Kim Hye-ja

Acting

Kim Hye-ja

Born 1941-10-25 · Seoul, South Korea

Kim Hye-ja (born October 25, 1941) is a South Korean actress who starred in Bong Joon-ho film Mother in which she won best actress for the 4th Asian Film Awards.

Acting credits

Mother poster
7.7

A mother lives quietly with her son. One day, a girl is brutally killed, and the boy is charged with the murder. Now, it's his mother's mission to prove him innocent.

Mother

2009

Yellow Door: '90s Lo-fi Film Club poster
6.9

This intimate documentary explores a bygone era of cinematic passion and the emergence of young film enthusiasts in South Korea, including Bong Joon Ho.

Yellow Door: '90s Lo-fi Film Club

2023

How to Steal a Dog poster
7.2

Ji-so is a young girl who doesn't have a house because of her bankrupted dad. In order to get money to buy a house she plans to steal a wealthy person's dogs to earn reward money when she returns them.

How to Steal a Dog

2014

Still Shining poster
NR

In the 1940s, Soon-ok and Jeong-eem dream of leaving home to chase music and freedom. But a sudden tragedy in the community shatters innocence, forcing Soon-ok into an unexpected marriage. Jeong-eem disappears under mysterious circumstances, leaving Soon-ok burdened with guilt and unanswered questions. Decades later, the elderly Soon-ok reunites with Jeong-eem, who remembers nothing of their past.

Still Shining

Mother, Son and Murder: The Making of Mother poster
8.5

A documentary on the making of ‘Mother’.

Mother, Son and Murder: The Making of Mother

2010

Mayonnaise poster
5.7

Ah-jung is a married woman in her mid-30s and has a five year-old son. She ghostwrites other people's biographies and at the moment, she is writing the biography of "an insurance sales queen." When Ah-jung's husband goes away on a business trip, she has no choice but to let her mother stay in their apartment. Ah-jung has problems dealing with her mother, a meddlesome woman who throws constant fits, probably the result of never having been loved by her husband. Mother also has a habit of putting mayonnaise in her hair to make it shinier..

Mayonnaise

1999

Late Autumn poster
7.0

Hye-rim is a model prisoner serving out her sentence for murder. With two years left to go, she gets a special outing. Hye-rim gets on a train to Kang-reung to visit her mother's grave. At the place, she meets Min-gi, a young man running away after being involved in a crime organization. Min-gi's persistence melts the heart that was hardened in jail. Hye-rim and Min-gi fall in love.

Late Autumn

1982

The Way poster
8.0

The human is the lonely existence. It has nothing to do with an age. There is the other reason. Live, therefore. It is that it became an elderly because it was faithful to the given role and it got old one.

The Way

2017