Kim Tae-hun
Also Known As: Kim Taehun, Kim Tae-hoon, Kim Tae-hun
Biography: Kim Tae-hun is a South Korean actor. Kim graduated from Hanyang University, then began his acting career with the Hanyang Repertory Theatre in 1997. Onscreen, he has played leading roles in indie films such as Way to Go, Rose, The Pit and the Pendulum and When Winter Screams.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Gangnam-gu, Seoul, South Korea
Birthday: May 26, 1975
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Gender: Male
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Usu
Overview: While preparing to shut down the photo studio business that he has been running, a man hears that someone named Chulsu has died.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2022-11-24
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Like a season
Overview: This is a short film I made for my graduation work in 2007. - Excellence Award at the Korea University Film Festival.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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The Man from Nowhere
Overview: An ex-special agent is involved in a convoluted drug ring drama. He has to save a drug smuggler's innocent daughter from being the victim of her parents' fight.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2010-08-04
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Shotgun Love
Overview: Sang-yeol, a 30-something loser stuck in a dead-end job as a home-shopping model, is able to marry the girl of his dreams - his modeling colleague So-yeon - when he discovers she's pregnant with his child. But after marriage an even bigger discovery awaits: the child isn't his - in fact he's still a virgin, and he might even be gay...
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2011-03-10
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An Ethics Lesson
Overview: A bad guy, a cruel guy, a lame guy, a cowardly guy and the meanest woman gets involved in a beautiful university student's murder case.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2013-02-21
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Tastes of Horror
Overview: A new concept horror IP cross project that turns six selected works out of 19 serial webtoons of the same name (Tastes of Horror) into movies. "DingDong Challenge: The reason why you shouldn't do dance challenge carelessly", "Four Legged Beast: Story of meeting a doppelganger with broken neck", "Jackpot: what happened when I took a taxi nearby", "The Residents-Only Gym: A woman who appears after 10 PM", "Rehabilitation: Cruel clinical trials currenly underway in the lab", and "Gluttony: The strange things that happened during a live broadcast."
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2023-10-18
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My Wife has Gained Weight
Overview: A husband (Kim Tae-hun) carefully observes his wife (Jang Young-nam) after she expresses anxiety over how much weight she is putting on, he diagnoses her 'problem' as being mostly the effects of maternal devotion and finds a way to share the burden of both her dutiful eating and her new exercise regime.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2020-10-02
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Detective K: Secret of Virtuous Widow
Overview: In 1782, King Jeong-jo of Joseon asks detective K to investigate a series of murders related to a case of corruption within the government.
Genres: Mystery Action History Comedy Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2011-01-27
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Dream Palace
Overview: Hyejung has lost her husband in an industrial accident and adds the settlement money to move into the new apartment called Dream Palace. She belatedly learns that the apartments are in an unsold state and have defects, but the residents who are worried that housing prices will fall try to silence Hyejung, who is protesting. Hyejung, who left the labor protest site in compromise with reality, has no choice but to start another protest to protect the apartment she bought at the cost of her husband′s life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2023-05-31
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The Long Way Home
Overview: Nam-bok, a middle-aged South Korean farmer is conscripted and assigned a mission to deliver a classified military document that may decide the fate of the war. After losing it while under attack from the enemy, he then faces a teenage North Korean soldier named Yeong-gwang who happens to acquire the secret document on his way to the North.
Genres: Action Drama History War
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2015-09-24
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The Sound of a Flower
Overview: During the Joseon Dynasty, lowborn Chae-sun challenges the rule that states only men allowed to sing while navigating devotion to her teacher and the demands of the king's father.
Genres: Romance Drama History Music
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2015-11-25
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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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When Winter Screams
Overview: When Yeon-soo finds out his long awaited baby has fatal deformities, he asks his wife to get an abortion which results in pain and depression.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2013-03-14
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The Admiral: Roaring Currents
Overview: The film mainly follows the famous 1597 Battle of Myeongryang during the Japanese invasion of Korea 1592-1598, where the iconic Joseon admiral Yi Sun-sin managed to destroy a total of 133 Japanese warships with only 13 ships remaining in his command. The battle, which took place in the Myeongryang Strait off the southwest coast of the Korean Peninsula, is considered one of the greatest victories of Yi.
Genres: War Action Drama History
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2014-07-30
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Snow Paths
Overview: Jeong-Woo is sent to a sanitarium deep in the mountains to overcome his alcoholism. There he meets a young nun named Maria who has a special ability to see inside people. In this isolated sanitarium Maria is the only person who seems to care for him and soon he feels drawn to her. While struggling with his withdrawal symptoms, Jeong-woo has a vision where his reality is different from what he believes. The further he escapes from his alcoholism, the closer he gets to confronting the past that he has denied for years.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2016-03-03
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Trick
Overview: Suk-Jin became a popular PD of a newsroom by breaking a story on unsanitary food, but the story turned out to be false. He then lost his job as a PD.Several years later, he comes back as a PD for a cultural division at a network. The new CEO of the broadcasting station privately asks Suk-Jin to make a documentary on a terminally ill man and his wife. The CEO promises to make him a director if the program receives high ratings
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2016-07-13
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The Origin of Water
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Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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Way to Go, Rose
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Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2006-02-10
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A Quiet Dream
Overview: They're losers, but nice ones. Every day they sit at Yeri's bar, smitten by the young Chinese-Korean woman. Yeri doesn't have a preference. To her, they are equally sweet: Jongbin, a milk-drinking epileptic, Ikjune, a former petty criminal, and the introverted Jungbum, who fled from North Korea.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2016-10-13
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The Pit and the Pendulum
Overview: At the funeral of their mutual friend, mourners share stories about him that cross into fantasy.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2009-06-17
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Glass Garden
Overview: Despite her disabled leg, the Ph.D. student Jae-yeon is a brilliant researcher with a rare ability to communicate with nature. Having been hurt by her hypocrite colleague and lover, she turns her back to the world and goes deep into the forest to live alone in a glass garden.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2017-10-25
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The Swindlers
Overview: A group of swindlers unite to hunt down an infamous con man who was known dead, amid their hidden motives and deception.
Genres: Crime Action Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2017-11-22
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Parallel Life
Overview: A young man finds out that he is living a completely identical life to another man who lived decades ago. And when his wife is murdered the same way as the previous man's, he decides to dig into the older case to find clues about who was the murderer this time.
Genres: Action Thriller Mystery
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2010-02-18
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Love+Sling
Overview: A former wrestler bonds with his son over the sport. But then the son's girlfriend falls in love with the father.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2018-05-09
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The Pension
Overview: The four stories that possibly or impossibly can be happened in the pension; The parents who lost their child go to the pension with poison where the killer stays with his family; The husband and wife on a trip who are growing tired of their married life and the wife’s hidden secret reveals when they reach the pension; A woman who demands to stay a night at a particular suite to save her kidnapped child; A man who is asked to manage the pension for a night, he organizes fantastic night with his girlfriend, but things go wrong…
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2018-06-21
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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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MAL·MO·E: The Secret Mission
Overview: During the Japanese occupation of Korea, the Japanese Empire seeks to eradicate the Korean language and identity. In retaliation, a small group of Korean patriots try to protect their language by compiling the first Korean language dictionary.
Genres: Drama Comedy History
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2019-01-09
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If You Were Me 5
Overview: Funded by the National Human Rights Commission of Korea. If You Were Me 5 takes a close look at the violent nature hidden behind our eyes. 5 directors- Kang Yi Kwan, Boo Ji Young, Yoon Sung Hyun, Kim Dae Seung and Sin Dong Il disclose how closely ordinary events of society connect with our eyes. There is a hidden sexual violence beyond our eyes and the power of a controlled society works through the power beyond the eyes. Not only the violence of the eye itself, also limited the ability of individuals to see, the matter of the eye intervenes in various relationships between the individual and groups. The film demonstrates how sharp the eye has become in a society with developing technology.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2011-04-28
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Fantastic Theater
Overview: It has been one hundred years since the first movie theatre was built in Korea. Today it is not just a place for the sake of art but a part of our daily lives. This is an omnibus film of three shorts, which the stories are involved with the 'special but friendly'space. The Famished is a sad fantasy of a man eating his memory for his hunger. Ten Million is a bloody thriller about living as a filmmaker in Korea, and The Loneliness of Butcher Boy is about the relationship between holiness and violation
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2011-03-17
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Mission: Possible
Overview: Chinese secret agent Da-hee receives intel that a large number of illegal firearms are being smuggled into Korea and is sent to investigate the case. She meets Su-han, who is supposed to help her with the case, but due to his lackluster skills they fight over trivial things. But as their witnesses are suddenly murdered, the two of them quickly become the prime suspects.
Genres: Comedy Action Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2021-02-17
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6 Hours
Overview: Se-ran earns her living by playing the role of her clients’ lover which is called “Dating Service”. Sun-woo who works as a taxi driver, desperately desires to talk to his passengers. One day, Se-ran takes his taxi as a passenger.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2009-05-13
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Ghost Sweepers
Overview: Chan-young, a young journalist, is sent to investigate a village which has supposedly been possessed by demons. The incidents taking place have been so strange and terrifying that local shamans and other religious leaders have simply given up, abandoning the town. But upon her arrival, Chan-young discovers that an all-star team of supernaturally-inclined heroes has assembled to rid the village of evil. This team includes Mr. PARK the exorcist, Shi-min the monk, Wol-gwang the clairvoyant, Seung-hee the tarot master, and Seok-hyeon, an engineer. Chan-young follows the heroes as they prepare for an epic battle against the village’s evil forces.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Comedy Mystery
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2012-10-03
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Good Person
Overview: High school teacher Gyeongseok agrees to look after his daughter Yunhui for his ex-wife’s sudden request. He brings Yunhui with him to the school where he works. There, he leaves Yunhui alone in the car briefly, and when he returns she’s gone. Later, Yunhui is found after having been grievously injured in a car accident. The driver of the truck that hit her, however, indicates that Seik, one of Gyeongseok’s students, was the true cause of the accident.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2021-09-09
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Samjin Company English Class
Overview: In mid '90s, 3 female high school-grad office workers take up English classes together to get promotions and they team up to uncover corruption within their company.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2020-10-21
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An Old Lady
Overview: Hyo-jeong, a 69-year-old woman, is raped—but few people, including the police, are willing to believe what she says.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2020-08-20
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The Day I Died: Unclosed Case
Overview: The detective Hyun-soo tries to track down a girl who disappeared off of a cliff during a stormy night.
Genres: Drama Crime Mystery
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2020-11-12
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South Bound
Overview: Hae-gap is a director who makes anti-government documentary films. One day, Hae-gap’s son, Na-ra, runs away from home, but Man-deok, a freeloader living in Hae-gap’s house ends up bringing him back. Later, Man-deok raids the head developer of Deul Island to stop its exploitation, and Na-ra helps and ends up getting caught. In order to bring Na-ra out from jail, Hae-gap signs to stop making anti-government films and moves to Deul Island with his family. Na-ra sees his father leading a good, quiet life there and starts opening up. But when a construction company charges in to clear-out the island and the islanders fall at risk of losing their homes, Hae-gap leads a strike against it and his family fall in grave danger...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2013-02-07
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Mr. Housewife: Quiz King
Overview: To save his family from financial troubles, a house-husband takes part in the "Housewife Quiz Show" for the jackpot prize.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2005-09-29
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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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