Cho Jae-hyun
Also Known As: 조재현, Jae-hyeon Jo, Jaehyeon Jo, Jo Jae-hyun, Jae-hyun Cho, Cho Jai-hyun, 曹在显, โจ แจฮุน
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Seoul, South Korea
Birthday: June 30, 1965
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Gender: Male
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The Romance
Overview: Yoon-hee is so harassed by her husband's obsession and frantic love, that even breathing is painful to her. One day, her sudden suicide attempt is foiled when someone takes her in his arms and saves her. Hyeong-joon is a rough-looking detective. He asks nothing, but maybe he knows that for some people, just being alive is hard enough. Yoon-hee goes looking for Hyeong-joon, and from the moment she sees him, feels that he already loves her deeply. Because she knows it is totally impossible to be free from her prison of marriage, the peace and happiness she feels at Hyeong-joon's side is heartbreaking and frightening. Hyeong-joon, used to his life of loneliness and despair, loves Yoon-hee at first sight, but as he can't do anything for her, just lets her go. The only thing he can do is to offer her and himself some comfort.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2006-03-16
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The Isle
Overview: Mute Hee-Jin is working as a clerk in a fishing resort in the Korean wilderness; selling baits, food and occasionally her body to the fishing tourists. One day she falls in love with Hyun-Shik, who is on the run from the police, and rescues him with a fish hook when he tries to commit suicide.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2000-04-22
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Bad Guy
Overview: A pimp enforcer takes revenge on a woman who rejected his advances by tricking her into prostitution, but complications arise.
Genres: Drama Thriller Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2001-11-11
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Address Unknown
Overview: Romances end in blood and the frail hopes of individuals are torn apart in a vile karmic continuity of colonialism, civil war and occupation. After surviving Japanese colonization, Korea became the first war zone of the Cold War. The legacy of war remains today in this divided country.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2001-06-02
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Crocodile
Overview: Under the Han River lives Crocodile, a rugged member of the lumpenproletariat who exists from schemes and stealing. His position as a scavenger of society undermines South Korea’s boasts of its newfound economic position as an Asian Tiger. One day, Crocodile finds a girl floating in his river.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1996-11-16
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Wild Animals
Overview: Two Korean ex-pats in Paris are recruited by a French mobster. The duo find themselves at war with their mobster recruiters and each other.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1997-10-25
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Sword In The Moon
Overview: Kingdom of Joseon, ancient Korea. A usurper has conquered the throne. His ministers are being systematically eliminated by a mysterious assassin. An arrogant master swordsman is in charge of putting an end to the carnage.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2003-07-15
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Marine Boy
Overview: Marine Boy is the story of a former national swimmer who finds himself in debt, and out of desperation is employed as a mule by a gangster boss, smuggling drugs by sea.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2009-02-05
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Passion Portrait
Overview: Failing to enter the university of his choice, a young man is forced to enter a local college, but a series of disappointments causes him to give up his studies and begin a life of aimless travel.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1991-03-16
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Wind Echoing in My Being
Overview: A young man living alone in his attic, wishes to publish a book of his dreams. He records his dreams on a small tape recorder while he falls in and out of sleep. Then when he awakens, he writes of these dreams on paper. His dreams consist mainly of memories and recollections of his youth.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1997-10-25
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The Weight
Overview: Jung is a mortician at the morgue, who has to rely heavily on medicine for his severe tuberculosis and arthritis. Despite his illness, cleaning and dressing the dead is a noble and even beautiful work. His life over there is both a reality and a fantasy while the corpses are his models and friends for his paintings, his sole living pleasure. Why this morbid hobby? Jung was adopted by a horrible woman who used him as a slave for her dress shop. The natural son of the woman is younger than Jung and has a strange desire. He wants to transform his male body into a female one. Despite the love and hate relationship Jung has with his brother and burdened with the weight of life and the difficulties he has to deal with at his job, Jung endures the pain and prepares a last gift for his brother...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2013-04-10
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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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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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The Fatal Encounter
Overview: Late 18th-century Joseon dynasty. The King is beleaguered and surrounded by traitors of the ruling elite. They plan to assassinate and replace him with a puppet. But the King has some aces up his sleeve that may help him defeat them all.
Genres: Action History
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2014-04-30
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The Kick
Overview: Korean family made up of taekwondo experts moves to Thailand, where they set up a taekwondo gym. However, one member of the family, Taeju, wants to become a famous pop singer instead. The family becomes famous after stopping treasure robbers.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2011-11-03
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Interview
Overview: A story of a filmmaker who falls in love with a woman he interviews for his film. The film presents the evolution of a relationship which shifts from the objective to the subjective, and from lies to truth.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2000-04-01
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남자시장
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1990-06-02
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El Condor Pasa
Overview: A Catholic priest takes a young girl under his wing but is devastated when she is suddenly raped and killed. Even more affected by the incident is her much older sister who, in the absence of their parents, had been acting as the girl’s maternal guardian. The priest wants to console the woman though he is nowhere closer to getting over his own grief. A bizarre journey between the two ensues which includes a pilgrimage to Peru.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2013-05-30
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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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Seondal: The Man Who Sells the River
Overview: In the late Joseon Dynasty, Bongyi Kim Seon-dal is the best conman who sells water from the Taedong River.
Genres: History Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2016-07-06
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A Korean in Paris
Overview: Korean newlyweds are on their honeymoon in Paris. Strolling in the Pigalle area, the young bride sees in a red dress in a store window and she enters the shop. Her husband goes to buy cigarettes while he waits for her. When the man comes back his wife has disappeared. Not speaking a word of French he desperately searches for her. A search that will turn into a free fall into a world ruled by illegality, prostitution, drugs, a universe with its own codes and punishments
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2016-01-09
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The Executioner
Overview: An execution scheduled to be carried out in 12 years creates a hostile and stifling atmosphere among guards in one jail. This has profound effects on the dehumanization of Jae-kyoung, a young, newly appointed guard who nonetheless happens to find that a cold-blooded colleague of his, Jong-ho, has some humane traits. Written by Pusan International Film Festival winning screenwriter Young Ok Kim.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2009-11-05
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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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Cutting the Sorrow With a Knife Stuck in the Chest
Overview: A man accepts a job on a shrimp fishing boat unaware that he is being set up for slave labor along with the rest of the crew of social outcasts.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1992-11-07
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Prison World Cup
Overview: With the new millenium, the U.N. human rights committee proposes the first Prisoner's World Cup, putting forth the slogans of Liberty, Equality, and Harmony. Corrections wardens across Korea are thrown into a dilemma over whether to let their prisoners participate or not. The Hope Team is one of the most unlikely soccer teams in the world with a total of 75 previous convictions and an average of 6 for each player. With promises of leaves and reduced sentences, the team members are motivated to the hilt. They pool their various criminal talents to play, fight, and poison their way to the finals despite a prejudiced referee and two of the team's members having been bought off by the opposing team. But when their leader, the only condemned man among them, breaks out of jail, the team is thrown into chaos and they learn some more about hope.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2001-05-19
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The Face
Overview: A poor girl marries into a wealthy family, but after the birth of her first child, she discovers that she is unhappy in her marriage and is forced to make a series of difficult decisions.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1999-05-29
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Father And Son: The Story Of Mencius
Overview: MAENG Sa-seong excelled at his old school. However, at a new school located in an affluent neighborhood, the situation completely changes, and students make fun of him for being from a not-so-rich family. On the other hand, Hyun-jeong living next door to him is the best high school student in the country and never feels timid with anyone. MAENG Sa-seong is a daddy’s boy, for his father is so dedicated to him, while Hyun-jeong is bright and always confident, growing up without her father. Will Mr. MAENG succeed in forcing Kang-du, a redneck rogue, to move out?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2004-03-26
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Mokpo the Harbor
Overview: A detective goes undercover and poses as a gangster to infiltrate a powerful criminal organization connected to a large drug deal.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2004-02-20
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Beyond the Years
Overview: A drama centered on brother-and-sister musicians trained to perform the epic Korean poems known as pansori.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2007-04-12
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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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Karuna
Overview: In 1943, Yang Chunsoo, a descendant of a Koryo celadon maker, lives in a small village in the countryside, His younger son, Jongil, makes pottery without his father's approval in order to marry Poonim. When Chungsoo finds this out, he breaks every ceramic piece that his son has made. Poonim, without the money that was supposed to be given by Jongil leaves the village, angry and frustrated. Seven years later, when the Korean war erupts, Jongil returns to the village as an officer of the triumphant communist army. Later his elder brother, Jongsik, returns to the village as a South Korean army officer, Chunsoo stabs himself in the eye in order to stop the two brothers from fighting. The two brothers are, however, executed as scapegoats of an ideology. Twenty years later, Jinhyung, Chunsoo's grandson, takes over his grandfather's pottery business. He then learns about h is ancestor's mysterious past.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1996-03-16
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