Kang Soo-youn
Also Known As: 강수연, Soo-yeon Kang, Kang Su-yeon, Su-yeon Kang, Kang Soo-youn, Soo-youn Kang, Kang Soo-yeon, 姜受延
Biography: Kang Soo-yeon (18 August 1966 – 7 May 2022) was a South Korean actress. She was born in Seoul, South Korea and was one of the best known and internationally acclaimed stars from South Korea from the mid-1980s to the end of the 1990s.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Seoul, South Korea
Adult: No
Birthday: August 18, 1966
Age: 58 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: May 07, 2022
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F.
Overview: A profile of Toh Hai Leong, the director of the Singaporean mockumentary Zombie Dogs, and his battle with Type 2 diabetes.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-04-10
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Go Alone Like Musso's Horn
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Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1995-10-07
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Hanji
Overview: Low-ranking civil servant Pil Yong (Park Joong Hoon) has things hard looking after his disabled wife(Ye Ji Won). He takes charge of a hanji project in hopes it will bring him a promotion. His wife comes from a family of hanji masters. One of his tasks include working with quarrelsome filmmaker Ji Won (Kang Su Yeon), who is shooting a documentary about hanji. Though he knows little about the subject to begin with, the more he learns about hanji, the more it takes on a new significance for him and the world around him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2011-03-17
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I Confess
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1976-01-11
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There Must be Mother Somewhere
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1978-08-26
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No More Sorrow
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Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1978-12-09
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Chorus of Doves
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Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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Tragedy of W
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1985-06-09
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Long After That
Overview: Sun Woo Sumi is a lecturer at a French-language school after studying in France, but she has not forgotten the nightmare from seven years ago. She was assaulted by five men during her first year of college with Jin Woo. At that time, Sumi decided to study abroad. Jin Woo, a police officer, tries to recover her mental and physical injuries.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1989-09-09
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Days of Roses
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1994-04-02
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Potato
Overview: Innocent Bok-nyeo is sold at 18 years old to an elderly widower who sends her to work in the salt mines. There she is raped by the supervisor. Becoming very cynical about life, Bok-nyeo becomes the mistress of a couple of rich men, Choi and Wang. In this way, she becomes accustomed to the high life. However she panics and takes desperate steps when one of her sources of income is about to cut her off.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1987-03-01
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Western Avenue
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1993-04-03
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Prince Yeon-san
Overview: Prince Yeon-san
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1987-10-01
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Girls' Night Out
Overview: Three best friends meet and boldly talk about sex together. Their characters are as different as their lifestyles. One works at a hotel, one at a design firm and the other is a graduate student. The conversations alter their lives as they begin to have different sexual relationships than before.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1998-10-03
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Deep Blue
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1997-11-15
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Blood Relations
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Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1976-10-30
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Promised Woman
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1983-06-18
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The Last Secret Love
Overview: Yeong-kyeong is a famous musician who is seduced by Dong-min. Dong-min wanted a one night fling, but Yeong-kyeong pities him, believing hs story of being trapped in a loveless marriage. Dong-min has no intention of leaving his wife, however she finds out about his affair and leaves him. Dong-min escapes to his uncle's cabin in the mountains, but Yeong-kyeong follows him even there.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1980-04-26
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The Circle
Overview: A serial killer (Woong-in Jeong) whose modus operandi includes painting abstract designs on his victims prior to raping, killing, and eating them is captured and interrogated by a hardened district attorney (Soo-yeon Kang). When the maniac fails to provide answers satisfying both the prosecution and defense attorneys, he is hypnotized and shocking secrets begin to emerge.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2003-11-14
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Come Come Come Upward
Overview: In 1980s South Korea, two young nuns-in-training at the same monastery embark on very different journeys towards enlightenment.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1989-04-01
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The Surrogate Womb
Overview: A barren noblewoman encourages her husband to take a young peasant as a surrogate to secure the male line.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1987-03-21
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With a Girl of Black Soil
Overview: A small village in the Kanwondo region, a 9 year old girl, her brother Tong-gu - who is mentally handicapped - and their father Hyegon.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2007-01-09
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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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Peach Blossoms
Overview: Do-hwa was born with both blessing and curse of the peach tree in the village. She masters the value of 'Yin and Yang' at the age of three and amazes neighbors with special senses as she grows up. She is told by Dang-gol, the village's shaman to have super power regarding sex and soon brings disaster to the village by having contact with virgin men. She struggles and survives her fate through turbulent corners of life beyond her control.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1987-06-27
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Jury
Overview: After the film screening, five people hold a meeting. Director Jeong asserts that a film should move the heart. Actress Soo-yeon emphasizes on the message of the film, Film critic Tony just discusses about the current trend of Korean cinema. Tomiyama cannot fully express her thoughts because of the language barrier. And, the head of jury, Sung-ki can’t control the situation. Will this jury reach an agreement against all odds? A satire for those who make, watch, and criticize films is about to begin.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2013-03-07
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Hanbando
Overview: The President of South Korea races against time to prove the seal on documents from long dead King Gojong is fake by charging outspoken historian Choi Min-jae, and a descendant of the royal bloodline Kim Yu-shik, to find the long lost seal in order to prove that the Japanese claim to railroads is false, a claim that will stop the reunification of the two Koreas.
Genres: Mystery Thriller History
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2006-07-13
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The Road to the Racetrack
Overview: R returns from studying in France and reunites with J, whom he used to live with in Paris.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1991-12-21
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Ongoing Smile
Overview: Documentary about Busan International Film Festival founder Kim Dong-ho.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-23
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Karma
Overview: Governor Heo, worried over the plague that's sweeping the country, rebukes the Kus who make amulets to ward off evil. Heo castrates the husband when he makes superstitious claims and takes the wife as his mistress. Heo continues to be tormented by hallucinations and nightmares and begins to blame it on the Kus' curse. He kills the couple at their reunion and unable to ward off his bad karma, dies from leprosy.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1988-05-21
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All That Falls Has Wings
Overview: This youth melodrama tells the story of a law student from a small village in Korea, and the irresponsible girl with whom he falls in love. The girl leads a reckless life, working in bars in Itaewon, and in the U.S., while the law student follows her. Their relationship ends in tragedy with the man shooting the woman, and her confessing her true love before dying.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1990-01-26
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Blue In You
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1992-12-25
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The Woman and The Man
Overview: A maternity ward nurse meets and falls in love with an obiturary columnist. Despite their apparent happiness, the nurse begins to feel that something is terribly wrong with their relationship.
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Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1993-07-24
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Their Last Love Affair
Overview: Youngmin is a professor of literature and the father of two children. He is in love with a journalist who is an admirer of his poetry. They first meet when Youngmin invites her to a dinner thanking her for an article that she has written about him. Since them, they meet secretly in motels and restaurants. One day, Youngmin lies to his wife, saying that he will stay at a temple in the mountains for two months to write poetry...
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1996-06-15
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Rainbow Trout
Overview: A group of city dwellers make a trip of three days and two nights into the isolated countryside to visit a friend in the hills. Their true nature begins to reveal itself: love hidden but never forgotten, primitive desires suppressed in the city, nasty pride that triumphs only over the weak and a strong will for survival that sacrifices even love and friendship.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1999-11-06
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Berlin Report
Overview: A reporter investigates a case in which a Korean woman, who has been living in Europe since she was 3 years old, is accused of murdering her adopted father. This is complicated by the fact that she is suffering from traumatic memory loss.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1991-06-08
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Springtime of Mimi and Cheol-su
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Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1987-07-04
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A Letter from Heaven
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Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1979-08-18
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Now, We're Going to Geneva
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1988-02-18
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Blackjack
Overview: Three people are caught in a deadly game of greed, lust, and murder.
Genres: Mystery Crime Action
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1997-09-13
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Whale Hunting 2
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Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1985-12-21
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JUNG_E
Overview: On an uninhabitable 22nd-century Earth, the outcome of a civil war hinges on cloning the brain of an elite soldier to create a robot mercenary.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2023-01-12
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Two Tomboys
Overview: Ju-Ri nicknamed as Kkaesokeum and Kong-Ju nicknamed as Okttolmae are close friends and popular figures in their school. There are various happenings such as pleasant fighting with the principal, pretty quarrel with the teacher in charge, teasing with a small male student Seulki, fresh love with Sam-Su, matchmaking of sister and art teacher. One day, the two tomboys quarrel with for trivial things and estranged from each other. When Okttolmae does not appear on the day of school beginning, Kkaesokeum regrets her faults and begins to look for Okttolmae with other friends. They find that Okttolmae quit the school and sell the eggs for domestic circumstance. Thus they begin to help Okttolmae and stir up egg troubles.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1982-05-08
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Miri, Mari, Wuri, Duri
Overview: A Story of sisters who lost their family
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1988-04-02
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Three Close Stars
Overview: A mother bribes students and teachers in order to secure a good part for her child in a school play.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1977-11-14
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Three Close Stars
Overview: In preparation for Children's Day, Jeongnam's school has decided to perform the story of Mr. Bang Jeong-hwan as a children's play as a school event, and is busy preparing for it. Jeongnam, who plays Mr. Bang Jeong-hwan, lives happily with his poor but single mother, Mrs. Park. The Japanese detective is played by Tae-hwan, the son of a wealthy family, and the wife of Mr. Bang Jeong-hwan is played by Young-hee, the daughter of a working couple, Jeong-suk and Hyung-tae. Tae-hwan's mother, Mrs. Yoo, is dissatisfied with Tae-hwan's role as a Japanese detective, and tries to get him to play Mr. Bang Jeong-hwan by any means necessary.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1977-11-04
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Autumn Tempest
Overview: Accustomed to the life of a young master, Wen Hsieng is forced to compromise under the pressure of family members, and arranges to go to the mountain temple to study. The environment in the temple makes it difficult for him to adapt to.
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Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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