Choi Jong-won
Also Known As: 최종원, 崔宗元
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Taebaek, South Korea
Adult: No
Birthday: January 27, 1950
Age: 75 years old
Gender: Male
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The Girl Who Became A Photo
Overview: 70-year-old man Seong Taek convinces the neighborhood for redevelopment into a fancy new apartment complex so that he has something to leave for his daughter and granddaughter. But the day before he is to move so that they start construction, something unbelievable happens to his granddaughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2014-11-09
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1996 Mulberry
Overview: Sam Bo is a good-for-nothing gambler who loses more often than winning. His wife Hyun Jip takes care of the household and brings home the money. Her outstanding beauty and charm bring her a bevy of neighborhood admirers who are willing to provide her with anything she desires. The neighborhood women go up in arms when they realize their husbands are contributing to Hyun Jip's funds in exchange for her services. They try to run her out of the village but in vain. Sam Dol, the local farmhand, is known for his sexual prowess and his latest target is Hyun Jip. But when she continues to turn him down, he takes revenge on her by telling her husband what she has done.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1996-03-23
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Sopyonje
Overview: A former pansori performer travels across South Korea in search of the student he studied with.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1993-04-10
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Long After That
Overview: Sun Woo Sumi is a lecturer at a French-language school after studying in France, but she has not forgotten the nightmare from seven years ago. She was assaulted by five men during her first year of college with Jin Woo. At that time, Sumi decided to study abroad. Jin Woo, a police officer, tries to recover her mental and physical injuries.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1989-09-09
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The Dream
Overview: A monk rapes a beautiful young woman who visits his monastery. He quits the monastery, marries the woman, and they have kids. But she despises him all the while and devotes herself to tormenting him.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1990-09-29
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Smugglers
Overview: During the 1970s, in Kunchon, there were women divers who were able to dive without equipment, including two best friends Choon-ja and Jin-sook, Jin-sook's brother and Hammer. They always collected seafood under water for living. But, as fewer factories started to be built near the beach, the women divers started to have trouble with what they were doing for living. Without any choice, the ship crews decided to join the smuggling business in the water to seek a way for their living. But the smuggling business in their village got too big for Jin-sook's family to handle and the peaceful village was gradually broken.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2023-07-26
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Love Her
Overview: Jae-mo leaves the world behind and takes refuge in a remote fishing village. Out of nowhere, Soo-bin comes into his life. Their relationship is purely physical at first but their love intensifies as they begin to deeply understand each other's pain. Soo-bin unwittingly discovers sheets of music that Jae-mo had written and realizes that he was once a composer. She decides to help him fulfill his dream by returning to Seoul. Her only consolation in returning to the city she hates most is the fact that they will be together.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2001-03-17
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Rosy Life
Overview: A comic book store in Garibong-dong is run by a beautiful woman better known as Madam. This store stays open late into the night, thus attracting varied types of people such as gangsters and hustlers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1994-08-06
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Traces of Love
Overview: The collapse of a department store disturbs a local community, causing strife for some, and bringing some people closer than ever before.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2006-10-26
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Audition
Overview: A handsome young Korean playboy/womanizer who dreams of becoming a model/actor. However, his role is behind the scenes working as a computer FX programmer. Due to a computer glitch, he accidentally gets a print-out of his face and body morphed with that of a female model. Just for kicks, he sends in the picture to an audition, and ends up cast in a movie as the sexy, female lead.....
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1997-04-19
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Who Drives Me Mad?
Overview: Lee Jong-du, a salesman who believes that luck will change when he becomes a famous writer. However he is forced to give up after his story failed to win at a spring literature contest. Added to this is the fear that his girlfriend Joo-young will leave him. After Joo-young gets a job Jong-du realizes his mistakes that knows that she will never leave him.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1995-09-30
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Old Bicycle
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Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2015-11-12
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The Eternal Empire
Overview: This film depicts the struggles of the Royal Party and the Old Party to obtain political power. In 1800, The Royal Party insisted that the political power should be centralized to the King, but the other party (The Old Party) insisted that the political power should be centralized to the majority of the ministers. One day, official Jang was ordered by the King to arrange and edit the record of the former King Yeongjo. All of a sudden, Jang dies. Soon it was disclosed that Jang was killed by the Old Party because of their connection with the book. For this incident , the King tried to get rid of key members of the Old Party, but the Old Party resists the King's will. What was in the book? Who was involved? Why? The political intrigue will keep you on the edge of your seat.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1995-01-28
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Summer Whispers
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Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2008-10-16
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Fly High, Run Far
Overview: In mid-19th Century Korea, the people of Joseon Dynasty embrace the new religion Donghak. After the founder is executed, Choi Si-hyeong becomes Donghak’s second-generation leader and successfully propagates the religion, but in doing so becomes the object of oppression by the royal court.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1991-09-21
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My Love, My Bride
Overview: Young-Min and Mi-Young graduated from the same college and fell in love. They finally got married. As time goes by, they bicker over even the tiniest of issues. One day, at a coffee shop, Mi-Young waits for Young-Min and meets her ex-boss. Young-Min sees them together and jumps to the conclusion that he is her ex-boyfriend. When Mi-Young goes to visit her parents, Young-Min tempts another woman.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1990-12-29
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First Love
Overview: A college freshman majoring in drama finds herself falling in love with a chain-smoking guest lecturer at her school despite their substantial age difference.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1993-01-22
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Gagman
Overview: Lee Jong-se is a third-rate comedian who believes himself to be a creative genius. He desires nothing more than to be a movie director.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1989-06-24
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Bitter and Sweet
Overview: A group of people whose lives suffer from stagnation, are working together in the same company and their lives are scutinized by those who see them. There is the development manager whose last new idea was five years earlier; a procrastinating office clerk with a crush on a co-worker that he is too shy to reveal; and a senior manager who believes his wife is having an affair causing him to take out his frustration on all his employees.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1995-02-11
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Straight
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Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1990-07-28
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How to Top My Wife
Overview: This 1990s South Korean film focuses on a man deciding to hire a hitman to kill his wife rather than file for divorce.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1994-12-17
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Jungle Story
Overview: This film depicts the passion and frustration of young people who dream of becoming popular rock musicians. Dohyun neglects his studies because he is only interested in one thing - rock music. He comes to Seoul to work and ente rs a band. he meets his future manager, Jeewoo, and makes his debut as a singer. However, the production of his first album is cancelled because it is considered 'not commercial' enough. Dohyun returns to his hometown, depressed. Jeewo, however, finds him and helps him open his first gig after weeks of practice. The gig turns out to be a complete failure. Dohyun and his friends sing in the middle of the street with pedestrians as their spectators. The film ends with Dohyun frustrated over his unsuccessful career as a rock musician.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1996-05-18
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Blood Rain
Overview: In 1808, an imperial investigator arrives on an idyllic island to investigate a series of grisly murders. The locals believe that a ghost is responsible, taking revenge for a wrongful execution seven years ago. But the investigator suspects that something else may be behind it all.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2005-05-04
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Mayumi: Virgin Terrorist
Overview: Two North Korean terrorists posing as Japanese tourists under the names of Shin Icho and Ma Yumi, blow up a Korean Airline flight enroute to Baghdad. When investigators catch up with the two in Bahrain, they take suicide pills but Ma Yumi is revived and forced to stand trial for her crimes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1990-06-09
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The Happenings
Overview: Upon getting out of prison, Deok-Bae meets his old buddy Dal-soo, who owns a restaurant. These two have never succeeded in life, and are constantly in and out of prison. Two others who happen to be in the same boat as Deok-Bae and Dal-Soo are ex-convicts. They have threatened to commit suicide unless traffic and unemployment issues are resolved. They are also unlucky enough to have been spotted at the scene of a crime. While these four are making big plans for their first success, the city becomes wrapped up in a serial murder case. In the meantime, an investigating team of veteran cops is formed in order to solve this case.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1998-08-22
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Gwanghwamun
Overview: A movie about a family in conflict over ideological differences.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
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Oseam
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1990-03-24
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Santamaria
Overview: Il-do was a promising Seoul police detective, but is now forced to work as a traffic cop in his hometown. There he meets his old love rival and ex-best friend Ho-cheol. He is now a taxi driver, adding renewed fire to their conflict.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2008-07-10
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Female War: Bloody War in Bongcheon-dong
Overview: Haedanghwa, a beautiful woman, comes into the life of a single father and his three grown-up sons all of sudden! The abandoned woman, who does not have any memories about herself, begins her precarious cohabitation with the family of four men. And this is how the intense battle among four men to earn Haedanghwa’s heart begins. However, the story starts going towards a completely unexpected direction as a group of suspicious men appear.
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Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2016-07-14
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Rainbow Goddess
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Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2020-05-28
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Le Grand Chef 2: Kimchi Battle
Overview: "Le Grand Chef 2" begins with the Korean president visiting the Japanese Prime Minister and becoming involved in a heated debate over the origins of kimchi. The Japanese Prime Minister makes the bold claim that kimchi is an original Japanese dish which sets off the Korean president. Upon the Korean's president return home he sets upon a globalization plan for kimchi, which includes a nationwide "Kimchi Contest". Then, a lady named Jang-eun (Kim Jung-Eun) and her step-brother Sung-Chan (Jin Goo) compete in the Kimchi dish contest, with both siblings using their mother's kimchi recipe.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2010-01-28
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Princess Aurora
Overview: A woman gets killed in a department store. No one imagines this could lead to serial murders, but two days after the first murder, another homicide occurs. A woman is suffocated to death and the only evidence left at the crime scene is a sticker of the cartoon character “Princess Aurora”.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2005-10-27
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Stairway To Heaven
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1992-02-15
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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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Come Come Come Upward
Overview: In 1980s South Korea, two young nuns-in-training at the same monastery embark on very different journeys towards enlightenment.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1989-04-01
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Karuna
Overview: In 1943, Yang Chunsoo, a descendant of a Koryo celadon maker, lives in a small village in the countryside, His younger son, Jongil, makes pottery without his father's approval in order to marry Poonim. When Chungsoo finds this out, he breaks every ceramic piece that his son has made. Poonim, without the money that was supposed to be given by Jongil leaves the village, angry and frustrated. Seven years later, when the Korean war erupts, Jongil returns to the village as an officer of the triumphant communist army. Later his elder brother, Jongsik, returns to the village as a South Korean army officer, Chunsoo stabs himself in the eye in order to stop the two brothers from fighting. The two brothers are, however, executed as scapegoats of an ideology. Twenty years later, Jinhyung, Chunsoo's grandson, takes over his grandfather's pottery business. He then learns about h is ancestor's mysterious past.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1996-03-16
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Man with a Gun
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1995-07-29
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