Song Kang-ho
Also Known As: 송강호, Song Kang Ho, Song Kangho, 宋康昊, ソン・ガンホ, Сон Кан Хо, Song Gang-ho, Сун Ган-ху, سونگ کانگ-هو, سونغ كانغ هو, Սոն Կան Հո, סונג קאנג-הו, सॉंग कांग-हो, ซง คังโฮ, సూంగ్ కాంగ్-హో, சாங் கேங்-ஹொ, ਸੌਂਗ ਕੰਗ-ਹੋ, সং কাং-হো, სონ კან ჰო, സോംഗ് കാങ്-ഹോ, سونگ کانگ هو
Biography: Song Kang-ho (송강호) (born January 17, 1967) is a South Korean actor. Considered one of the best actors of the 21st century, he is most known for his collaborations with directors Park Chan-wook and Bong Joon-ho. He was part of the cast that won Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture at the 26th Screen Actors Guild Awards for Parasite (2019), was awarded Best Actor at the 75th Cannes Film Festival for his performance in Broker (2022), and has been named Gallup Korea's Film Actor of the Year four times.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Gimhae, South Gyeongsang, South Korea
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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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Joint Security Area
Overview: Two North Korean soldiers are killed in the border area between North and South Korea, prompting an investigation by a neutral body. The sergeant is the shooter, but the lead investigator, a Swiss-Korean woman, receives differing accounts from the two sides.
Genres: War Drama Thriller Mystery Action
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2000-09-09
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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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Secret Sunshine
Overview: Shin-ae moves to her recently late husband’s hometown. Despite her efforts to settle in this unfamiliar and too-normal place, she finds that she can’t fit in. After a sudden tragedy, Shin-ae turns to Christianity to relieve her pain, but when even this is not permitted, she wages a war against God.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2007-05-23
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Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
Overview: A deaf man and his girlfriend resort to desperate measures in order to fund a kidney transplant for his sister. Things go horribly wrong, and the situation spirals rapidly into a cycle of violence and revenge.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2002-03-29
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Memories of Murder
Overview: During the late 1980s, two detectives in a South Korean province attempt to solve the nation's first series of rape-and-murder cases.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2003-04-25
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Thirst
Overview: A respected priest volunteers for an experimental procedure that may lead to a cure for a deadly virus. He gets infected and dies, but a blood transfusion of unknown origin brings him back to life. Now, he’s torn between faith and bloodlust, and has a newfound desire for the wife of a childhood friend.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2009-04-30
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Cobweb
Overview: In the 1970s, Director Kim is obsessed by the desire to re-shoot the ending of his completed film Cobweb, but chaos and turmoil grip the set with interference from the censorship authorities, and the complaints of actors and producers who can't understand the re-written ending. Will Kim be able to find a way through this chaos to fulfill his artistic ambitions and complete his masterpiece?
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2023-09-27
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The Good, the Bad, the Weird
Overview: The story of three Korean outlaws in 1930s Manchuria and their dealings with the Japanese army and Chinese and Russian bandits. The Good (a bounty hunter), the Bad (a hitman), and the Weird (a thief) battle the army and the bandits in a race to use a treasure map to uncover the riches of legend.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Western
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2008-07-16
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Antarctic Journal
Overview: Arctic cold and paranoia take their toll as Korean explorers are beset by the same strange occurrences that preceded the disappearance of a British team in 1922.
Genres: Horror Thriller Mystery
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2005-05-19
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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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The Foul King
Overview: A timid and extravagant bank clerk, Dae-ho is considered inefficient at his workplace. As he tries to be recognized by his superior, his efforts only cause more bad situations. But he has an explosive energy that nobody knows about. One day, after yet another day of suffering at work, he goes to a wrestling gym to persuade its owner to become his bank’s client. And, by accident, he starts to learn how to wrestle. From then, he starts to live a new life. And his personality starts to change…
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2000-02-04
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The Quiet Family
Overview: A family decides to buy a lodge in a remote hiking area. Their first customer commits suicide and the distraught family buries his body to avoid the bad publicity. But their luck gets worse, the bodies start piling up, and the family becomes frantic to rectify the situation.
Genres: Horror Comedy Thriller Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1998-04-25
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The Show Must Go On
Overview: A middle-aged gangster's lifetime of mistakes catch up with him as his personal and professional life is destroyed.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2007-04-05
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The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well
Overview: The lives of 4 interconnected South Koreans - a married couple, a novelist the wife is having an affair with, and a second woman the novelist is simultaneously involved with.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1996-05-04
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Green Fish
Overview: Returning home and finding his town drastically changed, a former soldier falls in with gangsters.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1997-02-07
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A Little Pond
Overview: The Korean war does not start well for the US. They are being routed by the North Koreans and In July 1950, the early stage of the Korean War, at the Jugok Village in the middle of the Korean Peninsula, Chang-yee and his friends grow excited over the amateur singing contest knowing nothing about what is going on around them. At the time, the US Army keeps losing and are pushed back to the village, evacuating all villagers to head south. The villagers took refuge like going on a picnic believing that the US Army is protecting them, they just follow their orders moving south bound.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller War
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2010-06-23
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No. 3
Overview: Tae-joo manages to rise in rank in a gang for saving the boss's life. However, prosecutor Dong-pal appears in front of him as his sworn enemy. Meanwhile, Jo-pil wants to get rid of Tae-joo's gang, training for revenge. The three men's goals intertwine.
Genres: Drama Action Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1997-08-02
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Making Memories of Murder
Overview: Made in 2004, this extensive documentary chronicles the production and release of Memories of Murder.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2005-08-09
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Day Trip
Overview: A master and his student visit a mountain to practice pansori (a musical storytelling performed by a singer and a drummer) after a music competition which outcome has left the trainee disappointed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2012-12-28
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Hindsight
Overview: A young assassin is sent to kill a retired mob boss. But things get complicated when she begins to like him.
Genres: Action Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2011-08-31
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Howling
Overview: A beat cop and his rookie partner investigate a series of killings that seem to be carried out by a mysterious wolfdog.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2012-02-16
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The Attorney
Overview: Song Woo-seok is a lawyer with no clients. When his friend's son is falsely accused of a crime and tortured, he takes up the case and the course of his life changes for good.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2013-12-18
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The Face Reader
Overview: An exceptionally talented face reader becomes entangled in a bloody power struggle between a child king and his uncle who plans to usurp the throne.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2013-09-11
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The President's Barber
Overview: A well-meaning but politically naive barber gets pulled into the inner circle of the South Korean dictator Park Chung-Hee, with rather baleful consequences for his hapless family. This sharp political satire covers roughly twenty years in South Korean political history, from the viewpoint of the barber's son.
Genres: History Drama Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2004-05-05
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Memories
Overview: The documentary gives a voice to all those who have experienced the crazy adventure of shooting Memories of Murder.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2018-07-11
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Lee Chang-dong: The Art of Irony
Overview: A portrait of the South Korean screenwriter, director and producer Lee Chang-Dong through his work, this documentary provides a thematic analysis of his films, most of which have been selected for and received awards at the Cannes Film Festival.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2022-04-29
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Snowpiercer
Overview: In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class system evolves aboard the Snowpiercer; a train that travels around the globe via a perpetual-motion engine.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2013-08-01
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The Throne
Overview: Ancient Korea, July 4, 1762. The Crown Prince Hyojang, posthumously named Sado, son of King Yeongjo of Joseon, is accused of treason. Thus, the king asks him to commit suicide, but his closest vassals prevent it, so the king orders the prince to get inside a wooden rice chest, where he suffers deprivation of food and water.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2015-09-16
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The Age of Shadows
Overview: Set in the late 1920s, The Age of Shadows follows the cat-and-mouse game that unfolds between a group of resistance fighters trying to bring in explosives from Shanghai to destroy key Japanese facilities in Seoul, and Japanese agents trying to stop them.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2016-09-07
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Lady Vengeance
Overview: Released after being wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for 13 years, a woman begins executing her elaborate plan of retribution.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2005-07-29
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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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A Taxi Driver
Overview: May, 1980. Man-seob is a taxi driver in Seoul who lives from hand to mouth, raising his young daughter alone. One day, he hears that there is a foreigner who will pay big money for a drive down to Gwangju city. Not knowing that he’s a German journalist with a hidden agenda, Man-seob takes the job.
Genres: Action Drama History
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2017-08-02
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YMCA Baseball Team
Overview: Hochang accidentally sees missionaries and Jeongrim play baseball at the YMCA hall. He falls in love with Jeongrim, and takes interest in baseball. As a result, he gathers people to form the first YMCA baseball team of Joseon.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2002-10-03
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Parasite
Overview: All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.
Genres: Comedy Thriller Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2019-05-30
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The Drug King
Overview: Busan, South Korea, 1970s. Lee Doo-sam is a small-time smuggler. After helping a drug gang to smuggle meth, he falls into the dark crime world. Quick-witted and full of ambition, he eventually takes over the drug underworld and starts to lead a double life: a good community leader during the day but an infamous drug lord during the night.
Genres: Crime Action Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2018-12-19
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Decades Apart
Overview: For the work Decades Apart commissioned by the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain for the exhibition Highlights, PARKing CHANce has conceived an original immersive 3D sound and image installation. Based on the set of Joint Security Area (JSA) (2000), a movie by Park Chan-wook, new images were filmed for the work and sound treated in a very surprising way to give the visitor a total experience.
Genres: War Thriller Action
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2017-05-30
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The King's Letters
Overview: In the 15th century, despite so many accomplishments he has made for the people, King Sejong, his biggest goal is still remaining; the invention of original letters that can be read and written by all the people. But courtiers who want to dominate the knowledge and the power, are against his will and discourage his belief. Frustrated King Sejong hears about a bonze Sinmi a phonogram expert, and secretly brings him in the palace.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2019-07-24
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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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Emergency Declaration
Overview: While investigating a terroristic threat that goes viral online, Korean authorities discover that a suspect has recently boarded an international flight bound for the United States. When a healthy passenger on the same flight suddenly dies a gruesome death of unknown cause, panic erupts both in-flight and on the ground. With steadily decreasing fuel and international refusals to offer aid, the captain and crew will be forced to take unprecedented emergency measures in an attempt to save the lives of their passengers.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2022-08-03
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One Win
Overview: A former volleyball star, Woo-jin has been struggling to keep his children's volleyball school that's about to go out of business. Left without much choice, he agrees to coach a women's volleyball team that is the worst in the league, with only second rate players and an eccentric club owner. According to Woo-jin's contract, all he needs to do is win just one game.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2024-12-04
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Broker
Overview: Sang-hyun is always struggling from debt, and Dong-soo works at a baby box facility. On a rainy night, they steal the baby Woo-sung, who was left in the baby box, to sell him at a good price. Meanwhile, detectives were watching, and they quietly track them down to capture the crucial evidence.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2022-06-08
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Where is my DVD?
Overview: Go Gi-hwan is the actor who was starred in a large number of short films. However, he couldn't get any dvd from the directors. He's decided to collect his dvds meeting the directors who he used to work with, and he faces the fact that he couldn't have known....
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2013-11-09
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