The best Dong Bang-woo’s drama movies
We present our ranking of the best Dong Bang-woo’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Dong Bang-woo.
Female War: A Nasty Deal
6/10
Painter Ha-rim became blind due to an unfortunate accident. His wife Sun-yeong searches far and low for a cornea donor until she meets terminal cancer patient Dae-geun. These two make a startling and dangerous deal for Ha-rim's cornea.
Collective Invention
6.1/10
Park Goo (Lee Kwang-Soo) mutates into a man-fish due to side effects from an experimental drug. He receives heavy publicity and becomes a star. A conspiracy by a pharmaceutical company leads Park Goo to being possibly expelled from the world.
Battle of Jangsari
6.2/10
Korean War, September 1950. In order to fight the enemy forces based in the South of the peninsula, General MacArthur orders the start of the Incheon Landing Operation, deploying diversionary attacks in other locations. Without real military forces to spare, 772 very young Korean student soldiers, barely trained, are sent to Jangsari Beach, where they will face a heroic fate and discover the value of friendship. (A sequel to Operation Chromite, released in 2016.)
Go
7.4/10
Sugihara, a Japanese-born, third-generation Korean teenager struggles to find a place in a society that will not accept him.
Eun-ha
7.4/10
Eunha, who is a stateless person, is imprisoned for charged with murder. A warmhearted, coolheaded correctional officer goes through turbulent changes of his emotions after he meets the woman. The movie depicts the extraordinary love between the two in the limited space of a penitentiary facility.
Maggie
6.1/10
A couple’s hospital tryst is caught on X-Ray. Thinking she and her boyfriend are the ones in the compromising radiograph, nurse Yoon-young goes in the next day to resign only to find that everyone has called in sick except the head doctor.
A Petal
7.1/10
A young girl is caught up in the 1980 Gwangju massacre, where Korean soldiers killed hundreds, if not thousands, of protesters who opposed the country's takeover by the military the year before. Flashbacks show the girl seeing her mother shot to death in the massacre. The film spurred the Korean public to demand the truth behind the incident, and their government eventually opened previously classified files on the massacre.
Address Unknown
7.2/10
Romances end in blood and the frail hopes of individuals are torn apart in a vile karmic continuity of colonialism, civil war and occupation. After surviving Japanese colonization, Korea became the first war zone of the Cold War. The legacy of war remains today in this divided country. Three forlorn teenagers, Chank-guk, Jihum and Eunok are figures in the landscape of this story, which highlights the global implications of a very Korean reality. None of them is able to escape the withering pull of tragedy. All desperate pleas for love and redemption are returned stamped in red with "Address Unknown".
National Security
7/10
On September 4, 1984, democracy movement leader Kim Jong Tae (Park Won Sang) is arrested and taken to an infamous interrogation facility in Namyeong-dong. For the next 22 days, he would be cruelly and continuously tortured in all manners by interrogators intent on forcing him to confess to communist collaboration.
The Book of Fish
7.5/10
In 1801, after a new king ascended the throne, a scholar Jeong Yak-jeon who served the late king is exiled to Heuk-san Island. There he meets Chang-dae, a young fisherman who is a huge admirer of Confucianism and has a wide knowledge about the sea.
Alice in Earnestland
6.8/10
Since she was young, Soo-Nam has been able to do anything well with her hands. She holds 14 different certificates for typing excellence, but a computer takes over her job. Luckily, she finds a new job and marries. Soo-Nam and her husband decide to buy a house. They take out a loan to pay for their home. Soo-Nam works hard to pay off the loan, but she falls into more debt. Then ... an opportunity arises to pay off all her debts at once.
Green Fish
7/10
Returning home and finding his town drastically changed, a former soldier falls in with gangsters.
A Single Spark
7/10
A biographical film about Jeon Tae-il, a worker who protested labor conditions through self-immolation.
Texture of Skin
4.9/10
This atmospheric drama follows photographer Min-woo, who enters into a torrid affair with a now-married ex-girlfriend, although he is distracted by a building obsession with the tormented ghost of the young woman who used to live in his apartment.
Geochang Massacre - Bloody winter
Dong-seok Cha, a documentary producer, made a documentary about 'Geochang massacre in 1951' for its 60th anniversary, but it is not selected as a broadcasting program for its lack of impact. So, PD Cha is disappointed until he meets Ji-yoon and her grandfather Lee, who was a soldier at the time of 'Geochang massacre in 1951', and has lost his memories by disease. Ji-yoon and Lee come down to Geochang to find a girl in a picture, which Lee has kept for his life. PD Cha thinks that it is a great chance to take impact on the documentary by filming him.
Ode to the Goose
6.4/10
Yoon-young has been harboring feelings for Song-hyun, a friend’s wife. When he finds out that she is divorced, Yoon-young and Songhyun take a trip to Gunsan on a whim. They find lodging at an inn where the middle-aged owner lives with his autistic daughter who does not leave her room. The four become star crossed lovers in the city of Gunsan.
A Diamond in the Rough
7.4/10
A man with criminal past makes a promise to his mother to turn his life around after he realizes how miserable he has made her.
A Great Chinese Restaurant
6.1/10
Han-kook starts to work as an apprentice chef at a Chinese restauraunt belonging to his father's friend, but rather than follow the painstaking process of preparing the food by hand, Han-kook begins to use pre-processed ingredients.
Born to Kill
5.2/10
Kil is a professional hitman, who leads a very lonely life composed of a pack of Marlboro, instant noodle, cash in the freezer, a knife, a motorcycle and Chichi, a pet monkey. But when he bumped into a beautiful call girl Suha, his life could never be the same...
Poison
4.1/10
Seo-rin learns that life can be cruel when she is abandoned by her mother in a movie theater as a child. She grows up on the streets and eventually meets the insomniac Jeong-il and is charmed by his innocence. Although their initial encounter is brief, it launches them on a quest for love and a search for each other
