Kim Jae-rok
Also Known As: 金在祿
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: South Korea
Adult: No
Birthday: November 07, 1965
Age: 59 years old
Gender: Male
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My Lovely Angel
Overview: A life-changing story of a man who has lived as a loner his entire life. Jae Shik begins to live together with a child with a hearing-visual disability, as they change each other's lives and try to find a way to communicate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2021-05-12
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Passerby #3
Overview: Jiwan quits her job and start working on a script to become a film director. She has worked on her script for many years but making it into a film seems almost impossible. As she runs around the field in frustration, shee sees a shining rainbow in a puddle and finds hope to work on a new project. She writes to a new script of the title 'Rainbow' that is about the fantastic band playing by 7 color.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2010-11-18
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Suspicious Court
Overview: One day, Chang Hyeok learns about his friends' sad family stories and makes a big decision for them! He's going to solve their problems! Chang Hyeok's mother who is a judge is touched by his words and decides to use all her strength to help. The mother uses her status within the boundaries of the law to appear in a mock court organized by Chang Hyeok to resolve the pain of the children. Finally, the mock court begins!
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Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2021-11-03
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Even if you grab me by the collar
Overview: A noir melodrama depicting an incident in which two people who had to survive in their own way in this desperate world tainted by money and violence face each other as they become everything to each other.
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Original Language: ko
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Cat Girl
Overview: Wannabe actor Joon-cheol is living with his girlfriend who wants to get married. He tries to convince her to get married after he's made his debut but she breaks up with him in the end and kicks him out. Joon-cheol has nowhere to go but a friend of his has to go on a business trip and asks him to take care of his pet cat. However, what's waiting for him is not a cat but a girl with aphasia. Joon-cheol quarrels with his friend about calling the cops and comes out of the house. He goes back to his girlfriend but she doesn't accept him so he starts living with the cat girl.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2013-11-28
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The Fake
Overview: A convict returns to his home town to again torture his family, face his neighbors and try to destroy the local religious fanatics and their plans to keep money from the village people.
Genres: Animation Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2013-11-21
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From the New World
Overview: After losing her son while defecting from North Korea, Myung-sun meets a fellow defector, Sin-tek, who is the leader of the Church of the Fire. Through him, Myung-sun begins to learn about the doctrines of resurrection as they settle at a small town in South Korea.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2023-12-20
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Kim Dae Jung Must Not Die
Overview: Kim Dae Jung, who stands next to people in the middle of caotic history! A young businessman Kim Dae Jung recognized the victims of ideology. He decided to be a politician to make his country where people's politic and democracy are rooted. The price of being leave from a guaranteed future and take the first step on a bumby road was kidnapping, death threats, imprisonment, and a death sentence that shook him to the core, but even in his final moments, when he was sentenced to death, Kim never wavered. "Democracy will be recovered. I believe in it." The life of President Kim Dae-jung, a death row inmate who survived from the throes of death, four parliamentary elections, and three unsuccessful presidential campaigns, is etched into the modern history of South Korea.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2024-01-10
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Take Care of My Mom
Overview: When family members feel more like strangers than a hired caretaker, what is an aging parent to do? Mal-im, age 85 and living alone, finds her independent lifestyle increasingly difficult to maintain. Her son, faced with his own financial and family burdens, is simply unavailable, and Mal-im's discomfort is only worsened by the quirky but sincere caretaker he sends. When the Seollal (Lunar New Year) holiday brings the family together, tensions finally explode out into the open.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2022-04-13
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Red Family
Overview: A growing friendship with their neighbors softens the resolve of a group of North Korean spies who are posing as an ordinary South Korean family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2013-11-06
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One on One
Overview: On May 9th, a female high school student was brutally murdered. There are 7 suspects and 7 shadows that terrorize them. Who are they and which one of them is you?
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2014-05-22
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Moebius
Overview: A wife, overwhelmed with hatred for her husband, inflicts an unspeakable wound on their son, as the family heads towards horrific destruction.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2013-09-05
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Too Beautiful to Lie
Overview: A professional lady con makes herself the pharmacist's fiancée overnight, and faces a disastrous blemish in her impeccable con-woman career.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2004-02-20
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A Broom Becomes a Goldfish
Overview: Middle aged Jang-Pil lives in a small one room apartment in Shinrim-dong. In the past, he might have studied for his bar exam, but now he makes a living by collecting junk, managing the apartment building he lives in and also makes wooden dolls to sell. One day he lends money to a young man in the same apartment building, but the man ends up taking his job. Jang-Pil is also tricked by a woman he met in the neighborhood.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2010-09-30
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Lowborn
Overview: In Korea at the end of the 19th century, there was a caste system between the lower and the upper class. Elder Ryu, a renowned eldest son who was on the fast track, was arrested and Ryu han-se was also arrested. Ryu Myoeong-se who is a concubine of Elder Ryu, is the real identity of the person arrested for murdering Ryu han-se and impersonating his identity.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2018-11-01
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Seoul Station
Overview: In this animated prequel to "Train to Busan," a group of survivors deals with a zombie pandemic that unleashes itself in downtown Seoul.
Genres: Animation Horror Science Fiction Action Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2016-08-17
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Yoon Hee
Overview: A North Korean refugee named Yoon-hee works hard to bring her daughter who is left alone in China but one day crashes with a handicapped person with her milk delivery bike. The disabled refuses to go to the hospital but sues her as a hit-and-run and this gets spread all over the Internet. She is criticized by netizens and gets fired from all of her jobs. It turns out that the man who sued her is a self-injuring blackmailer disguised as a disabled person. Yoon-hee learns that she's going to need alot of money to win the case and to bring her daughter. She tries to make money through surrogacy but she ends up not getting paid. Being accused falsely, Yoon-hee doesn't trust the lawyer she has who only thinks about the cost and decides to stand up for herself
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2014-01-09
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Pieta
Overview: A loan shark is forced to reconsider his violent lifestyle after the arrival of a mysterious woman claiming to be his long-lost mother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2012-09-06
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Come, Together
Overview: Beom-goo, an honest man in his 40s working as an engineer is fired from his work. His wife, Mi-yeong, a salesperson for a credit card company works even harder to make a living for the entire family. Their daughter, Ha-na, a college entrance exam preparer for the second time feels extremely nervous as she is waiting for the announcement of additionally accepted students.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2017-05-11
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We Will Be OK
Overview: Sang-seok (Kim Sang-seok) is an actor whose career has stalled before it has even begun. He has never been in a major film production, he is completely unknown and though he wishes he could take part in the Busan International Film Festival his hopes are no more than pipe dreams. In an effort to help his situation, Sang-seok’s friends Jae-ho and Tae-hee suggest making a film with him as the star. However, when the movie is cancelled, utterly dejected Sang-seok heads to a karaoke bar to drown his sorrows. There he meets a beautiful woman, Hwa (Lee Hwa), and falling instantly for her all the pain of the failed film project is overtaken by thoughts of her. Baek Jae-ho’s nuanced first directorial feature has already been invited to a number of Korean film festivals, including BIFF.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2014-10-04
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Host & Guest
Overview: A cynical, divorced intellectual has a bizarre life-changing (and life-saving) encounter with a stoic evangelist, who turns out to have his own problems. From amusingly varied viewpoints, the two bond and start to take a stand against the oppressing forces in their lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2006-11-15
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Buddy's Mom
Overview: 20-year-old Kyeong-soo is a man who's full of assumptions. He learned about sex from Internet porn, but nothing about the real thing. He's only had crushes and has never even kissed before. He got embarrassed when he confessed his feelings to Ji-yeon, his crush. He comforted himself from the shame with Japanese girls in his room with his right hand. One day, he has a fight with his father and remembers his friend Baek-hyeon had invited him over to Gangwon-do. There he falls in love with his friends' mother.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2015-11-12
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Microhabitat
Overview: Miso lives from day to day by housekeeping. Cigarettes and whiskey are the two things that get her through the day. As cigarette prices and rent start to rise, Miso decides to give up her house for cigarettes and whiskey, leading her to couch surf with old friends while reconsidering her place in life.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2018-03-15
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Heaven's Postman
Overview: Jae-jun delivers letters to heaven from those who can't get over the loss of their loved ones. One day Ha-na, who writes to her late boyfriend, discovers Jae-jun's secret identity. He offers her a part-time job assisting him, and they set off on a 14-day journey.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2009-11-11
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Black Money
Overview: A prosecutor is falsely accused of sexual assault in a suicide note from a woman that he is convinced was actually murdered. As he investigates her death to clear his name, he realizes that the truth lies in a huge financial scandal.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2019-11-13
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Train to Busan
Overview: When a zombie virus pushes Korea into a state of emergency, those trapped on an express train to Busan must fight for their own survival.
Genres: Horror Thriller Action Adventure
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2016-07-20
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Red Vacance Black Wedding 2
Overview: Hong-chae has never been in a relationship before and she's tired of the man who has been coming into her flower shop everyday for the past 2 years. She's scared of Jeom-dong who shows obsession and one day tells him that she's got a fiance so to stop coming through her co-worker Hae-wook. Jeom-dong stabs her and runs away. A year later, Hong-chae was living a normal life, without a thought about Jeom-dong when she meets him again. This time, he approaches her through her childish mother, Seon-ae, as her boyfriend. He starts showing crazy love towards them, desperate and violent...
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2013-11-28
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Dust and Ashes
Overview: Hae-su works at a factory on the outskirts of Seoul. Returning home from work, she makes a phone call that goes to voicemail; nearing her residence, another phone call comes in, but she doesn't pick up. Inside the house is her mother's body—she died from mysterious circumstances. A knock on the door goes unanswered, but when a plainclothes police officer arrives, Hae-su lets him in. An exchange of documents, uncertain glances. With Hae-su and her tempermental brother the only attendants at her mother's funeral, there are more questions than answers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2022-02-24
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A Dreaming Butterfly
Overview: Middle aged Tae-gyu spends every night making love to his young and beautiful wife and everything seems like a happy dream to him. One night while his wife is out of town, someone keeps knocking on the door. The knocker doesn't reveal him or herself so Tae-gyu opens the door to find a woman who looks just like his wife, standing there. No, this woman looks just like his wife but she is wearing thick and heavy make up, has blonde hair and is wearing torn and ripped clothes. She's more decadent than his sentimental wife. After she's gone, Tae-gyu suffers every night from a nightmare in which he is being raped by an unknown figure and is confused if that is reality or just a dream. When the femme fatale comes back, Tae-gyu feels his wife's scent from her and is sure she is his wife by the look in her eyes. When she looks at him, he sees deep sadness. He knows that she wants him to kill himself when she hands him a knife so he stabs himself in the neck. Tae-gyu is dead, but it isn't over.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2016-08-12
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A Man Who Was Superman
Overview: A snobbish producer makes a documentary about the extraordinary behavior of her neighbor who believes himself to be Superman.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2008-01-31
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Bandhobi
Overview: Min-Seo, a 17-year old rebellious high school Korean girl, lives in a small apartment with her mother and her mother’s penniless lover. She hates her mother’s lover and doesn’t understand both of them. Karim, a 29-year old Muslim migrant worker from Bangladesh has to leave Korea in a month. Before departing, he is desperately searching for his ex-boss to get his unpaid salary. One day, as Min-Seo’s summer vacation begins, Karim encounters Min-Seo on a bus, and together they set out on an emotional journey.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2009-06-25
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Marathon
Overview: Cho-won is an autistic but happy young man who loves to draw zebras and run. His mother wants him to feel normal by accomplishing a feat that no one thought his son could achieve. With the help of a coach in exile, she trains him to become a marathon runner.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2005-01-27
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Go Go 70's
Overview: In the 1970s, Devil's, a legendary band, participates in a Korean band contest. The band mesmerizes the audience with its style and dance. However, the night is put at risk when an unexpected situations arises.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2008-10-02
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Christmas in August
Overview: It's a sweltering summer, but Jung-won, a terminally ill, thirty-something photographer, is already in the winter of his life when he begins a tentative romance with a young traffic cop who doesn't know about his condition. Is their relationship doomed before it even begins?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1998-01-24
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Lovers of 6 Years
Overview: Da-Jin and Jae-Young have been in an all too comfortable relationship for the past six years. Although they don't live together, their apartments reside side by side. But trouble brews for the couple when they begin to fall for their respective co-workers. Can Da-Jin and Jae-Young's relationship survive these outside temptations?
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2008-02-05
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Poongsan
Overview: Poongsan has the unenviable - and death-defying - job of delivering messages across the North and South Korean border to separated families. When South Korean government agents ask him to smuggle in In-ok, the lover of a high-ranking North Korean defector, into the South, the damsel and rescuer fall in love instead.
Genres: Action Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2011-06-23
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Crossing
Overview: Yong-soo is an ex-soccer player who lives in a small coal-mine village in North Korea with his wife and young son, Joon. Although living in extreme poverty like many other families in North Korea, the family is happy just to be with each other. Then one day, Yong-soo's pregnant wife becomes critically ill. Let alone medicine, Yong-soo can't even find food for her in North Korea. So he decides to secretly cross the border to China hoping to find the medicine for his wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2008-06-05
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A Bedsore
Overview: Chang-sik, a retired man, lives with his wife, Gilsoon and her caretaker, Soo-ok, an illegal immigrant. One day, a bedsore develops on Gilsoon, which does not seem to heal. Even though Gilsoon is in poor shape, Soo-ok insists on taking time off on weekends. Chang-sik realizes Soo-ok is trying a sham marriage for a new visa. Upon hearing this, Chang-sik suggests they get married.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2020-07-02
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Boy Meets Girl
Overview: I will call you! So you better answer your phone! In the year 2020, a homestay is being conducted for male and female teenagers in preparation for a union between North Korea and South Korea. North Korean girl Ha-jin goes to South Korean boy Woo-yeong's house to homestay. Woo-yeong starts to bully Ha-jin who has taken his room, but alas! First love has found its way to these children. Woo-yeong runs away to Seoul with Ha-jin to help her meet her father.
Genres: Adventure Drama War Family Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2016-06-23
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In Her Place
Overview: A wealthy couple seeks to secretly adopt the unborn child of an impoverished and troubled rural teenager, in this slow-burning and ultimately shocking drama from writer-director Albert Shin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2014-09-04
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Fighter
Overview: After a few months of social adjustment training, the North Korean refugee Jina moves to a small studio in Seoul and starts her new life. To bring her father to South Korea, she needs money but no matter how hard she works, the discrimination doesn’t let her save enough money.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2021-03-18
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Godsend
Overview: A woman who desperately wants a baby asks a girl who is considering abortion to give her the baby instead. The two arrive at an isolated vacation home to spend time in seclusion until the girl gives birth to a baby, but they unexpectedly encounter a mysterious young painter and some criminal hunters.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2013-10-06
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The Eternal Empire
Overview: This film depicts the struggles of the Royal Party and the Old Party to obtain political power. In 1800, The Royal Party insisted that the political power should be centralized to the King, but the other party (The Old Party) insisted that the political power should be centralized to the majority of the ministers. One day, official Jang was ordered by the King to arrange and edit the record of the former King Yeongjo. All of a sudden, Jang dies. Soon it was disclosed that Jang was killed by the Old Party because of their connection with the book. For this incident , the King tried to get rid of key members of the Old Party, but the Old Party resists the King's will. What was in the book? Who was involved? Why? The political intrigue will keep you on the edge of your seat.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1995-01-28
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