Jeon Kuk-hwan
Also Known As: 전국환, Jeon Guk-hwan, 全国焕, Jeon Gook-hwan, Jun Gook-hwan
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: South Korea
Adult: No
Birthday: July 21, 1952
Age: 72 years old
Gender: Male
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The Bow
Overview: On a fishing boat at sea, a 60-year old man has been raising a girl since she was a child. It is agreed that they will get married on her 17th birthday. They live a quiet and secluded life, renting the boat to day fishermen and practicing strange divination rites. Their life changes when a teenage student comes aboard.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2005-05-12
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The Showdown
Overview: In the 11th year of Kwang Hae-gun, Jo-seon soldiers go to war with China after an invasion. In the middle of Manchu, three people who have barely survived are being cornered by the Chinese forces, and begin a bloody battle not with their enemies but with their friends.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2011-02-24
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Confidential Assignment 2: International
Overview: Follows Rim Chul Ryung heading back to South Korea in pursuit of a brutal and secret criminal organization. He teams up again with Kang Jin Tae, who volunteers to work with the North Korean in order to get back on the investigation team after a mistake landed him in the cyber crime department.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2022-09-07
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I Saw the Devil
Overview: Kyung-chul is a dangerous psychopath who kills for pleasure. Soo-hyeon, a top-secret agent, decides to track down the murderer himself. He promises himself that he will do everything in his power to take vengeance against the killer, even if it means that he must become a monster himself.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2010-08-12
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Our Town
Overview: A writer kills his landlady and stages the body to look like the work of an active serial killer. Anxious that the police might figure out the truth, he decides to insert himself into the investigation using his detective friend.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2007-11-29
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Rolling Home with a Bull
Overview: Jaded by a series of failures in Seoul, unknown poet, Sun-ho returns to his hometown to help his elderly parents work their farm. Fed up with having to clean up after their cow, he sneaks out one night to sell off the bull at a cattle market. Following some misadventures, he arrives at the market but is unable to sell the cow. Sun-ho's predicament is further complicated by a call from his the onetime love of his life, Hyun-su, in 7 years who married his close friend. She tells him that her husband has passed away. Faced with the news of her husband and once best friend, Min-gyu's death, Sun-Ho is tormented with memories of their friendships which fell apart. Following the funeral, Sun-ho travels with the cow he couldn't sell and his one-time lover who just lost her husband. On a journey that will help Sun-ho to get rid of bitterness and hatred that he has from himself...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2010-11-01
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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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Sori: Voice from the Heart
Overview: While desperately searching for his missing daughter, Hae-kwan comes across an AI satellite robot that remembers sounds from all over the world. Rejuvenated by the robot's abilities, Hae-kwan begins to track down his daughter's voice. As they continue their journey, they form an unforgettable bond.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2016-01-27
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Silenced
Overview: Based on actual events that took place at Gwangju Inhwa School for the hearing-impaired, where young deaf students were the victims of repeated sexual assaults by faculty members over a period of five years in the early 2000s.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2011-09-22
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My Father
Overview: A U.S. soldier comes to Korea and tracks down his biological father in jail.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2007-09-06
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Dark Figure of Crime
Overview: A serial killer is caught for his seventh murder. A cop tries to solve the first six cases with the killer's help, but starts to suspect that he has ulterior motives. Based on a true story.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2018-10-03
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The Scam
Overview: Hyun-soo is a skillful individual stock investor, so-called ‘ant’. One day, he cashes in up seventy thousand dollars through stock trading and this jackpot gets him implicated in a $60 million stock manipulation by scam artists from various fields. With a huge pot of money before their eyes, the scam seems to be perfectly unfolding. But another scam is emerging underneath team as the scammers chase each other and are being chased at the end.
Genres: Crime Adventure Thriller Action
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2009-02-12
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Deranged
Overview: People binge eat and suffer from extreme thirst, which leads them to go crazy for water. They cannot control themselves because they are brainwashed by a parasite.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2012-07-05
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The Piper
Overview: Shortly after the Korean war, a father and a son are wandering through the country and make a stop in a remote village, where strange and dangerous happenings occur.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2015-07-09
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April Snow
Overview: A man and a woman are brought together after their spouses, who were having an affair, are hospitalized after a car crash.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2005-09-07
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Sorry and Thank You
Overview: An impossibly cute and thoroughly touching omnibus of 4 short fillms about how humans can elevate their own relationships through bonding with animals - featuring some of the cutest puppies and kittens ever on the silver screen!
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2011-05-26
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Quick
Overview: A biker is forced to deliver a ticking time bomb by a mysterious caller who has put an explosive helmet on his ex-girlfriend.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2011-07-20
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Voices
Overview: A young woman tries to escape what seems to be a curse that is killing members of her family one by one.
Genres: Horror Thriller Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2007-08-22
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Secret Reunion
Overview: Two spies share a secret bond, despite their loyalties. A North Korean assassin is sent to Seoul to kill a dissident, but instead he teams up with a South Korean agent in search for revenge.
Genres: Thriller Action Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2010-02-04
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A Family
Overview: A pickpocket Jeong-eun comes back home after being in prison for 2 years. Her family consists of her father, Joo-suk, who lost one of his eyesight and 8-year-old brother. Joo-suk loves his daughter but he is very reluctant to show it. Joo-suk is worried about Jeong-eun being close with the local gangster - Chang-won and makes a deal with him that ends in tragedy?
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2004-09-15
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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 Bittersweet Life
Overview: Kim Sun-woo is an enforcer and manager for a hotel owned by a cold, calculative crime boss, Kang who assigns Sun-woo to a simple errand while he is away on a business trip; to shadow his young mistress, Hee-soo, for fear that she may be cheating on him with a younger man with the mandate that he must kill them both if he discovers their affair.
Genres: Action Drama Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2005-04-01
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Le Grand Chef
Overview: A disgraced chef tries to restore his name by competing in a culinary contest to win the knife of Korea's last royal chef.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2007-10-31
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Warm Swamp
Overview: A chain of harshness. Brother’s divorce brings ceaseless conflict to the family. Disputes over custody of his kid and alimony constantly plague him, but I can neither help him nor ignore his troubles. Boyfriend seems to be selfish and makes me nervous. There are always anxieties lurking below the surface of any human relationships. This anxiety becomes incarnated in the shadowy face of a pervert hiding in the alley, and darkness has its metaphorical meaning in the entire film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2004-04-01
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He's on Duty
Overview: A South Korean man named Bang Tae-Sik looks more like someone from Southeast Asia and has difficulties finding employment. One day, Bang Tae-Sik disguises himself as a man from the country of Bhutan named ?Bangga? and succeeds in finding a job. Bang Tae-Sik then witnesses racism that migrant workers face in Korea
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2010-09-30
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Scout
Overview: 1980, Kwang-ju is fired up about a genius pitcher, a senior in high school. Ho-chang takes confident strides across the field making his way by cutting through the sand dust. He’s a university scouter on a mission. His task is to scout the genius pitcher, SUN Dong-yeul, a master of baseball who may be scouted to a rival university. But he is no where to be seen. But Ho-chang is determined to not let down his reputation as a successful scouter, and his scouting mission of 10 days begin! An original story of a scouter on a 10 day mission full of undisclosed history will now unfold!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2007-11-14
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Romantic Warriors
Overview: A group of deadly assassins kidnap a hostage in the hope of getting a high ransom but when they manage to lose themselves in a forest and end up spending the night in a haunted house they manage to disrupt the plans of the ghosts to ascend to heaven. The assassins hatch a plan to solve the problem but in doing so reveal themselves to be incompetent, so the ghosts decide to give them some training themselves…
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Romance Horror Action
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2003-12-05
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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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Love Exposure
Overview: 32-year-old Seo Jung-wan is a free spirited woman, working as a photographer during the day and at night involved in an intimate relationship with a married man. Although she's in her mid 30's, she has no desire to marry.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2007-10-18
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Tumbleweed
Overview: Changsu does not have any family, friends or lover living in prison as a substitute prisoner for the others. After 3 years in prison, he came back to his normal life with gambling and drinking. One day, Miyeon, appears to him, and everything changes. She enlightens his life for the first time. Changsu bets his everything to save this woman for the first, and for the last time in his life.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2013-11-28
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A Company Man
Overview: A contract killer becomes disenchanted with his line of work and spares the lives of his two latest would-be-victims. But the assassination company he works for has no intentions of letting him quit.
Genres: Drama Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2012-10-11
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Cracked Eggs and Noodles
Overview: An advocate of sex, but not of marriage, bachelor Daegyu (played by singer-turned-actor Im Changjeon), 26, produces bootleg music albums for a living. One day, he comes across a plucky, nine-year-old boy named Jeon Ingwon (played by Lee Inseong) who insists that he is Daegyu's son born out of wedlock. Daegyu tries every possible means to send the bold boy back to where he came from, including reporting him to the police, deserting him on the street and even pretending not to have known him, but to no avail. Ingwon makes an offer to Daegyu: he will leave him forever if they first travel across the country together. During the journey, Daegyu comes to learn Ingwon's secret and finds a reason not to continue their cross-land journey.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2005-02-18
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Days of Wrath
Overview: Back in his high school days, Joon-Seok was bullied by Chang-Sik Because of this, Joon-Seok's high school days were like a nightmare. Now, Joon-Seok finds it difficult to live a normal life due to the bullying. Meanwhile, Chang-Sik, who has forgotten what he did to Jeon-Seok, lives a relatively happy life. He is about to marry Ji-Hee. Joon-Seok will pay him back for all the misery.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2013-10-30
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The Front Line
Overview: In 1951 ceasefire is declared, but two remaining armies fought their final battle on the front line Towards the end of the Korean War, a South Korean battalion is fiercely battling over a hill on the front line border against the North in order to capture a strategic point that would determine the new border between two nations. The ownership of this small patch of land would swap multiple times each day. Kang is dispatched to the front line in order to investigate the tacit case that’s been happening there.
Genres: Drama Action War
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2011-07-20
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Bunshinsaba: Ouija Board
Overview: Yu-jin and her blind mother move to a small village from Seoul. On her first day at the new school, Yu-jin gets picked on by her classmates. Along with other victims of hatred, Yu-jin puts a curse on the four girls tormenting them through a Ouija Board. On her second day at school, one of the spellbound bursts into flames and dies just as she sits down where Yu-jin used the board. Next day, another victim burns to death, and now the school is enclosed by horror.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2004-08-05
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Big Bang
Overview: An otherwise model citizen's petty crime quickly escalates into felony when he runs away from the police station, dragging a career criminal with him.
Genres: Action Comedy Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2007-03-14
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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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The Cursed: Dead Man's Prey
Overview: Following a brutal murder case, the police are baffled to find out that the assailant, whose body was found on the scene with the victim, had already been dead for three months. Meanwhile, journalist Jin-hee sets up a live interview with an anonymous caller claiming he is the true killer behind the mysterious murder. When the man announces three more murders will occur in the hands of the undead, Jin-hee must face the sinister forces beyond understanding.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Horror
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2021-07-28
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