Yang Jo-a

Acting

Yang Jo-a

Born 1983-01-24 · South Korea

Acting credits

App the Horror poster
5.0

When the app is launched, a ghost appears. Developed by four young adults, the app becomes the centerpiece of a livestream where they venture into a supposedly haunted mountain to prove its authenticity—only to meet a grim fate.

App the Horror

2026

Champion poster
6.7

A former arm-wrestling champion raised in the U.S. returns to South Korea for a tournament that could return him to glory, but he finds his life complicated by the appearance of the biological family he never knew.

Champion

2018

The Land on the Waves poster
NR

Munseong goes to Gunsan for the first time in 30 years upon hearing his father Gwangdeok is dying. Gwangdeok’s death brings Munseong and his son Dojin together, but they are unable to reconcile. Painful history repeats in father-son relationship.

The Land on the Waves

2019

No artwork available
NR

After the business collapsed, a married couple goes camping to get some fresh air. When they arrive at the campsite, they find out that the campsite is closed permanently. The husband suggests they spend the night in the campsite, and the wife reluctantly agrees. And then, another couple arrives at the site. As the night deepens, the mysterious and unfriendly couple reveals their true colors.

Camping

2019

How Have You Been poster
5.0

YeonKyeong, a 33-year-old woman decides to give up on her music after failing multiple auditions. She has been pursuing her dream of becoming a singer from the day she performed in a radio competition but she can’t go on anymore. One day, YeonKyeong receives a letter and a guitar from Hyunsoo, her high school friend she used to make music with. Perplexed by his letter, she embarks on a journey to Wolmi Island to say goodbye to her old dream.

How Have You Been

2024

Mad Dance Office poster
5.7

Kuk-hee, a by-the-book district office civil servant, has lived a flawless, tightly scheduled life. With a promotion imminent and her daughter's future secured, everything is going according to plan. Until it all unravels—her promotion is taken, her daughter disappears, and an unexpected emptiness sets in. Searching for balance again, Kuk-hee ends up in the last place she ever expected: a flamenco dance studio.

Mad Dance Office

2026

Concerning My Daughter poster
6.5

Green is a professor in a long-term relationship with her lesbian partner. Failing at preparing the deposit for the house and Green being laid off for helping her homosexual colleague, the only option they can choose is to move in with Green’s mother. As their awkward stay prolongs, the mother drives all her energy into her job as a caregiver.

Concerning My Daughter

2024

No artwork available
NR

SONG San lives on a rural ranch, spending her days helping her father, Ki-yeol, tend to the sheep, and playing freely in nature. Although her life appears idyllic from the outside, she carries a quiet emptiness inside. She feels that her mother, Sun-hee, gives most of her attention to her older brother, SONG Pul, who has a disability. As her longing for her parents' undivided love grows stronger, San overhears her father considering whether to send Pul to a group home. From that moment on, she begins to devise a small, secret plan.

The Quiet Applause

2026

Beautiful Voice poster
8.0

Poor voice actors have a project that they have to finish dubbing in just one day. However, they are cramped in a tiny glass booth and tired of being treated like dirt by those above them. Unexpectedly, their story turns into one of heroes who adventure to space.

Beautiful Voice

2019

Cookie Coffee Dosirak poster
NR

Women who passed the middle of their lives needed cookies, coffee, and lunch boxes. Four middle-aged women went on a picnic in a park in the middle of a complex city. There is no correct answer for them who just eat, drink, laugh, and chat.

Cookie Coffee Dosirak

2022

Fatal poster
5.6

In this coming-of-age drama, sin, conscience and responsibility take center stage when 28-year-old protagonist confesses to his part in a rape ten years earlier. Wracked by guilt, his itemization of the choices that led to his crime are simultaneously shocking and numbing.

Fatal

2013

Lost to Shame poster
5.0

A small time actor is given the lead role in a play dealing with homosexuality. Though he has always believed himself to be open minded, his little brother’s secret proves otherwise, and he realizes that he has been fooling himself the entire time.

Lost to Shame

2017

Unknown poster
NR

Wooju brings a corpse to his lover Jisu's place. Meanwhile, Giwan has a nightmare that he's floating in space. He searches for articles about rocket launches every day.

Unknown

2024

Anthill poster
NR

Nine-year-old Dojin often spends time alone at home. One day he heads to the backyard to make an anthill and witnesses a murder. He brings home the bloodied brick used as murder weapon.

Anthill

2021

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Never Ever Rush

2018

Green Days poster
NR

Sulan, who works in a factory in the summer of 1978, begins learning photos with other female workers from Seok-yoon, the owner of the photo studio across from the factory. Seok-yoon, who had been closed, began to open his heart to female workers, but began to feel uneasy about the female workers' labor movement.

Green Days

2018

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

motherhood

2025

Daytime Moon poster
NR

Young-bok happens to discover that Bong-gu, his ex-boyfriend who had unilaterally notified her of separation, came to the sea with his new girlfriend, and in a fit of anger, She appears with side-kick at him. She makes a fuss that she can never break up, and he begs to let him go. Young-bok wants to dance right now as a condition of separation.

Daytime Moon

2013