Lee Sun-kyun
Lee Sun-kyun (March 2, 1975 – December 27, 2023) was a South Korean actor. He was best known for his roles in the films, Helpless (2012), romantic comedy All About My Wife (2012), and crime/black comedy A Hard Day (2014). He was also known for his role in the Bong Joon-ho's Academy Award-winning black comedy film Parasite for which he won a Screen Actors Guild Award along with his castmates. He received several other awards including nomination for an International Emmy Award. After beginning his career in musical theatre, for many years Lee was relegated to minor and supporting roles onscreen, only getting to play lead characters in one-act dramas on KBS Drama City and MBC Best Theater. In one such Best Theater project, he worked with TV director Lee Yoon-jung on Taereung National Village (2005), which led to him being cast in her later series Coffee Prince in 2007. Coffee Prince, along with medical drama White Tower brought Lee mainstream popularity, which he followed with Pasta (2010), Golden Time (2012) and My Mister (2018). Meanwhile, on the big screen, he received a Best Actor award from the Las Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival for his role in Paju (2009), followed by critical acclaim for mystery thriller Helpless (2012), romantic comedy All About My Wife (2012), and crime/black comedy A Hard Day (2014). Lee also continues to collaborate with auteur Hong Sang-soo, and his arthouse films with Hong include Night and Day (2008), Oki's Movie (2010), ...
My Mother the Mermaid
(2004)
Na-young works at a post office and is sick and tired of being around her shamefully unyielding mother and her pushover father who's excessively nice. The only thing that she can look forward to is her trip abroad in a few days. But one day, her father leaves home ... (more)
Na-young works at a post office and is sick and tired of being around her shamefully unyielding mother and her pushover father who's excessively nice. The only thing that she can look forward to is her trip abroad in a few days. But one day, her father leaves home ... (more)
R-Point
(2004)
On 07 January 1972, the South Korean base in Nah-Trang, Vietnam, receives a radio transmission from a missing platoon presumed dead. (more)
On 07 January 1972, the South Korean base in Nah-Trang, Vietnam, receives a radio transmission from a missing platoon presumed dead. (more)
Paju
(2009)
After a haunting accident while on the lam, Joong-sik migrates to Paju, a gray town where the urban landscape is as bleak as the fate of its residents. In attempts to remain in hiding and sublimate the tragedies of his past, he finds a kindred spirit with secrets ... (more)
After a haunting accident while on the lam, Joong-sik migrates to Paju, a gray town where the urban landscape is as bleak as the fate of its residents. In attempts to remain in hiding and sublimate the tragedies of his past, he finds a kindred spirit with secrets ... (more)
Scent of Love (2003)
After much trials and tribulations, a man marries his first love. But when she gets pregnant, they find out that she has cancer. (more)
After much trials and tribulations, a man marries his first love. But when she gets pregnant, they find out that she has cancer. (more)
Make It Big (2002)
A detective and a gang of thieves trail three high-school students who found a bloody corpse and a bag of cash on top of their car. (more)
A detective and a gang of thieves trail three high-school students who found a bloody corpse and a bag of cash on top of their car. (more)
A Perfect Match (2002)
Nobody's Daughter Haewon (2013)
Haewon, a film student and aspiring actress, feels abandoned. Her mother is about to emigrate to Canada and Haewon has decided to end her affair with one of her professors, a much older married man. (more)
Haewon, a film student and aspiring actress, feels abandoned. Her mother is about to emigrate to Canada and Haewon has decided to end her affair with one of her professors, a much older married man. (more)
Our Sunhi (2013)
A young woman returning to her old school to visit her professor also runs into her old boyfriend and her senior, each of whom has a past with her. (more)
A young woman returning to her old school to visit her professor also runs into her old boyfriend and her senior, each of whom has a past with her. (more)
Helpless
(2012)
A woman suddenly disappears. Her fiance then sets out to find her and, in the process, uncovers layers of dark hidden secrets. (more)
A woman suddenly disappears. Her fiance then sets out to find her and, in the process, uncovers layers of dark hidden secrets. (more)
Petty Romance (2010)
A comic artist and an unemployed sex columnist are trying to work together in order to win a lucrative comic-book competition. An adult cartoon contest is announced offering a W130 million prize. Da-Rim (Choi Gang-Hee) does translation work for an adult magazine. ... (more)
A comic artist and an unemployed sex columnist are trying to work together in order to win a lucrative comic-book competition. An adult cartoon contest is announced offering a W130 million prize. Da-Rim (Choi Gang-Hee) does translation work for an adult magazine. ... (more)
Lost in the Mountains (2009)
Hong Sang-soo's Lost in the Mountains depicts Misook's suffering when she discovers her friend Jin-young has been secretly sleeping with her lover. (more)
Hong Sang-soo's Lost in the Mountains depicts Misook's suffering when she discovers her friend Jin-young has been secretly sleeping with her lover. (more)
All About My Wife (2012)
A man asks a womanizer to seduce his wife in order to catalyze a divorce. (more)
A man asks a womanizer to seduce his wife in order to catalyze a divorce. (more)
Surprise Party (2002)
How do you go about detaining a total stranger for 12 hours? This is what Ha-young (Lee Yo-won) has to do for her best friend, Mi-ryung (Kim Min-hee). Mi-ryung has been planning for a surprise party for her overseas boyfriend Jun-woo (Shin Ha-gyun), but her plans ... (more)
How do you go about detaining a total stranger for 12 hours? This is what Ha-young (Lee Yo-won) has to do for her best friend, Mi-ryung (Kim Min-hee). Mi-ryung has been planning for a surprise party for her overseas boyfriend Jun-woo (Shin Ha-gyun), but her plans ... (more)
The Customer Is Always Right (2006)
In a peaceful barbershop, a timid barber confronts a stranger who has started to send blackmail notes. Whenever the stranger comes to the barbershop, the amount of money he demands becomes greater and greater. Driven to desperation, the barber hires a detective, ... (more)
In a peaceful barbershop, a timid barber confronts a stranger who has started to send blackmail notes. Whenever the stranger comes to the barbershop, the amount of money he demands becomes greater and greater. Driven to desperation, the barber hires a detective, ... (more)
Romantic Island (2008)
Three Korean couples travel separately to the Philippines. A middle aged couple first time abroad, a convenience store clerk bumps into an incognito pop star and the runaway Soo-jin meets a businessman who is there for his father's death. (more)
Three Korean couples travel separately to the Philippines. A middle aged couple first time abroad, a convenience store clerk bumps into an incognito pop star and the runaway Soo-jin meets a businessman who is there for his father's death. (more)
Oki's Movie (2010)
Oki, a film student, is entangled in two relationships. One with a fellow student who pursues her and the other, her much older professor. (more)
Oki, a film student, is entangled in two relationships. One with a fellow student who pursues her and the other, her much older professor. (more)
Visitors (2009)
Hong Sang-Soo’s Lost in the Mountains (South Korea, 32min) the visitor is the supremely self-centred Mi-Sook, who drives to Jeonju on impulse to see her classmate Jin-Young – only to discover that her friend is having an affair with their married professor, who ... (more)
Hong Sang-Soo’s Lost in the Mountains (South Korea, 32min) the visitor is the supremely self-centred Mi-Sook, who drives to Jeonju on impulse to see her classmate Jin-Young – only to discover that her friend is having an affair with their married professor, who ... (more)
Night and Day
(2008)
Kim Seong-nam travels to Paris to escape an arrest, leaving his wife behind in Korea. After he arrives, he meets an ex-girlfriend and is introduced to a small community of Korean artists. (more)
Kim Seong-nam travels to Paris to escape an arrest, leaving his wife behind in Korea. After he arrives, he meets an ex-girlfriend and is introduced to a small community of Korean artists. (more)
Our Town (2007)
A writer kills his landlady and stages the body to look like the work of an active serial killer. Anxious that the police might figure out the truth, he decides to insert himself into the investigation using his detective friend. (more)
A writer kills his landlady and stages the body to look like the work of an active serial killer. Anxious that the police might figure out the truth, he decides to insert himself into the investigation using his detective friend. (more)
A Single Spark (1995)
Activist and law school graduate Kim is being persecuted by the mid-’70s Park regime for trying to write a book about Jeon Tae-il, a union activist who immolated himself at age 22 to protest government hypocrisy. (more)
Activist and law school graduate Kim is being persecuted by the mid-’70s Park regime for trying to write a book about Jeon Tae-il, a union activist who immolated himself at age 22 to protest government hypocrisy. (more)