Hwang Jung-min
Also Known As: 황정민, Hwang Jung-Min, Hwang Jeong-min, هوانج يونج مين, هوانگ جونگ-مین, ファン・ジョンミン, 黃晸珉, 黄政民, 黃晸玟
Biography: Hwang Jung-min (황정민) is a South Korean actor. He was born on September 1, 1970 and began his career in musical theatre, making his acting debut in Line 1 in 1995. He then starred in various musicals and plays in Daehangno such as "Jesus Christ Superstar" and "Cats". Despite a career on stage, Hwang had difficulty transitioning to film. He went through a long struggle for recognition, with people saying he "didn’t have the right face for film." He even considered giving up his dream, but stuck to his conviction about walking the path of acting. Hwang said, "After becoming interested about the stage and how it feels to be that person on stage, I've never thought of anything else. That I never swayed -- that is one thing I can say with confidence." His big break came when he was cast in Waikiki Brothers, a 2001 film that was a sleeper hit in Korea. In his role as a hopeless drummer, Hwang left a strong impression and earned favorable reviews, with director Im Soon-rye calling him "an uncut gemstone." It was in 2005 that Hwang became a household name, portraying a naive farmer in love with an AIDS-stricken prostitute in the hit melodrama "You Are My Sunshine". Hwang explains that he was "moved by the tale of the genuine love between two people. I agreed with the director's idea of showing it as pure love, like an uncut gem, without sloppily adding to it or embellishing it." When he accepted the best actor award at the Blue Dragon Film Awards for his performance in You Are My Sunshine, many were moved by his now-famous speech: "All I did was add a spoon to a dinner table that had already been prepared by others."
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Masan, South Gyeongsang, South Korea
Adult: No
Birthday: September 01, 1970
Age: 54 years old
Gender: Male
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Shiri
Overview: North Korea's 8th Special Forces hijack a shipment of CTX, a potent new liquid explosive, and threatens South Korea as part of a plot to re-unify the two countries. Ryu and Lee, special agents of O.P., South Korea's secret intelligence service, attempt to track down the terrorists and find the CTX. Meanwhile Hee, the 8th's ultra-bad female sniper, resurfaces to wreak havoc and haunt Ryu.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1999-02-13
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A Bittersweet Life
Overview: Kim Sun-woo is an enforcer and manager for a hotel owned by a cold, calculative crime boss, Kang who assigns Sun-woo to a simple errand while he is away on a business trip; to shadow his young mistress, Hee-soo, for fear that she may be cheating on him with a younger man with the mandate that he must kill them both if he discovers their affair.
Genres: Action Drama Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2005-04-01
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Bloody Tie
Overview: A crystal meth dealer with a tragic past is forced to team up with a renegade cop to take down a powerful crime lord.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2006-04-27
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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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The Unjust
Overview: An honest cop has to compromise with his principles when he is told to find a scapegoat for a high-profile serial killer case in exchange for a big promotion.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2010-10-28
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Heaven's Soldiers
Overview: Modern day soldiers travel back in time and meet Admiral Lee, the greatest soldier of all time, and motivate him to drive out invaders.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2005-06-14
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Kill Boksoon
Overview: At work, she's a renowned assassin. At home, she's a single mom to a teenage daughter. Killing? That's easy. It's parenting that's the hard part.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2023-02-17
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12.12: The Day
Overview: After the assassination of President Park, martial law has been declared. A coup d'état bursts out by DefenseSecurity Commander Chun Doo-gwang and a private band of officers following him. Capital Defense Commander Lee Tae-shin, an obstinate soldier who believes the military should not take political actions, fights against Chun Doo-gwang to stop him. The conflict between the two grows while military leaders are holding their decision and Defense Minister is gone. In the midst of chaos, the spring of Seoul that everyone longed for heads to unexpected direction.
Genres: Drama History Thriller Crime War Action
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2023-11-22
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This Charming Girl
Overview: Jeong-hye, a woman in her 30s, works at the post office and lives a quite monotonous life alone in an apartment with her cat. Apart from having lunch with the girls at work, she is all by herself, until an aspiring writer is attracted by her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2005-03-10
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Moby Dick
Overview: A mysterious explosion occurs at the Balam Bridge in Seoul on November 20th, 1994. In front of hot-blooded local news reporter Lee Bang-Woo, Yoon Hyeok appears. Yoon Hyeok is from the same hometown as Lee Bang-Woo, but they haven't seen each other in a long time. Yoon Hyeok hands over documents to Lee Bang-Woo and hints that the case of the Balam Bridge was fabricated.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2011-06-09
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Dancing Queen
Overview: The next mayor of Seoul candidate's wife becomes a dance singer in this movie as Hwang Jeong-min takes on the role of poor lawyer turned politician and Uhm Jung-hwa as the wife who makes an attempt at singing without her husband knowing at first.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2012-01-18
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Black House
Overview: Jun-oh, an insurance claims agent, faces off with a client who he suspects of committing murders with the intention of collecting insurance premiums.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2007-06-21
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Road Movie
Overview: Suk-won, a trader who loses all of his money and his wife in a market downturn is left homeless until Dae-shik, a homeless loner, rescues him. Together the two travel across the country and Dae-shik falls in love with Suk-won. Joining them in their journey is Il-joo, a wacky hooker who falls in love with Dae-shik.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2002-10-18
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You Are My Sunshine
Overview: An old bachelor Seok-joong, who has no experience in dating, falls in love at first sight with a prostitute named Eun-ha. At first Eun-ha shows no interest in Seok-joong, but gradually she begins to be flattered by his devotion and eventually falls in love with him. They marry. However, one day, Eun-ha finds out that she is infected with HIV and decides to leave Seok-joong.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2005-09-23
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Fists of Legend
Overview: Three men who share a past participate in a mixed martial arts reality show where they have to fight against other contestants to win the prize money.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2013-04-10
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The Last Wolf
Overview: A detective tired of bloody and cruel crimes in Seoul negotiates a transfer to a crime-free town in the country, where he lives a life of peace and bliss. But then his new police station is listed for closure due to the town's complete absence of crime in the last 20 years.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2004-04-01
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Waikiki Brothers
Overview: Waikiki Brothers is a band going nowhere. After another depressing gig, the saxophonist quits, leaving the three remaining members to continue on the road. The band ends up at the lead singer's hometown, which was a popular hot spring resort in the '80s, but the return home is filled with reservations of previous and past disappointments, a lost love, unemployment and tragedy.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2001-10-27
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Hunt
Overview: After a high-ranking North Korean official requests asylum, KCIA Foreign Unit chief Park Pyong-ho and Domestic Unit chief Kim Jung-do are tasked with uncovering a North Korean spy, known as Donglim, who is deeply embedded within their agency. When the spy begins leaking top secret intel that could jeopardize national security, the two units are each assigned to investigate each other.
Genres: Action Mystery Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2022-08-10
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A Good Lawyer's Wife
Overview: A woman, married and with a child but becoming increasingly distant from her husband who is already cheating on her, reluctantly enters a secret relationship with her neighbor, a teenage boy.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2003-08-14
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Man in Love
Overview: Tae-Il lives a fast life as low level thug. He then learns that he has a terminal illness and not much time left to live. Then, for the first time in his life, he falls in love.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2014-01-22
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New World
Overview: An undercover cop has his loyalties tested when the boss of the corporate gang he's spent years infiltrating dies.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2013-02-21
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Private Eye
Overview: The story takes place in occupied Korea at the start of the 20th century, where a young student in medicine discovers the murdered body of the son of a government official. Being scared of being accused, he decides to hire Hong Jin-ho (a detective) to help him find the murderer before the police accuse him of the murder.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2009-02-16
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I, the Executioner
Overview: The veteran detective Seo Do-cheol and his team at Major Crimes, relentless in their pursuit of criminals, join forces with rookie cop Park Sun-woo to track down a serial killer who has plunged the nation into turmoil.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2024-09-13
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Mission: Cross
Overview: In the ultimate test of marriage, an agent-turned-househusband gets tangled in a perilous mission with his detective wife, who's clueless about his past.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2024-08-08
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The Wailing
Overview: A stranger arrives in a little village and soon after a mysterious sickness starts spreading. A policeman is drawn into the incident and is forced to solve the mystery in order to save his daughter.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2016-05-12
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In My End Is My Beginning
Overview: When Jung-ha loses her husband in an accident, Naru, her husband's secret lover, comes to her. Naru begs Jung-ha that she will do anything if only she will let her stay at her house. Jung-ha denies her at first, but eventually their strange arrangement of living together begins.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2013-04-04
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Ode to My Father
Overview: Duk-soo lost his father and younger sister while taking refuge during the Korean War. He leaves for Germany to work as a miner and enters the Vietnam War. He wishes to find his sister.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2014-12-17
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Happiness
Overview: Young, a careless person, suffers from terminal illness and gets admitted in a hospital for treatment. There, he falls in love with a patient. After recovering, will he get back to his former life
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2007-10-03
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Veteran
Overview: When an old collaborator gets severely injured, a veteran policeman tries to figure out the way to bring to justice the ultimately suspected aggressor, a spoiled young executive, heir to a mega corporation, who believes he is above the law.
Genres: Action Crime Comedy Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2015-08-05
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Hope
Overview: The largely Korean-language film will follow the residents of Hopo Port, where a mysterious discovery is made on the outskirts of the remote harbor town. Before long, the residents find themselves in a desperate fight for survival against something they have never encountered before.
Genres: Science Fiction Action
Original Language: ko
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The Himalayas
Overview: Based on true events, renowned mountaineer Um Hong-gil sets out on a mission to Everest to retrieve his late junior climber's body and faces the greatest challenge of his life.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2015-12-16
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A Violent Prosecutor
Overview: After a prosecution lawyer is framed and convicted for murder, he tries to catch the real murderer from jail with the help of a con artist.
Genres: Crime Comedy Action
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2016-02-03
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All for Love
Overview: A romantic comedy which portrays the most beautiful period in the lives of different couples who have just fallen in love.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2005-10-07
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Asura: The City of Madness
Overview: A shady cop finds himself in over his head when he gets caught between Internal Affairs and the city’s corrupt mayor.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2016-09-28
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Five Senses of Eros
Overview: In this anthology film centered around the theme of "Eros," five seperate stories are presented by five top Korean directors. The main characters from each segment are connected with each other in one way or another.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2009-07-09
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The Battleship Island
Overview: During the Japanese colonial era, roughly 400 Korean people, who were forced onto Battleship Island 'Hashima Island' to mine for coal, attempt to escape.
Genres: Action History Drama War
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2017-07-26
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YMCA Baseball Team
Overview: Hochang accidentally sees missionaries and Jeongrim play baseball at the YMCA hall. He falls in love with Jeongrim, and takes interest in baseball. As a result, he gathers people to form the first YMCA baseball team of Joseon.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2002-10-03
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My 11th Mother
Overview: A cynical young boy gets to know the latest girlfriend of his ne'er-do-well father and begins to hope that this new relationship actually sticks.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2007-11-29
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The Spy Gone North
Overview: South Korea, 1993. An agent of the National Intelligence Service is sent to Beijing to infiltrate a group of North Korean officials with the ultimate goal of obtaining information about their nuclear program.
Genres: Drama History Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2018-08-08
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Digital Short Film Omnibus Project Twentidentity, Vol. 1
Overview: In order to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Korean Film Academy, 20 of the academy's former students (who are respected director's today) were invited to shoot an omnibus movie consisting of 20 short films. Overall this work was very well received by the critiques at the 17th Tokyo International Film Festival. Films include Under a Big Tree, Sutda, Twenty Millimeter Thick, Innocence, *?!#@$ Up Shoes, Twenty Questions, The Twenty's Law, To the 21st, Pass Me and Alone Together.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Battlefield Heroes
Overview: This story unfolds 8 years after 'Battle of Hwangsanbeol', which destroyed Baekjae, when Silla-Tang Dynasty union attacks Goguryeo.
Genres: War Comedy History
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2011-01-27
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Deliver Us from Evil
Overview: A retired contract killer goes on a bloody rampage when a young girl finds herself at the mercy of gangland human traffickers and only one man can come to her rescue, with an arsenal of weapons and years of experience in the art of killing.
Genres: Crime Action Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2020-08-05
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Money
Overview: Get caught up in the tale of a new stock broker who dreams of becoming rich. Those dreams make him susceptible to a stock market scam that threatens to get him in trouble.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2019-03-20
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Hostage: Missing Celebrity
Overview: A box office star has to prove his action credentials in the real world when he's kidnapped and held for ransom.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2021-08-18
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The Point Men
Overview: A group of Korean tourists is taken hostage by an extremist Taliban group in Afghanistan. The Korean government dispatches Jae-ho, known as one of Korea's most skilled diplomats, in order to handle the situation. Once he arrives, he asks for the Afghan government's cooperation and uses every means possible to free the hostages. However, his efforts go in vain. Due to his failure, he's forced to work with Dae-sik, a special agent who is an expert on the Middle East. As they begin making their move to get to the Taliban, the first hostage death occurs. With nowhere else to turn, the two become unlikely allies in a race against time to save the rest of the hostages.
Genres: Action Thriller Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2023-01-18
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General's Son
Overview: In Japanese-occupied South Korea, a young man, newly-released from prison, is accepted into a gang for his fighting skills and quickly rises to the top. Based on the life of South Korean mobster and politician Kim Du-han.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1990-06-09
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Blades of Blood
Overview: Lee Mong-hak and a skilled blind swordsman Hwang Jeong-hak, both long to wipe away corruption and heal the world. Lee Mong-hak creates a rebel army to achieve his goal and get rid of the King.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2010-04-28
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Under A Big Tree
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2003-12-19
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