Lee Han-wi
Also Known As: Han-wi Lee, 이한위, HanWi Lee, Han-wie Lee, Lee Han Wi, Lee Han Wie, Ли Хан Ви, 李汉伟
Biography: Lee Han-wi (born June 17, 1961) is a South Korean actor. Since his acting debut in 1983, Lee has become a prolific supporting actor on Korean film and television. He is particularly known for his mastery of ad-libbing.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Gwangju, South Korea
Birthday: June 17, 1961
Adult: No
Gender: Male
TMDb-Id: 96634
IMDb-Id: nm0497362
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Known For
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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Next Door
Overview: Chan-woo, who has been studying to become a police officer for 5 years, joins his friends for dinner to ask for the money to apply for his exam and ends up getting drunk. He completely blacks out and wakes up not remembering what happened in his next door neighbor's room. Not only that, he finds a bloody corpse in the middle of the room.
Genres: Thriller Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2022-11-03
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My Bossy Girl
Overview: One day, during a university festival where people are often known to find a partner, the 3 incredibly single members of the robot club decide to attend. There the sloppy and timid Hwi-so meets a very aggressive girl by the name of Hye-jin. His romantic advances, which he learned through reading books and watching YouTube, finally wake up to make their move. But will two finally become one this fall?
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2019-12-04
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Our School's E.T.
Overview: Sung geun, a physical education teacher, is at risk of losing his job when the school decides it needs an English teacher instead of a PE teacher. Therefore, he starts to devise a plan to change his job as an English teacher.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2008-09-11
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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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The Weird Missing Case of Mr. J
Overview: On the day of the hundreds billion dollar contract deal just ahead, Jung suddenly disappears after he leaves for a convenient store. Inspector Kim who is desperate to get an exclusive crime case in the hope of drawing media attention finds out that Jung had many jealous colleagues and starts to investigate the case focusing on embezzlement and kidnapping. On the other hand, inspector Park finds out that Jung’s fiancee Mi-sun, a sales manager at the insurance company, has recently took out a life insurance policy on Jung’s life and points her as a suspect. The more investigation goes further the more case gets mysterious and things start to get out of control as a missing case develops to an assault, a kidnapping and finally to a murder.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2009-09-01
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Paradox Circle
Overview: In the 1980's, inflexible model student Kyung-Min (Kim Jung-Hak) joins a group that leads the student movement. In the group, he meets Soo-Jung (Ahn Mi-Na) and he falls in love with her. Kyung-Min becomes a fighter and has conflicts with his academic rival Yong-Ho (Jung Wook), who is in the center of the student movement.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2012-12-06
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Wolves
Overview: Brutal and bloody violence of the yakuza and the Koryo mafia. Women who feed the wolves. Detectives and gangs chasing serial killers stained with wolves blood.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2022-04-27
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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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Female War: Bloody War in Bongcheon-dong
Overview: Haedanghwa, a beautiful woman, comes into the life of a single father and his three grown-up sons all of sudden! The abandoned woman, who does not have any memories about herself, begins her precarious cohabitation with the family of four men. And this is how the intense battle among four men to earn Haedanghwa’s heart begins. However, the story starts going towards a completely unexpected direction as a group of suspicious men appear.
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Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2016-07-14
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Polaroid
Overview: A boy with an immature single mom is on the search for a more responsible nanny when he runs into an ex-ice hockey player who suits his liking.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2015-07-16
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Glory Again
Overview: Here we have the legendary family back! The glory of the family is marriage?! The great plan of marriage is unfolding! The legendary Jang's family who holds money and power! There is only one troublemaker for Ms. Hong, the head of the family, who is Jin-kyung, the youngest daughter who declared to stay single. One day, 'Jin-kyung' has a one night stand with 'Dae-seo' whom she saw for the first time. When the Jang family find out about this, they start all sorts of plots to get 'Dae-seo' who has the best condition of being son-in-law to marry 'Jin-kyung'... The biggest task ever thrown to the Jang’s family! Will the marriage of the century be successful?
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2023-09-21
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More Than Blue
Overview: A terminally ill man tries to find a suitable husband for the friend he has loved since childhood.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2009-03-11
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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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Sorum
Overview: A young man moves into a run-down apartment building and soon gets into a relationship with a neighbor. Both the characters and the building have traumatic histories, and over time the ghosts of their past come to light.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2001-08-04
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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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No Mercy for the Rude
Overview: A mute hit-man vows to kill only the rude, and save up enough money for tongue surgery.
Genres: Comedy Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2006-08-24
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Holy Daddy
Overview: Won-Tak's dad, an old-time con-man, was suddenly killed during a freak accident in the prison, just one day before his release. Having waited for so many years to be reconciled with his dad and to start a new life together, Won-Tak felt betrayed and vowed to ruin his own life and bring shame to his parents. However, unknown to him, Wong-Tak's dad has managed to strike a bargain with an angel to return to the living world as Won-Tak's new bestfriend.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2006-08-24
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Officer of the Year
Overview: Two police stations from neighboring precincts are in constant fierce competition with each other, including for the Officer of the Year award. But then a high-profile case forces them to work together.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2011-05-04
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The Scent
Overview: A detective Seon-woo, who moonlights as a private investigator, has a beautiful new client Soo-Jin. The woman asks the detective to take photos of her husband in the midst of having an affair with another woman. When the detective goes to take pictures he discovers that the woman's husband is already dead. Now the detective becomes a suspect. The detective is chased by another detective Gil-ro. He must now set out for the real killer.
Genres: Comedy Crime Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2012-04-11
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My Lilac
Overview: The drama is about a first-class impersonator of a trot singer named Lilac, and his daughter Shin-hye in the process of getting away from the deceptive acting and finding real happiness.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2020-11-28
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War of the Arrows
Overview: After the death of their father, two siblings are raised by their father's best friend. However, when one gets kidnapped just before her wedding, the other rises against the Manchus.
Genres: Drama Action History
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2011-08-10
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Love, Lies
Overview: Two best friends, So-yool and Yeon-hee, dream of becoming the top artists in Seoul together. But their friendship doesn't last long as Yoon-woo, So-yool's first love and songwriter, falls in love with Yeon-hee and her voice. So-yool's feeling of jealousy and inferiority towards Yeon-hee grows by the day, and she eventually makes a drastic decision to bring the two lovers down.
Genres: Romance Drama History
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2016-04-13
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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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Joint Security Area
Overview: Two North Korean soldiers are killed in the border area between North and South Korea, prompting an investigation by a neutral body. The sergeant is the shooter, but the lead investigator, a Swiss-Korean woman, receives differing accounts from the two sides.
Genres: War Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2000-09-09
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200 Pounds Beauty
Overview: Based on a Japanese manga, Kanna-San, Daiseikou Desu, this story revolves around Kang Han-na, an overweight phone sex employee and secret vocalist for Ammy, a famous Korean pop singer who actually lip syncs as she cannot sing. After getting humilitated publicly by an ungrateful Ammy, Han-na undergoes an extreme makeover to become a pop sensation herself.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2006-12-14
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House of the Disappeared
Overview: After being wrongly imprisoned for murdering her husband, a woman returns to the house where the incident occurred to solve the mystery of his death.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2017-04-05
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Sector 7
Overview: In Sector 7, an underwater oil field located south of Jeju Island, Hae-jun is working as a marine equipment manager on an oil prospecting ship called Eclipse. Joining the crew later is Jeong-man, a former colleague of Hae-jun's father, assigned to Eclipse as captain. Though his job is to oversee the withdrawal of the ship, he suggests conducting some drilling one last time.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Action
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2011-08-04
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Solace
Overview: In-gu, a drugstore owner, rediscovers love when he meets a humble woman named Hye-ran, who sells knockoff clothing for a living.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2006-11-29
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The March for the Lost
Overview: This is the story of a father who died mysteriously in May of 1980, a mother who lives in the shadows with a bullet in her head and not being able to forget May 18th and their daughter, and the nation's greatest comedian, Hee-soo.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2018-05-16
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Somewhere in Between
Overview: Gi-tae, who continuously failed on his exam, returns to his hometown for the first time in ten years. He tried all different manual labors, but his debt-ridden life never seems to end. Soon Later, he starts working at a worn-out theater and meets Oh, the sign painter. Oh is never sober and always blunt, accordingly difficult to figure out. But Gi-tae doesn’t feel awkward around him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2020-05-29
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Race to Freedom: Um Bok-dong
Overview: During the Japanese colonial rule of Korea, while people are in despair, Jae-ho tries to raise morale by winning cycle championship. Bok-dong, who started cycling with Jae-ho just to make a forture, becomes a symbol of hope for Koreans by defeating Japanese cyclists.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2019-02-27
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Running Wild
Overview: A grissled cop with tendencies towards excessive force teams up with an ambitious and righteous prosecutor to track down a dangerous crime boss whom they both want desperately to catch. But their quarry resorts to devious methods to stall their investigation and eventually turn them against each other. Now the stage is set for a dangerous triangle.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2006-01-13
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Dead Again
Overview: Thomas stumbles upon an old diary in an antique district. As he begins to read the haunting tale of love and loss, Thomas realizes the diary carries a terrifying curse. Written many years ago by Jeong Hoon, an aspiring author, anyone merely exposed to the diary becomes a cunning facilitator of the curse.
Genres: Thriller Romance Mystery
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2019-07-31
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Underground Rendezvous
Overview: During the 1980s, Jang-geun, the new teacher at Cheongsol Village, runs into problems during his travels. The village folk mistake Kong Young-tan, a former inmate at the government's re-education camp, as the missing teacher.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2007-08-15
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My Son
Overview: Lee Gang-sik sits in jail with a life sentence because of murder. His good behavior the last 15 years earns him the opportunity to be released for one day & visit his family. But how will his son, whom he let down for 15 years, react?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2007-05-01
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Swindler in My Mom's House
Overview: An attractive single mother rents a room in her house to a mysterious drifter who has nefarious plans to swindle her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2007-08-08
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Reversal of Fortune
Overview: His life in shambles after youthful dreams of becoming a golf champion yield disappointing results, bored stock exchange worker Seungwan receives a second chance at success after a freak accident puts his life back on track. Severely beaten after inexplicably angering local mob boss Ma Gangseong, Seungwan passes out after meeting a man who appears to be his clone. Upon regaining consciousness, Seungwan learns that the life he knew is no more; he is no longer a miserable failure, but a famous golf champion. Though his marriage had been heading down a rocky road for some time, his new found success and passion finds him and his wife Jiyeong falling back in love. Though everything suddenly seems to be falling into place for Seungwan, an upcoming golf championship threatens to unravel his ideal world unless he is able to pull it all together for one shot at a life of happiness.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2003-06-05
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Three Kims
Overview: The plot is instantly familiar in the great martial arts tradition, being set in a small town which is home to two rival masters, one who practices Taekkyun (Shin Hyun Jun, also in the likes of “Shadowless Sword” and the “Marrying the Mafia” films) and the other Kendo (Choi Sung Kook, also in “Crazy Assassins”), both of who just happen to be called Kim. As well as competing for students, the two are locked in deadly combat for the hand of the local beauty, who seems to be pretty much the only woman in town. Into their conflict comes yet another master Kim, this time a kung fu expert (Kwon Oh Joong, “Damo”) who puts them both to shame with his dizzying skills and suave charm. Eventually, real danger arrives in the form of some unscrupulous land developers, forcing the three to join forces for the greater good.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2007-02-08
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April Snow
Overview: A man and a woman are brought together after their spouses, who were having an affair, are hospitalized after a car crash.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2005-09-07
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My Love
Overview: Several people experience a miracle of love under the spell of a solar eclipse. Se-jin is obsessively in love with a very bizarre young woman named Ju-won. So-hyun confesses her feeling for Ji-wu by clinging to him and asking him how to become a strong drinker. Jeong-seok is a single father working as a copywriter, loved by Su-jeong, whose advances he rejects every time. Jin-man is a free-hug activist who returns to korea to meet his old flame.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2007-12-18
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My Mother the Mermaid
Overview: Na-young works at a post office and is sick and tired of being around her shamefully unyielding mother and her pushover father who's excessively nice. The only thing that she can look forward to is her trip abroad in a few days. But one day, her father leaves home without any notice. Her mother doesn't care what happens to him and doesn't care to look for him. Na-young has no choice but to give up her dream trip abroad and to search for her father instead. Once she arrives at her parents' hometown, Na-young is shocked to meet someone she'd never expect, even in her dreams.
Genres: Romance Fantasy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2004-06-30
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Righteous Ties
Overview: After learning his boss betrayed him, a mob lackey plans to break out of prison and take revenge.
Genres: Crime Drama Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2006-10-19
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Bravo, My Life!
Overview: As his sexual awareness increases, Gwang-ho no longer likes the scent of his mother, who wears heavy make-up as she sells cosmetics door-to-door. Eun-sook, an assistant nurse who is the complete opposite of Gwang-ho's mother, becomes the object of all of Gwang-ho's attention and affection. Absorbed in his thoughts, Gwang-ho is oblivious of the news of the presidents death and the picture of the new president replacing the late president in his classroom. Gwang-ho receives a letter of luck and starts sending it to people around him. As those people start vanishing, Gwang-ho is racked with guilt, suspecting the letter of luck is the cause of their disappearance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2005-11-02
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Take Off
Overview: Cha Heon-tae, a Korean-American, was adopted with his sister to American parents. He appears on a Korean television program in search of his mother. Since Heon-tae is a trained alpine skier, he is approached by Coach Bang who wants to recruit members for a new national ski jumping team for the approaching 1998 Winter Olympics.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2009-07-29
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Good Morning President
Overview: Good Morning President is an abridged version of the politics and life of three different presidents. The three are: the older President Kim Jung-ho at the end of his term, the young President Cha Ji-wook, a skillful manipulator of foreign policy and with great determination, and a female President Han Kyuong-ja. They are distressed over the choices they have to make between politics and ethics. The affliction of Kim Jung-ho who wins the lottery, the agony of Cha Ji-wook who donates an organ, and the troubles of Han Kyuong-ja who faces the crisis of divorce.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2009-10-22
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Murder, Take One
Overview: A woman is killed in a hotel room. The ensuing police investigation is conducted in front of TV cameras for the entire country to watch as it unfolds.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2005-08-11
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Romantic Heaven
Overview: The paths of three people intersect at a hospital. A lawyer who mourns the death of his wife, a taxi driver who is taking care of his grandfather that suffers from Alzheimer's, and a girl who is looking for a bone marrow donor to save the life her mother.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2011-03-24
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The Last Ride
Overview: Go-hwan, who suffers from Lou Gehrig’s disease realizes that he is going to die. When his best friends ask him what his wish is, he tells them he wants to have sex for the first and last time in his life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2016-04-20
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The Cat
Overview: So-yeon suffers from claustrophobia and inherits a Persian cat when its owner dies. She begins having nightmares and people around her begin dying as she searches for the truth.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2011-07-07
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Hello Ghost
Overview: A man's failed suicide attempt enables him to see ghosts, who later keep following him everywhere. It is now up to him to fulfill their wishes to make them go away.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance Family
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2010-12-23
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Our English Teacher
Overview: A lazy gym teacher Seong Geun is completely content with his easy gig teaching high school P.E, but times are getting tough and his job is in danger. When Seong Geun's school decides to sack a gym teacher in favor of an English teacher, he too makes an important decision. To survive, he must teach English! Seong Geun whole heartedly makes the switch from PE to ET (English Teacher), but there's only one problem: he doesn't speak English.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-11
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