Song Kang-ho
Birthday: Born in 1967-01-17 in Gimhae, South Gyeongsang, South Korea
Deathday: Alive
Song Kang-ho (송강호) is a South Korean actor. Considered one of the best actors of the 21st century, he is most known for his collaborations with directors Park Chan-wook and Bong Joon-ho. He was awarded Best Actor at the 75th Cannes Film Festival for his performance in Broker (2022), and has been named Gallup Korea's Film Actor of the Year four times.
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넥스트 엔터테인먼트, 비저너리
Character: Self
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출장 십오야
Character: Self
A webseries where Na Young Seok, a variety show producer, caters people his iconic games from 'New Journey to the West'....
문명특급 - 영화인 대잔치
Character: Self
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삼식이 삼촌
Character: Park Doo-chill / Uncle Samsik
Driven to turn his country's fortunes around, Kim San crosses paths with Pak Doochill, a shady fixer who adapts quickly to any situation; together, the pair form an uneasy alliance....
저널리즘 토크쇼 J
Character: Self (archive footage)
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백상예술대상
Character: Self
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The Oscars
Character: Self
An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a statuette, officially the Academy Award of Merit, that is better known by its nickname Oscar....
핑계고
Character: Self
Yoo Jae-suk Welfare Content 🐓Pinggyego (Just an Excuse)🐓 It is a content where Yoo Jae-suk freely chats with his favorite friends for various excuses and provides small stories and laughter....
아이유의 팔레트
Character: Self - Guest
IU's Palette is a fun talk show with a friendly and relaxed atmosphere. The show mixes humor with two segments of music by covering songs and singing duets with the guests. (Source: MyDramaList)...
모던코리아
Character: Self (archive footage)
The documentary series were made to look back on Korea’s modern history. It tells stories of specific moments in time weaving together relevant video clips from news broadcasts, dramas, shows and other documentaries...
Movie Credits
The Host
Character: Park Gang-du
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....
Joint Security Area
Character: Sgt. Oh Kyeong-pil
Two North Korean soldiers are killed in the border area between North and South Korea, prompting an investigation by a neutral body. The sergeant is the shooter, but the lead investigator, a Swiss-Korean woman, receives differing accounts from the two sides....
Shiri
Character: Lee Jang-gil
North Korea's 8th Special Forces hijack a shipment of CTX, a potent new liquid explosive, and threatens South Korea as part of a plot to re-unify the two countries. Ryu and Lee, special agents of O.P., South Korea's secret intelligence service, attempt to track down the terrorists and find the CTX. Meanwhile Hee, the 8th's ultra-bad female sniper, resurfaces to wreak havoc and haunt Ryu....
Secret Sunshine
Character: Kim Jong-chan
Shin-ae moves to her recently late husband’s hometown. Despite her efforts to settle in this unfamiliar and too-normal place, she finds that she can’t fit in. After a sudden tragedy, Shin-ae turns to Christianity to relieve her pain, but when even this is not permitted, she wages a war against God....
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
Character: Dong-jin
A deaf man and his girlfriend resort to desperate measures in order to fund a kidney transplant for his sister. Things go horribly wrong, and the situation spirals rapidly into a cycle of violence and revenge....
Memories of Murder
Character: Detective Park Doo-man
During the late 1980s, two detectives in a South Korean province attempt to solve the nation's first series of rape-and-murder cases....
Thirst
Character: Priest Sang-hyeon
A respected priest volunteers for an experimental procedure that may lead to a cure for a deadly virus. He gets infected and dies, but a blood transfusion of unknown origin brings him back to life. Now, he’s torn between faith and bloodlust, and has a newfound desire for the wife of a childhood friend....
Cobweb
Character: Director Kim
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?...
The Good, the Bad, the Weird
Character: Yoon Tae-goo / The Weird
The story of three Korean outlaws in 1930s Manchuria and their dealings with the Japanese army and Chinese and Russian bandits. The Good (a bounty hunter), the Bad (a hitman), and the Weird (a thief) battle the army and the bandits in a race to use a treasure map to uncover the riches of legend....
Antarctic Journal
Character: Choi Do-hyung
Arctic cold and paranoia take their toll as Korean explorers are beset by the same strange occurrences that preceded the disappearance of a British team in 1922....
Secret Reunion
Character: Lee Han-kyu
Two spies share a secret bond, despite their loyalties. A North Korean assassin is sent to Seoul to kill a dissident, but instead he teams up with a South Korean agent in search for revenge....
The Foul King
Character: Lim Dae-ho
An incompetent bank clerk decides to become a pro wrestler but he is coached to cheat all the time....
The Quiet Family
Character: Young-min
A family decides to buy a lodge in a remote hiking area. Their first customer commits suicide and the distraught family buries his body to avoid the bad publicity. But their luck gets worse, the bodies start piling up, and the family becomes frantic to rectify the situation....
The Show Must Go On
Character: Kang In-goo
A middle-aged gangster's lifetime of mistakes catch up with him as his personal and professional life is destroyed....
The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well
Character: Dong-suk
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....
Green Fish
Character: Pan-su
Returning home and finding his town drastically changed, a former soldier falls in with gangsters....
A Little Pond
Character: Police officer (cameo)
The Korean war does not start well for the US. They are being routed by the North Koreans and In July 1950, the early stage of the Korean War, at the Jugok Village in the middle of the Korean Peninsula, Chang-yee and his friends grow excited over the amateur singing contest knowing nothing about what is going on around them. At the time, the US Army keeps losing and are pushed back to the village, evacuating all villagers to head south. The villagers took refuge like going on a picnic believing ...
No. 3
Character: Jo-pil
Tae-joo manages to rise in rank in a gang for saving the boss's life. However, prosecutor Dong-pal appears in front of him as his sworn enemy. Meanwhile, Jo-pil wants to get rid of Tae-joo's gang, training for revenge. The three men's goals intertwine....
Making Memories of Murder
Character: Himself
Made in 2004, this extensive documentary chronicles the production and release of Memories of Murder....
Day Trip
Character: Teacher
A master and his student visit a mountain to practice pansori (a musical storytelling performed by a singer and a drummer) after a music competition which outcome has left the trainee disappointed....
Hindsight
Character: Du-heon
A young assassin is sent to kill a retired mob boss. But things get complicated when she begins to like him....
Howling
Character: Jo Sang-gil
A beat cop and his rookie partner investigate a series of killings that seem to be carried out by a mysterious wolfdog....
The Attorney
Character: Song Woo-seok
Song Woo-seok is a lawyer with no clients. When his friend's son is falsely accused of a crime and tortured, he takes up the case and the course of his life changes for good....
The Face Reader
Character: Nae-kyung
An exceptionally talented face reader becomes entangled in a bloody power struggle between a child king and his uncle who plans to usurp the throne....
The President's Barber
Character: Seong Han-mo
A well-meaning but politically naive barber gets pulled into the inner circle of the South Korean dictator Park Chung-Hee, with rather baleful consequences for his hapless family. This sharp political satire covers roughly twenty years in South Korean political history, from the viewpoint of the barber's son....
Lee Chang-dong: The Art of Irony
Character: Self
A portrait of the South Korean screenwriter, director and producer Lee Chang-Dong through his work, this documentary provides a thematic analysis of his films, most of which have been selected for and received awards at the Cannes Film Festival....
Snowpiercer
Character: Namgoong Minsu
In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class system evolves aboard the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe via a perpetual-motion engine....
The Throne
Character: King Yeongjo
Ancient Korea, July 4, 1762. The Crown Prince Hyojang, posthumously named Sado, son of King Yeongjo of Joseon, is accused of treason. Thus, the king asks him to commit suicide, but his closest vassals prevent it, so the king orders the prince to get inside a wooden rice chest, where he suffers deprivation of food and water....
The Age of Shadows
Character: Lee Jung-chool
Set in the late 1920s, The Age of Shadows follows the cat-and-mouse game that unfolds between a group of resistance fighters trying to bring in explosives from Shanghai to destroy key Japanese facilities in Seoul, and Japanese agents trying to stop them....
Lady Vengeance
Character: Assassin 1
Released after being wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for 13 years, a woman begins executing her elaborate plan of retribution....
Timeless Bottomless Bad Movie
Character: Big Eyes
Children who refuse to live with their families or give up on the streets work at a bar or steal money. When you don't have money, you'd rather starve than give up playing. Several people have to bowl as much as they want, jump out of the window with their lives, and dance with real dancers at a rock cafe....
A Taxi Driver
Character: Kim Man-seob
May, 1980. Man-seob is a taxi driver in Seoul who lives from hand to mouth, raising his young daughter alone. One day, he hears that there is a foreigner who will pay big money for a drive down to Gwangju city. Not knowing that he’s a German journalist with a hidden agenda, Man-seob takes the job....
YMCA Baseball Team
Character: Lee Ho-chang
Hochang accidentally sees missionaries and Jeongrim play baseball at the YMCA hall. He falls in love with Jeongrim, and takes interest in baseball. As a result, he gathers people to form the first YMCA baseball team of Joseon....
Parasite
Character: Kim Ki-taek
All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident....
The Drug King
Character: Lee Doo-sam
Busan, South Korea, 1970s. Lee Doo-sam is a small-time smuggler. After helping a drug gang to smuggle meth, he falls into the dark crime world. Quick-witted and full of ambition, he eventually takes over the drug underworld and starts to lead a double life: a good community leader during the day but an infamous drug lord during the night....
Decades Apart
Character: Sgt. Oh Kyeong-pil
For the work Decades Apart commissioned by the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain for the exhibition Highlights, PARKing CHANce has conceived an original immersive 3D sound and image installation. Based on the set of Joint Security Area (JSA) (2000), a movie by Park Chan-wook, new images were filmed for the work and sound treated in a very surprising way to give the visitor a total experience....
The King's Letters
Character: King Sejong
In the 15th century, despite so many accomplishments he has made for the people, King Sejong, his biggest goal is still remaining; the invention of original letters that can be read and written by all the people. But courtiers who want to dominate the knowledge and the power, are against his will and discourage his belief. Frustrated King Sejong hears about a bonze Sinmi a phonogram expert, and secretly brings him in the palace....
Ari Ari the Korean Cinema
Character: Himself
Director Chung Ji-Young criticizes the thought that older directors have difficulties in making certain movies. Actress Yoon Jin-Seo agonizes over her identity as an actress. In 2009, before the movie "Unbowed" was made, they met and planned a documentary about Korean movies, including the processes a Korean movie goes through and difficulites. "Ari Ari the Korean Cinema" is a documentary with interviews of Korean directors, actors and actresses....
Emergency Declaration
Character: Gu In-ho
While investigating a terroristic threat that goes viral online, Korean authorities discover that a suspect has recently boarded an international flight bound for the United States. When a healthy passenger on the same flight suddenly dies a gruesome death of unknown cause, panic erupts both in-flight and on the ground. With steadily decreasing fuel and international refusals to offer aid, the captain and crew will be forced to take unprecedented emergency measures in an attempt to save the live...
One Win
Character: Kim Woo-jin
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 unquestioned worst in the league with only secondrate players and an eccentric club owner. According to Woo-jin’s contract, all he needs to do is win just ‘one’ game....
Broker
Character: Sang-hyun
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 down to capture the crucial evidence....
Where is my DVD?
Character: Self
Go Gi-hwan is the actor who was starred in a large number of short films. However, he couldn't get any dvd from the directors. He's decided to collect his dvds meeting the directors who he used to work with, and he faces the fact that he couldn't have known.......