Kim Tae-woo
Also Known As: Gim Tae-u, Tae-woo Kim, 김태우, 金太祐, کیم تای-وو
Biography: Kim Tae-woo (김태우) is a South Korean actor.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Seoul, South Korea
Adult: No
Birthday: April 15, 1971
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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L′Abri
Overview: A thirty-two year old man falls in love with a seventeen year-old highschool student whom he sees at the bus stop everyday.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2002-03-08
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Return
Overview: Sang-woo receives painful surgery when he is ten, and murders another kid from trauma. After he receives hypnosis treatment, he disappears with his family. After 25 years, a successful doctor meets his old friend one day, and everything changes.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2007-08-08
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The Naked Kitchen
Overview: Mo-rae struggles to remain loyal to her husband while living with a handsome and exciting stranger. Her husband is her childhood best friend, but the seductive stranger is imaginative and adventurous. Whom will she choose?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2009-02-05
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Woman on the Beach
Overview: Stymied by writer's block while crafting his latest script, director Kim Jung-rae persuades his friend Won Chang-wook to drive him to a beach resort where he promptly becomes involved with Chang-wook's girlfriend. Abandoning her and taking up with another woman, Jung-rae winds up creating enough drama to inspire his writing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2006-08-31
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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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Like You Know It All
Overview: A South Korean art house film director is first invited to serve on the panel of a film festival, then to guest lecture at a film school.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2009-05-14
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Motherland
Overview: Leah, a Korean adoptee raised in America, returns to Korea to search for her birth mother. Leah is met with secrecy from the adoption agency as well as her own family but remains relentless on her solo journey, driven by her longing to discover the truth of her origins.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-06-21
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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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Hypnotized
Overview: A psychiatrist fails to help a mental patient during her stay in hospital. The doctor becomes obsessed with his former patient, seeks her on the outside and uses hypnosis to fulfill his sexual desires.
Genres: Thriller Romance Mystery
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2004-08-06
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Woman Is the Future of Man
Overview: As the first snow falls in Seoul, two old friends reunite; one is a successful college professor, and the other, a struggling filmmaker recently returned from the United States. After their reminiscences, they finally decide to go in search of the young woman each had romanced years earlier.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2004-05-05
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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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Horror Stories
Overview: A teenager is abducted and forced to tell the scariest tales she knows, leading to this anthology of four stories: a brother and sister are under siege while home alone; a killer escapes police custody mid-flight; step-sisters take plastic surgery to nightmarishly macabre extremes; a paramedic and mother standoff over her infected young daughter.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2012-07-25
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The Contact
Overview: The male radio presenter Dong-hyun and the female TV home shopping phone operator Soo-hyun are both lonely. While Dong-hyun is focused on getting back to his ex-girl-friend Young-hae who has sent him a special LP, Soo-hyun is crazy for her friend's boy-friend. Via Internet and music Soo-hyun and Dong-hyun get together in a special way.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1997-09-13
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Lady Furious
Overview: A female detective does everything she can to mop up the mess brought into Korea by Hong Kong drugs lords.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2012-10-17
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Saving My Hubby
Overview: Geum-soon, once a top-ranked volleyball player, is now a common housewife with a six-month old daughter and a clumsy husband. On the first day her husband goes to work, she spends the day taking care of her little daughter who never stops crying. While Gum-soon is busy cleaning her house upon hearing her parents-in-law are coming on the next day, she gets a phone call from a club that they've arrested her husband for an unpaid bill. Amidst the merciless threatening of the gang in the club, Geum-soon rushes out into the night streets, still carrying her baby on her back. It's past midnight with less than three hours to go before her in-laws arrive. In the seediest part of Seoul, Geum-soon's husband is practically being held for ransom for the alcohol he didn't drink, Geum-soon has no clue where the bar is, two rival gangs are chasing after her, the pot is boiling at home, and her daughter is wailing while Geum-soon is leaping over trash cans in a dark alley.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2002-10-18
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Sorry Apple
Overview: A woman breaks up with her boyfriend of seven years. Devastated, she throws herself into another relationship and decides to get married, only to have her exboyfriend return to her...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2008-10-16
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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 Pirates
Overview: At the cusp of the founding of Joseon Dynasty, an envoy from China is delivering Emperor’s Ming’s Royal Seal. But nature in the form of a giant whale intervenes and swallows the royal seal. When a generous reward is offered to whomever can retrieve the royal seal from the belly of the whale, the race is on. A group of mountain bandits led by Jang Sa Jung and a group of pirates led by Yeo Wol go after the lost treasure, but who will get to to it first?
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2014-08-06
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Epitaph
Overview: A traumatized girl sees visions of her dead mother in one of three tales set in a 1942 South Korean hospital.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2007-08-01
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No Doubt
Overview: A young girl goes missing just as a convicted sex offender moves into town. The girl's father, the inhabitants of the towns and even law enforcement believe he is responsible for the disappearance.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2010-11-04
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Casa Amor: Exclusive for Ladies
Overview: Beautiful, workaholic Bo-hee is a successful marketing executive at the number one toy company in Korea. Respected by her colleagues and in line for a promotion, she makes an irrevocable mistake that gets her fired from her job. Bo-hee's life further spins out of control when her husband Gang-sung leaves her soon after. Bo-hee is befriended by her neighbor Nan-hee, an amateur sex expert who runs a sex shop on the brink of bankruptcy called "Casa Amor." Nan-hee's predicament inspires Bo-hee's creativity, and using her background in children's toys, she is determined to save the shop by making its ambiance more refined and by promoting better sex toys.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2015-01-07
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A Mystery of the Cube
Overview: A group of people are drawn together to face the supernatural while they try to figure out a 60-year-old mystery.
Genres: Science Fiction Mystery
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1998-05-01
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The Coast Guard
Overview: A member of Coast Guard Platoon 23, Private Kang monitors a high-infiltration stretch of beach lined with barbed-wire fencing. Driven by the belief that killing a spy is the highest honor, he waits for a chance to prove his worth.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2002-11-22
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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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Don't Look Back
Overview: Jung-Hee (Kim Hye-Na) is a 21-year-old dancer who struggles with insecurities and other problems after her father abandoned her family 15 years ago. One day, Jung-Hee's brings back their father. Keun-Woo (Lee Sang-Woo) is a 25-year-old low level telephone technician. One day, his friend shows him a picture of a woman he is trying to extort money from. The woman is having an affair with a married man. Keun-Woo taps into the woman's telephone line and begins to eavesdrop on her conversations. After a few evenings, Keun-Woo falls in love with the woman, but the woman doesn't even know he exits. In-Ho (Kim Tae-Woo) is a 30-year-old soldier. He is about to be discharged from the military after serving for 2 years. In-Ho then gets his last leave of absence and decides to give his wife a surprise visit. When he arrives his wife isn't home. When he does finally see her his wife has changed and seems distant.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2006-05-13
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A Friend In Need
Overview: In bleak Yeouido, crowded by the political world, press and stock companies, section chief Hwang Woo-Jin works in a stock trading firm. He is a hard-working salaryman, but is the first to be laid off. With an outstanding private loan to pay for, hospital bills for his father and consistent conflicts with his devoted wife, stress gradually suffocates Hwang Woo-Jin. Finally, a junior staff member and a boss, who he trusts, conspire to kick him out. After finding about their scheme, Hwang Woo-Jin becomes desperate. In front of him, his friend Jung-Hoon, who does do anything for justice, appears. Under the influence of alcohol, Woo-Jin tells Jung-Hoon that he wants to kill them. The next day the junior staff member is found dead.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2010-12-02
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If You Were Me 3
Overview: Commissioned by South Korea's National Human Rights Commission, If You Were Me is an innovative omnibus film project to promote tolerance and human rights and shed light on the hardships disadvantaged people face in Korea. This third installment continues the If You Were Me tradition. Directors Jeong Yun Cheol (Marathon), Kim Hyeon Pil (Wonderful Day), Lee Mi Yeon (L'Abri), Noh Dong Seok (Boys of Tomorrow), Hong Gi Seon (The Road Taken), and Kim Gok and Kim Sun (Capitalist Manifesto: Working Men of All Countries) participated in If You Were Me 3, creating shorts on human rights issues of their choosing, ranging from labor conditions to gay rights to discrimination.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2006-11-23
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Mothers
Overview: The owner of a student study center gets an awkward request and suddenly faces the prospect of raising her dead husband’s teenage son by herself.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2018-04-19
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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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Rampant
Overview: Ancient Korea, 17th century. While the paranoid King Lee Jo of Joseon, vassal of the Qing dynasty, feels surrounded by conspirators and rebels, a dark evil emerges from the bowels of a merchant ship and the exiled Prince Lee Cheung returns to the royal court, ignoring that he will have to lead the few capable of defeating the ambitious humans and the bloody monsters who threaten to destroy the kingdom.
Genres: Action Horror Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2018-10-25
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Forbidden Dream
Overview: A true historical drama about King Sejong, the greatest ruler in Joseon history who sought to enhance national prosperity and military power through astronomy, and Jang Yeong-sil, the most remarkable scientist.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2019-12-26
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A Matter of Interpretation
Overview: One winter day, nobody comes to see a play. One of the drama’s actresses becomes angry and leaves the theater. She goes to a park, drinks and meets people.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2014-10-04
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Project Silence
Overview: Due to sudden deteriorating weather conditions, visibility on the Airport Bridge is severely impaired, leaving people stranded and at risk of the bridge collapsing due to a series of chain collisions and explosions. Amidst the chaos, the canine subjects "Echo" from the military experiment "Project Silence," who were being transported in secret, break free, and all human survivors become targets of relentless attacks.
Genres: Thriller Action Horror Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2024-07-11
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The Tooth and the Nail
Overview: Seok-jin, a magician at a club, meets a mysterious woman, Ha-yeon, who soon becomes his assistant and fiance. Things take a turn when she is found dead and he must find out what happened.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2017-05-09
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