong-hui, لی دونگ-هوی
Biography: Lee Dong-hwi (born July 22, 1985), is a South Korean actor. He gained recognition through his role in the Korean drama Reply 1988 (2015–2016), the third installment of the Reply series by tvN.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Seoul, South Korea
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Method Acting
Overview: Actor Lee Donghwi plays a character named Park Kyungsoo, who is anorexic. Becoming deeply involved in the role, he fasts throughout the shooting and is highly praised by the film crew. Although he endures the suffering well until the last day of shooting, his instinct for food results in the confrontation between Donghwi the person and Donghwi the actor. He tries secretly eating, but it does not work.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2020-06-25
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The Red Teacher
Overview: In 1985, Tae Nam works as a teacher at an all-girls high school in the country. The students there do not like him, because he keeps shouting at them. In fact, Tae Nam has never had a date in his life. One day, he finds a banned erotic book at the book store. The novel, which spreads among the girls at the high school, ends with "to be continued." The students become curious about the second volume. Soon Duk decides to write the second volume for her friends.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2016-09-25
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Method Acting
Overview: Lee Dong-hwi, a washed-up comedy actor, aspires to change his image as a serious drama actor. Fortunately, he lands the role of a majestic king in a historical drama, but unexpected challenges begin to unfold for him. Will he be able to pull off method acting and succeed in changing his public image?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2024-10-04
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No Tears for the Dead
Overview: A hitman accidentally kills a little girl. Filled with regret, he wants to quit. But then to tie up loose ends, he is forced to go on another job, to kill the girl's mother.
Genres: Action Thriller Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2014-06-04
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No Tears for the Dead
Overview: A hitman accidentally kills a little girl. Filled with regret, he wants to quit. But then to tie up loose ends, he is forced to go on another job, to kill the girl's mother.
Genres: Action Thriller Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2014-06-04
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Lobby
Overview: A CEO of a small tech company, Chang-wook, must win billions worth bid for National EV charger project against Gwang-woo, an ex-business partner who has thrived with lobbying after stealing Chang-wook's original technology. Discovering Gwang-woo's secret connection with the decision-maker Minister Cho, he plans his first-ever golf outing to win over the deal. Finally, the golf round day has come, but everything is not the way he planned. Scandal, betrayal and chase in this 18-hole round.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2025-04-02
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Broker
Overview: Sang-hyun is always struggling from debt, and Dong-soo works at a baby box facility. On a rainy night, they steal the baby Woo-sung, who was left in the baby box, to sell him at a good price. Meanwhile, detectives were watching, and they quietly track them down to capture the crucial evidence.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2022-06-08
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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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Immigration
Overview: Taesoo happily leaves for the airport with a 500 million dollar contract.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2019-06-28
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Another Record: Into the Daydream
Overview: Follow LEE Je-hoon, an actor who continuously strives to make breakthroughs in his performance, as he ventures his past, potential and future visions.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2022-08-18
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The Roundup: Punishment
Overview: 'Monster Cop' Ma Seok-do investigates an illegal online gambling business led by a former STS Baek and an IT genius CEO Chang. Ma proposes an unexpected alliance to Jang and begins hunting down the criminals.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2024-04-24
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Way Back Home
Overview: Jeong-yoon and Jong-bae own a car body repair shop together that gets in financial trouble. To help cover the losses and take care of her family, Jeong-yoon decides to smuggle thirty kilograms of cocaine.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2013-12-11
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Can We Get Married?
Overview: Sun-woo and Woo-jung are about to get married. Their rosy future shatters when Sun-woo’s divorced father with bad credit history has a stroke. Sun-woo is left with a huge treatment fee, and his mother insists that Sun-woo’s dad should be selected as a basic livelihood recipient. Can Sun-woo get through this disastrous incident and get married successfully?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2024-10-23
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The Beauty Inside
Overview: Woo-jin, a furniture designer who wakes up in a different body every day, falls for Yi-soo, a woman he meets through his work.
Genres: Fantasy Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2015-08-20
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The Sound of a Flower
Overview: During the Joseon Dynasty, lowborn Chae-sun challenges the rule that states only men allowed to sing while navigating devotion to her teacher and the demands of the king's father.
Genres: Romance Drama History Music
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2015-11-25
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Tazza: The Hidden Card
Overview: Dae-gil has been skilled with his hands and has shown a strong desire for winning ever since he was a child. He will succeed his uncle and jump into the world of Tazza, risking his life in competition.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2014-09-03
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Cold Eyes
Overview: Ha Yoon-ju becomes the newest member of a unit within the Korean Police Forces Special Crime Department that specializes in surveillance activities on high-profile criminals. She teams up with Hwang Sang-jun, the veteran leader of the unit, and tries to track down James who is the cold-hearted leader of an armed criminal organization.
Genres: Crime Action Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2013-07-03
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The Plot
Overview: Young-il is a plotter who manipulates murder-for-hire cases to look like accidents. Nobody knows those accidents are in fact perfectly plotted, planned murders. After finishing a flawlessly plotted case with no trace of evidence left behind, Young-il receives a new request. His new target is a prominent political figure who is always under the spotlight. Even with the higher risk of getting exposed, Young-il decides to take the case with his team members, Jackie, Wol-cheon, and Jeom-man. When the plot is ready after immaculate preparation and numerous rehearsals, the team finally makes its move, but some unexpected trouble threatens Young-il’s perfect plan.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2024-05-29
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The Handmaiden
Overview: 1930s Korea, in the period of Japanese occupation, a new girl, Sookee, is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress, Hideko, who lives a secluded life on a large countryside estate with her domineering Uncle Kouzuki. But the maid has a secret. She is a pickpocket recruited by a swindler posing as a Japanese Count to help him seduce the Lady to elope with him, rob her of her fortune, and lock her up in a madhouse. The plan seems to proceed according to plan until Sookee and Hideko discover some unexpected emotions.
Genres: Thriller Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2016-06-01
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Confidential Assignment
Overview: When a crime organization from North Korea crosses borders and enters South Korean soil, a South Korean detective must cooperate with a North Korean detective to investigate their whereabouts.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2017-01-18
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New Trial
Overview: A taxi driver is found dead, and Hyun-woo, the only witness, charged with a murder and serves 10 years in prison. While offering pro bono services, a lawyer Junyoung meets Hyun-woo, and they begin their journey to prove his innocence.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2017-02-15
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One-Line
Overview: A group of professional con artists scam poor, unsuspecting citizens with fraudulent bank loans. The scams go well for a while, but then they begin to distrust each other.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2017-03-29
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Veteran
Overview: When an old collaborator gets severely injured, a veteran policeman tries to figure out the way to bring to justice the ultimately suspected aggressor, a spoiled young executive, heir to a mega corporation, who believes he is above the law.
Genres: Action Crime Comedy Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2015-08-05
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The Bros
Overview: Reunited in their hometown for their father's funeral, two self-interested brothers meet a peculiar woman who shares a huge secret about their family.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2017-11-02
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Animal
Overview: Tae-Pyung, a hot university student, faced with the first crisis in his life, army duty. As soon as he enters the army, his girlfriend runs away, but he endures his duty for 2 years. After graduating from the university, he gets a job but he is only getting more and more exhausted with a repeated routine and the stress from work. To make matters worse, the news of his other girlfriend's pregnancy shook his whole life since the marriage would press him in another way. Tae-pyung, caught in the biggest dilemma in his life, tries to find a way to get back his prime time in his own peculiar way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2014-01-02
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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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The Call
Overview: Connected by phone in the same home but 20 years apart, a serial killer puts another woman’s past — and life — on the line to change her own fate.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Science Fiction
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2020-11-23
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Somewhere in Between
Overview: Gi-tae, who continuously failed on his exam, returns to his hometown for the first time in ten years. He tried all different manual labors, but his debt-ridden life never seems to end. Soon Later, he starts working at a worn-out theater and meets Oh, the sign painter. Oh is never sober and always blunt, accordingly difficult to figure out. But Gi-tae doesn’t feel awkward around him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2020-05-29
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My First Client
Overview: A success-hungry lawyer finds himself unable to turn his back on a suspicious case involving a child who claims she murdered her brother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2019-05-22
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EXIT
Overview: At his mother's 70th birthday party, Yong-nam runs into Eui-joo, who rejected him in college. When the city is engulfed in toxic gas from a terrorist attack, the two must find a way to escape using all the techniques they learned in their college rock climbing club.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2019-07-31
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Light My Fire
Overview: Detective Shin becomes the star of his department when he is tasked with investigating a bizarre murder. On the eve of solving the most important case of his career, his mind is pre-occupied with finding his lost zippo lighter…
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2017-07-16
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New Year Blues
Overview: Four different couples have a romantic week over New Year's Eve. Both coming out of failed marriages, Ji-ho and Hyo-young are not open to the possibility of new love, while Jin-ah heads to the other side of globe and encounters Jae-hun.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2021-02-10
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Manxin
Overview: An AI fortunetelling service called Manxin boasts a surprisingly high level of accuracy. In a world where most people deify and have blind faith in Manxin, Seonho and Garam, who have their own pain and secrets, search for its developer. Contrary to their expectations, they discover the true nature of Manxin. Manxin questions life and the essence of humankind through people who are, ironically, obsessed with the black arts rather than science, and others, who refuse the given path, anxiously seek the truth in a time of advanced AI, which accurately predicts the future to a large extent. Although we don’t know where our time is leading, isn’t it possible for human beings to live out their given time in blissful ignorance?
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2020-07-10
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Queen of The Night
Overview: A timid husband discovers the shady hidden past of his supposedly perfect wife.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2013-10-17
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Luck-Key
Overview: A reverse comedy that tells the story of a perfectionist assassin who falls and hits his head in a sauna, giving him amnesia. When a down-and-out actor switches locker keys with him, they switch lives until the hit-man, who soon becomes an action hero on TV, starts to remember things.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2016-10-13
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Someone You Loved
Overview: Two ex-lovers navigate their lives post-breakup — struggling to redefine their relationship, from partners to strangers and everything in between.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2023-02-08
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𝐌𝐘 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐢 𝐅𝐈𝐋𝐌 | KARINA: UP
Overview: At dawn, as darkness falls, the organization boss Lee Donghwi and his subordinate, Karina begin a deal. They face each other on the top floor in a breathtaking atmosphere. Will Karina be able to suppress her boss and get to the position she wants?
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2024-09-11
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404 Still Remain
Overview: In 2001, Lee Gyeong-hwan and his mother move from rural Yeongcheon to the city of Daegu to leave behind a broken marriage and hurtful rumours. Reticent and shy, he struggles to acclimatise but his seatmate happens to be Jae-min, the cool class president who takes Gyeong-hwan under his wing. While they quickly bond over a shared love of Japanese culture, particularly the music of Globe, Jae-min's affectionate and open attitude allows Gyeong-hwan to relax and reveal his feelings in a world where he must hide them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2024-09-06
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