The best Kim Sun-young’s movies
We present our ranking of the best Kim Sun-young’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 Kim Sun-young.
Juror 8
7.3/10
Seoul, South Korea, September 21st, 2008. Eight citizens, the first to intervene as jurors in the country's legal history, are randomly selected to examine a matricide case that appears to have been resolved due to the existence of apparently conclusive evidence.
Miss Baek
6.8/10
A woman's past as a convict follows her everywhere and because of this she doesn't open up to others. But then she strikes up a friendship with a broken child who has suffered from domestic violence and decides to save the girl from the cruel world. A man who holds feelings for the woman, tries to protect her in his own way.
MAL·MO·E: The Secret Mission
6.9/10
During the Japanese occupation of Korea, the Japanese Empire seeks to eradicate the Korean language and identity. In retaliation, a small group of Korean patriots try to protect their language by compiling the first Korean language dictionary.
Happy Bus Day
5.8/10
For the final birthday party of the eldest son, a family gathers in the house to have a plan with a bus..... Mother asks each of them to stay in his room for 10 minutes. Each person reveals personal wounds and secrets.
One-Line
5.9/10
A group of professional con artists scam poor, unsuspecting citizens with fraudulent bank loans. The scams go well for a while, but then they begin to distrust each other.
The Long Way Home
6.4/10
Nam-bok, a middle-aged South Korean farmer is conscripted and assigned a mission to deliver a classified military document that may decide the fate of the war. After losing it while under attack from the enemy, he then faces a teenage North Korean soldier named Yeong-gwang who happens to acquire the secret document on his way to the North.
Three Sisters
6.6/10
The awkward, distant, and wounded three sisters gather at their hometown for their father’s birthday. However, on the day of the party, there is a big mess because of their little brother Jinseob’s abnormal behavior, and the past of the three sisters slowly reveals.
Missing
6.5/10
A struggling divorcee discovers that her little daughter and her Chinese nanny have disappeared.
The Day I Died: Unclosed Case
6.3/10
The detective Hyun-soo tries to track down a girl who disappeared off of a cliff during a stormy night.
Tone-Deaf Clinic
5.7/10
A comedy about a woman who tries to overcome tone-deafness and a man who tries to help her but joins the romance.
Mothers
6.3/10
The owner of a student study center gets an awkward request and suddenly faces the prospect of raising her dead husband’s teenage son by herself.
Herstory
6.7/10
A true story of a six-year-long legal conflict of 10 comfort women and 13 attorneys against 200 Fukuoka supporters association.
Trade Your Love
5.1/10
Sung-seok and Hae-joo, who have been under pressure of marriage, devise a scheme at their first meet; a fake wedding. They reach an agreement under the desire of not only being free from their parents’ meddling but carrying their secret future plan. Sung-seok plans to run away with his lover who has a kid and Hae-joo plans to start her new career abroad after their planned marriage. However, their families get too much excited about this news more than their expectation and their near-flawless plan starts to become a mess.
Communication & Lies
4.6/10
Ignoring conventions and rules about formats or likeable characters, in his self-assured debut Lee Seungwon tells an uncomfortable story about a man and a woman who both find themselves in an extreme state of mind – a state that we cannot understand and which we would prefer to look away from.
Winter's Night
5.9/10
The third film of Jang Woo-jin is a tapestry containing two stories: one is about a man and his wife wandering around Chuncheon and the other is about a soldier and a woman visiting him in the army.
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Ice Bar
6.6/10
It's 1969, and Young-rae is a 10-year-old boy who lives with his mother, who sells smuggled cosmetics. He lacks nothing except a father. One day, however, he hears word that his father, whom his mother had said was dead, was alive and a university student in Seoul. In order to visit his father in Seoul, Young-rae tries to earn money by selling ice bars on the street. But things aren't so easy, with quick fingers pilfering his ice bars and a gang of bullies giving him a hard time. With his friend Song-su, however, he soldiers on. Will Young-rae be able to meet his father, despite his mother's opposition?...
Another Family
5.8/10
Taxi driver Sang-gu is an ordinary father who has made a happy family. Due to their unfortunate financial circumstances, he is sorry that he cannot afford to send his daughter Yoon-mi to university like other parents. Yet, with a bright smile on her face, Yoon-mi tells her father that she will one day buy him a new car and pay college tuition fees for her younger sibling. However, less than two years after Yoon-mi begins her job at a large corporate company, she gets seriously ill and returns home. Sang-gu is heartbroken to see his young daughter in such a condition.
