Lee Yang-hee

Lee Yang-hee

Born: January 3, 1965
After graduating Seoul Institute of the Arts, Yang Hee has performed in plays, musicals, TV shows, and films for over a span of 30 years. As a veteran actor in the Korean entertainment industry, his most recent notable projects include Kingdom (2019-2020) and Cicada (2020), the latter of which he has received critical acclaim for playing the leading role. Over the years, Yang Hee has come to be regarded as a highly skilled actor people recognize by face but not by name, as he has appeared as a supporting actor in the works of many prominent directors such as Lee Chang-dong and Lee Choong-Ryul. With a deep love of independent cinema, Yang Hee still finds time to appear in many indie features and short films. In fact, he has appeared in over 400 short films in just the past decade alone.

Movies for Lee Yang-hee...

Title: Strong Girl Nam-soon
Character: Heritage Club member
Released: October 7, 2023
Type: TV
Gifted with superhuman strength, a young woman returns to Korea to find her birth family — only to be entangled in a drug case that could test her power.
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Cobweb
Title: Cobweb
Character: Critic
Released: September 27, 2023
Type: Movie
In the 1970s, Director Kim is obsessed by the desire to re-shoot the ending of his completed film Cobweb, but chaos and turmoil grip the set with interference from the censorship authorities, and the complaints of actors and producers who can't understand the re-written ending. Will Kim be able to find a way through this chaos to fulfill his artistic ambitions and complete his masterpiece?
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Courtroom
Title: Courtroom
Released: April 21, 2023
Type: Movie
The trial of Lee Do Jin about his habitual dating abuse is held on-line. In the middle of the trial, prosecutor Kang noticed that something strange is happening.
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Regardless of Us
Title: Regardless of Us
Released: February 16, 2023
Type: Movie
Middle-aged actress Hwaryeong could not attend her film's premiere due to a sudden stroke. Her coworkers visit and tell her the story of the completed film, but their stories don't match for some reason. Hwaryeong falls asleep alone, and she wants to embrace everything.
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Title: Big Bet
Character: Teacher Mok Gong-Cheol
Released: December 21, 2022
Type: TV
Cha Moosik runs a casino bar, only to flee to the Philippines due to a crackdown by the National Tax Service. He launches a full-fledged casino business, and strategizes winning over the political and business circles in the Philippines. However, he is suddenly framed as a suspect in Min Seokjun's death, and is tracked by Oh Seunghoon of the Korean Desk. Betrayal is rampant in the presence of money.
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The Apartment with Two Women
Title: The Apartment with Two Women
Character: Kyung-seok
Released: November 10, 2022
Type: Movie
Su-kyung lives with her daughter Yi-jung. They don't quite get along, though. Su-kyung is too hot tempered, while Yi-jung is slow and passive. After having a fight one day, Su-kyung runs over Yi-jung, who thinks she did it on purpose. Their clash ends up in court.
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Strange
Title: Strange
Released: September 22, 2022
Type: Movie
Neighbors quarrel over land. A mother and daughter's bizarre relationship. A bizarre encounter between a desolate young man and a monster. The struggle of a father who intuited the grim future of his son's generation. An unstable society, a fantastic thriller that summons anxious people.
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Teatime with Mr.Park
Title: Teatime with Mr.Park
Character: Young-gil
Released: July 9, 2022
Type: Movie
It is refreshing to see classic film styles in today’s movies. Seemingly normal conversations with a few elements of mystery makes the movie strange but interesting.
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Title: Money Heist: Korea - Joint Economic Area
Character: Rio's father
Released: June 24, 2022
Type: TV
Disguised under the shadows of a mask, a crew of desperados band together under the leadership of a criminal mastermind known only as “The Professor” to pull off the biggest heist Korea has ever seen.
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Title: Insider
Character: [Sinseondong elder]
Released: June 8, 2022
Type: TV
When a judicial apprentice goes behind bars while on an undercover job, he plays the hand he’s dealt to survive prison and get his payback.
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CICADA
Title: CICADA
Character: Deok-bae
Released: February 24, 2022
Type: Movie
The story revolves around a master of the traditional funeral play called Jindo Dasiraegi. One day, his daughter returns home years after she left, saddled with debt. Their relationship remains uneasy as she is still in agony over the death of her mother in total disregard of her father, as his heart and soul were dedicated to performing Dasiraegi.
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Endless Rain
Title: Endless Rain
Character: Father
Released: April 28, 2021
Type: Movie
Young-ho doesn't have any dreams for his life. He has been studying for three years to enter a university. He decides to send a letter to his childhood friend So-yeon. But her younger sister So-hee receives the letter instead of her sick sister. So-hee writes back to Young-ho, pretending to be So-yeon. Meanwhile, So-hee takes care of her sick sister and also runs a secondhand bookstore with her mother.
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Georgia
Title: Georgia
Character: Father
Released: January 22, 2021
Type: Movie
When the police refuse to investigate their daughter’s alleged suicide, two computer-illiterate parents decide to design a protest banner. Based on the infamous Miryang case in South Korea which shocked the nation in 2004 and continues to fuel public outrage even today.
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Disillusioned
Title: Disillusioned
Character: mystery man
Released: June 25, 2020
Type: Movie
A man left the city to live in the countryside. One day, he goes fishing and catches a strange sack. Soon afterwards, he is chased by a mystery man with a lump on his chin. This sack puts the man’s life on the line.
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The Man Standing Next
Title: The Man Standing Next
Character: Congressman Kim
Released: January 22, 2020
Type: Movie
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.
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Default
Title: Default
Character: Customer
Released: November 28, 2018
Type: Movie
Only one week left until South Korea will go under sovereign default. Han Shi-Hyun is a leader of the monetary policy team at the Bank of Korea. and is assigned to a crisis team.
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Pepper
Title: Pepper
Character: Noah's Father
Released: April 5, 2018
Type: Movie
When the Korean goddess of birth visits a maternity ward to grant a couple their son, an unforeseen ghost alters her plan.
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Who Was The Whale
Title: Who Was The Whale
Character: Father
Released: January 1, 2018
Type: Movie
After her mother disappears silently, her father begins to cling to her sister. The younger brother, who knows nothing, meets a whale wandering around the house the night his father shut his sister in.
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Steel Rain
Title: Steel Rain
Character: Prime Minister
Released: December 14, 2017
Type: Movie
Amid a coup, a North Korean agent escapes south with the country's injured leader in an attempt to keep him alive and prevent a Korean war.
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House of the Disappeared
Title: House of the Disappeared
Character: General Watabe
Released: April 5, 2017
Type: Movie
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.
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Perfect Proposal
Title: Perfect Proposal
Character: Lawyer
Released: June 4, 2015
Type: Movie
While running a travel agency in Macau, Ji-yeon is ripped off by her business partner. One day, the attractive and benevolent Sung-yeol gives her an irresistible offer: $5,000 monthly salary to live on a luxurious yacht and be the personal care aide of the owner of Cenado, a prominent shipping and casino operator company. Without another option to fall back on, she complies and nurses the ailing man, who is impossible to deal with. Ji-yeon slowly gains the attention of both Sung-yeol and the magnate, and wavers between an opportunity that will secure her future and love. As tension rises among these figures on the yacht, no one can predict its outcome.
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Red Family
Title: Red Family
Character: Factory Worker
Released: November 6, 2013
Type: Movie
A growing friendship with their neighbors softens the resolve of a group of North Korean spies who are posing as an ordinary South Korean family.
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Title: Empress Ki
Character: Bang Jin
Released: October 28, 2013
Type: TV
A woman born in Korea navigates her way through love, war, politics and national loyalties to become a powerful empress in China's Yuan dynasty.
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Masquerade
Title: Masquerade
Character: Minister of Land
Released: September 13, 2012
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Lovers of Haeundae
Character: Prosecutor Kim
Released: August 6, 2012
Type: TV
Haeundae Lovers is a 2012 South Korean television series about a prosecutor who goes undercover to infiltrate a crime family in Haeundae, Busan, then gets into an accident and loses his memory. Thinking he's a gangster, he falls in love with the mob boss's daughter.
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My Secret Partner
Title: My Secret Partner
Character: Manager Kim
Released: November 17, 2011
Type: Movie
A single father struggling to make his comeback as a screenwriter falls in love with one of his students. Meanwhile his son, studying to become a chef, falls in love with his teacher. Love is great for creativity, but it comes with a price.
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Tokyo Taxi
Title: Tokyo Taxi
Character: Guitar
Released: October 9, 2009
Type: Movie
Ryo (Yamada Masasi), the lead singer of an amateur rock band at night, owns a Ramen noodle shop. He cannot fly on airplanes because he has a fear of them. Ironically, he finds himself attracted to a stewardess who comes to eat very often at his shop. One day, an opportunity comes knocking on their doors - they are to perform in Seoul. The performance day approaches, but their dream of performing in Seoul is about to be shattered because of Ryo, who cannot fly on an airplane. As a last resort, Ryo decides to take a taxi in Tokyo and fly to Seoul, leaving behind the charming stewardess who makes his heart flutter.
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A Dirty Carnival
Title: A Dirty Carnival
Character: Detective Na
Released: October 17, 2006
Type: Movie
A small-time thug who collects debts for the local triad is torn between his criminal aspirations and his devotion to family.
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Double Agent
Title: Double Agent
Released: January 24, 2003
Type: Movie
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.