Byun Hee-bong

Byun Hee-bong

Born: June 8, 1942
Died: September 18, 2023
in Jangseong, South Jeolla, South Korea
Byun Hee-bong was a Korean actor, known for his frequent collaborations with filmmaker Bong Joon-ho.

Movies for Byun Hee-bong...

By Quantum Physics: A Nightlife Venture
Title: By Quantum Physics: A Nightlife Venture
Character: Don Baek
Released: September 25, 2019
Type: Movie
An advocate of the concept ‘thoughts create reality’, Chan-woo endeavors to realize his dream of running a high-end nightclub when he finds himself caught in the center of a power game in the criminal underworld.
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Trap: Director's Cut
Title: Trap: Director's Cut
Character: Kim Shin-woo
Released: June 27, 2019
Type: Movie
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Title: 나이거참
Character: Self
Released: February 12, 2019
Type: TV
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Title: Trap
Character: Kim Shin-woo
Released: February 9, 2019
Type: TV
Kang Woo Hyun is a respected anchor at a broadcasting station. He is a devout and happy father, who enjoys being surrounded by his charming family. He decides to try his luck in politics. One day, on a trip he makes with his family, a tragic incident happens. Meanwhile, Go Dong Kook, a veteran detective, who doesn't stop at anything until a case is solved, decides to take the case of Kang Woo Hyun and sets out to investigate what lies behind the tragic incident.
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Habitat
Title: Habitat
Character: Old laborer
Released: October 8, 2018
Type: Movie
After sudden unification, the Korean peninsula is struggling with economic chaos. An old laborer, Chan-ki, receives a new high-tech telephone from his son in China and goes to seek help from his neighbor, as he does not know how to use it.
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Okja
Title: Okja
Character: Ju Hee-bong
Released: June 28, 2017
Type: Movie
A young girl named Mija risks everything to prevent a powerful, multi-national company from kidnapping her best friend - a massive animal named Okja.
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Title: Windy Mi Poong
Character: Kim Duk-chun
Released: August 27, 2016
Type: TV
The romance between a bright woman, Mi-Poong, who defected from North Korea and a man, Jang-Go, in Seoul who is a stickler for the rules. Conflicts also arise over a 100 billion won inheritance.
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Title: My Lawyer, Mr. Jo
Character: Kook Hyun-Il
Released: March 28, 2016
Type: TV
Jo Deul-Ho, who came from a poor family background, is a promising prosecutor, but he can't ignore the corruption at his workplace. He becomes a whistle-blower and loses everything. Jo Deul-Ho then works to become a lawyer.
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Title: Madame Antoine: The Love Therapist
Character: President Kim
Released: January 22, 2016
Type: TV
A famous fortune teller who claims to be spiritually linked to Marie Antoinette and calls herself 'Madame Antoine' goes head-to-head with a cold psychotherapist who runs a clinic also by the name 'Madame Antoine' and aims to prove that true love doesn't exist.
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Title: Save the Family
Character: Jung Soo-bong
Released: May 11, 2015
Type: TV
Jung Woo Jin is an ambitious doctor. After he failed in love, he no longer believes in true love. He views marriage as just a business. Meanwhile, Lee Hae Soo works as an assistant chef. She dreams of getting married to the right man and having a family. Then, Woo Jin falls in love with Hae Soo and He comes into conflict with love and ambition.
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Title: Pinocchio
Character: Choi Gong-pil
Released: November 12, 2014
Type: TV
Choi Dal-po, a man whose family was ruined by a news channel, and Choi In-ha, his friend who has the Pinocchio Syndrome forbidding her from speaking lies, become journalists and strive to fight for justice.
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Title: Flower Grandpa Investigative Team
Character: Han Won-bin
Released: May 9, 2014
Type: TV
The story about three detectives in their 20's who transform into old men in their 70's overnight and one elite detective who luckily stays young as himself. The drama will comically tell the story of the three detectives trying to regain their young bodies back.
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Mr. Go
Title: Mr. Go
Character: Weiwei's Grandfather
Released: July 17, 2013
Type: Movie
A 15-year-old circus ringmaster Wei-wei is left all alone with gorilla Ling-ling after grandfather passes away. Thanks to her grandfather's love for baseball, Ling-ling was trained to play baseball and has developed remarkable hitting skills.
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Title: The Goddess of Fire
Character: Moon Sa-seung
Released: July 1, 2013
Type: TV
Goddess of Fire is a 2013 South Korean television series starring Moon Geun-young, Lee Sang-yoon, Kim Bum, Park Gun-hyung, Seo Hyun-jin, Jun Kwang-ryul, Jeong Bo-seok, Byun Hee-bong, Han Go-eun, and Lee Kwang-soo. It airs on MBC on Mondays and Tuesdays at 21:55 for 32 episodes beginning July 1, 2013. The historical drama depicts the life and love of Yoo Jung, who is based on real-life 16th century historical figure Baek Pa-sun, renowned as the first female potter and porcelain artist in the Joseon Dynasty. Baek's glazing skills were so prized, she was appointed as a china maker for the royal family. But her fame also attracted the attention of foreign invaders, and during the Japanese invasion in 1592, she was among the Korean artisans captured and forcibly taken to Japan and made to continue their craft there. Under Toyotomi Hideyoshi's orders to enrich Japanese arts and culture, Baek helped the advancement of many new types of pottery that would be claimed as Japanese works of art. She became well-respected in Japan, and there exists a shrine in the city of Arita dedicated to her.
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Title: Ohlala Couple
Character: Wol-ha
Released: October 1, 2012
Type: TV
A married couple gets divorced because of a husband’s adultery. ‘Ohlala Couple’ is a comical family drama about the surreal happenings of this couple as they find their bodies are switched by an accident one day!
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The Spies
Title: The Spies
Character: Advisor Yoon
Released: September 20, 2012
Type: Movie
Kim, a North Korean spy, lives in South Korea for 22 years and is contacted unexpectedly by his superior. His team plans to complete an earlier mission and steal the target's large stockpile of cash.
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I Am The King
Title: I Am The King
Character: Shin Ik-yeok
Released: August 8, 2012
Type: Movie
The movie depicts the three months before Choong-nyung (the future Sejong the Great) becomes king. The Annals of the Joseon Dynasty, which follows the history of the Joseon Dynasty between 1413 and 1865, leaves out records of this crucial period. While future generations would come to know him as King Sejong, the legendary figure who created the Korean alphabet and advanced the country’s scientific research and law, Prince Choong-nyung was originally dismissed as a reclusive bookworm. When his older brothers Yangnyeong and Hyoryeong fail to impress their father King Taejong, the king makes a royal command for Choong-nyung to become the next ruler of the kingdom instead.
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In Love and the War
Title: In Love and the War
Character: Village elder
Released: April 27, 2011
Type: Movie
In June 1950, soon after the start of the Korean War, a troop of North Korean soldiers enter a small South Korean village. Captain Jeong-woong proclaims that they came to liberate the villagers but their true agenda is to ferret out the reactionaries. The villagers and Seol-hee, who is separated from her fiance on her wedding day, offer them heartfelt hospitality and cooperation to avoid falling out of the army's favor. Eventually friendships starts to build up between the soldiers and the villagers.
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Haunters
Title: Haunters
Character: Jung-sik
Released: November 10, 2010
Type: Movie
Cho-in has special powers that allow him to control everyone he can see, that is until he meets Kyu-nam, the only person he can't control. A series of events begins a confrontation that pushes both men to the brink.
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Title: My Girlfriend Is a Gumiho
Character: Cha Poong
Released: August 11, 2010
Type: TV
After meeting a mysterious yet very beautiful girl, a wannabe action star discovers that she's, in fact, a gumiho – a legendary fox with nine tails.
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Title: Grudge: The Revolt of Gumiho
Character: Cha Poong
Released: July 5, 2010
Type: TV
For the sin of falling in love with a human, Gumiho gives birth to a daughter and enters the world of humans in order to protect her young, tender child. However, Yun Dusu, the man who chose her, is the father of a dying daughter. In order to obtain a liver to save his beloved, illness-stricken daughter, he is forced to do the unthinkable: to kill Yeoni, the daughter of Gumiho. Unaware of this fact, Gumiho opens her heart to Dusu, who protects her as if she is family, and once again falls in love with a human, ultimately suffering for it. And the one man who falls in love with Gumiho, a nonhuman with more humanity than any human, realizes he truly loves her and attempts to make their love work.
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Bronze Medalist
Title: Bronze Medalist
Character: School Superintendent
Released: July 1, 2009
Type: Movie
Lee Ji-Bong is a former Olympics bronze medalist for weight-lifting, but a career-ending injury from the games forces him into early retirement. Unable to find another vocation, he becomes destitute. Down and out, he ends up working at a shady nightclub passing out flyers until he is visited by his former coach who insists he begin a career as a coach at a high school. There, he forms a weight-lifting team comprised of a rag-tag group of outcasts.
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Title: The Sons of Sol Pharmacy House
Character: Song Shi-Yeol
Released: April 11, 2009
Type: TV
Song Jin Poong is the eldest of four sons and works hard to earn money to support his family. He is also a man who cannot forget his first love. His mother, Ok Hee, wants him to get married because he is already 38 years old. Ok Hee believes that her sons are great catches and any woman would be lucky enough to marry them, however, their neighbors feel differently as each son has an unique problem.
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The Devil's Game
Title: The Devil's Game
Character: Kang No-sik
Released: January 30, 2008
Type: Movie
Struggling artist Min Hee-do is offered three billion won to bet his life to a game against a rich old man, Kang No-sik, who is dying from a terminal illness. The game is for each man to dial a random phone number and guess if the person who answers will be male or female. Hee-do loses the bet, and after a month long brain operation, he wakes up to find that they have swapped bodies.
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Small Town Rivals
Title: Small Town Rivals
Character: Baek
Released: March 28, 2007
Type: Movie
Cho Chun-sam and Noh Dae-gyu, now both in their thirties, are old friends who went to the same elementary school. In their school days, Chun-sam was always the ambitious class president, while Dae-gyu had to settle for a role as vice president. Twenty years later their roles are reversed: Chun-sam is now a humble farmer who has assumed the post of village chief in his hometown, while Dae-gyu is the newly elected county magistrate. At first, Chun-sam asks his old friend for favours regarding the development of his village, but these requests are turned down. Later, when Dae-gyu proposes building a nuclear waste disposal facility in the county, Chun-sam leads demonstrations against the plan, turning old friends into bitter rivals.
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Title: Witch Yoo Hee
Character: Ma Yoon Hoon
Released: March 21, 2007
Type: TV
As the director of her father's advertising company, Ma Yoo Hee is known as a witch for her ruthless, no nonsense character. After a string of failed attempts to hire a housekeeper, she (literally) runs into Chae Moo Ryong, ex-medical student turned aspiring chef. As a way to work off his debt for crashing into her car, he agrees to become her housekeeper and personal love affairs coach for one month. Gladly, he gives her a makeover that attracts both her old friend Johnny Kruger and her first love Joon Ha. Despite having a girlfriend, Sung Mi, Moo Ryong eventually finds himself falling for Yoo Hee.
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Title: Behind the White Tower
Character: Oh Gyeong-hwan
Released: January 6, 2007
Type: TV
Based on renowned Japanese novelist Yamazaki Toyoko's representative work Shiroi Kyotō, the drama brings viewers deep into the political inner workings of the medical field by taking a satirical look at malpractice and power plays at a university hospital, and contrasting the paths and personalities of two doctors.
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Mission Sex Control
Title: Mission Sex Control
Character: Mr. Kang
Released: September 28, 2006
Type: Movie
In 1971 birth control was a major policy drive of the Korean government. Nevertheless, one poor farming village went against the trend, boasting the highest fertility rate in the country. This peaceful Yongdu Village receives an unwelcome visitor, the national family planning officer Hyun-joo, to oversee the villagers nocturnal pleasures. However as a single lady with little experience of her own, Hyun-joo finds it nearly impossible persuade the residents to use contraception. She finally appoints the village head Suk-gu as the local support officer and thus begins the “0% Birth Rate Project.” Appointing him brings more turmoil to the villagers and when the President comes to inspect…
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The Host
Title: The Host
Character: Park Hie-bong
Released: July 27, 2006
Type: Movie
A teenage girl is captured by a giant mutated squid-like creature that appears from Seoul's Han River after toxic waste was dumped in it, prompting her family into a frantic search for her.
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Detective Mr. Gong
Title: Detective Mr. Gong
Character: Pil-du's dad
Released: May 11, 2006
Type: Movie
Gong Pil-du is a detective recruited for his athletic skills and achievement, a bronze Universiade medalist in wrestling. Since then, however, he has had little success in his career, and remains a 40-year old bachelor with a terrible credit record. His greatest crisis comes when his beloved father needs money for crucial surgery. To get the money, Gong makes a deal with a vicious crime boss. This makes him more miserable than ever, as he is now suspected as a corrupt cop. Gong goes on a quest to prove his innocence. Will he be successful for once in his life?
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Title: Great Inheritance
Character: Jung Il-do
Released: May 3, 2006
Type: TV
Great Inheritance is a 2006 South Korean television drama starring Kim Jaewon and Han Ji-min. It aired on KBS2 from May 3 to June 29, 2006 on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55 for 17 episodes.
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Title: My Girl
Character: Seol Woong
Released: December 14, 2005
Type: TV
Gong Chan is the wealthy, unattached heir to a large company. Having lost both his parents, he is devoted to what remains of his family, particularly his ailing grandfather. After deciding to cut off his only daughter after disapproving of her marriage, the old man is plagued with guilt since the couple was killed soon after he lost touch. By chance, Gong Chan meets a woman who resembles his lost aunt and is inspired to use her to fulfill his grandfather's last wish. The woman, Yoo Rin is the daughter of a compulsive gambler and is constantly on the run, so when Gong Chan offers her this opportunity, she cannot afford to refuse. After Yoo Rin moves in with the family, Gong Chan finds himself drawn to her and a forbidden attraction springs up between them.
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Making Memories of Murder
Title: Making Memories of Murder
Character: Himself
Released: August 9, 2005
Type: Movie
Made in 2004, this extensive documentary chronicles the production and release of Memories of Murder.
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Crying Fist
Title: Crying Fist
Character: Coach Park
Released: March 31, 2005
Type: Movie
Jobless, besieged by creditors, and abandoned by his wife, the once silver medalist Tae-shik has sunk to street hustling, becoming a human punching bag. Meanwhile, young Sang-hwan's delinquent ways land him behind bars. Both men look to boxing to turn around lives gone astray, aiming for the amateur title, ultimately pitting them against each other, but more importantly, against themselves.
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Title: Green Rose
Character: Prosecutor
Released: March 19, 2005
Type: TV
Green Rose is a 2005 South Korean television series that aired on SBS from 19 March to 29 May 2005 on Saturdays and Sundays at 21:45 for 22 episodes. Starring Go Soo, Lee Da-hae, Lee Jong-hyuk and Kim Seo-hyung, Green Rose interweaves romance into a story of revenge to offer a fascinating drama.
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Another Public Enemy
Title: Another Public Enemy
Character: Ahn Hyo-joon
Released: January 27, 2005
Type: Movie
A criminal psychopath from a wealthy family is confronted with Chul-jung Kang, a former classmate who no longer likes his activities.
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Lovely Rivals
Title: Lovely Rivals
Character: Mr. Principal
Released: November 17, 2004
Type: Movie
A teacher and her student compete for the affection of a handsome man.
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To Catch a Virgin Ghost
Title: To Catch a Virgin Ghost
Character: Old Man Byun
Released: August 13, 2004
Type: Movie
Seok-tae runs away with a huge diamond of his gang and comes to Sisily, a peaceful village. Yang-e runs after him to get the diamond back and finds Seok-tae's trail in Sisily. But all the town people lie about everything. These people turn out to be scarier than a ghost!
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Au Revoir, UFO
Title: Au Revoir, UFO
Character: Real estate agent
Released: January 30, 2004
Type: Movie
In a town where everyone believes in UFOs, a bus driver named Sam lives out his daydreams by making special radio programs for the passengers who ride his bus. A heartwarming story of a physically challenged but outgoing girl named Kate who falls in love with this timid but lovable bus driver.
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Sink & Rise
Title: Sink & Rise
Character: Hee-bong
Released: January 1, 2004
Type: Movie
Under the Sungsan Bridge, in a waterside stand by the Han River, a poor and tired-looking father and daughter, Jae-mun, and In-seon, are arguing the generation gap over whether to buy boiled eggs or instant crackers. The stand owner Hee-bong hears Jae-mun suddenly declare that boiled eggs float.
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Spring Breeze
Title: Spring Breeze
Character: Writer Noh
Released: September 5, 2003
Type: Movie
The cheapest and the stingiest! A man, who has never spent a dime on a date... A man, who prefers to double up on layers of thermals in the winter, instead of turning on the heater... A man, who insists on using his beeper in this 21st Century, a.k.a. The Age of Mobile Phones, to save his phone bill... He is the cheapest man alive! He's the infamous stingy writer, Seon-guk! As he wrestles with his unfinished (and very delayed) manuscript, an unexpected woman moves into his house. "I'm a respected man! I cannot live with a vulgar woman like her!"
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Title: Damo
Character: Head of the Ministry of Punishment
Released: July 28, 2003
Type: TV
Damo is a 2003 South Korean fusion historical drama, starring Ha Ji-won, Lee Seo-jin, and Kim Min-joon. Set in the Joseon Dynasty, it tells the story of Chae-ok, a damo relegated to the low-status job of a female police detective who investigates crimes involving women of the upper class. Chae-ok shares a forbidden love with her mentor and superior Hwangbo Yoon, but while working undercover on a counterfeit ring case, she finds herself drawn to Jang Sung-baek, the mysterious leader of the rebel army she has infiltrated. It aired on MBC from July 28 to September 9, 2003 on Mondays and Tuesdays at 21:55 for 14 episodes.
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Memories of Murder
Title: Memories of Murder
Character: Sergeant Koo Hee-bong
Released: May 2, 2003
Type: Movie
During the late 1980s, two detectives in a South Korean province attempt to solve the nation's first series of rape-and-murder cases.
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My Teacher, Mr. Kim
Title: My Teacher, Mr. Kim
Character: Old Choi
Released: March 28, 2003
Type: Movie
A teacher attempts to lure his handful of students in a small, rural school to Seoul so that he can move on to a better school. His efforts backfire however, and his school becomes one of the highest ranked in the nation.
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Scent of Love
Title: Scent of Love
Character: Bookstore Owner
Released: February 28, 2003
Type: Movie
After much trials and tribulations, a man marries his first love. But when she gets pregnant, they find out that she has cancer.
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Digital Short Film Omnibus Project Twentidentity, Vol. 2
Title: Digital Short Film Omnibus Project Twentidentity, Vol. 2
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
In order to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Korean Film Academy, 20 of the academy's former students (who are respected director's today) were invited to shoot an omnibus movie consisting of 20 short films. Overall this work was very well received by the critiques at the 17th Tokyo International Film Festival. The films include Twenty, Secrets and Lies, Looking for Sex, Race, A Runners High, Neighborhood, My Baby, It's different On Mobile Queen, At 2 O'clock and Sink & Rise.
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Volcano High
Title: Volcano High
Character: Jang Hak-sa
Released: December 8, 2001
Type: Movie
Kim is expelled from his eighth school and finds himself at Volcano High where students fight to possess a treasured ancient document. Kim, who must resist from using his Chi, is caught in the middle.
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Title: Funny Princes
Released: October 16, 2000
Type: TV
Four brothers living like a prince under the care of their father, need suddenly to adapt to their new life upon the death of their father and the bankruptcy of their company...
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Title: Secret
Character: Chan Sik
Released: September 13, 2000
Type: TV
Ji Eun finds out her sister Hee Jung is the daughter of a famous fashion designer and takes over her place as a real daughter. Ji Eun loses her sense of morality as gets into deeper sin out of jealousy toward Hee Jung who also steals both Jun Ho and Young Min's heart. The fashion designer doesn't have the luxury of enjoying the love of her real daughter, Hee Jung when she dies of leukemia. Ji Eun at last realizes unconditional love of this fashion designer and Hee Jung's forgiveness toward her.
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Barking Dogs Never Bite
Title: Barking Dogs Never Bite
Character: Janitor
Released: February 19, 2000
Type: Movie
An idle part-time college lecturer is annoyed by the yapping sound of a nearby dog. He decides to take drastic action.
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씨내리
Title: 씨내리
Released: April 10, 1992
Type: Movie
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Karma
Title: Karma
Released: May 21, 1988
Type: Movie
Governor Heo, worried over the plague that's sweeping the country, rebukes the Kus who make amulets to ward off evil. Heo castrates the husband when he makes superstitious claims and takes the wife as his mistress. Heo continues to be tormented by hallucinations and nightmares and begins to blame it on the Kus' curse. He kills the couple at their reunion and unable to ward off his bad karma, dies from leprosy.
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We Are Going to Geneva Now
Title: We Are Going to Geneva Now
Character: Doctor
Released: February 18, 1988
Type: Movie
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No Woman Is Afraid of the Night
Title: No Woman Is Afraid of the Night
Character: Deok Sa Gong
Released: October 18, 1986
Type: Movie
A man is paid to seduce the wife of a powerful stockbroker but realizes that he is being set up for a murder charge.
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Eunuch
Title: Eunuch
Released: September 18, 1986
Type: Movie
Jeong-ho is castrated by an ambitious minister for loving above his station. The minister also happens to be the father of Ja-ok, the girl Jeong-ho loved. He sends his daughter to the king as a concubine in a bid to gain favor, but the king sees through his motives and the instead forces Ja-ok into the position of a lowly kitchen maid. Jeong-ho sole hope in life is to save his former lover.
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A Man With Color
Title: A Man With Color
Released: November 2, 1985
Type: Movie
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Hotel At 00:00
Title: Hotel At 00:00
Released: May 20, 1983
Type: Movie
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팔불출
Title: 팔불출
Released: October 18, 1980
Type: Movie
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The Host : Histoires de famille
Title: The Host : Histoires de famille
Character: Byun Hee-bong
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie