Min Kyung-jin
Also Known As: 민경진, Min Kyoung-jin, Min Kyeong-jin, 閔慶珍, Min Gyeong-jin
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: South Korea
Birthday: May 24, 1955
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Gender: Male
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A song for my dear
Overview: Born between a Sorrikkun (a traditional musician) father and a Gokbi (a dirge singer) mother, Dong-hyuk follows their legacy and lives out his life teaching Gukak (Korean traditional music) at a university. Then one day, as Dong-hyuk's wife Yeonhee becomes stricken with Alzheimer's disease, Dong-hyuk 's successful life gets hard.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2023-03-08
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Failan
Overview: After losing both her parents, Failan emmigrates to Korea to seek her only remaining relatives. Once she reaches Korea, she finds out that her relatives have moved to Canada well over a year ago. Desperate to stay and make a living in Korea, Failan is forced to have an arranged marriage through a match-making agency.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2001-04-28
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Painted Fire
Overview: In a time of political and social unrest in 19th century Korea, uncouth, self-taught painter Jang Seung-up explores his natural talent amidst the repressive world around him.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2002-05-10
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Geo Lobotomy
Overview: In an underground laboratory, a brain experiment is underway. In an abandoned coal mining area, casino creditors are being murdered. Those who inherit credit are now waiting to enter the casino.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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The Outlaws
Overview: In Chinatown, law and order is turned upside down when a trio of feral Chinese gangsters arrive, start terrorizing civilians, and usurping territory. The beleaguered local gangsters team up with the police, lead by the badass loose cannon Ma Seok-do, to bring them down. Based on a true story.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2017-10-03
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Like a Virgin
Overview: A chubby high school student participatee in a sports competition to win a cash prize for sex change surgery.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2006-08-31
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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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Bongja
Overview: Bong-ja is perfectly happy in her monotonous life of making and selling seaweed rolls near a train station. However, when a free spirited teenage girl enters her life and takes over her home, Bong-ja begins to feel the stirrings of love as disaster brews.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2000-11-25
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I Wish I Had a Wife
Overview: A lonely Korean banker drags himself through the mundanity of his job and his vacuous social life in the hope that he will eventually find that special someone.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2001-01-13
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Public Enemy
Overview: A notorious dirty cop makes an honest attempt to catch a serial killer who even murdered his own parents.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2002-01-25
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The Angel's Time
Overview: Chun Hee is in 11th grade. He was in a movie club at school when his illness recurred and he was hospitalized. There, he meets Joo Hee who is waiting for a cornea donation. Joo Hee's dream is to be a national archer, but she won't be able to see unless she gets a donation. She doesn't lose hope. Chun Hee pretends to be a year older, his mom blows his cover. However, Joo Hee just calls him 'oppa' anyways. The two become closer every day... "The Angel's Time" is about the dreams and passion of the youth in this modern generation and about curing the pain in the short time of life.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2018-06-21
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The Uprising
Overview: In the late 19th century Catholicism was gaining a foothold on Jeju island, much to the horror of the Confucian community, who were seeing their influence diminishing as well as getting increased taxes from Catholic-friendly government officers. The conflict became a religious war that resulted in a rebel Confucian army massacring hundreds of Christians in little more than a matter of days. The Uprising details the events leading up to the assault, focusing on the story of Yi Jae-su, the young man destined to become the leader of the rebel army.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1999-04-01
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Christmas in August
Overview: It's a sweltering summer, but Jung-won, a terminally ill, thirty-something photographer, is already in the winter of his life when he begins a tentative romance with a young traffic cop who doesn't know about his condition. Is their relationship doomed before it even begins?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1998-01-24
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Castaway on the Moon
Overview: Mr. Kim is jobless, lost in debt and has been dumped by his girlfriend. He decides to end it all by jumping into the Han River - only to find himself washed up on a small, mid-river island. He soon abandons thoughts of suicide or rescue and begins a new life as a castaway. His antics catch the attention of a young woman whose apartment overlooks the river. Her discovery changes both their lives.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2009-05-14
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Timeless Bottomless Bad Movie
Overview: Children who refuse to live with their families or give up on the streets work at a bar or steal money. When you don't have money, you'd rather starve than give up playing. Several people have to bowl as much as they want, jump out of the window with their lives, and dance with real dancers at a rock cafe.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1997-08-02
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Hanji
Overview: Low-ranking civil servant Pil Yong (Park Joong Hoon) has things hard looking after his disabled wife(Ye Ji Won). He takes charge of a hanji project in hopes it will bring him a promotion. His wife comes from a family of hanji masters. One of his tasks include working with quarrelsome filmmaker Ji Won (Kang Su Yeon), who is shooting a documentary about hanji. Though he knows little about the subject to begin with, the more he learns about hanji, the more it takes on a new significance for him and the world around him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2011-03-17
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To the Starry Island
Overview: Moon Chae-Ku and his friend Kim Chul try to bring the body of Moon's father back to his native Kwisong Island for burial. Their ferry is intercepted by resentful islanders who will not let the boat dock, because of the father's political activities in the 1950's, informing on Communist sympathizers. Kim Chul, through flashbacks, recalls people and events from his island childhood.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1993-12-24
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My Dear Desperado
Overview: Dong-chul, a thug who cannot fight but acts like a tough guy, meets Han Se-jin, his new neighbor. Dong-chul is intrigued by her spitfire personality, and the bickering duo realize they may be perfect for each other.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2010-05-20
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A Masterpiece in My Life
Overview: In-gi had to abandon his dreams of becoming a serious director in order to pay off his parents' debts so to make quick money, he began to direct soft porn movies. But his dream of making a masterpiece has not died yet.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2000-12-22
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Mr. Lee vs. Mr. Lee
Overview: An old widower Mr. LEE plans a family reunion on the three-year anniversary of his wife’s death, but faces a series of adversities in the way. His eldest son goes through a scandalous divorce, his daughter is tied up in a car accident, and the youngest son has been missing for years after declaring bankruptcy. Finally the big day arrives and as the clock strikes midnight, the secrets of the troubled Lees begin to unfold.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2007-05-01
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The Dog Eating Up Shadows
Overview: 7 years ago, Namo, installation artist in Beijing, fell and lay unconcious in a stroke, cerebral infarction. He recovered after strenuous rehabilitation period and came to Jeju Island for his exhibit. He met Moonsoo, who planned and designed his exhibit and came across the lives of the people in Jeju. He came to look back on his past and began to vaguely figure out the reasons of his confusing life. His wife who left without any notice, Moonsoo who still hurts in his heart from what Namo did to him 7 years ago, the town mayor who chose suicide after telling his lifetime secret to Namo, and Artist Namo himself who is still confused about his exhibit topic, the dog eating shadows, through which he wanted to describe a dog that eats a person's hope by eating his shadows. Namo went back to Beijing and was faced with the reasons of his confusion...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2018-06-28
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Mother
Overview: A mother lives quietly with her son. One day, a girl is brutally killed, and the boy is charged with the murder. Now, it's his mother's mission to prove him innocent.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2009-05-28
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A Petal
Overview: A young girl is caught up in the 1980 Gwangju massacre, where Korean soldiers killed hundreds, if not thousands, of protesters who opposed the country's takeover by the military the year before. Flashbacks show the girl seeing her mother shot to death in the massacre. The film spurred the Korean public to demand the truth behind the incident, and their government eventually opened previously classified files on the massacre.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1996-04-05
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Yellow Hair
Overview: Sang-hui has run away to Seoul from her quiet country life. She feels no regrets as she becomes nightclub hopper. In one of these clubs she meets the hard and bitter Yu-na who had suffered from many years of abuse at her father's hands. They become close friends and eventually meet a young man Yang-gu who seems to be a perfect match for Yu-na. However he is carrying a torch for a former lover. Sang-hui and Yu-na decide to hunt down and eliminate the competition...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1999-06-26
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The Host
Overview: A teenage girl is captured by a giant mutated squid-like creature that appears from Seoul's Han River after toxic waste was dumped in it, prompting her family into a frantic search for her.
Genres: Horror Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2006-07-27
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Viva! Love
Overview: An unhappy woman in her 50s is knocked up by her daughter's boyfriend after a one night stand. With the neighborhood in shock and her family up in arms, the woman begins to realize that she's actually found the love she's been pining for in the arms of the young man.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2008-04-09
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Han Gong-ju
Overview: After being involved in a traumatic incident, 17-year-old Gong-ju is forced to change schools. Uncared for by her parents, her previous teacher arranges for her to hide away at his mother's place. It takes time for her past to catch up with her, but when it does the revelation is devastating.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2014-04-17
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In Love and the War
Overview: In June 1950, soon after the start of the Korean War, a troop of North Korean soldiers enter a small South Korean village. Captain Jeong-woong proclaims that they came to liberate the villagers but their true agenda is to ferret out the reactionaries. The villagers and Seol-hee, who is separated from her fiance on her wedding day, offer them heartfelt hospitality and cooperation to avoid falling out of the army's favor. Eventually friendships starts to build up between the soldiers and the villagers.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2011-04-27
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Dust-Man
Overview: A young homeless man happens to draw a series of illustrations over dusty surfaces, gradually recovering from the pains of his past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2021-04-07
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Watching
Overview: A security guard tries to kidnap woman in a building they both work in.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2019-04-17
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Forbidden Dream
Overview: A true historical drama about King Sejong, the greatest ruler in Joseon history who sought to enhance national prosperity and military power through astronomy, and Jang Yeong-sil, the most remarkable scientist.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2019-12-26
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A Boy and Sungreen
Overview: Bo-hee, a 14 year old boy, was raised by a single mother and has always thought his father had passed away. Bo-hee hears that his father may be alive, and he sets out in search for him with his best friend Nok-yang. He finds his half sister on the way and forms a friendship with her boyfriend.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2019-05-29
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Idol
Overview: In this political thriller, a politician finds his wife in the garage. She is cleaning her son's bloodstained car, which has just run over a person.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2019-03-20
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My Dictator
Overview: Sung-geun is an untalented actor who makes a living playing minor roles. He happens to land on the role as Kim Il-sung, the former leader of North Korea, for the rehearsal of the South-North Korea Summit. Sung-geun becomes passionately immersed in his role, motivated by his son who looks up to him. However, the summit is not realized, and Sung-geun ends up lost in the delusion that he really is Kim Il-sung.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2014-10-30
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Sara Is Guilty
Overview: Sara seduces her college roommate's boyfriend which results in her friend's death after the incident is exposed. Sara tries to break off the relationship but the man stalks her and kills her next lover in a jealous rage. Deciding they deserve each other and vowing undying love, they opt for a double suicide
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1993-12-11
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Festival
Overview: While awaiting the publication of his fairytale about his dementia-stricken octogenarian mother, an acclaimed South Korean novelist receives news that she has passed away, so he leaves the city and returns to her village to take part in the funeral.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1996-06-06
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