Kim Sae-byuk

Bloomed in the Water (2024)

When school picture day gets lost in translation between Korean-American single mom Min and her kindergartener son Noah, Min tries to course-correct with the ragtag help of her assimilated sisters, a sharp new outfit for Noah, and an ocean's determination ...

The Cenozoic Life (2023)

Minju visits Lithuania in search of her missing husband. She stays with her old friend from college, Oyoung, who's been living in Lithuania for years. Minju finds traces of her husband from a suspicious Korean man living with Oyoung, but flees from their h ...

Thank You for Your Cinema (2023)

Min Jung and Sae Byuk are independent film directors with similar careers. Sae Byuk hasn't been able to make good achievements with her work and one day runs into Min Jung at the movies. Min Jung tells Sae Byuk that she 'enjoyed her movie'. However, that o ...

Silence of the Lambs (2022)

A drama about the conflict between Captain Choi Hyeong-won, who has to silence a case to seize the last chance of promotion ...

Re-LOVE (2022)

Broker (2022)

Sang-hyun is always struggling from debt, and Dong-soo works at a baby box facility. On a rainy night, they steal the baby Woo-sung, who was left in the baby box, to sell him at a good price. Meanwhile, detectives were watching, and they quietly track them ...

Sophie's World (2022)

Coincidentally, Suyoung finds her photo in a traveling blog. There, she discovers Sophie's record of 4 days in Korea spent in her house. Through Sophie's journal, Suyoung takes a fresh look at the worst times that she had endured with her husband, Jonggu. ...

Kingmaker (2022)

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. ...

A Day of Kubo the Novelist (2021)

Early in the morning, Kubo goes out to meet his senior KI-young who is editor-in-chief of the publishing company to see if he can publish his manuscript that he sent two months ago. ...

Hana (2021)

The day after her father's funeral, Hana goes to his old house to clear the place out, and finds an unexpected company—none other than his dog, Ddaengi. Hana struggles to accept the sudden death of her long-estranged father, and ends up abandoning Ddaeng ...

In Front of Your Face (2021)

She has never lived in a high-rise apartment, and she wonders how her sister can live at this height every day. A few days ago she kind of burst in to stay with her sister, and she is now becoming re-accustomed to life in Korea. While seeming to keep a gra ...

The Man of Merit (2021)

Park Il Rae, an elderly man who is at the end of the human race, challenges his last dream of becoming a man of merit before his death. ...

The Woman Who Ran (2020)

While her husband is on a business trip, Gamhee meets three of her friends. She visits the first two at their homes, and the third she encounters by chance at a theater. While they make friendly conversation, as always, several currents flow independently ...

House of Hummingbird (2019)

14-year-old Eun-hee moves through life like a hummingbird searching for a taste of sweetness wherever she may find it. Ignored by her parents and abused by her brother, she finds her escape by roaming the neighborhood with her best friend, going on adventu ...

The King of the Border (2019)

Eugene, a film school graduate, came to Poland to meet her old friends. Dongchul, who also studied film, came to Ukraine to meet his old friends also. They travel separately through Europe, visiting their own cities, and waiting for their own objects to ar ...

A Resistance (2019)

17-year-old Yu Gwan-Sun participates in the Korean independence movement. The country is under the rule of Japan, which annexed the country in 1910. ...

Possible Faces (2019)

Kisun, who is an administrative staff of a high school, one day becomes curious about a soccer club student, Jinsoo all of the sudden. Kisun's ex-lover, Hyejin quits her job as a office lady and is busy renovating her mother's small restaurant. Hyunsoo, th ...

Dreamers (2018)

I'm sure everyone has this experience. You had a happy dream but you don't remember it at all. Or you had a nightmare and it felt so real as if it was a reality. Or the reality was just so harsh that you just kept on sleeping. This story has been creat ...

Grass (2018)

Ahreum sits in a small café, typing on her laptop. Around her, customers enact various dramas from their lives. Is she writing what she hears or is she hearing what's been written? ...

A Fine Day to Walk (2018)

A road movie that realizes true happiness and joy of life through a trip. ...

Adulthood (2018)

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. ...

Jamsil (2018)

A young woman in her 20s, Chae Meehee, visits middle-aged Cho Sungsook and insists that they were once childhood best friends. Though Cho Sungsook has never seen Chae Meehee before, they become closer at Meehee's insistence. Their pasts cross paths as thou ...

A Blue Mouthed Face (2018)

A woman asks her mother to leave for the sake of her and her brother's happy life. But her brother does not open his mind to her. Although she gets closer to her co-workers at her new workplace, she has no choice but to become a disrupter of them. Without ...

The First Lap (2017)

Between reproaches over past problems that were never resolved and the uncertainty of a future that is relentlessly coming closer, a young couple takes a trip that will leave them at the beginning of a new life. ...

The Day After (2017)

On her first day at work, Areum replaces a woman who broke up with the boss. The wife of the boss finds a love note, bursts into the office, and mistakes Areum for the other woman. ...

Queen of Walking (2016)

A high school girl, Man-bok, who has to walk for four hours every day back and forth between home and her school due to the congenital motion sickness disorder, happens to begin her training as a speed walking athlete unexpectedly. Through the cooperative ...

Wednesday Prayer Group (2016)

Hera is a middle-aged woman who visits and sells cosmetics. Hera, who has escaped from the crisis through a chance to meet Sojung, suggests a part-time job at Wednesday Prayer Group to Sojung who gave a favor to her. ...

Birds Fly Back to the Nest (2016)

The scattered families gather and visit their mother. ...

A Midsummer's Fantasia (2015)

Reality and fantasy melds as a Korean documentary film director attempts to capture life in the small town of Gojo, Japan. ...

Tazza: The Hidden Card (2014)

Dae-gil has been skilled with his hands and has shown a strong desire for winning ever since he was a child. He will succeed his uncle and jump into the world of Tazza, risking his life in competition. ...

Manshin: Ten Thousand Spirits (2014)

A life documentary of a woman who was shunned for being possessed by spirits as a girl, oppressed for following superstitions as an adult, how she grows to be a great shaman who embraces the pain of all people, and how she comes to be honored as a national ...

A Thoughtful Night (2013)

A woman and a man are sitting side by side. It is a thoughtful night. ...

Hard to Say (2012)

When a young girl has her nervous, romantic advances spurned because she cannot find the words to express her feelings, she takes a dejected walk through a wooded area. Finding an abandoned guitar, she begins a surreal journey of the imagination to glimpse ...

Deranged (2012)

People binge eat and suffer from extreme thirst, which leads them to go crazy for water. They cannot control themselves because they are brainwashed by a parasite. ...

Romance Joe (2012)

A famous movie director arrives in a small town to finish his movie script. He sits in front of his computer in his motel, but can't think of anything to write. The director orders coffee to his room and then complains to the delivery girl of his writer's ...

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. ...

Sunny (2011)

Seven girls become good friends in high school, then events pull them apart for 25 years. When one of the friends lies dying in a hospital, she wishes to see each of them one last time. ...