Park Hae-il
Also Known As: 박해일, Park Hae Il, Hae-il Park, 朴海日
Biography: Park Hae-il (박해일) is a South Korean actor. Born on January 26, 1977, he is known for his work in some of South Korea's biggest blockbusters including Memories of Murder (2003), The Host (2006), The Last Princess (2016), Moss (2010), War of the Arrows (2011), and The Fortress (2017). Most of these did north of 5 million admissions domestically, with The Host being the biggest Korean blockbuster in history at the time of release with 13 million admissions. He has also received a variety of awards, including the Grand Bell & Blue Dragon Best Actor awards for War of the Arrows.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Seoul, South Korea
Birthday: January 26, 1977
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Gender: Male
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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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Scent of Love
Overview: After much trials and tribulations, a man marries his first love. But when she gets pregnant, they find out that she has cancer.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2003-02-28
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The End
Overview: An omnibus of four episodes each of which stars four protagonists: a guy suffering from nightmares; a lady having an arranged marriage set up following a break-up with her longstanding boy friend; another guy endlessly talking to his supposed-to-be-brother, and another lady unable to meet the deadline for her translations.
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Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2009-10-09
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Endless Joke
Overview: A joke story of two men who met after a long time in Jeju Island. Their bland jokes gradually become more secretive that are repeated like serious jokes, like a Mobius strip.
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Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2011-10-07
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Heartbeat
Overview: One middle aged women is admitted to the hospital in a coma. Yeon-hee, who has been searching for a heart to transplant to her daughter, who has critical heart disease, is begging middle aged women's gangster son, Whee-do, by giving him a fortune. But when the reasons for Whee-do's mom are revealed one by one, Yeon-hee, who became desperate, is teaming up with dangerous people.
Genres: Drama Action Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2011-01-05
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Moss
Overview: A city boy visits a remote village to find out the reason behind his father's strange death. The locals are watching his every move and are eager to see him leave. As he starts to investigate, the village's sinister secrets begin to unravel.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2010-07-14
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Jealousy Is My Middle Name
Overview: Quiet, intelligent, solemn and recently dumped by his girlfriend, graduate student Lee Weon-san takes a job at a literary magazine, ostensibly to supplement his income, but really to get close to the editor - the reason he’s now single. The editor, unaware of who Lee is, takes a shine to him and makes him his personal assistant.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2003-04-18
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Rules of Dating
Overview: An introvert, indifferent woman joins a high school as a student teacher, under supervision of a shameless, nymphomaniac man who is a year younger than her. On a school trip, the supervisor tells the trainee that he wants to have sex with her. The movie deals with the woman willing yet indifferent to indulge in physical relationship with her professional senior. Ethics, morals, feelings, love show up and are turned down.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2005-06-10
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Doomsday Book
Overview: In 'A Brave New World', a virus brings the city to ruins and zombies flood the streets of Seoul. In 'The Heavenly Creature', a robot reaches enlightenment while working at a temple, but its creators deem this phenomenon a threat to mankind. In the final segment, 'Happy Birthday', a young girl logs onto a strange website and places an order for a new billiard ball for her father. Soon afterwards a meteor heads toward Earth and people flee to underground bomb shelters.
Genres: Science Fiction Fantasy Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2012-04-11
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My Mother the Mermaid
Overview: Na-young works at a post office and is sick and tired of being around her shamefully unyielding mother and her pushover father who's excessively nice. The only thing that she can look forward to is her trip abroad in a few days. But one day, her father leaves home without any notice. Her mother doesn't care what happens to him and doesn't care to look for him. Na-young has no choice but to give up her dream trip abroad and to search for her father instead. Once she arrives at her parents' hometown, Na-young is shocked to meet someone she'd never expect, even in her dreams.
Genres: Romance Fantasy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2004-06-30
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Waikiki Brothers
Overview: Waikiki Brothers is a band going nowhere. After another depressing gig, the saxophonist quits, leaving the three remaining members to continue on the road. The band ends up at the lead singer's hometown, which was a popular hot spring resort in the '80s, but the return home is filled with reservations of previous and past disappointments, a lost love, unemployment and tragedy.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2001-10-27
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Who Are You?
Overview: The programmer of the ultimate online dating game starts to fall in love with its most troublesome user, who happens to work in the same building as him.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2002-05-24
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Boomerang Family
Overview: Based on an original written by Cheon Myeong-gwan, a 48 year-old movie director moves into the house where his mother and 50 year-old brother lives until his sister moves in with her niece.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2013-05-09
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Eungyo
Overview: A reclusive elderly poet feels the fire of his youth when gamine schoolgirl Eun-gyo enters his life, to the chagrin of the old man's assistant.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2012-04-25
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War of the Arrows
Overview: After the death of their father, two siblings are raised by their father's best friend. However, when one gets kidnapped just before her wedding, the other rises against the Manchus.
Genres: Drama Action History
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2011-08-10
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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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Gyeongju
Overview: A Beijing professor returns to his stomping grounds for a friend's funeral. Reflecting on the past, he meets a tea shop owner who sparks feelings of love in a time of pain.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2014-06-12
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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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A Boy Who Went to Heaven
Overview: An orphaned boy falls in love with and writes anonymous letters a to 30-year old woman because she reminds him of his mother.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2005-11-11
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A Million
Overview: 8 contestants compete for $1,000,000 on a survival reality TV show set in the Australian desert. After the first eliminated contestant is found dead, they find themselves in horrifying situations as they deal with each others' lies and deceits.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2009-08-06
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The Whistleblower
Overview: Lee Jang-hwan receives widespread acclaim and media attention after successfully cloning human embryo stem cells. A TV news program PD, Yoon Min-cheol, receives a phone call from an anonymous source who says he has worked with Dr. Lee on the stem cell project. The source blows the whistle on Lee's work, revealing how Lee fabricated research results and engaged in unethical practices.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2014-10-02
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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 Host : Histoires de famille
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
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Paradise Murdered
Overview: A grisly murder occurs on the small remote island known as Paradise. After a night of gambling, two of the players are found mutilated. Deok-Su, the missing third player, quickly becomes the suspect. As the 17 residents of Paradise Island try to stay calm, suspicion grows that perhaps there was someone else involved in the grisly murders.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2007-04-12
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1, 2, 3 Love
Overview: Multiple Soojeong, divided by a multiverse, is torn apart by multiple pains. In one universe, she goes on a mysterious journey with a woman named Soo Ja, who figures out Soojeong’s mind. A love story about a world where everything is a delusion but becomes a reality; she heals herself and becomes stronger.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2023-12-29
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Love And...
Overview: People have varying perceptions and definitions of love and movies. One must overcome differing opinions and disregard insignificant factors in order to achieve the end product in each aspect. However, it is these trivial features that matter in the end and leave their imprint on our souls. Whether it is for love or for movies, we must continue to question and attend to the subtle inscriptions upon our emotions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2015-10-22
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Skeletons in the Closet
Overview: The movie is about a dysfunctional family, each and every member with mental problems of his own. On top of that some old skeletons from the closet come back to haunt them.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2007-02-28
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The Front Line of Ideology
Overview: One year after the Korean War, the conflict had reached a stalemate. The two opposing forces began to search for a way to end the grueling war of attrition, eventually settling on a modest village called ‘Pan Mun Jom’ near Gaeseong as the designated site for negotiations. Despite initial hopes for a quick resolution, the negotiating parties encountered obstacles that prevented an agreement. Disputes over the military demarcation line and the repatriation of prisoners of war thwarted their efforts. The film peels back the layers to reveal the untold story of Pan Mun Jom, shedding light on a history that has remained hidden until now.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2024-06-19
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The Last Princess
Overview: Under the oppressive Japanese colonial rule, Deok-hye, the last Princess of the declining Joseon Dynasty, is forced to move to Japan. She spends her days missing home, while struggling to maintain dignity as a princess. After a series of failed tries, Deok-hye makes her final attempt to return home with help of her childhood sweetheart, Jang-han.
Genres: Action Drama History
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2016-08-03
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Modern Boy
Overview: During the Japanese occupation, a Korean modern boy, who wants to fit in with the Japanese, falls in love with a Korean freedom fighter.
Genres: War Romance Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2008-10-02
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The Fortress
Overview: Ancient Korea, 17th century. The powerful Khan of the Jurchen tribe of Manchuria, who fights the Ming dinasty to gain China, becomes the first ruler of the Qing dinasty and demands from King In-jo of Joseon to bow before him; but he refuses, being loyal to the Mings. On December 14th, 1636, the Qing horde invades Joseon, so King In-jo and his court shelter in the mountain fortress of Namhan and prepare to defend the kingdom.
Genres: War Drama History Action
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2017-10-03
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End of Animal
Overview: A pregnant teenager finds herself in a taxi with a passenger who counts down to cataclysm. Cinematic clues that you’re in one movie genre will steer you wrong time and again, as this entrancing and deeply unsettling debut unwinds its small, personal tale of apocalypse with menace and dark humor.
Genres: Mystery Fantasy Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2011-01-28
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High Society
Overview: The story of the journey of married couple up the social latter. The husband is professor at Seoul National University who is running for the National Assembly, and his wife is a painter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2018-08-29
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Ode to the Goose
Overview: Yoon-young fell for Song-hyeon when she was married to his friend. When she gets divorced, he takes her on a trip to Gunsan, where they stay at a guest house run by a middle-aged man and his autistic daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2018-11-08
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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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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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Hansan: Rising Dragon
Overview: In 1592, admiral Yi Sun-sin and his fleet face off against the might of the invading Japanese navy and its formidable warships. As the Korean forces fall into crisis, the admiral resorts to using his secret weapon, the dragon head ships known as geobukseon, in order to change the tide of this epic battle at sea.
Genres: War Action Drama History
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2022-07-27
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Heaven: To The Land of Happiness
Overview: Two gentlemen meet by chance and decide to go on an adventure together. Their journey becomes a quest for happiness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2021-10-06
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Audition
Overview: While being waiting for the order in the audition hall, Ji Seok, an aspiring actress, is informed that her grandmother is in critical condition and relinquishes the audition and heads to the hospital.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2003-02-15
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Control
Overview: A movie about criminals who wear the masks of elites but make the wrong choice because of their pain and a father who loses his daughter to them.
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Original Language: ko
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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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Santa Barbara
Overview: Because of his close friend's betrayal, music director Jung-Woo (Lee Sang-Yoon) lost his precious guitar to creditors. He is asked to make a commercial and meets advertising exec Soo-Kyung (Yoon Jin-Seo). Due to personality differences, they have a confrontation. Later, they drink wine and talk about wine, movies and Santa Barbara. They discover they actually have some things in common and they develop feelings for each other. The next evening, they drink again and get drunk. Soo-Kyung tells him that they have been a couple since yesterday. With their romance just blooming, Jung-Woo fails to meet the deadline for the commercial. Soo-Kyung is disappointed and their romance ends. Some time later, they meet again for a commercial project. They have to go to Santa Barbara which they both admire.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2014-07-16
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Second Half
Overview: This indie charmer take us on an aimless seaside vacation with struggling film producer, In-sung, where he meets an energetic young girl he suspects to be his daughter from an one-night-stand 20 years ago. Just when he is to tell her his hunch, In-sung is met with a shocking confession from Mina.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2010-10-28
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The Winter of the Year Was Warm
Overview: A movie director who also produces films, goes to Gangneung on the weekends to get away from his tiring Seoul life. Meanwhile, a woman who works as a home health nurse in Gangneung travels to Seoul on the weekends for its culture. These two people then meet.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2012-11-15
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Dangerously Excited
Overview: HAN Dae-huei, a public official in charge of residential pollution of Mapo district. No one can disturb his composure: a man who never loses his temper: a man of tranquility; the apotheosis of snobbery. He is a typically unenthusiastic public official up to his bone. Never expect him to try a new thing or change anything.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2011-02-01
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