Known for Editing
Kim Sang-bum (김상범) is a South Korean film editor.
Born
August 14, 1954 (age 72)
Filmography
143 films, 3 shows


The People Upstairs
2025 · 1h 48m
country: South Korea
Jung-ah and her husband Hyeon-soo suffer sleepless nights from the passionate couple upstairs, Su-kyeong and Mr. Kim. Hoping to ease tensions, Jung-ah invites them to dinner — but polite chatter soon unravels into raw, boundary-breaking honesty, exposing hidden cracks in relationships with biting wit and emotional precision.


Mantis
2025 · 1h 53m
country: South Korea
The secret society of contract killers falls into chaos, unleashing a new breed of assassins. With old rules in ruins, who dares claim the shadows?


No Other Choice
2025 · 2h 19m
country: South Korea
After being laid off and humiliated by a ruthless job market, a veteran paper mill manager descends into violence in a desperate bid to reclaim his dignity.


Good News
2025 · 2h 16m
country: South Korea
When hijackers seize a Japanese flight and demand to fly to Pyongyang, a mysterious mastermind hatches a zany scheme to reroute the plane to Seoul.


Lobby
2025 · 1h 46m
country: South Korea
A CEO of a small tech company, Chang-wook, must win billions worth bid for National EV charger project against Gwang-woo, an ex-business partner who has thrived with lobbying after stealing Chang-wook's original technology. Discovering Gwang-woo's secret connection with the decision-maker Minister Cho, he plans his first-ever golf outing to win over the deal. Finally, the golf round day has come, but everything is not the way he planned. Scandal, betrayal and chase in this 18-hole round.


The Match
2025 · 1h 55m
country: South Korea
When a legendary Go master loses his title to a one-time friend and protégé, he sets out to reclaim it in a high-stakes battle of wits and skill.


Nocturnal
2025 · 1h 40m
country: South Korea
Min-tae, a once-notorious gangster who now leads a peaceful retired life, discovers the bloody corpse of his only next of kin: his younger brother Seok-tae. With his brother’s missing wife Moon-young as the prime suspect, Min-tae uncovers a suspicious last phone call between her and a mysterious novelist, sparking a vicious hunt for the truth despite his seemingly deceitful former crime syndicate and the police in hot pursuit.


Mission: Cross
2024 · 1h 40m
country: South Korea
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.


Revolver
2024 · 1h 54m
country: South Korea
Su-young, a police detective who went to prison for someone else, is surprised when a mysterious woman named Yoon-sun arrives to collect her on her day of release. As she discovers that the promised compensation for her time behind bars has vanished, Su-young embarks on a mission to reclaim what rightfully belongs to her.


Hijack 1971
2024 · 1h 40m
country: South Korea
In the year 1971, former Korean Air Force fighter pilot Tae-In (Ha Jung-Woo) works as a pilot for a commercial airline. He faces a crisis inside a hijacked flight with the passengers, including Yong-Dae (Yeo Jin-Goo), and his crew members, including Captain Kyu-Sik (Sung Dong-Il) and Flight Attendant Ok-Soon (Chae Soo-Bin).


12.12: The Day
2023 · 2h 22m
country: South Korea
After the assassination of President Park, martial law has been declared. A coup d'état bursts out by Defense Security 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.


The Boys
2023 · 2h 4m
country: South Korea
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...


Hopeless
2023 · 2h 3m
country: South Korea
Yeon-gyu is a teenage boy who wants to escape his hometown where violence is commonly enacted among neighbors. He only hopes to have a peaceful life with his mother. However, the world never allows him to have a dream nor hope for life. When Yeon-gyu needs a hand from grown-ups, Chi-geon, a thug of the town, offers a favor. The simple favor leads Yeon-gyu to explore the world of Chi-geon. It ironically results Yeon-gyu gradually falling into Chi-geon's life. Grasping hope to run away from where he is, he struggles between the border. Can he escape from the town at the end?


Faith
2023 · 11m
country: South Korea
A short film about an armed man in a secret location.


Kill Boksoon
2023 · 2h 17m
country: South Korea
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.


Remember
2022 · 2h 8m
country: South Korea
Pil-ju, an Alzheimer's patient in his 80s, who lost all his family during the Japanese colonial era, and devotes his lifelong revenge before his memories disappear, and a young man in his 20s who helps him.


Hunt
2022 · 2h 11m
country: South Korea
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.


Decision to Leave
2022 · 2h 19m
country: South Korea
From a mountain peak in South Korea, a man plummets to his death. Did he jump, or was he pushed? When detective Hae-joon arrives on the scene, he begins to suspect the dead man’s wife Seo-rae. But as he digs deeper into the investigation, he finds himself trapped in a web of deception and desire.


Yaksha: Ruthless Operations
2022 · 2h 5m
country: South Korea
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.


Kingmaker
2022 · 2h 3m
country: South Korea
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.


Endless Rain
2021 · 1h 57m
country: South Korea
About a man and a woman who miss each other but cannot meet. Young-ho, a young man who took several tries to get into college, doesn't have any special goals in life, and starts exchanging letters with someone.


Seobok
2021 · 1h 54m
country: South Korea
Ex intelligence agent Ki-heon is tasked with safely transporting Seo Bok, the first ever human clone, who holds the secret of eternal life. Several forces try to take control of Seo Bok to serve their own agendas.


The Day I Died: Unclosed Case
2020 · 1h 56m
country: South Korea
The detective Hyun-soo tries to track down a girl who disappeared off of a cliff during a stormy night.


OK! Madam
2020 · 1h 40m
country: South Korea
A working class family wins a free vacation to Hawaii. But when their plane takes flight, it gets hijacked by terrorists. To save her family and the other passengers, the wife must reveal her secret past and fight back.


Steel Rain 2: Summit
2020 · 2h 12m
country: South Korea
A futuristic film about a crisis near the brink of war after three leaders are kidnapped by a North Korean nuclear submarine in a coup d’état during a summit between the two Koreas and the United States.


The Closet
2020 · 1h 38m
country: South Korea
After moving into a new house, a young girl begins displaying strange and disturbing behavior until, one day, she disappears behind a closet. While the devastated father is left with no clue about his daughter's disappearance, an exorcist shows up to help.


Black Money
2019 · 1h 53m
country: South Korea
A prosecutor is falsely accused of sexual assault in a suicide note from a woman that he is convinced was actually murdered. As he investigates her death to clear his name, he realizes that the truth lies in a huge financial scandal.


Jesters: The Game Changers
2019 · 1h 48m
country: South Korea
A gang of clowns is hired by an unpopular king to serve as propagandists who fabricate positive rumors and stage miracles to improve his personal image.


The King's Letters
2019 · 1h 50m
country: South Korea
In the 15th century, despite so many accomplishments he has made for the people, King Sejong, his biggest goal is still remaining; the invention of original letters that can be read and written by all the people. But courtiers who want to dominate the knowledge and the power, are against his will and discourage his belief. Frustrated King Sejong hears about a bonze Sinmi a phonogram expert, and secretly brings him in the palace.


Inseparable Bros
2019 · 1h 54m
country: South Korea
Se-ha who is physically handicapped and Dong-gu who is mentally handicapped are not their own brothers. But while living 20 years together, the two became indispensable to each other. One day, the mother of Dong-gu suddenly visits him and acts as his guardian.


Money
2019 · 1h 55m
country: South Korea
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.


MAL·MO·E: The Secret Mission
2019 · 2h 15m
country: South Korea
During the Japanese occupation of Korea, the Japanese Empire seeks to eradicate the Korean language and identity. In retaliation, a small group of Korean patriots try to protect their language by compiling the first Korean language dictionary.


The Drug King
2018 · 2h 19m
country: South Korea
Busan, South Korea, 1970s. Lee Doo-sam is a small-time smuggler. After helping a drug gang to smuggle meth, he falls into the dark crime world. Quick-witted and full of ambition, he eventually takes over the drug underworld and starts to lead a double life: a good community leader during the day but an infamous drug lord during the night.


Rampant
2018 · 2h 2m
country: South Korea
Ancient Korea, 17th century. While the paranoid King Lee Jo of Joseon, vassal of the Qing dynasty, feels surrounded by conspirators and rebels, a dark evil emerges from the bowels of a merchant ship and the exiled Prince Lee Cheung returns to the royal court, ignoring that he will have to lead the few capable of defeating the ambitious humans and the bloody monsters who threaten to destroy the kingdom.


The Spy Gone North
2018 · 2h 18m
country: South Korea
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.


I Can Speak
2017 · 1h 59m
country: South Korea
A grumpy old woman befriends a young civil servant and learns English from him. She then reveals to him her shocking past.


A Taxi Driver
2017 · 2h 18m
country: South Korea
May, 1980. Man-seob is a taxi driver in Seoul who lives from hand to mouth, raising his young daughter alone. One day, he hears that there is a foreigner who will pay big money for a drive down to Gwangju city. Not knowing that he’s a German journalist with a hidden agenda, Man-seob takes the job.


The Battleship Island
2017 · 2h 12m
country: South Korea
During the Japanese colonial era, roughly 400 Korean people, who were forced onto Battleship Island 'Hashima Island' to mine for coal, attempt to escape.


The Discloser
2017 · 1h 40m
country: South Korea
Captain Gang has died in a test flight accident. Dae-ik discovers a huge corruption scandal while trying to determine the cause of death. He reports it to journalist Jung-sook, but things changed in unexpected ways.


Reset
2017 · 1h 46m
country: China
In 2025, a scientist on the verge of making a major discovery related to time travel is suddenly put in peril when a rival kidnaps her young son and demands a hefty ransom: her entire research.


The Merciless
2017 · 2h
country: South Korea
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 prison. When they try to take over the organization after their release, their ulterior motives start to emerge.


A Single Rider
2017 · 1h 37m
country: South Korea
Promising fund manager Jae-hoon is at the brink of losing everything when his company goes bankrupt. Overwhelmed by despair, he takes an impulsive trip to Australia where his wife and son live. As his trip nears its unexpected end, Jae-hoon gets a chance to look back on his life.


Lucid Dream
2017 · 1h 41m
country: South Korea
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.


New Trial
2017 · 1h 59m
country: South Korea
A taxi driver is found dead, and Hyun-woo, the only witness, charged with a murder and serves 10 years in prison. While offering pro bono services, a lawyer Junyoung meets Hyun-woo, and they begin their journey to prove his innocence.


Misbehavior
2017 · 1h 36m
country: South Korea
Hyo-joo, a temporary teacher at a boys' high school, witnesses Hae-yeong's passionate embrace with a boy, causing her immense humiliation towards her.


Asura: The City of Madness
2016 · 2h 16m
country: South Korea
A shady cop finds himself in over his head when he gets caught between Internal Affairs and the city’s corrupt mayor.


Han River
2016 · 1h 26m
country: South Korea
Catholic priest, Myeong-jun, climbs up one of the bridges crossing the Han River to commit suicide after learning that a woman who loved him in the past, has killed herself. Then Jang-hyo, a homeless person, tells the man on the bridge that he bet with other homeless people that the suicide attempt will fail. Myeong-jun jumps into the river anyway. But Jang-hyo rescues the suicidal priest and lets him join the homeless community. Chu-ja, a transgender homeless person, is on bad terms with his daughter. When he hesitates about attending his daughter’s wedding, the two men visit the daughter and ask her to forgive her father. Another homeless person, Maria goes to a soup kitchen at a Catholic church, where she sees the beautiful nun Angela. Maria, who was pregnant at the time, gives birth to a baby later and decides to remain at the church to be a sister. Despite their own painful history, each of these four people finds a way to reconcile with the past.


Seondal: The Man Who Sells the River
2016 · 2h 1m
country: South Korea
In the late Joseon Dynasty, Bongyi Kim Seon-dal is the best conman who sells water from the Taedong River.


The Handmaiden
2016 · 2h 25m
country: South Korea
1930s Korea, in the period of Japanese occupation, a new girl, Sook-hee, is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress, Hideko, who lives a secluded life on a large countryside estate with her domineering Uncle Kouzuki. But the maid has a secret. She is a pickpocket recruited by a swindler posing as a Japanese Count to help him seduce the Lady to steal her fortune.


The Sound of a Flower
2015 · 1h 49m
country: South Korea
During the Joseon Dynasty, lowborn Chae-sun challenges the rule that states only men allowed to sing while navigating devotion to her teacher and the demands of the king's father.


Inside Men
2015 · 3h 1m
country: South Korea
A disgruntled henchman teams up with an ambitious prosecutor to bring down a leading presidential candidate and the news editor behind him who is truly pulling the strings.


The Throne
2015 · 2h 6m
country: South Korea
Ancient Korea, July 4, 1762. The Crown Prince Hyojang, posthumously named Sado, son of King Yeongjo of Joseon, is accused of treason. Thus, the king asks him to commit suicide, but his closest vassals prevent it, so the king orders the prince to get inside a wooden rice chest, where he suffers deprivation of food and water.


Veteran
2015 · 2h 3m
country: South Korea
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.


The Unfair
2015 · 2h 7m
country: South Korea
Residents, who are evicted from their homes in a designated urban renewal, demonstrate against their removal. The police arrive and attempt to end the demonstration. Death happen that lead to the bigger problem.


The Shameless
2015 · 1h 58m
country: South Korea
A homicide detective tries to flush out a mob enforcer by befriending the suspect's beautiful girlfriend, but soon develops romantic feelings for her.


C'est Si Bon
2015 · 2h
country: South Korea
A beautiful socialite enters the lives of three bickering musicians and inspires them to write a series of hit love-songs.


Chronicle of a Blood Merchant
2015 · 2h 4m
country: South Korea
Set in a village right after the Korean War, poor but good-hearted Heo Sam-gwan sets out to win the most beautiful girl in the village, Heo Ok-ran, by selling his blood to earn money. Years later, the two are happily married with three children, but their family undergoes a crisis when Sam-gwan's eldest son doesn't resemble him and rumors spread about the boy's paternity.


Cart
2014 · 1h 43m
country: South Korea
In response to a sudden dismissal of staff, workers at a big retail store begin a protest against their employer's oppressive labor policies.


Scarlet Innocence
2014 · 1h 51m
country: South Korea
A university professor gradually succumbing to blindness is entranced by an obsessive love, in this modern-day adaptation of a classic Korean fairy tale.


Sea Fog
2014 · 1h 51m
country: South Korea
A fishing-boat crew takes on a dangerous commission to smuggle a group of illegal immigrants from China to Korea.


Kundo: Age of the Rampant
2014 · 2h 17m
country: South Korea
In 1862, amidst the rule of the late Joseon dynasty in Korea, a band of fighters named Kundo rise against the unjust authorities.


Mad Sad Bad
2014 · 1h 57m
country: South Korea
Ryoo Seungwan, Han Jiseung, Kim Taeyong got together to make a 3D omnibus film. It's a 3D vision of terrible realities never far from popular culture today. The stages of its episodes are different with one another. Tragedies and fantasies unfold in the city, the woods, and the future. The 3D technique is used in scenes where the characters have fancies to get over suffering in reality. It's interesting to watch 3D scenes directed by representative directors of Korea, and it's noteworthy in terms of industry that this try displays the possibilities and realities of 3D film in Korea, as well. It's the new vision of KAFA's project, KAFA+


Obsessed
2014 · 2h 12m
country: South Korea
A secret, passionate affair happens in the summer of 1969 between Colonel Jin Pyeong, trapped in a loveless marriage with Soo Jin, and Jong Ga Heun, the Chinese-Korean wife of Captain Kyung Woo Jin.


Tabloid Truth
2014 · 2h 1m
country: South Korea
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.


Venus Talk
2014 · 1h 48m
country: South Korea
Shin-hye, Mi-yeon, and Hae-young are three vivacious women who help each other through the tangles of their romantic lives, from tentative first dates to Viagra-taking husbands and one-night stands. Being 40 proves that they're not past their prime.


The Attorney
2013 · 2h 7m
country: South Korea
Song Woo-seok is a lawyer with no clients. When his friend's son is falsely accused of a crime and tortured, he takes up the case and the course of his life changes for good.


Commitment
2013 · 1h 53m
country: South Korea
The son of a North Korean spy decides to follow in his father's footsteps to protect his little sister.


Hwayi: A Monster Boy
2013 · 2h 5m
country: South Korea
After being kidnapped as a small child and raised by the five men who abducted him, a teenage boy is now forced to join their life in crime.


Hope
2013 · 2h 2m
country: South Korea
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.


Hide and Seek
2013 · 1h 47m
country: South Korea
Sung-soo has everything a man could want: a beautiful wife and children, a comfortable home and luxury car, and plenty of money in the bank. When he learns that his estranged brother, Sung-chul, has gone missing, haunting memories of their troubled past urge him to visit his brother’s apartment in search of answers.


The Berlin File
2013 · 2h
country: South Korea
When an illicit arms deal goes bad, North Korean spy Pyo Jong-seong finds himself targeted not just by the South Koreans but also his own bosses.


Day Trip
2012 · 20m
country: South Korea
A master and his student visit a mountain to practice pansori (a musical storytelling performed by a singer and a drummer) after a music competition which outcome has left the trainee disappointed.


The Tower
2012 · 2h 1m
country: South Korea
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.


Duresori: The Voice of East
2012 · 1h 50m
country: South Korea
Seul-Gi and Ah-Reum are 3rd year students at the National High School of the Traditional Arts. They are also best friends. Seul-Gi majors in pansori (Korean traditional music) and Ah-Reum majors in Gyeonggi Folk Music. During their summer break, the girls struggle with pressures and anxiety. They then take a special summer school class due to a lack of attendance. Meanwhile, the Education Burea informs their school that they will take part in a chorus contest. The school selects Teacher Ham, a composer, to make up the school's chorus team. The pool consists of students from the special summer school class. A conflict also ensues between Ms. Ham, who majored in western music, and the students, who are majors in traditional Korean music. Can the students compete in the chorus performance?


Eungyo
2012 · 2h 9m
country: South Korea
A reclusive elderly poet feels the fire of his youth when gamine schoolgirl Eun-gyo enters his life, to the chagrin of the old man's assistant.


Architecture 101
2012 · 1h 58m
country: South Korea
When Seung-min was on his first year at the Academy of Architecture, he met Seo-yeon. She was a musician student, and Seung-min totally fell in love with her. Years have passed, and now he meets Seo-yeon again - she asks him to rebuild her father's old house.


Nameless Gangster
2012 · 2h 13m
country: South Korea
Ik-hyeon, a corrupt officer, joins forces with another crook, Hyung-bae, to continue his illegal activities before he loses his job. Eventually, he decides to escape and pin the blame on his partner.


A Reason to Live
2011 · 1h 59m
country: South Korea
A female producer loses her fiancée in a hit and run accident and stands in the line of conflict.


Unbowed
2011 · 1h 40m
country: South Korea
Inspired by the true story of Kim Kyung-ho, a math professor who was arrested for shooting a crossbow at the presiding judge of his appeal against unfair dismissal.


Pain
2011 · 1h 44m
country: South Korea
A debt collector who has lost his sense of pain after being in an accident when he was young falls in love with a street vendor who has acute hemophilia.


Hindsight
2011 · 2h 2m
country: South Korea
A young assassin is sent to kill a retired mob boss. But things get complicated when she begins to like him.


Leafie, a Hen Into the Wild
2011 · 1h 33m
country: South Korea
Based on a bestselling preteen novel of the same title that has sold more than 1 million copies in Korea, “Leafie, A Hen into the Wild” is about a laying hen named Leafie who is destined to live the “same old” repetitive life confined on the chicken farm. Her fate changes when she escapes from the chicken farm and hatches a duck egg. With the duckling (who believes Leafie to be his mother), sets off on a journey into the wild with her new son to find her freedom.


The Front Line
2011 · 2h 13m
country: South Korea
In 1951 ceasefire is declared, but two remaining armies fought their final battle on the front line Towards the end of the Korean War, a South Korean battalion is fiercely battling over a hill on the front line border against the North in order to capture a strategic point that would determine the new border between two nations. The ownership of this small patch of land would swap multiple times each day. Kang is dispatched to the front line in order to investigate the tacit case that’s been happening there.


Mama
2011 · 1h 51m
country: South Korea
A mother of a boy with muscular dystrophy is diagnosed with uterine cancer. A daughter of a prima donna decides to chase her dreams, to the ire of her mother. A woman with breast cancer asks her son to find her first love.


If You Were Me 5
2011 · 2h 24m
country: South Korea
Funded by the National Human Rights Commission of Korea. If You Were Me 5 takes a close look at the violent nature hidden behind our eyes. 5 directors- Kang Yi Kwan, Boo Ji Young, Yoon Sung Hyun, Kim Dae Seung and Sin Dong Il disclose how closely ordinary events of society connect with our eyes. There is a hidden sexual violence beyond our eyes and the power of a controlled society works through the power beyond the eyes. Not only the violence of the eye itself, also limited the ability of individuals to see, the matter of the eye intervenes in various relationships between the individual and groups. The film demonstrates how sharp the eye has become in a society with developing technology.


The Unjust
2010 · 1h 59m
country: South Korea
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.


The Recipe
2010 · 1h 47m
country: South Korea
A man on death-row wants to taste "doenjang jjigae" (a spicy Korean bean paste stew) before he dies. Television producer Choi Yu-Jin hears of the inmate and researches his story for an upcoming news report. Choi Yu-Jin then comes across a mysterious woman named Jang Hye-Jin who makes doenjang jjigae that brings tears of joy to those who tastes her recipe. As Choi Yu-Jin delves further, he learns of Jang Hye-Jin's heart breaking relationship with Kim Hyun-Soo.


Cyrano Agency
2010 · 1h 58m
country: South Korea
The successful Cyrano Agency helps people, who can't find a date, to get a love life — until they are hired to help Sang-yong.


The Man from Nowhere
2010 · 1h 59m
country: South Korea
A reclusive pawnshop owner goes on a brutal rampage to rescue a young girl kidnapped by a criminal organization.


The Servant
2010 · 2h 4m
country: South Korea
A servant falls in love with a girl whom his master also desires. Although the girl loves the servant, she also longs to improve her station in life.


Blades of Blood
2010 · 1h 48m
country: South Korea
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.


Men Without Women
2009 · 1h 30m
country: South Korea


Good Morning President
2009 · 2h 11m
country: South Korea
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.


The Sword with No Name
2009 · 2h 4m
country: South Korea
Mu Myeong is a Joseon dynasty headhunter who meets and falls in love with lady Ja Yeong who will become the future Empress Myseongseong. A few years later, Ja Yeong enters the royal palace to marry King Gojong. Mu Myeong still having feelings for Ja Yeong and in an attempt to get closer to her becomes her personal body guard.


Possessed
2009 · 1h 52m
country: South Korea
After Hee-jin's younger sister So-jin, who is possessed by a spirit,disappears,the neighbors die one by one and a secret underlying their deaths is revealed.


A Blood Pledge
2009 · 1h 28m
country: South Korea
Four friends pledge to commit suicide together but while standing on the ledge, only one of them actually jumps. Her ghost begins to haunt the remaining friends until the pledge is fulfilled.


Thirst
2009 · 2h 14m
country: South Korea
A respected priest volunteers for an experimental procedure that may lead to a cure for a deadly virus. He gets infected and dies, but a blood transfusion of unknown origin brings him back to life. Now, he’s torn between faith and bloodlust, and has a newfound desire for the wife of a childhood friend.


Go Go 70s
2008 · 1h 58m
country: South Korea
In the 1970s, Devil's, a legendary band, participates in a Korean band contest. The band mesmerizes the audience with its style and dance. However, the night is put at risk when an unexpected situations arises.


Sunny
2008 · 2h 6m
country: South Korea
With hopes of reuniting with her husband, who left for the Vietnam War without telling her, a young wife joins a traveling band as the lead singer.


My Mighty Princess
2008 · 2h 2m
country: South Korea
So-hwi is a martial arts prodigy and college student. Realizing that her superhuman strength is holding back her love life, she decides to quit martial arts to pursue handsome hockey player Joon-mo. But Joon-mo is in love with an older woman, and when So-hwi's mystical martial arts community comes under threat from an old enemy, Heuk-bong, her childhood friend Il-yeong must persuade her to return.


Like Father, Like Son
2008 · 1h 50m
country: South Korea
A former rock star, Tae-su, returns home to his son after a 15year absence. His son is filled with resentment, but when they are joined unexpectedly by a girl called Mari, an unlikely family forms.


Shadows in the Palace
2007 · 1h 52m
country: South Korea
Upon receiving the body of a maid in waiting who was said to have hung herself within the palace walls, dedicated doctor Chun-ryung begins to suspect foul play. Upon launching a personal investigation, however, Chun-ryung quickly discovers a labyrinthine maze of deception constructed by those with limitless power to conceal a valuable secret.


Going by the Book
2007 · 1h 42m
country: South Korea
The chief of Sampo City Police Office, Seung-u, organizes a simulation of a bank robbery, but a by-the-book cop gets too caught up in the role playing in which the simulation doesn't go the way he had anticipated.


Epitaph
2007 · 1h 42m
country: South Korea
A man and his wife investigate a string of murders, a medical student sees visions of a dead girl, and a child is haunted by her dead parent's ghosts.


My Son
2007 · 1h 49m
country: South Korea
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?


Bunt
2007 · 1h 36m
country: South Korea
A mentally challenged boy, Dong-gu loves going to school to fetch water for his friends. But he is disappointed, when the school decides to install water purifiers instead.


Project Makeover
2007 · 1h 52m
country: South Korea
An unhappy woman goes back in time and poses as her cousin to prevent her younger self from making the same mistakes and ruining her future.


I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK
2006 · 1h 45m
country: South Korea
Young-goon, mentally deranged and frequently electro-charging herself with a transistor radio, has been admitted into a mental institution. Firmly believing herself to be a cyborg, she refuses to consume like a human being. Il-soon is another patient, who catches the eye of Young-goon and soon becomes a close friend. Il-soon is now confronted with the biggest task: to cure Young-goon's mental problem and have her eat real food.


Once in a Summer
2006 · 2h 1m
country: South Korea
An assistant to a TV producer, eager to stay off his bad side, promises to convince her former professor, a famous but reclusive academic, to appear on their show, which helps locate long-lost persons. Who does grey-haired Professor Yun Suk-young want to see again more than anything? The answer to that question lies decades in the past.


Radio Star
2006 · 1h 55m
country: South Korea
Once a famous singer, Choi Gon is reduced to doing gigs in cafes after being involved in a scandal. When Choi Gon gets arrested after an argument, Park Minsu, his manager, seeks help from a director of a radio station, who agrees, with a condition.


Bloody Tie
2006 · 1h 56m
country: South Korea
A crystal meth dealer with a tragic past is forced to team up with a renegade cop to take down a powerful crime lord.


King and the Clown
2005 · 2h 1m
country: South Korea
Two clowns living in Korea's Chosun Dynasty get arrested for staging a play that satirizes the king. They are dragged to the palace and threatened with execution but are given a chance to save their lives if they can make the king laugh.


A Boy Who Went to Heaven
2005 · 1h 55m
country: South Korea
After a miraculous second chance at life, a 13-year-old boy reincarnated into a 33-year-old man has 60 days to win a single mother's heart.


Sad Movie
2005 · 1h 48m
country: South Korea
These intertwining stories about romance and separation follow a firefighter who can't find the right time to propose, a shy theme park worker who falls for an artist, an estranged mother and son, and a man seeking to regain his lost love.


Murder, Take One
2005 · 1h 55m
country: South Korea
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.


Lady Vengeance
2005 · 1h 55m
country: South Korea
Released after being wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for 13 years, a woman begins executing her elaborate plan of retribution.


Blood Rain
2005 · 1h 59m
country: South Korea
When a small island village is plagued with horrible murders, the government sends a special investigator who discovers dark secrets that trace back to a myriad of murders from the past.


Three... Extremes
2004 · 2h 5m
country: Hong Kong
Features an anthology centred on the experiences of a witch doctor, a film-maker and a disgruntled extra determined to take revenge on him, and a novelist as well as her twin sister.


Hi, Dharma 2: Showdown In Seoul
2004 · 1h 39m
country: South Korea
Following the last wish of an old master, three monks head to Seoul to rest his remains in the Mushim Temple. However, they discover that the heavily indebted host monk has abandoned the temple and its inhabitants. The three monks make every effort to help the temple by promoting it to the public and raising funds through donations. But just when things begin to look much brighter, a team of four gangsters reach the temple indicating their need to reclaim it for an urban redevelopment project.


Someone Special
2004 · 1h 47m
country: South Korea
A baseball player learns he has three months to live and drowns his sorrows at a bar, where the female bartender turns out to be a longtime admirer.


Windstruck
2004 · 2h 3m
country: Hong Kong
Kyung-jin, a police officer who finds herself chasing down a suspected bag-snatcher on her day off. However, the man she catches turns out to be Myungwoo, a passer-by who was himself trying to apprehend the real criminal.


Oldboy
2003 · 2h
country: South Korea
With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate man seeks revenge on his captors.


Wishing Stairs
2003 · 1h 40m
country: South Korea
A staircase leading to a schoolgirls' dormitory usually has 28 steps, but sometimes a 29th step appears. Any wish you make while standing on this step comes true, even if it must come true in the most horrific way possible.


The Classic
2003 · 2h 13m
country: South Korea
Ji-hae's friend is having problems expressing her feelings to the boy she loves, so she asks Ji-hae to write e-mails to him in her name. As the boy falls in love with her letters, Ji-hae discovers the story of her mother's romance which is remarkably similar to her own circumstances.


Double Agent
2003 · 2h 5m
country: South Korea
A North Korean diplomat defects to the South during the Cold War, but the South Koreans have their suspicions as to whether he is an actual defector or a double agent.


Conduct Zero
2002 · 1h 39m
country: South Korea
When Joong-pil, the biggest bully in his high-school by far finds himself harboring feelings for a classmate, his entire identity is thrown off balance. Suddenly his smoking, his drinking, his constant swearing and his habit of pushing underclassmen into walls don't seem like good habits anymore. Without his nastiness, who is he? He might just like this girl enough to find out, if he can figure out how.


YMCA Baseball Team
2002 · 1h 44m
country: South Korea
Ho-chang accidentally sees missionaries and Jeong-rim play baseball at the YMCA hall. He falls in love with Jeong-rim, and takes interest in baseball. As a result, he gathers people to form the first YMCA baseball team of Joseon.


The Way Home
2002 · 1h 26m
country: South Korea
This is the story of a 7-year-old boy, Sang-woo, born and raised in the big city, and his mute grandmother, who has spent her whole life in a small rural village.


Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
2002 · 2h 9m
country: South Korea
A deaf man and his girlfriend resort to desperate measures in order to fund a kidney transplant for his sister. Things go horribly wrong, and the situation spirals rapidly into a cycle of violence and revenge.


No Blood No Tears
2002 · 1h 56m
country: South Korea
A former safecracker makes a living as a taxi driver but continues to be haunted by her past. One day she chances upon an aspiring singer, who is a spitting image of herself back in the day. Together, the two women plot to steal money from gangsters.


Hi, Dharma!
2001 · 1h 35m
country: South Korea
Laughs and thrills go hand-in-fist in this Korean action comedy, as a band of criminals fleeing a violent gang war hides out in a monastery. The monks in residence quickly tire of the goons’ distressing behavior and manufacture a series of activities to get even.


Waikiki Brothers
2001 · 1h 49m
country: South Korea
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.


Guns & Talks
2001 · 2h
country: South Korea
Four unlikely assassins question their assignments because they genuinely care about their customers and victims. However, they attract police attention and a prosecutor is on their trail.


My Sassy Girl
2001 · 2h 17m
country: South Korea
A young man’s world is turned upside down when a female force of nature takes his life by storm in this outrageous and uplifting ode to true love.


Indian Summer
2001 · 1h 44m
country: South Korea
A woman stands trial for her life with a lawyer who is determined to save her despite her refusal to be saved.


Terror Taxi
2000 · 1h 34m
country: South Korea
Gilnam, a diligent taxi driver plans to propose to his girlfriend, Yu-jeong. However, when Gilnam takes off to meet Yu-jeong with armful roses, he gets in a hit-and-run accident and dies on the spot. One night, forty-nine days later, in a graveyard, a set of headlights emerges. A mysterious taxi drives off into the city. The driver of this taxi is none other than Gilnam, but he is no longer a part of the living and he races through the city streets in search of his beloved.


Joint Security Area
2000 · 1h 48m
country: South Korea
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.


Interview
2000 · 2h 6m
country: South Korea
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.


Memento Mori
1999 · 1h 38m
country: South Korea
The ghost of a lesbian high-school girl takes revenge on the people who used to bully her. And another young girl finds her old diary detailing her love and rejection when she was alive.


Tell Me Something
1999 · 1h 58m
country: South Korea
Detective Cho, a cop on the edge, is mourning his mother's recent death while under investigation for graft; on top of that he is suddenly put in charge of a seemingly-impenetrable mystery.


Judgement
1999 · 27m
country: South Korea
At the identification of a dead body, a couple and a morgue employee both claim to be related to the deceased, and therefore the rightful recipient of an indemnity of at least 520,000.


The Spy
1999 · 1h 45m
country: South Korea
A North Korean spy Lee Chul-jin infiltrates the eastern coast of South Korea. His mission is to steal a Super Pig DNA sample which can be used to alleviate the famine in North Korea.


Art Museum by the Zoo
1998 · 1h 48m
country: South Korea
Through a misunderstanding, Chul-su arrives on the doorstep of Chun-hi. Having nowhere else to go, he forces her to allow him to stay until they can contact their mutual friend to solve the problem. Their initial contempt for each other gradually softens.