Jang Dong-gun
Also Known As: DongGun Jang, Jang Dong-gun, 장동건, Dong-gun Jang, Jang Dong-Kun, 张东健
Biography: Jang Dong-gun (born March 7, 1972) is a South Korean actor and musician. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jang Dong-gun, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Yongsan, Seoul, South Korea
Birthday: March 07, 1972
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Coast Guard
Overview: A member of Coast Guard Platoon 23, Private Kang monitors a high-infiltration stretch of beach lined with barbed-wire fencing. Driven by the belief that killing a spy is the highest honor, he waits for a chance to prove his worth.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2002-11-22
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The Promise
Overview: An orphaned girl, driven by poverty at such a young age, makes a promise with an enchantress. In return for beauty and the admiration of every man, she will never be with the man she loves. This spell cannot be broken unless the impossible happens: snow falling in spring and the dead coming back to life. Now a grown and beautiful princess, she regrets her promise, for all of the men she's loved has always been met with tragedy.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Action Thriller Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2005-12-15
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2009: Lost Memories
Overview: There are breakpoints in the history, the result of a single event may change the whole course. In 1909, an assassination attempt of a Japanese governor fails. Now, in 2009, Korea is just another state of Japan's Empire & Seoul has become a major city. A Korean resistance group fights for liberty, independence & the restoration of true history. Two cops, Japanese & Korean, investigate the group.
Genres: Thriller Action Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2002-02-01
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Typhoon
Overview: A vengeful refugee-turned-pirate steals nuclear materials to attack and obliterate the Koreas in a Nuclear Typhoon. A top South Korean naval officer is assigned the task to stop his plans and execute him.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2005-12-14
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Nowhere to Hide
Overview: Detective Woo is on the trail of the mysterious gangster Sungmin, a master of disguise who always manages to elude his pursuers. Eventually, the cop tracks down and confronts the master-criminal in the suburbs of a coal-mining town.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1999-07-31
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The Warrior's Way
Overview: A warrior-assassin is forced to hide in a small town in the American Badlands after refusing a mission.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Action Western Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-12-01
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Friend
Overview: Despite their different family backgrounds, four friends grew up together in the wearisome years of the 70s. But as time goes by, each of them takes a different life path.
Genres: Action Drama Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2001-03-31
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Dangerous Liaisons
Overview: Dangerous Liaisons is a Chinese film by Hur Jin-ho based on the novel with the same title by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2012-09-27
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The Anarchists
Overview: Set in 1920s Shanghai, the film recounts the activities of a group of young Koreans trying to destabilize Japanese control of their penninsula. Through an anti-occupation terrorist campaign, the five men hope to inspire a resurrection throughout their penninsular homeland.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2000-04-29
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Good Morning President
Overview: Good Morning President is an abridged version of the politics and life of three different presidents. The three are: the older President Kim Jung-ho at the end of his term, the young President Cha Ji-wook, a skillful manipulator of foreign policy and with great determination, and a female President Han Kyuong-ja. They are distressed over the choices they have to make between politics and ethics. The affliction of Kim Jung-ho who wins the lottery, the agony of Cha Ji-wook who donates an organ, and the troubles of Han Kyuong-ja who faces the crisis of divorce.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2009-10-22
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A Normal Family
Overview: Jae-wan, a successful lawyer, takes on the case of a rich executive's son, who has purposely run over and killed a man and left his daughter seriously injured. It's Jae-wan's job to defend a murderer, just another rung on his career's golden-stepped ladder. His younger brother, on the contrary, is a scrupulous and upstanding paediatrician, who always puts the health of his patients over profit and money, often contravening the rules of the private clinic where he works. The brothers meet once a month with their wives for fine dining in expensive restaurants, but when an unexpected situation involving their teenage kids arises, their consciences are questioned and their usual dinner conversation takes an unexpected turn.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2024-10-16
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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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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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Holiday in Seoul
Overview: A hotel bellboy having recently been dumped falls in love with a leg model who's a regular guest at the hotel' she and her lover meet regularly in room 901. One day, her lover gets killed in a hit-and-run accident. Also around this hotel is a telephone operator, whom wishes to waste her time. Her fixation is with a taxi ride. When she gets into a cab, she doesn't tell the driver where to go, and the driver doesn't ask. They just speed along the city at night.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1997-03-21
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Night Fever
Overview: A former boxing champion becomes the prime suspect in a murder case and plots revenge to clear his name.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ko
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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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V.I.P.
Overview: A son to a high-ranked official in North Korea commits a series of murders going across the countries around the world. The movie depicts the following events as South Korea, North Korea and Interpol start chasing down after him.
Genres: Crime Thriller Action
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2017-08-23
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Seven Years of Night
Overview: Set against the haunting backdrop of a small lake town, this chilling thriller unravels a meticulous revenge set over a period of 7 years, all beginning with the accidental death of an innocent girl.
Genres: Thriller Action Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2018-03-28
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First Kiss
Overview: Song Yeon-Hwa, a reporter of a weekly entertainment magazine, is 27 years old. Though she is almost kissed by her boy friend several times, she has refused without particular reasons. Then she lost her boy friend. Now knowing her shilly-shally is the reason of her lost love, Song Yeon-Hwa loses daily rhythm all in a furry. One day Han Kyeong-Hyeon, who seems to be a playboy, came to work with her as a photographer. Seating next seat Kyeong-Hyeon nags her chattering all kinds of things and wedging in every occasion. Yeon-Hwa, who suffers from aftermath of lost love, submits resignation with a burst due to nagging and scolding of editor-in-chief.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1998-10-03
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Love Wind Love Song
Overview: A Seoul businessman comes to Jeju Island and meets a lonely tour guide.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1999-02-13
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Repechage
Overview: Two friends - Min-gyu, a wild-animal vet, and Eun-hae, a fashion photographer - commiserate with each other when each realizes that the person they love is no longer in love with them. In anger, Eun-hae smashes up her boyfriend's car; in frustration, Min-gyu breaks glasses and carves up a spider. Min-gyu and Eun-hae each urge the other to be calm, to move on, to forget about it. Good advice, if only they could take it. "Why do humans need love?," these friends ask each other. Can jealousy, anger, and desire for revenge lead two jilted lovers to embrace what they have? Will someone dream of a giraffe?
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1997-03-15
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Rampant
Overview: Ancient Korea, 17th century. While the paranoid King Lee Jo of Joseon, vassal of the Qing dynasty, feels surrounded by conspirators and rebels, a dark evil emerges from the bowels of a merchant ship and the exiled Prince Lee Cheung returns to the royal court, ignoring that he will have to lead the few capable of defeating the ambitious humans and the bloody monsters who threaten to destroy the kingdom.
Genres: Action Horror Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2018-10-25
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Ari Ari the Korean Cinema
Overview: Director Chung Ji-Young criticizes the thought that older directors have difficulties in making certain movies. Actress Yoon Jin-Seo agonizes over her identity as an actress. In 2009, before the movie "Unbowed" was made, they met and planned a documentary about Korean movies, including the processes a Korean movie goes through and difficulites. "Ari Ari the Korean Cinema" is a documentary with interviews of Korean directors, actors and actresses.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2012-12-06
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