Kim Hae-sook
29 titles
Filmography
29 results

A Long Visit
(2010)When Ji-sook, a successful TV writer, is diagnosed with terminal cancer, she visits her mother and finally understands the sacrifice she made.

Who Is She
A beautiful woman in search of love and acceptance infiltrates a family, masking her dissociative identity disorder and capacity for violence.

Go! Mrs. Go!
Mrs. Go's idyllic life as a housewife is shattered after her husband is disgraced and killed. Now she must learn to make her own way in the world.

Sunflower
(2006)
Under the Queen's Umbrella
A charismatic queen with a heart of gold stops at nothing to protect her own children — even if it means going up against her powerful mother-in-law.

Tough as Iron
(2013)A young man joins a gang to find a way to put together enough money for his ailing mother but finds himself in trouble until he meets Su-ji.
My Father is Strange
Their typical Seoul family struggles change entirely after an actor discovers he's a blood relative.

RV: Resurrected Victims
(2017)A man whose mother died from an unknown attacker finds her alive, well and out for his blood as dead victims start returning to kill their killers.

Herstory
(2018)A travel agency owner launches a one-woman legal crusade against the Japanese government on behalf of the surviving ‘comfort women’ of World War II.

Room No. 9
An old, innocent death row inmate wakes up in the body of a young lawyer and uses it as an opportunity to seek evidence for revenge.

Thirst
(2009)The director of Old Boy delivers a wicked love story that takes classic vampire lore to twisted new heights. A priest fights his vampire nature until an affair unleashes his darkest desires.

Gyeongseong Creature
Gyeongseong, 1945 — and Seoul, 2024. A pair adrift in time fight for survival against monsters born of human greed.

Strong Girl Nam-soon
Gifted with superhuman strength, a young woman returns to Korea to find her birth family — only to be entangled in a drug case that could test her power.

New Trial
(2017)A murder of a taxi driver that turned Korea upside down. The lone witness was a teenager named Hyun-woo who was later forced into making a false confession by abusive cops. Ten years have passed, and Hyun-woo has spent almost half of his life in prison. When Joon-young, a desperate lawyer, learns of Hyun-woo’s case, he instinctively sees an opportunity. However, once Joon-young meets Hyun-woo in person, he feels the passion he had when he first dreamed of becoming a lawyer.

Inspector Koo
A reclusive ex-cop reenters the game as an insurance investigator, searching for clues in crime scenes perfectly staged by a serial killer in her midst.

My Demon
A pitiless demon becomes powerless after getting entangled with an icy heiress, who may hold the key to his lost abilities — and his heart.

Mr. Plankton
A man with only months to live and his ex-girlfriend are forced to accompany each other on the final journey of his life in this rom-com series.

The Handmaiden
(2016)1930s Korea, in the period of Japanese occupation, a new girl (Sook-Hee) is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress (Lady Hideko) who lives a secluded life on a large countryside estate with her domineering Uncle Kouzuki. But the maid has a secret.

Start-Up
Start-up is an observational documentary miniseries about the real life of six deep tech startups. It observes early-stage entrepreneurs in AI, drones, additive manufacturing, cleantech, and biotech in their labs and shines a light on innovation and entrepreneurship in deep tech without the hype. No voice-over, raw, immersive. Not an explainer video, but a conversation starter.

Hope
(2013)When their daughter gets abused by a stranger, two parents fall in utter despair, but set out to find hope for the sake of her happiness.