Kim Kang-woo
Also Known As: 김강우, Kang-woo Kim, Kim Kang-wu, Kim Gang-woo, Kim Gang-wu, Kang-yu Jin, 金康宇, 金剛于
Biography: Kim Kang-woo (김강우) is a South Korean actor and singer. He was born on July 11, 1978.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Seoul, South Korea
Birthday: July 11, 1978
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Ha Ha Ha
Overview: Over drinks, two friends agree to swap fond memories of their recent trips to the same seaside town. As the stories unfold in flashback, it becomes evident their accounts take place at the same time and with the same people.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2010-05-06
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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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Rainbow Eyes
Overview: Officers Cho Kyung-yoon and Park Eun-joo are on the hunt a killer following duo of ghastly murders. The victims carry a common military past, and the secret of their past must be unraveled to find the killer.
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2007-12-27
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The Beast and the Beauty
Overview: An unattractive guy and a beautiful blind girl are in love. But their relationship is turned upside down when she regains her eyesight and he doesn't want to show her his face.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2005-10-27
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Le Grand Chef
Overview: A disgraced chef tries to restore his name by competing in a culinary contest to win the knife of Korea's last royal chef.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2007-10-31
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A Better Tomorrow
Overview: An idealistic policeman must bring down his estranged older brother, now a powerful gangster in a South Korean port city.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2010-09-16
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Doomsday Book
Overview: In 'A Brave New World', a virus brings the city to ruins and zombies flood the streets of Seoul. In 'The Heavenly Creature', a robot reaches enlightenment while working at a temple, but its creators deem this phenomenon a threat to mankind. In the final segment, 'Happy Birthday', a young girl logs onto a strange website and places an order for a new billiard ball for her father. Soon afterwards a meteor heads toward Earth and people flee to underground bomb shelters.
Genres: Science Fiction Fantasy Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2012-04-11
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The Gifted Hands
Overview: While investigating the kidnapping and murder of a little girl, a detective spots a piece of graffiti that depicts the crime scene perfectly—but the graffiti was drawn a month before the crime took place, and that the artist knows more than he is telling.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2013-03-06
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A Birth
Overview: The great adventures of Kim Dae-gun, a young man dreaming of a New Joseon. He is full of curiosity and takes action rather than words. He willingly accepts the fate of becoming Joseon’s first priest and sets out to study in Macau with his seminary classmates. And finally opens the way of the modern Joseon Dynasty by traversing the sea and land!
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2022-11-30
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The Taste of Money
Overview: The assistant of a wealthy socialite reveals her husband's salacious affair. The fallout entangles him in a web of sex, love and deceit that could threaten his life and career.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2012-05-17
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Tabloid Truth
Overview: Woo-gon, a passionate manager who lost everything due to stock advertisements and a specialist gets together to find out the truth behind the rumors that have shaken up the country. From precious information to distribution, this crime chasing movie surrounds the invisible truth.
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2014-02-20
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Assassination
Overview: In Japanese-occupied Korea, three freedom fighters are assigned a mission to assassinate a genocidal military leader and his top collaborator. But the plan goes completely awry amidst double-crossings, counter-assassinations, and a shocking revelation about one of the assassins' past.
Genres: Action Thriller Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2015-07-22
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The Aggressives
Overview: Soyo, a quiet high school student, discovers inline skating. Mesmerized by the elaborate skating skills of Mogi, a member of the group, Soyo joins their team. Soyo's life is gradually consumed by the world of inline skating.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2005-06-02
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Mr. Go
Overview: A 15-year-old circus ringmaster Wei-wei is left all alone with gorilla Ling-ling after grandfather passes away. Thanks to her grandfather's love for baseball, Ling-ling was trained to play baseball and has developed remarkable hitting skills.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2013-07-17
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Marriage Blue
Overview: Some may dream of, some may be afraid of, some may look forward to, and some may want to avoid THE NIGHT BEFORE MARRIAGE! 4 different couples disclose 4 different stories all about marriage.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2013-11-21
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Clocking Out
Overview: Korea has been taken over by aliens, and three agents from two different timelines spearhead the war against them. An unknown monster strikes them! One day, a single scream in an urgent phone call was heard.
Genres: Action Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2016-10-21
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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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Cart
Overview: In response to a sudden dismissal of staff, workers at a big retail store begin a protest against their employer's oppressive labor policies.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2014-11-13
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Black Dawn
Overview: In 2011, top-secret data on nuclear power is stolen from a university facility. At the same time, leaked information comes in about enriched uranium from the Korean peninsula. Sumimoto of the external affairs fourth division suspects that a conspiracy has been hatched to rock Japan-Korean relations.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-06-02
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The Treacherous
Overview: The story of Joseon's tyrant king Yeonsan who exploits the populace for his own carnal pleasures, his seemingly loyal retainer who controls him and all court dealings, and a woman who seeks vengeance.
Genres: Drama History Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2015-05-21
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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 Railroad
Overview: Man Soo (Kang-woo Kim) is a train conductor. Everyday he performs the same old routines, and gradually his days begin to feel as uneventful and predictable as the ongoing rotation of the wheels on his train. One day, his train gets caught in a messy accident involving a passenger's suicide, and he is forced to take leave from work. He gets on the last train. Hanna (Tae-yeong Son) is an attractive college instructor who is having an affair with a married professor. Her world is turned upside down when his wife confronts her. Abandoned and betrayed by her lover, Hanna is forced to face her own demons. She quits her job, and hops onto the last train. A train conductor and a college instructor seem to share nothing in common. But for Man Soo and Hanna, brought together by fate, finding solace in the companion of a stranger has never been better.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2007-05-10
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Springtime
Overview: A struggling musician takes a job teaching music to middle school children in a rural mining town.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2004-09-16
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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: en
Release Date: 2009-07-09
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The Vanished
Overview: A detective investigates the disappearance of a woman's corpse from a morgue and tries to uncover the cause of her death.
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2018-03-07
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High Society
Overview: The story of the journey of married couple up the social latter. The husband is professor at Seoul National University who is running for the National Assembly, and his wife is a painter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2018-08-29
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Hello, Schoolgirl
Overview: Kwon Yeon-woo is a thirty year old low-level civil servant who works in a district office; quite innocent for his age, he has been on numerous blind dates in an unsuccessful bid to find a wife. After moving into a new place, he begins to encounter a high school girl, Soo-yeong, on his way to work every morning, and she begins to develop feelings for him. Meanwhile, Kang Sook has just started working at the district office straight out of high school, and falls head over heels for older woman Kwon Ha-kyeong.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2008-11-27
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Recalled
Overview: Soo-jin, who lost her memories due to a horrible incident, starts suspecting her husband. She is confused between reality and illusion, truth and lies.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2021-04-21
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New Year Blues
Overview: Four different couples have a romantic week over New Year's Eve. Both coming out of failed marriages, Ji-ho and Hyo-young are not open to the possibility of new love, while Jin-ah heads to the other side of globe and encounters Jae-hun.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2021-02-10
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Silmido
Overview: On 31 January 1968, 31 North Korean commandos infiltrated South Korea in a failed mission to assassinate President Park Chung-hee. In revenge, the South Korean military assembled a team of 31 criminals on the island of Silmido to kill Kim Il-sung for a suicide mission to redeem their honor, but was cancelled, leaving them frustrated. It is loosely based on a military uprising in the 1970s.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2003-12-24
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The Coast Guard
Overview: A member of Coast Guard Platoon 23, Private Kang monitors a high-infiltration stretch of beach lined with barbed-wire fencing. Driven by the belief that killing a spy is the highest honor, he waits for a chance to prove his worth.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2002-11-22
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Guimoon: The Lightless Door
Overview: In 1990, at a secluded community center, the custodian murders all the guest lodgers and kills himself. Ever since, on every Old Year's Night, paranormal events begin to take place within the building. Eventually, the center is shut down and left abandoned for years. A renowned paranormal investigator who had lost his mother during an exorcism and three college students who heard about the rumor of the unexplained phenomena heads over to the building, resolved to uncover the buried secret.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2021-08-25
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The Old Woman with the Knife
Overview: Hornclaw, a legendary assassin in her 60s, specialises in eliminating the scum of the earth. She has learned to accept loss but finds new meaning in her mundane yet bloody life when she meets Bullfight, a promising young killer who wants to work with her.
Genres: Action Mystery Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2025-02-16
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