Park Yong-woo
Also Known As: 박용우, 朴勇宇, 朴埇佑, Park Yong-u
Biography: Park Yong-woo (Korean: 박용우; born March 16, 1971) is a South Korean actor. Park Yong-woo's father was an engineering professor and his mother was a music teacher. As a child he was shy and expressed himself poorly. Instead, he nurtured his imagination. When he first chose to become an actor, Park felt hampered by the fact that he didn't have any childhood or family trauma to draw from, but later realized that a vivid imagination was the key to his acting process because it didn't require him to show his "naked face."
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Seoul, South Korea
Birthday: March 16, 1971
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Gender: Male
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Naked Being
Overview: A broadcasting company hosts an actor/actress contest and 30 contestants are pre-selected. Yong-Woo and Eun-Sook are two of them and they are also lovers. Eun-Sook desperately wants to be a TV star and approaches a producer. Yong-Woo discovers this and argues with her. In the meantime, Eun-Sook happens to meet Yu-Suk and spends a night with him, after he tells her that he knows a lot about broadcasting companies.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1998-11-21
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The Nonsense
Overview: Yu-na, a level-headed and rational insurance claim adjuster, investigates a questionable death by falling with suspicions of suicide. During her investigation, she meets Soon-kyu, the deceased's elusive guardian. As Yu-na probes further, she begins to question whether Soon-kyu is a mentor or a conman, and her carefully guarded inner world starts to shake.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: ko
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Noryang: Deadly Sea
Overview: The Imjin War reaches its seventh year in December of 1598. Admiral Yi Sun-shin learns that the Wa invaders in Joseon are preparing for a swift withdrawal following the deathbed orders of their leader Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Determined to destroy the enemy once and for all, Admiral Yi leads an allied fleet of Joseon and Ming ships to mount a blockade and annihilate the Wa army. However, once Ming commander Chen Lin is bribed into lifting the blockade, Wa lord Shimazu Yoshihiro and his Satsuma army sail to the Wa army’s rescue at Noryang Strait.
Genres: Action History Drama War
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2023-12-20
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Once Upon a Time
Overview: The film is a heist comedy set in 1940s Korea, and stars Park Yong-woo and Lee Bo-young as a con artist and jazz singer who each plot to steal a valuable diamond from the Japanese authorities.
Genres: Adventure Action Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2008-01-31
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Hwayi: A Monster Boy
Overview: After being kidnapped as a small child and raised by the five men who abducted him, a teenage boy is now forced to join their life in crime.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2013-10-09
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Decision to Leave
Overview: From a mountain peak in South Korea, a man plummets to his death. Did he jump, or was he pushed? When detective Hae-joon arrives on the scene, he begins to suspect the dead man’s wife Seo-rae. But as he digs deeper into the investigation, he finds himself trapped in a web of deception and desire.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2022-06-29
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Forest of Time
Overview: Park Yong-woo decides to embark on a journey to "the forest." Located on Yakushima Island in southern Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan, the Unesco World Heritage site is home to the renowned forest that is said to have inspired the Miyazaki Hayao animated film "Princess Mononoke" (1997). For his ten-day journey, Park finds the young and beautiful Tagaki Rina to keep him company.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2012-04-19
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Spiritwalker
Overview: Unable to remember anything about his life, a man begins regaining consciousness in a new body every 12 hours. Now, he must piece together his identity, all while evading attacks from pursuing agents and dangerous criminals alike.
Genres: Action Mystery Thriller Fantasy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2021-10-17
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Battlefield Heroes
Overview: This story unfolds 8 years after 'Battle of Hwangsanbeol', which destroyed Baekjae, when Silla-Tang Dynasty union attacks Goguryeo.
Genres: War Comedy History
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2011-01-27
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The Hole
Overview: Newlywed, Su-jin, believes that nothing will interfere with her happiness or come between herself and her husband, Dong-woo. That is, until she meets her mother-in-law. Dong-woo is devoted to his mother and now that they are all living together, it isn't long before Su-jin notices something unnatural about the amount of affection between the two. When confronted, Dong-woo promises his new wife that she will be his priority. However, he must spend a lot of time away from home because of his job granting the mother-in-law sufficient time to plot how to eliminate her rival.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1997-11-01
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My Scary Girl
Overview: Hwang Dae-woo is an elite with zero experience on having a romantic relationship. One day, he meets a lovely, sophisticated woman and falls in love with her. Then, he encounters a terrifying secret about her.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2006-04-06
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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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Nailed
Overview: A couple running a roadside garage has their livelihood threatened by trucks going in and out of a nearby construction site. When they learn that metal scraps from the trucks are flattening tires, they start to scatter scraps and make money from changing tires.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2019-11-27
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Unforgettable
Overview: On a live music radio show, a letter arrives from the 23 years in the past. Through the letter, the first love and friendships of five friends are revealed.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2016-02-24
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Ditto
Overview: In this endearing supernatural love story spanning two decades, a university student finds himself communicating with a female classmate from the same school through an antique ham radio.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Romance Science Fiction
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2000-05-27
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Children...
Overview: On March 26, 1991, five boys set off to the mountain to go frog hunting and never come back to their family. While a documentary producer, detective and professor try to solve the mystery of the incident, one of the boys' parents is a suspect.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2011-02-17
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Comeback Home
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Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: ko
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The World of Silence
Overview: A famous photographer with the ability to mind read returns after leaving due to his lover's suicide as she became aware of his ability. He becomes a guardian for a young girl, in midst of a serial killer's hunt.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2006-12-14
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City Horror: Scream
Overview: City Horror is a four-part series of horror movies that were each featured as one-hour television movies in 2002. The four movies include Scream, Stage of the Evil Spirit, The Song of the Dead and the Evil Spirit. Each program is described below: Scream Chi Yin and Run Choi are classmates at a local university and are also lovers. After they take a step into a bizarre ritual, their classmates begin to die one by one. When Run Choi discovers that Chi Yin is the next one, she tries to do everything to prevent this from happening. The secret may lie within their past rituals, but will she be able to find the way before its too late?
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2002-03-23
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The Warrior
Overview: In 1375, China was in chaos between Yuan Dynasty and Ming Dynasty. Coryo (an ancient kingdom of Korea then) sent a delegation of many diplomats, soldiers and a silent slave to make peace with the new Chinese government. However, this delegation got charged as spies and sent in exile to a remote desert.
Genres: History Drama Action War
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2001-09-07
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Late Spring
Overview: Set in the 1960's. Joo-goo is viewed as Korea's best sculptor, but he suffers from a disease which will slowly paralyze his body. He gives up interests in the arts and just spends his days meaninglessly. His wife, Jung-sook, tries to find a nude model for him, hoping the model might inspire him to sculpt again. One day, Jung-sook meets Min-gyung.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2014-11-20
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Love Now
Overview: Young-joon and So-yeo are a young couple with their marriage relatively stable. On a day their mutual friend opens a wine bar, they come across Min-jae and Yu-na, a couple quite the opposite of themselves. After a trade of talks, Young-joon becomes a client of fashion consultant Yu-na, while hotelier Min-jae agrees to help So-yeo book a hotel for her Hong Kong business trip. So-yeo meets Min-jae by chance in Hong Kong, while Young-joon trades suggestive remarks with Yu-na who visits him on a consulting session. That night, the four of them find in the other partner what had been missing in their respective marriages…(hancinema.net)
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2007-08-15
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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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Papa
Overview: The storyline is about a manager who pushes a young female talent to enter a reality TV show contest in the U.S. Some background information involves the manager having to get married to attain a legal visa and ends up having to raise six children when his wife dies.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2012-02-01
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Beautiful Sunday
Overview: Detective Kang gets involved with a drug business to pay the medical bill of his comatose wife. Min-woo confesses to Kang that he has killed his wife, who knows his past. Slowly, Kang realizes his wife's incident and Min-woo are connected.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2007-03-29
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The Art of Seduction
Overview: A man and woman have great success in all of their dating pursuits. The woman uses her dating rules and fakes a car accident to capture the guy's attention, but she can't get him to succumb to her charm.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2005-12-21
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Say Yes
Overview: Young married couple Yoon-hee and Jung-hyun go on a road trip, and along the way they pick up a lone drifter, M. M turns out to be a violent and sadistic psychopath who terrorises the couple at every turn. After capturing Jung-hyun, Em gives him a choice: submit to torture or allow Em to kill Yoon-hee.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2001-08-16
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Handphone
Overview: A talent manager loses his handphone which contains a scandalous video which could destroy his career. He is then contacted by a mysterious caller who has found the phone and blackmails him into committing a series of crimes.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2009-02-19
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