Choi Jung-woo
Also Known As: Choi Jeong-wu, Jung-woo Choi, Choi Jung Woo, 최정우, Choi Jeong-u, Choi Jeong-woo, 崔政宇
Biography: Choi Jung-woo (최정우) is a South Korean actor.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: South Korea
Birthday: February 17, 1957
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Chaser
Overview: Joong-ho is a dirty detective turned pimp in financial trouble as several of his girls have recently disappeared without clearing their debts. While trying to track them down, he finds a clue that the vanished girls were all called up by the same client whom one of his girls is meeting with right now.
Genres: Crime Thriller Action
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2008-02-14
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Sky and Sea
Overview: Singer-turned-actress Jang Na-ra, nominated for The Best Actress Award at the Daejong (Grand Bell) Film Festival, the country's most prestigious film awards, plays the role of an autistic musician in the movie "The Sky and the Sea," which is the story of the friendship between three friends ― Sky, Sea and Jin-gu. However, their moment to leave one another comes closer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2009-10-28
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The Childe
Overview: Han, a Filipino-Korean boxer hits the final punch against his opponent at an illegal game and returns home with a few dollars to pay for his mother's surgery.
Genres: Action Thriller Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2023-06-21
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The Moon
Overview: In 2029, Korea's lunar probe Woori embarks on a historic journey to the moon, capturing global attention.
Genres: Drama Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2023-08-02
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Ransomed
Overview: In Beirut 1986, during the Lebanese civil war a Korean diplomat is taken hostage without a trace. Two years pass and long forgotten, a young diplomat Min-jun receives a phone call proving that the hostage is still alive. With the given mission, Min-jun is sent to Beirut to save the hostage with a bag of ransom money.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2023-08-02
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Our Town
Overview: A writer kills his landlady and stages the body to look like the work of an active serial killer. Anxious that the police might figure out the truth, he decides to insert himself into the investigation using his detective friend.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2007-11-29
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Maundy Thursday
Overview: Yujeong is suicidal, yet she reluctantly goes to prison for volunteer work. There, she meets a prisoner who is waiting for death penalty. The two quickly fall in love despite their differences, yet they do not have much time.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2006-09-14
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Girl Scout
Overview: When the head of a credit union disappears with the credit union's money, four women create a team called Bong Chon Girl Scouts Troop #3 to recover the stolen money, and chaos ensues.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2008-06-05
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Indian Summer
Overview: A woman stands trial for her life with a lawyer who is determined to save her despite her refusal to be saved.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2001-05-05
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Yellow Hair 2
Overview: The events that precede and follow, for each of those present in turn, when a young woman is asked for verification of her identity one time too many, in this case when presenting a check at a convenience store. Despite the repetition of the central scene the personal stories and consequences are interestingly varied and unpredictable. The problem for the central character is that her country allows her no usable identity following her change of sex. This was true for the lead actress, South Korea's most famed woman of transsexual history, Ha Ri-su, but that is about as far as the plot bears any resemblance to her actual life. Since the film was released the actress became, by a landmark court case, the first in her country to to be allowed proper recognition and papers. There are of course many other countries which still impose the same difficulties on similar young women.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2001-07-21
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Another Public Enemy
Overview: A criminal psychopath from a wealthy family is confronted with Chul-jung Kang, a former classmate who no longer likes his activities.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2005-01-27
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The Witch: Part 1. The Subversion
Overview: Ja-yoon is a high school student who struggles with memory loss after she endured some unknown trauma during her childhood. While trying to uncover the truth, she is unwittingly dragged into a world of crime and finds herself on a journey that will awaken many secrets hidden deep within.
Genres: Action Mystery Science Fiction
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2018-06-27
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Deranged
Overview: People binge eat and suffer from extreme thirst, which leads them to go crazy for water. They cannot control themselves because they are brainwashed by a parasite.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2012-07-05
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Like a Virgin
Overview: A chubby high school student participatee in a sports competition to win a cash prize for sex change surgery.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2006-08-31
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The Front Line
Overview: In 1951 ceasefire is declared, but two remaining armies fought their final battle on the front line Towards the end of the Korean War, a South Korean battalion is fiercely battling over a hill on the front line border against the North in order to capture a strategic point that would determine the new border between two nations. The ownership of this small patch of land would swap multiple times each day. Kang is dispatched to the front line in order to investigate the tacit case that’s been happening there.
Genres: Drama Action War
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2011-07-20
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Lady Vengeance
Overview: Released after being wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for 13 years, a woman begins executing her elaborate plan of retribution.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2005-07-29
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The Suicide Forecast
Overview: An insurance agent helps a financially desperate client make his suicide look like an accident and becomes the target of a fraud investigation. To protect his career, he must visit all his remaining suicide-prone clients and talk them out of killing themselves.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2011-04-14
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Secret Reunion
Overview: Two spies share a secret bond, despite their loyalties. A North Korean assassin is sent to Seoul to kill a dissident, but instead he teams up with a South Korean agent in search for revenge.
Genres: Thriller Action Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2010-02-04
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Memories
Overview: A woman with amnesia wakes up in the middle of the road and tries to figure out what happened to her. Meanwhile a man is haunted by some strange figure in his lonely residence.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2002-05-01
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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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Three
Overview: An anthology consisting of three horror shorts from different Asian directors: Memories by Kim Jee-woon, The Wheel by Nonzee Nimibutr, and Going Home by Peter Chan.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2002-07-09
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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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V.I.P.
Overview: A son to a high-ranked official in North Korea commits a series of murders going across the countries around the world. The movie depicts the following events as South Korea, North Korea and Interpol start chasing down after him.
Genres: Crime Thriller Action
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2017-08-23
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Big Bang
Overview: An otherwise model citizen's petty crime quickly escalates into felony when he runs away from the police station, dragging a career criminal with him.
Genres: Action Comedy Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2007-03-14
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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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