Lee Byung-hun
Also Known As: 이병헌, Lee Byeong-heon, イ・ビョンホン, 李炳憲, لي بيونغ هون, 李秉宪, Λι Μπιόνγκ-χον, Byung Hun Lee, لی بیونگ-هون, لی بیونگ هون
Biography: Lee Byung-hun (이병헌) is a South Korean actor, singer and model. He was born on July 12, 1970. He achieved wider fame after starring in the television dramas Iris (2009), All In (2003) and Beautiful Days (2001). He is also known for his starring roles in Joint Security Area (2000), A Bittersweet Life (2005), The Good, the Bad, the Weird (2008) and I Saw the Devil (2010). He has received multiple awards and nominations throughout his career.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Seongnam, Gyeonggi, South Korea
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Birthday: July 12, 1970
Age: 54 years old
Gender: Male
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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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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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Everybody Has Secrets
Overview: A mysterious stranger seduces three sisters in this sensual romantic comedy from director Jang Hyeon-Su.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2004-07-30
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I Come with the Rain
Overview: Kline, a former Los Angeles police officer turned private detective, is hired by a powerful pharmaceutical conglomerate boss to investigate in Asia the disappearance of his only son, Shitao, whom he has not seen in person since the boy was ten. Now in his 30s, Shitao has gone missing in the Philippines where he had been helping in an orphanage.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-05-14
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Once in a Summer
Overview: An assistant to a TV producer, eager to stay off his bad side, promises to convince her former professor, a famous but reclusive academic, to appear on their show, which helps locate long-lost persons. Who does grey-haired Professor Yun Suk-Young want to see again more than anything? The answer to that question lies decades in the past.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2006-11-30
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G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
Overview: From the Egyptian desert to deep below the polar ice caps, the elite G.I. JOE team uses the latest in next-generation spy and military equipment to fight the corrupt arms dealer Destro and the growing threat of the mysterious Cobra organization to prevent them from plunging the world into chaos.
Genres: Adventure Action Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-08-03
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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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Addicted
Overview: Two brothers get into a sudden tragic accident and they both fall into a coma at the same time. A year later, the younger brother Dae-jin wakes up believing he is his older brother Ho-jin.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2002-10-25
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G.I. Joe: Retaliation
Overview: Framed for crimes against the country, the G.I. Joe team is terminated by Presidential order. This forces the G.I. Joes into not only fighting their mortal enemy Cobra; they are forced to contend with threats from within the government that jeopardize their very existence.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-03-27
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Iris: The Movie
Overview: Hyunjun and Sawoo, close friends and rivals from the South Korean special forces, are recruited by the secret agency NSS. They both fall for Seunghee, the beautiful but lethal profiling specialist at NSS. When they are faced against each other in a nuclear terrorist attack, they are forced to make their final decision and Seunghee's formidable secret is revealed.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2010-03-21
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Bungee Jumping of Their Own
Overview: A likeable, married high school teacher spirals out of control when a student in his class begins unintentionally reminding him of his doomed first love, which ended 17 years earlier.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2001-02-03
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My Beautiful Girl, Mari
Overview: Kim Nam-woo struggles through life as people around him constantly leave him; his best friend, Jun-ho, is going to study in Seoul and in some ways his widowed mother is "leaving" him too by paying more attention to her new boyfriend. To escape, he goes to a dream world, where he meets a girl named Mari. The story follows Nam-woo in discovering himself and maturing.
Genres: Animation Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2002-01-11
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The Harmonium in My Memory
Overview: Hong-yun is a high school girl in little mountain village when she falls head-over-heels for a handsome new school teacher, Mr. Kang. What with taking care of her youngest baby brother for her widowed mother and the impossible age difference, it is a roller-coaster ride for her as she tries to become someone special for Mr. Kang while he seems interested in the other new teacher at the school, Miss Yang.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1999-03-27
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RED 2
Overview: Retired C.I.A. agent Frank Moses reunites his unlikely team of elite operatives for a global quest to track down a missing portable nuclear device.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-07-18
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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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Masquerade
Overview: Though it places his own life in danger, a look-alike commoner secretly takes the place of a poisoned king to save his country from falling into chaos.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2012-09-13
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Terminator Genisys
Overview: The year is 2029. John Connor, leader of the resistance continues the war against the machines. At the Los Angeles offensive, John's fears of the unknown future begin to emerge when TECOM spies reveal a new plot by SkyNet that will attack him from both fronts; past and future, and will ultimately change warfare forever.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Thriller Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-06-23
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Run Away
Overview: Video game producer Lee Dong-ho and freelance artist Choi Mi-ran are both young, ambitious people who are passionate about their life and work. They meet by chance one night on the road, and end up spending the night together. On their way home, they witness a gang-related murder, and from that day on their lives take a dramatic turn as they become the perpetrators' next targets.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1995-12-30
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Hero
Overview: After six years away, D.A. Kuryu Kohei (Kimura Takuya) returns to his former Josai branch of the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office, just in time for a brewing storm. Kohei's first case starts out simple enough. The suspect, a blonde-haired security guard, had already confessed to manslaughter, but he suddenly retracts his confession and takes things to court with big-shot defense attorney Gamo (Matsumoto Koshiro). It turns out that the security guard is a key alibi witness in a high-profile political corruption case, and the results of his case will directly affect the next. With the media, politicians, and a special investigative team breathing down his back, Kohei must handle the case with care (and flair) to find out the truth.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-09-08
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Inside Men
Overview: A disgruntled henchman teams up with an ambitious prosecutor to bring down a leading presidential candidate and the news editor behind him who is truly pulling the strings.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2015-11-19
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The Influence
Overview: To keep their values, characters are at a critical juncture to act upon their promises throughout time.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2010-03-03
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The Magnificent Seven
Overview: Looking to mine for gold, greedy industrialist Bartholomew Bogue seizes control of the Old West town of Rose Creek. With their lives in jeopardy, Emma Cullen and other desperate residents turn to bounty hunter Sam Chisolm for help. Chisolm recruits an eclectic group of gunslingers to take on Bogue and his ruthless henchmen. With a deadly showdown on the horizon, the seven mercenaries soon find themselves fighting for more than just money once the bullets start to fly.
Genres: Adventure Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-09-14
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Memories of the Sword
Overview: While in medieval Korea, a young girl sets out to revenge the betrayal and the death of her mother. But therefore she must face one of the most powerful men and warriors of the Goryeo Dynasty.
Genres: Drama History Action
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2015-08-13
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No Other Choice
Overview: After being unemployed for several years, a man devises a unique plan to secure a new job: eliminate his competition.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller Comedy
Original Language: ko
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Misconduct
Overview: An ambitious lawyer finds himself caught in a power struggle between a corrupt pharmaceutical executive and his firm’s senior partner. When the case takes a deadly turn, he must race to uncover the truth before he loses everything.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-02-05
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Master
Overview: Korea’s biggest network marketing scam reveals a far greater network of corruption and conspiracy lurking underneath.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2016-12-21
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Who Drives Me Mad?
Overview: Lee Jong-du, a salesman who believes that luck will change when he becomes a famous writer. However he is forced to give up after his story failed to win at a spring literature contest. Added to this is the fear that his girlfriend Joo-young will leave him. After Joo-young gets a job Jong-du realizes his mistakes that knows that she will never leave him.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1995-09-30
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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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Three... Extremes
Overview: An Asian cross-cultural trilogy of horror films from accomplished indie directors: "Dumplings", directed by Fruit Chan of Hong Kong; "Cut", directed by Park Chan-Wook of Korea; "Box", directed by Miike Takashi of Japan. The first film "Dumplings" was extended and turned into a full-length theatrical film of the same name.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2004-08-20
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A Single Rider
Overview: Promising fund manager Jae-hoon is at the brink of losing everything when his company goes bankrupt. Overwhelmed by despair, he takes an impulsive trip to Australia where his wife and son live. As his trip nears its unexpected end, Jae-hoon gets a chance to look back on his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2017-02-22
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Keys to the Heart
Overview: An older brother is a washed-up boxer. His younger brother is a genius pianist with physical disability. The brothers make up through their mother who is full of stories of her past.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2018-01-17
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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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Kill the Love
Overview: A man named Love joins the criminal underworld in America and falls In love with a woman, sparking the outrage of an old criminal associate from home.
Genres: Thriller Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1996-10-19
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Lament
Overview: Kwang Su (Shin Hyun Jun) has struggled his whole life to shake off the stigma of a shameful family history. He lives in a state of perpetual despair. By contrast, Jong Man (Lee Byung Hun) works as a bartender and spends his days dreaming of becoming an international movie star and his nights filming himself and contacting top Hollywood production companies in the hope that one day he will get his lucky break. Then there is the shy girl Se Hee who works in a music store. When Kwang Su stumbles into the music store, blind drunk, but still able to bash out a tune on a piano, Se Hee falls instantly in love. When Kwang Su stumbles into the bar where Jong Man works, he finds himself arrested for his brother's murder. But fortunately he manages to escape from the police, bumps into Jong Man who instantly lets him stay in his apartment.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1997-02-22
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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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Armageddon
Overview: The year is 2157. An alien organization with ultra-high technology, 'Eed', invades the Earth. As the Earth fa ces extinction, Elka, a descendant of the lost continent Atlantis, looks with the help of a super power computer Delta 8988, for the last hero who may be able to save the world. It turns out to be Oh Haesung who lives in the 20th century. Marie, a special agent sent from Elka, comes to the year 1996 with the important mission of fetching Haesung. However, Eed also finds out about Haesung and sends an assassin.
Genres: Animation Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1996-04-04
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The Man Standing Next
Overview: When the investigation of 'Koreagate' takes place, Park Yong-gak, a former KCIA director who knows everything about the government's operations, heads to the United States in exile.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2020-01-22
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Ashfall
Overview: A group of unlikely heroes from across the Korean peninsula try to save the day after a volcano erupts on the mythical and majestic Baekdu Mountain.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2019-12-19
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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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Concrete Utopia
Overview: The world has been reduced to rubble by a massive earthquake. While no one knows for sure how far the ruins stretch, or what the cause of the earthquake may be, in the heart of Seoul there is only one apartment building left standing. It is called Hwang Gung Apartments. As time passes, outsiders start coming in to Hwang Gung Apartments trying to escape the extreme cold. Before long, the apartment residents are unable to cope with the increasing numbers. Feeling a threat to their very survival, the residents enact a special measure.
Genres: Thriller Science Fiction Adventure Action
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2023-08-09
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The Match
Overview: When a legendary Go master loses his title to a one-time friend and protégé, he sets out to reclaim it in a high-stakes battle of wits and skill.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2025-03-26
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Sunset on the Neon Lights
Overview: Sang-min faces sexual discrimination at her advertising job and her lover's publishing company goes bankrupt. However she is determined to find a solution to both their problems
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1995-02-25
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Share the Vision
Overview: A 4D music film about a guy named Hyeon-min who sets out to find a new vision after meeting a mentor who is about to change his life.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2011-09-03
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I Believe In A Thing Called Love
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Original Language: en
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BSK 25th Anniversary Concert Film : The Journey
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Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2024-12-11
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Squid Game: Making Season 2
Overview: From set designs to character arcs, get exclusive cast and director interviews on how Season 2 of the globally most-watched series was brought to life.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2025-01-02
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KPop Demon Hunters
Overview: When K-pop superstars Rumi, Mira and Zoey aren't selling out stadiums, they're using their secret powers to protect their fans from supernatural threats.
Genres: Animation Action Fantasy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-06-20
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