Kim Jung-pal

No Other Choice (2025)

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. ...

Yadang: The Snitch (2025)

Navigating both the criminal underworld and law enforcement agencies, professional snitches called "yadang" provide covert information about the drug world to prosecutors and police. When a drug bust at a party attended by high-profile second-generation VI ...

One Win (2024)

A former volleyball star, Woo-jin has been struggling to keep his children's volleyball school that's about to go out of business. Left without much choice, he agrees to coach a women's volleyball team that is the worst in the league, with only second rate ...

12.12: The Day (2023)

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 ...

Silverman (2023)

The second round of life, 'Grandpa Baedal', has arrived! A special courier trip for young people who have grown old! Dokgo's grandpa 'Suncheol', who was preparing to die in solitude, overcomes the real danger of dying, and the desire to live again flares u ...

Cassiopeia (2022)

Su-jin who tries to pursue a perfect life as a successful lawyer, single mother and daughter, plans to send her daughter Gina to study abroad in the United States, where her ex-husband lives. When Su-jin gets busier with work, Su-jin's dad, In-woo moves in ...

Chun Tae-il: A Flame That Lives On (2021)

When Taeil gets hired as a tailor's assistant, he dreams of becoming a fully-fledged tailor to be able to financially support his family. But he finds himself constantly reminded of the laborers' inferior working conditions. The young 22-year-old Taeil dec ...

Pipeline (2021)

A wealthy oil tycoon decides to steal oil from a pipeline running between Honam and Seoul-Busan motorway. To carry out this heist, he enlists the help of an experienced drilling engineer and his team. ...

Salvation (2021)

A prostitute steals a billion won from her pimp and is found dead in the river. While his pimp seeks to recover the money, he enlists the help of a policeman. After suffering a car accident, this policeman stops at a mysterious retreat, which worships an i ...

The Book of Fish (2021)

When the scholar Jeong Yak-jeon is exiled to Heuksando Island during the Catholic Persecution of 1801, he decides to write a fish-based encyclopaedia. ...

Set Play (2020)

Seong-cheol is a high school student who grew up neglected. In order to make money in a harsh society that abandoned him, he teamed up with Gi-joon, who is two years younger than him, to use his status as a minor to make money and seek a big blow. A father ...

Innocence (2020)

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 an ...

Shooting Girls (2020)

The Samrye Girl's Middle School soccer club always loses. There's no sufficient support for the club and to make matters worse, the main striker transfers to another school. Would it be feasible to make a miracle happen at the National Convention? ...

Dogs in the House (2020)

A story about a man running a shabby neighborhood bathhouse. The man is in danger of losing his precious bathhouse because of the money he borrowed from a loan shark. Then, the loan shark offers odd suggestions to the man to solve this problem. ...

Fist & Furious (2019)

Looking for a new interesting story, VJ reporter Guk-hyun is fascinated with a story of a former detective Gi-man, living a life with a blade in his head for certain reason. Guk-hyun convinces Gi-man to take him upon condition that he make a record of Gi- ...

Beautiful Voice (2019)

Poor voice actors have a project that they have to finish dubbing in just one day. However, they are cramped in a tiny glass booth and tired of being treated like dirt by those above them. Unexpectedly, their story turns into one of heroes who adventure to ...

Fantasy of the Girls (2018)

Upon helping her friend audition for their all-girls high school's production of Romeo & Juliet, freshman Sun-wha is unexpectedly cast as Juliet. To her surprise Romeo is played by the über-cool and stunning senior Ha-nam, whom all the girls seem to have ...

Mafia Game (2018)

Leave or take everything. Han Byung-chul and Kim Suk-hwan have been competing for the casino business. Handong Architecture finally decides on Han Byung-chul. Kim Suk-hwan hears this and threatens them to use Han Byung-chul's weakness to cancel the contr ...

Seven Years of Night (2018)

Set against the haunting backdrop of a small lake town, this chilling thriller unravels a meticulous revenge set over a period of 7 years, all beginning with the accidental death of an innocent girl. ...

Roman Holiday (2017)

A comedy about a hopeless trio who live to become robbers and hold hostages. ...

Excavator (2017)

20 years after discharge from the army and now an excavator driver, a former paratrooper who had been mobilized to suppress the May 18th Democratic Uprising in Korea in 1980, happens to find a skull in the ground one day. Driving his excavator, he pays vis ...

Han River (2016)

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 oth ...

Dongju: The Portrait of a Poet (2016)

Based on a true story, renowned Korean poet, Yun Dong-ju, is detained and abused by the Japanese for participating in the Korean Independence Movement. ...

Like a French Film (2016)

The film introduces people who live like a French film. A mother who chose euthanasia leaving 4 daughters behind, a woman who has 100 days left in life and a nerdy guy waiting for a girl named Gihong. ...

Lost Flower: Eo Woo-dong (2015)

A triangular relationship between Eo Woo-dong, her husband Lee Dong, and fantasy character Moo-gong, highlights on the first half of the Joseon Dynasty and portrays the contradicted life of the high class people, criticizing the modern day Korean society. ...

The Celebrated Gisaeng (2014)

Ae-rang is a celebrated gisaeng who has the ability to knock out any man in the world with the flick of her hand or skirt and in the blink of an eye. She's got the men eating out of her hands with bedtime techniques that no one else knows about. One day, a ...

Ordinary Family (2014)

Su-young is a lesbian who plans to go on the first vacation with her girlfriend, Young-mi. But the day before the two leave for vacation, Su-young receives the news about her father's hospitalization. Will she be able to safely go on the vacation with her ...

The Avian Kind (2014)

Novelist Jeong-seok is looking for his missing wife. A woman appears in front of him and suggests that she can find his wife. Meanwhile, some people approach him and ask him to find missing people. They find themselves becoming chased at some point. ...

Han Gong-ju (2014)

After being involved in a traumatic incident, 17-year-old Gong-ju is forced to change schools. Uncared for by her parents, her previous teacher arranges for her to hide away at his mother's place. It takes time for her past to catch up with her, but when i ...

Rough Play (2013)

Young is a nameless actor who dreams of becoming a big movie star. Then one day, he makes his breakthrough with a film and becomes a star overnight. ...

The Russian Novel (2013)

About an aspiring author who wakes up from a 27-year coma as one of his country's finest authors, credited for a book he didn't write. ...

Mr. Go (2013)

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. ...

The Gifted Hands (2013)

While investigating the kidnapping and murder of a little girl, a detective spots a piece of graffiti that depicts the crime scene perfectly—but the graffiti was drawn a month before the crime took place, and that the artist knows more than he is telling ...

Moksha: The World or I, How Does That Work? (2013)

"Help! Is anyone out there? Somebody help! I'm tied up here! Please help!" A 40-something-year-old man is crying out for help. ...

Runway Cop (2012)

All he has is smell and a D-line body but is devoted in catching the bad guys. Detective Cha (Kang Ji-hwan) takes the cover of a model on a runway to solve a case. ...

Stateless Things (2012)

Stateless Things crosscuts between the lives of two young men, one an illegal immigrant from North Korea stuck in dead-end jobs, the other the kept boy of a married businessman stifling in a swanky apartment. ...

Sex, Lies and Videotape (2012)

Sewoon shopping complex, the first to distribute porno tapes in Cheonghye-cheon! The people's erotic stories started there. ...

Always (2011)

A former boxer turned parking lot attendant finds hope in the love of the blind telemarketer who walks into his booth one day. ...

Poongsan (2011)

Poongsan has the unenviable - and death-defying - job of delivering messages across the North and South Korean border to separated families. When South Korean government agents ask him to smuggle in In-ok, the lover of a high-ranking North Korean defector, ...

Romantic Debtors (2010)

A policeman in debt is constantly called by a woman working to collect his debt. When they meet by accident they attracted to each other, and does not realize they already have a hostile phone-relationship. ...

The Recipe (2010)

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 ...

Troubleshooter (2010)

Kang Tae-sik is a private detective who would do anything for money. One day, he gets framed for a murder by a ruthless boss of the criminal underworld and a mysterious caller watches and controls his every move. He must use a wide array of techno-gadgetry ...

Fair Love (2010)

Hyung-man is in his fifties and has regrettably never dated. After having lost all his, Hyung spends his monotonous and frustrating life in his photo studio. One day, Hyung decides to pay his fraudulent friend, Ki-hyuk, a visit, after having heard that he ...

Lady Daddy (2010)

Ji-hyeon is enjoying her life after a female sex-change operation. One day a boy knocks on her door claiming that she is his father. Her attempts to act like an ordinary father conflicts with her life as a woman. ...

My Girlfriend Is an Agent (2009)

Ahn Soo-ji and Lee Jae-joon, who are oblivious to each other's real profession as secret agents, are in an ill-fated relationship. Three years later, they accidentally meet targeting the same enemy. ...

Manners In Battle (2008)

The story of two men and two women, of entirely different tastes, start living together by chance. Their sweet little cohabitation begins! ...

Black House (2007)

Jun-oh, an insurance claims agent, faces off with a client who he suspects of committing murders with the intention of collecting insurance premiums. ...

Brainwave (2005)

Jun Oh, a man suffering from severe headaches. With his headaches come some unexpected special powers. Meanwhile, two narcotics detectives stumble upon a corpse under a bridge. And that's when things start to get strange... ...

Springtime (2004)

A struggling musician takes a job teaching music to middle school children in a rural mining town. ...

Father and Son: The Story of Mencius (2004)

MAENG Sa-seong excelled at his old school. However, at a new school located in an affluent neighborhood, the situation completely changes, and students make fun of him for being from a not-so-rich family. On the other hand, Hyun-jeong living next door to h ...

If You Were Me (2003)

Anthology film of six shorts by leading Korean directors. Park Chan-Wook, tackles racial prejudice and the economic exploitation of immigrant workers through the real-life story of a Nepalese woman in Korea. Jeong Jae-Eun, tackles the plight of a paedophil ...

He Asked Me If I Knew Zither (1997)

The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well (1996)

The lives of 4 interconnected South Koreans – a married couple, a novelist the wife is having an affair with, and a second woman the novelist is simultaneously involved with. ...

Gilsodom (1986)

A middle-aged woman in Busan searches for the son she lost in Gilsodom during the Korean War. ...