Lee Byung-hun

Lee Byung-hun

Date of Birth: 12 Jul 1970

Country: South Korea

Biography: Byung-Hun Lee is a South Korean actor. He is most famous for acting in Park Chan-wook's Joint Security Area, Kim Ji-woon's A Bittersweet Life, and Korean TV Series IRIS and All In. He made his Hollywood debut in G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra as Storm Shadow.

Total Credits at Criticker: 36 (Actor)

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    JSA: Joint Security Area
    Joint Security Area is the "Apocalypse Now" of the Korean War -- a shimmering, hyper-real epic that charts the spiritual fallout of international politics. (Subway Cinema)
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    3 Extremes
    A bracing triptych of horror stories uniting three of East Asia's most compelling directors -- Japanese cult figure Takashi Miike, Hong Kong's Fruit Chan and Korea's award winning Park Chan-Wook. (Lions Gate Films)
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    A Bittersweet Life
    A complicated story of loyalty, love & betrayal set in the South Korean underworld
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    My Beautiful Girl, Mari
    Two boys find a beautiful world of magic and wonder when they find a magic marble in an old lighthouse. There they meet Mari and can escape from the growing hardships of their home lives (imdb)
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    Bungee Jumping of Their Own
    One rainy night in 1983, In-woo and Tae-hee meet. They are perfectly matched and their love is strong, unfolding in a beautiful fashion on screen. However, one night tragedy strikes when Tae-hee is killed crossing the street... (imdb)
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    Addicted
    Life is rosy for Eun-su (Mi-yeon Lee), her husband, Ho-jin (Eol Lee), and his younger brother, Dae-jin (Byung-hun Lee). But two separate car accidents radically change that dynamic. Ho-jin dies from his injuries, but in a queer event, Dae-jin awakes from his coma and demonstrates many of his sibling's personal characteristics. Drawn to Dae-jin, Eun-su begins to ponder if her husband's soul is, in fact, trapped in the body of her brother-in-law. (Netflix)
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    Once in a Summer
    Lee plays a rich man's son Suk-young, in times of great turmoil when university students, unhappy with the state of affairs in the country, are planning to go on a protest. He joins his friends on their travels to a remote village, in order to escape from his strict father, and needless to say, that summer he'll begin his romance with one of the village girls Jung-in (Su-Ae), the village librarian. (anutshellreview.blogspot.com)
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    The Good, the Bad, the Weird
    A bounty hunter (the Good), a gangster (the Bad) and a thief (the Weird) match wits and many, many bullets in a quest for a mysterious treasure map in 1930s Manchuria. Over-the-top shootouts and chase scenes highlight this Korean homage to the Spaghetti Western. The cast includes the three biggest movie stars in Korea.
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    Everybody Has Secrets
    Soo Hyun (Lee Byung Hun) attracts women like a magnet, and his latest catch is hot young thing Mi Young (Kim Hyo Jin). An experienced player herself, she's ready to trade in short affairs for a long relationship with Mr. Right this time. It's a shame that Mi Young's eldest sister Jin Young (Chu Sang Mi) who suffers from constant heartbreak is also drawn to Mi Young's love interest. (asiacue.com)
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    G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
    From the Egyptian desert to deep below the polar ice caps, the elite G.I. Joe team uses the latest in next-generation spy and military equipment to fight the corrupt arms dealer Destro and the growing threat of the mysterious Cobra organisation to prevent them from plunging the world into chaos. (gijoemovie.com)
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    I Come with the Rain
    Ex-Los Angeles cop turned private eye travels to Hong Kong in search of the missing son of a billionaire (imdb)
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    The Harmonium In My Memory
    The film is set in South Korea, 1962. Kang Soo-ha, a 21 year-old teacher from Seoul, takes his first job at a village school in Gangwon Province. One of his older students, 17 year-old Yun Hong-yeon, develops a crush on him, though her efforts to catch his attention seem to go unnoticed. Meanwhile, Soo-ha has fallen for Yang Eun-hee, another teacher at their school, and when Hong-yeon realises she does everything she can to discredit her older rival. (Wikepedia)
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    I Saw the Devil
    A secret agent tracks a serial killer who murdered his fiancée.
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    Iris: The Movie
    Hyunjun and Sawoo, close friends and rivals from the South Korean special forces, are recruited by the secret agency NSS. They both fall for Seunghee, the beautiful but lethal profiling specialist at NSS. When they are faced against each other in a nuclear terrorist attack, they are forced to make their final decision and Seunghee's formidable secret is revealed. (imdb)
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    G.I. Joe: Retaliation
    The G.I. Joes are not only fighting their mortal enemy Cobra; they are forced to contend with threats from within the government that jeopardize their very existence. (imdb)
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    Masquerade
    During the confusing and conspiratorial Joseon Dynasty, King Gwang-hae orders his councilor, HEO Kyun, to find him a double in order to avoid the constant threat of assassination. HEO Kyun finds Ha-sun, a jester who looks remarkably like the king, and just as feared, Gwang-hae is poisoned. Ha-sun fills the role as the king until Gwang-hae recovers. While assuming the role of the king, Ha-sun begins to ponder the intricacies of the problems debated in his court. (Koreanfilm.or.kr)
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    Red 2
    Retired black-ops CIA agent Frank Moses reunites his unlikely team of elite operatives for a global quest to track down a missing portable nuclear device. (imdb)
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    Terminator Genisys
    When John Connor, leader of the human resistance, sends Sgt. Kyle Reese back to 1984 to protect Sarah Connor and safeguard the future, an unexpected turn of events creates a fractured timeline. (imdb)
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    Memories of the Sword
    While in medieval Korea, a young girl sets out to revenge the betrayal and the death of her mother. But therefore she must face one of the most powerful men and warriors of the Goryo Dynasty.
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    Happy Together
    Happy Together (1999) - TV Series
    The love, conflicts, and reunions of 5 siblings. A drama on 5 children who were separated at the death of their parents. They meet again as adults and have all gone their separate ways. Tae-Poong, a minor league ball player meets his half brother Ji-Suk who has become a counselor. The process of the thawing of their relationship through conflicts and twisted love leaves a deep impression. (mydramalist.com)
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    Misconduct
    When an ambitious young lawyer takes on a big case against a powerful and ruthless executive of a large pharmaceutical company, he soon finds himself involved in a case of blackmail and corruption. (imdb)
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    Inside Men
    A former political henchman seeks out revenge for being dropped by a ruthless politician while a determined investigator tries to proof a connection between them. (imdb)
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    The Age of Shadows
    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. A talented Korean-born Japanese police officer, who was previously in the independence movement himself, is thrown into a dilemma between the demands of his reality and the instinct to support a greater cause. (imdb)
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    Master
    Korea's biggest network marketing scam reveals a far greater network of corruption and conspiracy lurking underneath. (imdb)
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    Single Rider
    A man who has lost everything in his life travels to Australia in search of his family. (imdb)
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    The Fortress
    In 1636, the Qing dynasty attacks Joseon. King Injo and his retainers, including Myung-kil Choi and Sang-hun Kim, hide in the mountain fortress city of Namhansanseong. They are isolated from the outside. Meanwhile, Myung-kil Choi insists that they enter into negotiations with the Qing dynasty, but Sang-hun Kim proposes that they keep fighting. (imdb)
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    Keys to the Heart
    A washed-up boxer, Jo-ha, has lived his life relying on nothing but his physical strength. His champion glory lasted only a moment, and now pride is all Jo-ha has. He runs into his mom who left him when he was little, and comes to live with her and Jin-tae, the younger brother who always seems awkward except for when he plays the piano.
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    Mr. Sunshine
    Mr. Sunshine (2018) - TV Series
    During the United States expedition to Joseon (South Korea) in 1871, a boy from Joseon boards an American warship and goes to America. As an adult, he returns to his home country as an American soldier stationed in the country. (asianwiki.com)
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    Ashfall
    Stagnant since 1903, at an elevation of 9000', a volcano erupts on the mythical and majestic Baekdu Mountain.
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    The Man Standing Next
    On October 26, 1979, Korean Central Intelligence Agency Director Kim Kyu-Pyeong (Lee Byung-Hun) assassinates South Korean President Park (Lee Sung-Min). 40 days before the assassination, the exiled prior director of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency, Park Yong-Kak (Kwak Do-Won), testifies against the South Korean government at a U.S. hearing. Kim Kyu-Pyeong and Kwak Sang-Cheon (Lee Hee-Joon) puts in play a plan to stop him. (asianwiki.com)
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    Kill the Love
    A man named Love joins the criminal underworld in America and falls In love with a woman, sparking the outrage of an old criminal associate from home. (imdb)
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    IRIS
    IRIS (2009) - TV Series
    The National Security Service (NSS) is a secret South Korean black ops agency that takes on a secret terrorist organization, called IRIS. (imdb)
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    Emergency Declaration
    A sociopath microbiologist launches a terror atack inside a flight from Korea to Hawaii.
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    Our Blues
    Our Blues (2022) - TV Series
    Life riddled with ups and downs: Multiple stories about people who live and work on bustling Jeju Island, in a small fishing town.2022
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    All In
    All In (2003) - TV Series
    Inspired by the life of professional poker player Jimmy Cha, it starred Lee Byung-hun and Song Hye-kyo in a story about one's man's rise through the fiercely competitive world of casino gambling as he clashes with his rivals over money, success, and love.
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    Concrete Utopia
    Survivors from a massive earthquake struggle for a new life in Seoul.
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