Sul Kyung-gu
Also Known As: 설경구, Kyung-gu Sol, Kyung-gu Sul, Sul Kyoung-gu, Seol Kyung Gu, Seol Gyeong-gu, 薛景求, Sol Kyung-gu, سول کیونگ-گو
Biography: Sul Kyung-gu (born May 14, 1967) is a Grand Bell Award, Golden Space Needle Award, and Bratislava International Film Festival Best Actor winning South Korean actor. He studied film and theater at Hanyang University and upon graduation took part in mostly theatrical productions. After transitioning into film, Sol is best known for his roles in the popular Public Enemy and Silmido.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Seocheon, South Chungcheong, South Korea
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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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Public Enemy
Overview: A notorious dirty cop makes an honest attempt to catch a serial killer who even murdered his own parents.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2002-01-25
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Tidal Wave
Overview: On Haeundae Beach, a guilt-ridden fisherman takes care of a woman whose father accidentally got killed. A scientist reunites with his ex-wife and a daughter who doesn't even remember his face. And a poor rescue worker falls in love with a rich city girl. When they all find out a gigantic tsunami will hit the beach, they realize they only have 10 minutes to escape.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2009-07-22
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Oasis
Overview: A young man released from prison visits the widow of the man he killed drunk-driving and becomes infatuated with his cerebral palsy-stricken daughter.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2002-08-09
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Mudang: Reconciliation Between the Living and the Dead
Overview: A revealing, impartial, yet sometimes shocking look into the history, traditions and practices of the dying art of Korean shamanism, chronicling the lives of living, practising "hereditary" and "possessed" shamans.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2003-09-05
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Peppermint Candy
Overview: In the spring of 1999, a group of old friends gather to celebrate their 20 year reunion. Among the group is Yeong-ho, a cold, unhappy man, whose demeanor puts a damper on the festivities. The seriousness of Yeong-ho's depression becomes apparent when he climbs a railroad bridge and looks like he might jump. At this crucial moment, memories of seven crucial episodes from Yeong-ho's past flood his mind.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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Public Enemy Returns
Overview: Kang Chul-jung has been a detective fighting crime for 15 years and is at it again against a mob boss who recruits young kids to do his dirty work.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2008-06-19
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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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Cruel Winter Blues
Overview: A gangster's quest for revenge is sidetracked by an encounter with his target's mother in this deeply-felt hybrid of a crime thriller and a family drama.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2006-11-19
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No Mercy
Overview: Forensic pathologist Kang is assigned to examine the dismembered corpse of a female murder victim. Detective Min points to a fanatic environmentalist, Lee Sung-ho, as the primary suspect. But when Kang’s daughter is kidnapped, a manipulative game begins between Kang and Lee, who holds secrets about the homicide case.
Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2010-01-07
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The Legend of Gingko
Overview: Caught in between an ethnic war, Bee struggles between love and death.
Genres: Action Adventure Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2000-11-11
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Troubleshooter
Overview: Kang Tae-sik is a private detective who would do anything for money. One day, he gets framed for a murder by a ruthless boss of the criminal underworld and a mysterious caller watches and controls his every move. He must use a wide array of techno-gadgetry at his disposal to clear himself and exact revenge within 24 hours given to him.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2010-09-12
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Venus and Mars
Overview: A divorced husband and wife, instead of going their separate ways, dedicate their time and energy to taking revenge against each other.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2007-12-12
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Voice of a Murderer
Overview: After Gyeong-bae's son is kidnapped, he receives a call from the kidnapper asking for 100 million won. The detectives are teamed up for the case, yet the culprit gets away at every opportunity.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime Mystery
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2007-02-01
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The Tower
Overview: Tower Sky, a luxurious building complex, has organised a lavish Christmas party for its VIP guests. However, things go awry when a fire breaks out and thousands of lives are endangered.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2012-12-25
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Heartbeat
Overview: Caught up in anxiety, eight-year-old Chul in school tells his teacher that he is going to the bathroom but runs straight home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2022-04-30
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Jail Breakers
Overview: Two inmates break out of a prison only to discover afterwards that they are up for parole. Desperate to get their lives back on track, they realize their best move is to break back into the prison without being noticed.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2002-11-20
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Rikidozan: A Hero Extraordinaire
Overview: Story of Rikidozan, a sumo wrestler who can only achieve limited success in Japan because he's half Korean. But when Rikidozan goes to the United States and discovers professional wrestling, he becomes a hero back home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2004-12-15
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A Normal Family
Overview: Jae-wan, a successful lawyer, takes on the case of a rich executive's son, who has purposely run over and killed a man and left his daughter seriously injured. It's Jae-wan's job to defend a murderer, just another rung on his career's golden-stepped ladder. His younger brother, on the contrary, is a scrupulous and upstanding paediatrician, who always puts the health of his patients over profit and money, often contravening the rules of the private clinic where he works. The brothers meet once a month with their wives for fine dining in expensive restaurants, but when an unexpected situation involving their teenage kids arises, their consciences are questioned and their usual dinner conversation takes an unexpected turn.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2024-10-16
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Phantom: The Submarine
Overview: Korea's first nuclear submarine and a crew with no record of existence embark on a do-or-die mission into the deep waters of the Pacific.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1999-07-31
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Camellia
Overview: A man searching for his missing ex-girlfriend uncovers the dark secret behind an organization selling romantic virtual reality experiences. A film director looking for artistic inspiration runs into a strange woman who may or may not be a ghost. An assassin and a target for in love with each other but the assassin must complete the assignment.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2010-10-15
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Cold Eyes
Overview: Ha Yoon-ju becomes the newest member of a unit within the Korean Police Forces Special Crime Department that specializes in surveillance activities on high-profile criminals. She teams up with Hwang Sang-jun, the veteran leader of the unit, and tries to track down James who is the cold-hearted leader of an armed criminal organization.
Genres: Crime Action Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2013-07-03
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The Spy: Undercover Operation
Overview: Chul-soo is one of Korea’s best intelligence agents: he can accomplish any given mission. One day, a mysterious explosion takes place in Seoul. Chul-soo flies to Thailand on a mission to rescue a person who holds clues to the incident. Meanwhile, Young-hee goes on a business trip to Thailand and gets entangled with Chul-soo’s mission. Will he accomplish his mission and save his wife at the same time?
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2013-09-05
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Hope
Overview: After 8-year-old So-won narrowly survives a brutal sexual assault, her family labors to help her heal while coping with their own rage and grief.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2013-10-02
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Lee Chang-dong: The Art of Irony
Overview: A portrait of the South Korean screenwriter, director and producer Lee Chang-Dong through his work, this documentary provides a thematic analysis of his films, most of which have been selected for and received awards at the Cannes Film Festival.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2022-04-29
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Rainbow Trout
Overview: A group of city dwellers make a trip of three days and two nights into the isolated countryside to visit a friend in the hills. Their true nature begins to reveal itself: love hidden but never forgotten, primitive desires suppressed in the city, nasty pride that triumphs only over the weak and a strong will for survival that sacrifices even love and friendship.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1999-11-06
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I Wish I Had a Wife
Overview: A lonely Korean banker drags himself through the mundanity of his job and his vacuous social life in the hope that he will eventually find that special someone.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2001-01-13
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My Dictator
Overview: Sung-geun is an untalented actor who makes a living playing minor roles. He happens to land on the role as Kim Il-sung, the former leader of North Korea, for the rehearsal of the South-North Korea Summit. Sung-geun becomes passionately immersed in his role, motivated by his son who looks up to him. However, the summit is not realized, and Sung-geun ends up lost in the delusion that he really is Kim Il-sung.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2014-10-30
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Lost in Love
Overview: Woo-jae and Yeon-soo had been platonic friends for years when they went their separate ways. Now, ten years later, they bump into each other again and are forced to re-think things. Will they have the courage to risk their friendship for love?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2006-01-26
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The Long Way Home
Overview: Nam-bok, a middle-aged South Korean farmer is conscripted and assigned a mission to deliver a classified military document that may decide the fate of the war. After losing it while under attack from the enemy, he then faces a teenage North Korean soldier named Yeong-gwang who happens to acquire the secret document on his way to the North.
Genres: Action Drama History War
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2015-09-24
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Good News
Overview: Set in the 1970s, a group of people gathered to land a hijacked airplane at all costs devise a suspicious plan.
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Original Language: ko
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A Brand New Life
Overview: Young Jin-hee is taken by her father to an orphanage near Seoul. He leaves her there never to return, and she struggles to come to grips with her fate. Jin-hee desperately believes her father will come back for her and take her on a trip.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2009-10-29
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Memoir of a Murderer
Overview: A former serial killer with Alzheimer's fights to protect his daughter from her mysterious boyfriend who may be a serial killer too.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2017-09-07
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Lucid Dream
Overview: Dae-ho, an investigative journalist, seeks to track down the whereabouts of his son who was abducted three years ago. With the help of a detective and a psychiatrist friend, he will retrace his memory of the incident through the use of lucid dreaming techniques.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2017-02-22
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The Merciless
Overview: Jae-ho, who aims to become the number one in a crime organization, gets to build up trust with Hyun-su, an ambitious newbie in the prison. While they try to take over the organization after the prison release, their ulterior motives starts to emerge.
Genres: Action Crime Mystery
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2017-05-17
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1987: When the Day Comes
Overview: In 1987 Korea, under an oppressive military regime, a college student gets killed during a police interrogation involving torture. Government of officials are quick to cover up the death and order the body to be cremated. A prosecutor who is supposed to sign the cremation release, raises questions about a 21-year-old kid dying of a heart attack, and he begins looking into the case for truth. Despite a systematic attempt to silence everyone involved in the case, the truth gets out, causing an eruption of public outrage.
Genres: Drama History Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2017-12-27
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The Bird Who Stops in the Air
Overview: KIM serves as a professor of film studies at a rural college, away from his family. Having kept the memories of birds from his childhood, he intends to make a film based on the images of birds that appear in his dreams. In his position as educator, KIM finds himself torn between artistic ideals of the film and the realities of life which his student's must encounter daily. It is in this setting that he struggles to discover the nature of his identity. A middle school science teacher, Young-hee, although a long-time lover of KIM's is not confident in their future relationship. She asks KIM to accompany her to her childhood hometown. During the trip, the two begin to realize that each belongs to different realities from the other. Young-hee begins to desire a relationship of a different sort with him. However, KIM's ambition is to redeem his own artistic value blurred between film fantasy and reality.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2002-03-01
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Kingmaker
Overview: Seo Chang-dae, an ambitious political campaign strategist who ends up having ideological differences with his present client, receives a lucrative offer that will put his loyalty under the microscope.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2022-01-26
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Man of Men
Overview: The friendship between a lawyer who will do anything to make money and a nursing home volunteer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2019-10-02
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Birthday
Overview: Returning from eight years abroad at work and in prison, Jeong-il struggles to reconnect with his wife and their young daughter, Ye-sol, whom he barely knows.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2019-04-03
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Idol
Overview: In this political thriller, a politician finds his wife in the garage. She is cleaning her son's bloodstained car, which has just run over a person.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2019-03-20
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The Book of Fish
Overview: When the scholar Jeong Yak-jeon is exiled to Heuksando Island during the Catholic Persecution of 1801, he decides to write a fish-based encyclopaedia.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2021-03-31
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Ari Ari the Korean Cinema
Overview: Director Chung Ji-Young criticizes the thought that older directors have difficulties in making certain movies. Actress Yoon Jin-Seo agonizes over her identity as an actress. In 2009, before the movie "Unbowed" was made, they met and planned a documentary about Korean movies, including the processes a Korean movie goes through and difficulites. "Ari Ari the Korean Cinema" is a documentary with interviews of Korean directors, actors and actresses.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2012-12-06
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Yaksha: Ruthless Operations
Overview: Nicknamed after a human-devouring spirit, the ruthless leader of an overseas black ops team takes up a dangerous mission in a city riddled with spies.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2022-04-08
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I Want to Know Your Parents
Overview: An eighth grade student kills himself but not before writing the names of the students who victimized him. Their parents are called into the school and a battle goes on regarding the will.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2022-04-27
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A Petal
Overview: A young girl is caught up in the 1980 Gwangju massacre, where Korean soldiers killed hundreds, if not thousands, of protesters who opposed the country's takeover by the military the year before. Flashbacks show the girl seeing her mother shot to death in the massacre. The film spurred the Korean public to demand the truth behind the incident, and their government eventually opened previously classified files on the massacre.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1996-04-05
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Closer to Heaven
Overview: A funeral director meets a man who has been battling Lou Gehrig's disease since he was young. The two fall in love and hope for a cure that can keep him alive.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2009-09-24
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The Boys
Overview: In 1999, a robbery-murder case occurs in a small supermarket in Samnye, Jeonbuk province. The police investigation quickly narrows down to three boys from the neighborhood, and these boys are falsely accused of being murderers overnight and are imprisoned without understanding what is happening. The following year, veteran detective Hwang Joon-cheol is newly appointed as the head of Crime Investigation Division. He receives a tip about the real culprits and embarks on a reinvestigation to clear the boys' names. However, the interference of the detective responsible for the case at the time, Choi Woo-sung, leads to everything falling apart, and Hwang is demoted. Sixteen years later, the sole witness of the case and daughter of the victim, Yoon Mi-sook, and the boys return to Hwang, seeking justice...
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2023-11-01
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Phantom
Overview: In 1933, when Korea was under Japanese occupation, five people in Gyeongseong are suspected to be "Phantom" spies of the anti-Japanese organization.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2023-01-18
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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 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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Love Story
Overview: A simple and modest bachelor and film director Ha Sung Woo and a perfectionist interior coordinator Kim Soo In meet accidentally at a flea market. They are attracted to each other at first sight and begin to date. They quarrel often due to their personality differences but they confirm their love while they travel together to Chiri Mountain. But once Sung Woo wins Soo In's love, he begins to ignore her, which leads to their break up. However, they miss each other. Eventually Sung Woo waits outside Soo In's house one cold winter morning.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1996-05-11
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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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Prince Shōtoku
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-11-10
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Possible Love
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