Kim Ja-young

Acting

Kim Ja-young

Born

1960-12-23 (65)

Place of birth

South Korea

Known for

Acting

Credits

55 titles

Korean actress.

Known for

Hospital Playlist poster
8.6

Every day is extraordinary for five doctors and their patients inside a hospital, where birth, death and everything in between coexist.

Hospital Playlist

2020

Welcome to Samdal-ri poster
8.2

After suffering a fall from grace, a photographer returns to her hometown and bumps into her childhood friend — rekindling an unfinished romance.

Welcome to Samdal-ri

2023

Long Time No Sex poster
7.5

Woo Jin and Samuel, a sexless married couple, are utterly fed up with their lives. To improve their circumstances, they choose to earn money by blackmailing unfaithful couples. As they track down these couples, they find financial stability and rediscover their own connection. They start working on their own issues, but the more they delve into it, the hidden truth resurfaces, complicating their journey. What is the truth that they have been avoiding?

Long Time No Sex

2024

Doctor on the Edge poster
8.2

In South Korea, military service is mandatory for all men. But a select few—like privileged medical students—can serve as public health doctors instead. This is the story of those privileged few. Do Ji-ui, a plastic surgeon, is assigned to Pyeondong-do, an isolated island no one wants to go to. From the very first day, ominous signs begin to appear. Can he survive a full year on this hellish island and make it out alive—or will the island break him before he can hold the line?

Doctor on the Edge

2026

Scarlet Innocence poster
6.3

A university professor gradually succumbing to blindness is entranced by an obsessive love, in this modern-day adaptation of a classic Korean fairy tale.

Scarlet Innocence

2014

Poetry poster
7.6

A South Korean woman in her sixties enrolls in a poetry class as she grapples with her faltering memory and her grandson's appalling wrongdoing.

Poetry

2010

Film credits

2020s · 17 titles

Miracle: Letters to the President poster
7.4

Dreaming of making a way station for his sister and the villagers who have no choice but to commute along the dangerous train tracks every day, Joon-kyung sends many letters to the President, but with no reply. Ra-hee, who has a crush on Joon-kyung, does everything she can to help him meet the President.

Miracle: Letters to the President

2021

Citizen of a Kind poster
7.5

After losing her laundry store to a fire incident, a single mom Duk-hee receives a call from a bank offering a generous upfront loan so she takes it right away. But soon after, she finds out that she has become a victim of a voice phishing scheme. Devastated, Duk-hee turns to the police for help, only to be more disappointed that there is no hope of retrieving her money. At the moment of despair, Jae-min, the phisher who tricked her, rings her phone once again to tip Duk-hee off about the criminal organization that locked him up and coerced him to make voice phishing calls from China. With that call, Duk-hee makes up her mind to investigate this case for herself and take a plane to China with her friends.

Citizen of a Kind

2024

Voice of Silence poster
7.4

Two guys who are working for cartels as cleaners get a request to monitor an 11-year-old kidnapped girl, but the situation gets worse when their supervisor gets killed.

Voice of Silence

2020

Moon's Walking poster
6.5

Grandma's memorial day is difficult for Jung-hee because of the grandfather's sister. She scolds about the memorial service of grandma who committed suicide without finding her runaway husband. Somehow Jung-hee feels guilty about his disappearing. She decides to go on an adventure to solve all the secrets and end mother's adolescence.​

Moon's Walking

2025

Boy in the Pool poster
6.3

A girl who loves swimming meets a boy with webbed feet and falls in love with him. Over time, the girl gets conflicted between cheering for the boy as a promising swimmer and keeping herself from an inferiority complex. Eventually, the girl breaks up with him and loses her chance at love.

Boy in the Pool

2025

The Ripple poster
5.0

Still feeling guilty about her granddaughter′s death, Yebun spends her days in pain. Meanwhile, Okim, Yubun’s old friend in the village, passes away from an illness. Yebun briefly takes care of Jiyeoon, Okim’s granddaughter and her own deceased granddaughter’s friend.

The Ripple

2023

Welcome to Bongtaeri poster
5.0

Il Woo thinks that 'owning his own house' and 'living a stable and happy life' are equivalent and therefore becomes a 'fake nature-lover' in an isolated countryside village called Bongtaeri in order to save a pharmaceutical company and earn 200% of his yearly income. Bong-sook is forced to play a trick in order to achieve her dream of becoming a police officer due to her parents' announcement to stop financially supporting her and transforms into a 'fake farmer' in Bongtaeri, the mountain village where her maternal grandfather lives. The two get involved when a mysterious shoe theft incident occurs in Bongtaeri.

Welcome to Bongtaeri

2023

Festival poster
7.0

While working at various events, an unknown MC named Kyung-man and his younger sister, Kyung-mi, are taking care of their father, who has been hospitalized for a long time. When he suddenly dies, there is no time to be sad and Kyung-man faces the tough reality of having no money for his father’s funeral. To cover the funeral expenses, Kyung-man secretly goes to the province to work at a birthday party but is gets caught up in an unexpected disturbance there.

Festival

2020

Bori poster
7.0

Bori, an 11-year-old girl in a seaside village, is the only family member who can hear. As an elementary school student, Bori becomes more and more accustomed to talking with her friends while finding it hard to communicate with her family in sign language.

Bori

2020

Yours Truly, poster
10.0

Jungnam, who is hospitalized, meets Yeonsu, who likes the same TV drama as she does. The two are pushed out of the patient room, due to an argument over TV show channels. They develop a friendship as they watch their favorite TV drama together in the lounge.

Yours Truly,

2023

No artwork available
NR

Rapidly advancing self-driving technology could put couriers out of work. In order to save her son's job, Mi-sook takes action.

Scary Self-driving

2024

Before The Summer Passes Away poster
NR

Jeong-yeon decides to celebrate her 60th birthday by visiting her daughter who’s been married and living in Japan. At her arrival, Jeong-yeon is greeted not by her daughter but instead by her young granddaughter, Uekusa An.

Before The Summer Passes Away

2020

The Killing Line poster
NR

Yuri heads to the victim's house for a traffic accident settlement. Victim Kihyun has something he wants to say to Yuri, but she remains silent. Just before signing the documents, Kihyun shocks everyone by committing suicide.

The Killing Line

2024

Big Sleep poster
5.0

On a winter morning on the way to work, Kiyoung finds Gilho sleeping on the wooden bench in front of his house. Gilho is a teenager who has run away from home because he can no longer face the domestic violence he suffers there. Kiyoung lets Gilho stay in his house for a few days and Gilho comes to trust Kiyoung. However, as Gilho′s friends visit, conflicts happen between Kiyoung and Gilho.

Big Sleep

2023

Sumbisori poster
NR

Hae-jin, 29, struggles to adapt to life in Seoul and returns to her hometown of Jeju. There, she reunites with her mother, Ok-ran, and her grandmother, Kang-ja, who has spent her life as a haenyeo. Hae-jin decides to become a haenyeo, but Ok-ran strongly opposes it. The conflict between them intensifies, while Kang-ja is diagnosed with dementia.

Sumbisori

2025

Family Grave poster
NR

Young-sook is annoyed by the thought of her sister, whose surname is Song, being buried in a Kim family grave under her husband's surname.

Family Grave

2024

No artwork available
NR

Bok-soon, a Jeju Island native, lives alone in her old house, as all her grown-up children are now settled on the mainland. She is excited to know that her children, who have not come home for a while, are coming back for her birthday. She prepares food for their visit but ends up receiving calls, informing her that they are unable to come. The next day, Bok-soon feels pain on her knees and visits an orthopedic clinic where she meets Dong-i. Dong-i tells her of the yoga center opened by Dong-i’s mother. Bok-soon visits the yoga center thinking she could share the left-over food with people there. Neighbors who have not seen her in a long time welcome her, and Young-sook, whom she had loved like her niece, is now the yoga teacher, giving Bok-soon a one-day class. Without realizing, Bok-soon starts to move her aching body to follow the yoga moves.

Bok-soon’s One-day Class

2023

2010s · 24 titles

Scarlet Innocence poster
6.3

A university professor gradually succumbing to blindness is entranced by an obsessive love, in this modern-day adaptation of a classic Korean fairy tale.

Scarlet Innocence

2014

Poetry poster
7.6

A South Korean woman in her sixties enrolls in a poetry class as she grapples with her faltering memory and her grandson's appalling wrongdoing.

Poetry

2010

In Between Seasons poster
6.7

When her son gets critically injured in a car accident, a mother discovers that there's more to his relationship with his friend than she had thought.

In Between Seasons

2018

Very Ordinary Couple poster
6.0

After a trivial quarrel, co-workers Dong-hee and Young decide to take a break from their relationship. But they realise that they still love each other as their attempts to find new partners fail.

Very Ordinary Couple

2013

The Spies poster
6.9

Kim, a North Korean spy, lives in South Korea for 22 years and is contacted unexpectedly by his superior. His team plans to complete an earlier mission and steal the target's large stockpile of cash.

The Spies

2012

Yongsoon poster
6.1

Yong-soon is an 18-year-old high school student. She falls in love with her gym teacher, but she thinks her teacher might have a girlfriend. Yong-Soon and her friends try to find out whether he does have a girlfriend, but they can't find any clues. Making things worse, her father brings a new stepmother from Mongolia.

Yongsoon

2017

The Witness poster
6.7

An ordinary man witnesses a cruel murder and becomes entangled in circumstances out of his control.

The Witness

2018

Parallel Life poster
6.2

A young man finds out that he is living a completely identical life to another man who lived decades ago. And when his wife is murdered the same way as the previous man's, he decides to dig into the older case to find clues about who was the murderer this time.

Parallel Life

2010

South Bound poster
6.8

Hae-gap is a director who makes anti-government documentary films. One day, Hae-gap’s son, Na-ra, runs away from home, but Man-deok, a freeloader living in Hae-gap’s house ends up bringing him back. Later, Man-deok raids the head developer of Deul Island to stop its exploitation, and Na-ra helps and ends up getting caught. In order to bring Na-ra out from jail, Hae-gap signs to stop making anti-government films and moves to Deul Island with his family. Na-ra sees his father leading a good, quiet life there and starts opening up. But when a construction company charges in to clear-out the island and the islanders fall at risk of losing their homes, Hae-gap leads a strike against it and his family fall in grave danger...

South Bound

2013

Mothers poster
6.7

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.

Mothers

2018

I Can Speak poster
7.9

A grumpy old woman befriends a young civil servant and learns English from him. She then reveals to him her shocking past.

I Can Speak

2017

A Long Visit poster
8.1

Daughter Ji-suk is now already a mother herself, but she'll always be a child in the eyes of her proud mom. The two decide to go on their first ever trip together. Over three days and two nights, their journey reveals the love and regrets, emotions and conflicts, that form a mother-daughter relationship.

A Long Visit

2010

Red Carpet poster
5.9

Dreaming of a box-office hit, an adult-movie director teams up with his crew of three misfits to lure a top actress into starring in his new film.

Red Carpet

2014

Coffee Noir: Black Brown poster
4.0

The law against coffee threatens to close down Ju-won’s coffee shop. Ju-won starts a movement against Kim’s family and big bro. The novel idea behind the plot along with its female hero stand out in this film.

Coffee Noir: Black Brown

2017

To Each Your Sarah poster
NR

The film portrays the anguish of an abandoned person and yet focuses on the process in which she grows more conscious of her true self. As she handles the foul giblets of slaughtered pigs, Sarah gets to realize that her real name is Jeong-ja. Every time she vomits, it seems as if the Jeong-ja inside her bursts forth. This short film shows what her real name is and who she really is. Her struggle ripens during the process of recovering her name.

To Each Your Sarah

2019

Snow Paths poster
6.7

Jeong-Woo is sent to a sanitarium deep in the mountains to overcome his alcoholism. There he meets a young nun named Maria who has a special ability to see inside people. In this isolated sanitarium Maria is the only person who seems to care for him and soon he feels drawn to her. While struggling with his withdrawal symptoms, Jeong-woo has a vision where his reality is different from what he believes. The further he escapes from his alcoholism, the closer he gets to confronting the past that he has denied for years.

Snow Paths

2016

Rising Star poster
NR

A middle-aged lady, Myung-ja becomes one of the candidates for an amateur swimming competition. Myung-ja doesn’t want to let a teenage girl, Ji-gyu get the chance.

Rising Star

2019

Kissing Cousin poster
7.8

A love for a cousin, deeply engraved in childhood. Twelve years later, a stopped heart begins to beat again.

Kissing Cousin

2016

12th Assistant Deacon poster
6.0

Father Kim and Assistant Deacon Choi try to exorcise the demon from Young-shin, but she remains unresponsive despite their efforts.

12th Assistant Deacon

2014

Nonviolent Resistance : How to Shut Up Your Wife Peacefully poster
NR

In the family dinner time, mercilessly following the mother-in-law and wife's chatter, the new groom becomes confused. How to deal with violence.

Nonviolent Resistance : How to Shut Up Your Wife Peacefully

2012

Freckles poster
7.0

Young-shin is locked up in a fat camp against her own will. After kissing her roommate, the boring days at the camp turns into a small turmoil.

Freckles

2019

No artwork available
NR

On one of the dog days of summer, Jae-ha works at Samgye-tang (chicken soup) restaurant as a day laborer instead of her mother, who died of a stroke. There, through her mother’s co-workers, Jae-ha gets to know new aspects of her mother that she did not notice throughout her lifetime.

The Dog Days

2019

The Aftertaste poster
NR

After the reserve force training, Jun-Hong is craving for jokbal from his ex-girlfriend's restaurant. First time in five years, he visits Mi-ran's jokbal restaurant and meets the uncomfortable ones.

The Aftertaste

2018

No artwork available
NR

Eunsoo, who lost her mother, starts searching for her solely based on her memories.

Mother & Daughter

2016

2000s · 8 titles

Tazza: The High Rollers poster
6.9

Go-ni tries his best to worship Pyung Gyung-jang as his teacher, and promises to stop gambling after winning his money back. But people's desires are endless.

Tazza: The High Rollers

2006

Rules of Dating poster
5.9

Choi arrives at a new high school to work as a student-teacher. During her first day at work, the teacher that she is assigned to work with, Lim, hits on her in a very brash way.

Rules of Dating

2005

Maundy Thursday poster
7.0

Yu-jeong is suicidal, yet she reluctantly goes to prison for volunteer work. There, she meets a prisoner who is waiting for death penalty. The two quickly fall in love despite their differences, yet they do not have much time.

Maundy Thursday

2006

Paju poster
5.9

A young woman living in the South Korean town of Paju recalls the last 8 years of her life, since a young man on the lam escaped to it from Seoul and married her older sister.

Paju

2009

Epitaph poster
6.6

A man and his wife investigate a string of murders, a medical student sees visions of a dead girl, and a child is haunted by her dead parent's ghosts.

Epitaph

2007

Ice Bar poster
5.8

In 1969, a 10-year old boy's life takes a major turn when he discovers the father he never met is alive. Selling candy bars left and right to save up for a trip to see his dad, the boy embarks on a journey that could change his life forever.

Ice Bar

2006

4 Horror Tales: Hidden Floor poster
5.8

A woman moves into an apartment house with her daughter. But her daughter begins to be haunted by a mysterious ghost on a hidden floor.

4 Horror Tales: Hidden Floor

2006

Sleeping Beauty poster
5.5

Do-yeon, a 6th grade elementary school student, meets her cousin Sang-jun at her grandmother's funeral. On the last day of the funeral Do-yeon and Sang-jun go into an empty classroom near the funeral. There they have their first sexual experience. Lee Rae, a single women in her 50's, lives with her father who suffers from Alzheimer's. She raises ducks, but recently got rid of them because of Avian Influenza. Her father's physical and mental health has also worsened. He even asks Lee Rae to touch him inappropriately. 17 year old Su-Jin was smuggled into the country by professional brokers. She was adopted into a family that lives in a countryside farm. On her first day at the farm she was raped by her stepfather. They also share the same bedroom. Su-Jin is continuously accosted by her stepfather. Su-jin sole source of comfort is the grandson, who sympathizes with Su-jJn and her plight. He is a victim of physical abuse from the stepfather. Su-Jin then becomes pregnant.

Sleeping Beauty

2008

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