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Filmography
48 films


Concrete Utopia
2023 · 2h 10m
country: South Korea
The world has been reduced to rubble by a massive earthquake. While no one knows for sure how far the ruins stretch, or what the cause of the earthquake may be, in the heart of Seoul there is only one apartment building left standing. It is called Hwang Gung Apartments. As time passes, outsiders start coming in to Hwang Gung Apartments trying to escape the extreme cold. Before long, the apartment residents are unable to cope with the increasing numbers. Feeling a threat to their very survival, the residents enact a special measure.


The Night Owl
2022 · 1h 58m
country: South Korea
Korea, 1645 - Joseon Dynasty: a partially blind and gifted acupuncturist, Gyeong-su, is invited to work alongside the royal physician in the palace of King Injo, just before the crown prince Sohyeon returns after having been held captive by the Qing Dynasty. Prince Sohyeon and his father begin to differ in opinion on the future direction of their dynasty, leading King Injo to suffer from severe anxiety and paranoia. One night, Gyeong-su witnesses prince Sohyeon's death. Disbelieved as a witness on account of his blindness, Gyeong-su must struggle to reveal the truth while not falling prey to the power-hungry conspirators of the palace.


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.


Emergency Declaration
2022 · 2h 20m
country: South Korea
While investigating a terroristic threat that goes viral online, Korean authorities discover that a suspect has recently boarded an international flight bound for the United States. When a healthy passenger on the same flight suddenly dies a gruesome death of unknown cause, panic erupts both in-flight and on the ground. With steadily decreasing fuel and international refusals to offer aid, the captain and crew will be forced to take unprecedented emergency measures in an attempt to save the lives of their passengers.


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.


The Witch: Part 2. The Other One
2022 · 2h 17m
country: South Korea
A girl wakes up in a huge secret laboratory, then accidentally meets another girl who is trying to protect her house from a gang. The mystery girl overthrows the gang with her unexpected powers, and laboratory staff set out to find her.


Broker
2022 · 2h 9m
country: South Korea
When a young mother reconsiders abandoning her baby, she discovers a scheme selling foundlings for adoption.


The Roundup
2022 · 1h 46m
country: South Korea
The 'Beast Cop' Ma Seok-do heads to a foreign country to extradite a suspect, but soon after his arrival, he discovers additional murder cases and hears about a vicious killer who has been committing crimes against tourists for several years.


I Want to Know Your Parents
2022 · 1h 51m
country: South Korea
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.


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.


Escape from Mogadishu
2021 · 2h 1m
country: South Korea
Diplomats from the North and South Korean embassies in Somalia attempt a daring joint escape from Mogadishu when the outbreak of civil war leaves them stranded.


Good Light, Good Air
2021 · 1h 55m
country: South Korea
The title Good Light, Good Air is oddly paradoxical. Keenly working at the point where his artistic identity and persistent attention on modern Korean history meet, director Im in this film focused on where the history of oppression and struggle intersect between Gwangju and Buenos Aires. In both cities, a great number of people who fought against the dictatorship were slaughtered and disappeared. The people of both societies still live with that trauma. When the testimonies of the victims of the two cities cross over, the film gives us chills as the eerie history of the two is very similar. Through Good Light, Good Air, director Im asks us how we will remember the past from where we stand right now.


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.


Night in Paradise
2020 · 2h 11m
country: South Korea
An assassin named Tae-goo is offered a chance to switch sides with his rival Bukseong gang, headed by Chairman Doh. Tae-goo rejects the offer that results in the murder of his sister and niece. In revenge, Tae-goo brutally kills Chairman Doh and his men and flees to Jeju Island where he meets Jae-yeon, a terminally ill woman. Though, the henchman of the Bukseong gang, Executive Ma is mercilessly hunting Tae-goo to take revenge.


Deliver Us from Evil
2020 · 1h 48m
country: South Korea
A retired contract killer goes on a bloody rampage when a young girl finds herself at the mercy of gangland human traffickers and only one man can come to her rescue, with an arsenal of weapons and years of experience in the art of killing.


Innocence
2020 · 1h 50m
country: South Korea
A lawyer tries to prove her mother's innocence and uncover the secrets of a small village with the help of the local mayor. Her mother was accused of murder after the rice wine was poisoned at her husband's funeral, but she is suffering from memory loss and cannot defend herself.


The Man Standing Next
2020 · 1h 54m
country: South Korea
When the investigation of 'Koreagate' takes place, Park Yong-gak, a former KCIA director who knows everything about the government's operations, heads to the United States in exile.


Ashfall
2019 · 2h 8m
country: South Korea
A group of unlikely heroes from across the Korean peninsula try to save the day after a volcano erupts on the mythical and majestic Baekdu Mountain.


Things That Do Us Part
2019 · 1h 40m
country: South Korea
Things That Do Us Part is a documentary that reframes the stories of three women fighters who dove into a tragic war in modern Korean history, using witness statements and reenactments.


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.


Kim Ji-young: Born 1982
2019 · 1h 59m
country: South Korea
Kim Ji-young, an ordinary woman in her 30s, suddenly shows signs of being inhabited by other women from her life, past and present.


Cheer Up, Mr. Lee
2019 · 1h 51m
country: South Korea
Chul-soo is a man with an intellectual disability. One day, Chul-soo finds out that a young girl, Saet-byul, who is in hospital is his daughter. And soon, Saet-byul sneaks out of the hospital and travels by herself to a faraway city for her friend's birthday. As Chul-soo accompanies Saet-byul's journey, friendship develops between the two.


Parasite
2019 · 2h 13m
country: South Korea
All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.


Juror 8
2019 · 1h 54m
country: South Korea
Seoul, South Korea, September 21st, 2008. Eight citizens, the first to intervene as jurors in the country's legal history, are randomly selected to examine a matricide case that appears to have been resolved due to the existence of apparently conclusive evidence.


Intimate Strangers
2018 · 1h 55m
country: South Korea
A group of people meet for the first time in a long time and play a game that reveals each other's secrets.


Adulthood
2018 · 1h 32m
country: South Korea
At her dad's funeral, Kyungun meets her uncle Jaemin, a complete stranger. He bilks her father's insurance money. She demands her money back, but he unashamedly refuses. To get her money back, she joins his next scam.


The Witch: Part 1. The Subversion
2018 · 2h 6m
country: Hong Kong
Ja-yoon is a high school student who struggles with memory loss after she endured some unknown trauma during her childhood. While trying to uncover the truth, she is unwittingly dragged into a world of crime and finds herself on a journey that will awaken many secrets hidden deep within.


Love+Sling
2018 · 1h 50m
country: South Korea
A former wrestler bonds with his son over the sport. But then the son's girlfriend falls in love with the father.


Duck Town
2018 · 1h 27m
country: South Korea
Hee-jung hopes to leave Daegu and transfer to a university in Seoul. She works at a ticket office for paddle boats to save up for her tuition. One day while she dozes off, someone attempts suicide.


1987: When the Day Comes
2017 · 2h 9m
country: South Korea
In 1987 Korea under an oppressive military regime, the unlawful interrogation and death of a college student ignite ordinary citizens to fight for the truth and bring about justice.


Forgotten
2017 · 1h 48m
country: South Korea
Jin-seok, 21-year-old, moves into a new house with his family. He suffers from a slight schizophrenia but he carries an ordinary life under the warm care of the family. His older brother Yu-seok is a decent college student, a mentor, and role model for Jin-seok. One night, his beloved brother is kidnapped by unidentified assailants before Jin-seok's eye. Jin-seok can’t recognize their faces, but can remember only the VIN that matches with no car. After long silence of 19 days, suddenly Yu-seok returns home, but remembers nothing which had happened in the meantime. And soon Jin-seok feels Yu-seok is a total stranger.


A Special Lady
2017 · 1h 31m
country: South Korea
A corrupt prosecutor plans for revenge against Hyun-jung's crime organization by using her loyal partner, Sang-hoon.


The Age of Shadows
2016 · 2h 20m
country: South Korea
Set in the late 1920s, The Age of Shadows follows the cat-and-mouse game that unfolds between a group of resistance fighters trying to bring in explosives from Shanghai to destroy key Japanese facilities in Seoul, and Japanese agents trying to stop them.


The Queen of Crime
2016 · 1h 43m
country: South Korea
When her son who lives in a single room is given an outrageous $1,000 water bill, a mother decides to become a detective and find out what is behind it.


Train to Busan
2016 · 1h 58m
country: South Korea
When a zombie virus pushes Korea into a state of emergency, those trapped on an express train to Busan must fight for their own survival.


The Truth Beneath
2016 · 1h 42m
country: South Korea
For 15 days, a politician and his wife navigate a scandal after their daughter goes missing on the eve of the national elections.


The Wailing
2016 · 2h 36m
country: South Korea
A stranger arrives in a little village and soon after a mysterious sickness starts spreading. A policeman is drawn into the incident and is forced to solve the mystery in order to save his daughter.


Love Forecast
2015 · 1h 58m
country: South Korea
Whenever elementary school teacher Kang Joon-soo falls in love, he always gives too much of himself to the relationship. Yet despite that, he ends up being the one getting dumped by his girlfriends. Joon-soo has been friends for 18 years with Kim Hyun-woo, a weather forecaster whose beauty belies her witty tongue and aggressive manner.


The Royal Tailor
2014 · 2h 7m
country: South Korea
Lee Gong-jin, a young tailor, helps the Queen with her dress and both fall in love with each other. However, his success catches the ire of Jo Dol-seok, the royal tailor, who vows retribution.


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.


Wild Flowers
2014 · 1h 54m
country: South Korea
The life of runaway girls is exposed to the threats of prostitution or violent situations during the quest to find a place to stay overnight like Eunsoo and Soohyang.


Snowpiercer
2013 · 2h 7m
country: South Korea
In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class system evolves aboard the Snowpiercer; a train that travels around the globe via a perpetual-motion engine.


26 Years
2012 · 2h 15m
country: South Korea
Three relatives of victims come together to get revenge on a murderer twenty-six years after the massacre. The man had killed groups of people in the 1980 Gwangju murders.


Masquerade
2012 · 2h 11m
country: South Korea
Though it places his own life in danger, a look-alike commoner secretly takes the place of a poisoned king to save his country from falling into chaos.


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.


Tears in the Amazon
2010 · 1h 38m
country: South Korea
A documentary about environment destruction in the Amazon and the tribes living there. Produced for the 48th anniversary of MBC, Korea. A brilliant records of the itinerary for 250 days through the Amazon.


Wish
2009 · 1h 48m
country: South Korea
Jjang-gu joins "Monster," a violent organization at his high school. As a rite of passage, he learns a lesson about being a man while following the course.


Take Off
2009 · 2h 19m
country: South Korea
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.