Kim Eui-sung

Acting

Kim Eui-sung

Born

1965-12-17 (60)

Place of birth

Seoul, South Korea

Known for

Acting

Credits

93 titles

Kim Eui-sung (김의성) is a South Korean film and stage actor and film producer.

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 14 titles

Humint poster
7.4

A South Korean agent hunts a drug ring in Russia and goes head-to-head with a North Korean operative — pulling both into peril and tangled secrets.

Humint

2026

Alienoid poster
6.9

Gurus in the late Goryeo dynasty try to obtain a fabled, holy sword, and humans in 2022 hunt down an alien prisoner that is locked in a human's body. The two parties cross paths when a time-traveling portal opens up.

Alienoid

2022

12.12: The Day poster
7.6

After the assassination of President Park, martial law has been declared. A coup d'état bursts out by Defense Security Commander Chun Doo-gwang and a private band of officers following him. Capital Defense Commander Lee Tae-shin, an obstinate soldier who believes the military should not take political actions, fights against Chun Doo-gwang to stop him. The conflict between the two grows while military leaders are holding their decision and Defense Minister is gone. In the midst of chaos, the spring of Seoul that everyone longed for heads to unexpected direction.

12.12: The Day

2023

Alienoid: Return to the Future poster
6.7

Ean has a critical mission to return to the future to save everyone. However, she becomes trapped in the distant past while trying to prevent the escape of alien prisoners who are locked up in the bodies of humans. Meanwhile, Muruk, who helps Ean escape various predicaments, is unnerved when he begins sensing the presence of a strange being in his body. Traveling through the centuries, they are trying to prevent the explosion of the haava.

Alienoid: Return to the Future

2024

Special Delivery poster
7.1

A black-market cabbie drives criminals at breakneck speeds until she is left in charge of a fugitive's son.

Special Delivery

2022

The Book of Fish poster
7.8

When the scholar Jeong Yak-jeon is exiled to Heuksando Island during the Catholic Persecution of 1801, he decides to write a fish-based encyclopaedia.

The Book of Fish

2021

Lobby poster
5.8

A CEO of a small tech company, Chang-wook, must win billions worth bid for National EV charger project against Gwang-woo, an ex-business partner who has thrived with lobbying after stealing Chang-wook's original technology. Discovering Gwang-woo's secret connection with the decision-maker Minister Cho, he plans his first-ever golf outing to win over the deal. Finally, the golf round day has come, but everything is not the way he planned. Scandal, betrayal and chase in this 18-hole round.

Lobby

2025

Three Sisters poster
5.9

The awkward, distant, and wounded three sisters gather at their hometown for their father's birthday. However, on the day of the party, there is a big mess because of their little brother Jin-seob's abnormal behavior, and the past of the three sisters slowly reveals.

Three Sisters

2021

Stone Skipping poster
6.7

Intellectually handicapped Seokku lives in the countryside, and befriends Eunji, a teenaged runaway looking for her father. When Seokku is involved in a crime, the conflict between a Catholic priest defending him and a shelter adviser convinced of Seokku’s guilt intensifies.

Stone Skipping

2020

Da Capo poster
9.0

An aspiring songwriter who ekes out a living by composing music for commercials, can no longer bear the many compromises that line of work demands and decides one day that enough is enough. As he reminisces about his college years, he leaves the city for his hometown.

Da Capo

2020

Bring Me the Head of a Smiling Pig poster
NR

Right before the opening ceremony of the newly opened Ilsung Art Museum, the museum director says that the pig’s head offered on the ceremonial table is not smiling. One of the museum staffs, Daeho, must find the best smiling pig’s head, while battling through his nervous breakdown.

Bring Me the Head of a Smiling Pig

2024

1, 2, 3 Love poster
NR

Multiple Soojeong, divided by a multiverse, is torn apart by multiple pains. In one universe, she goes on a mysterious journey with a woman named Soo Ja, who figures out Soojeong’s mind. A love story about a world where everything is a delusion but becomes a reality; she heals herself and becomes stronger.

1, 2, 3 Love

2023

Blooming over the line poster
6.0

Born in 1918 in the ideal village of independence activists in the northern part of Manchuria, pastor Moon Ik-hwan lost his childhood friend Yun Dong-ju under Japanese oppression and Chang Chun-ha during the Yusin regime. Moon survived the mass of modern Korean history, giving hope everywhere suffering.

Blooming over the line

2022

1923 Kanto Massacre poster
5.3

The Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 marked a moment of unprecedented material destruction and cultural rupture in modern Japan. The disaster soon became subject to human interpretation and political manipulation as the earth tremors and subsequent fire produced not only physical chaos but also the rumors and violence against Koreans revealing what was fearful and why. After a century, this documentary reconstructs the course of this mayhem against the colonized, and traces the ways in which the story of this genocidal violence has long been covered up, haunting those whose lives were never the same after encountering the forbidden truth.

1923 Kanto Massacre

2024

2010s · 34 titles

Train to Busan poster
7.8

When a zombie virus pushes Korea into a state of emergency, those trapped on an express train to Busan must fight for their own survival.

Train to Busan

2016

Extreme Job poster
7.2

A drug squad attempts to take down a criminal organization and they must go undercover to do so, so they begin working at a chicken restaurant, that becomes famous for its delicious chicken. Due to the unexpected popularity, the detectives find themselves in a situation they never expected.

Extreme Job

2019

Assassination poster
7.3

In Japanese-occupied Korea, three freedom fighters are assigned a mission to assassinate a genocidal military leader and his top collaborator. But the plan goes completely awry amidst double-crossings, counter-assassinations, and a shocking revelation about one of the assassins' past.

Assassination

2015

Steel Rain poster
7.1

Amid a coup, a North Korean agent escapes south with the country's injured leader in an attempt to keep him alive and prevent a Korean war.

Steel Rain

2017

Rampant poster
6.8

Ancient Korea, 17th century. While the paranoid King Lee Jo of Joseon, vassal of the Qing dynasty, feels surrounded by conspirators and rebels, a dark evil emerges from the bowels of a merchant ship and the exiled Prince Lee Cheung returns to the royal court, ignoring that he will have to lead the few capable of defeating the ambitious humans and the bloody monsters who threaten to destroy the kingdom.

Rampant

2018

The Face Reader poster
7.0

An exceptionally talented face reader becomes entangled in a bloody power struggle between a child king and his uncle who plans to usurp the throne.

The Face Reader

2013

The Suspect poster
6.9

Betrayed and on the run, a former North Korean agent tries to seek revenge on the man who killed his wife, find his missing daughter, and uncover the secrets hidden inside the eyeglasses of a dead man.

The Suspect

2013

The King poster
7.3

A young Korean man surpasses his difficult childhood by becoming a powerful prosecutor, but soon learns that real power comes at a price.

The King

2017

Architecture 101 poster
7.3

When Seung-min was on his first year at the Academy of Architecture, he met Seo-yeon. She was a musician student, and Seung-min totally fell in love with her. Years have passed, and now he meets Seo-yeon again - she asks him to rebuild her father's old house.

Architecture 101

2012

The Truth Beneath poster
6.8

For 15 days, a politician and his wife navigate a scandal after their daughter goes missing on the eve of the national elections.

The Truth Beneath

2016

1987: When the Day Comes poster
8.0

In 1987 Korea under an oppressive military regime, the unlawful interrogation and death of a college student ignite ordinary citizens to fight for the truth and bring about justice.

1987: When the Day Comes

2017

Love Guide for Dumpees poster
7.0

Jung-hoon and Si-hoo, both fresh from breakups, make a pact to have nine casual flings. As their encounters continue, their connection intensifies, blurring the lines between friendship and love.

Love Guide for Dumpees

2015

Inside Men poster
7.0

A disgruntled henchman teams up with an ambitious prosecutor to bring down a leading presidential candidate and the news editor behind him who is truly pulling the strings.

Inside Men

2015

Venice 70: Future Reloaded poster
5.0

Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 60 and 90 seconds long on their interpretation of the future of cinema.

Venice 70: Future Reloaded

2013

The Priests poster
6.8

To save a girl in danger, a priest and deacon jump into a mysterious case.

The Priests

2015

Golden Slumber poster
6.7

A delivery man has to flee for his life when he is framed for the assassination of a political candidate and the evidence against him begins to accumulate.

Golden Slumber

2018

The Day He Arrives poster
6.9

A film director who no longer makes films arrives in Seoul to meet a close friend. When the friend doesn't show up, he wanders the city aimlessly for three days, grabbing drinks and meeting women, with each day playing out like a version of the last.

The Day He Arrives

2011

The Deal poster
5.7

A cop catches a serial killer who murdered his sister but never finds her body. The lack of closure torments him and drives his brother-in-law insane, who makes a deal with the mafia for revenge.

The Deal

2015

Big Match poster
6.9

When his brother vanishes, ex-footballer and MMA star Ik-ho receives a call from a game planner who has turned the whole city into a board game that Ik-ho must navigate if he is to save his brother.

Big Match

2014

Nobody's Daughter Haewon poster
6.5

Facing her mother’s departure and the weight of a secret affair with her professor, college student Haewon drifts through a series of encounters and dreams, blurring the lines between her desires and reality.

Nobody's Daughter Haewon

2013

The Exclusive: Beat the Devil's Tattoo poster
6.2

An unsuccessful journalist becomes a star after he writes an article about the memo of an unknown serial killer. But when he learns that the memo was just part of a novel, he decides to cover up everything.

The Exclusive: Beat the Devil's Tattoo

2015

Twenty poster
7.1

A story about three friends who just turned twenty; an age where you can do whatever you want, love whoever you want with opportunities abroad.

Twenty

2015

The Unfair poster
7.2

Residents, who are evicted from their homes in a designated urban renewal, demonstrate against their removal. The police arrive and attempt to end the demonstration. Death happen that lead to the bigger problem.

The Unfair

2015

A Quiet Dream poster
6.9

They're losers, but nice ones. Every day they sit at Yeri's bar, smitten by the young Chinese-Korean woman. Yeri doesn't have a preference. To her, they are equally sweet: Jongbin, a milk-drinking epileptic, Ikjune, a former petty criminal, and the introverted Jungbum, who fled from North Korea.

A Quiet Dream

2016

Office poster
6.3

To nab a sales manager who's at large after murdering his family, a detective investigates the man's colleagues, who seem to be hiding something.

Office

2015

Tabloid Truth poster
6.1

Woo-gon, a passionate manager who lost everything due to stock advertisements and a specialist gets together to find out the truth behind the rumors that have shaken up the country. From precious information to distribution, this crime chasing movie surrounds the invisible truth.

Tabloid Truth

2014

National Security poster
7.3

On September 4, 1984, democracy movement leader Kim Jong Tae is arrested and taken to an infamous interrogation facility in Namyeong-dong. For the next 22 days, he would be cruelly and continuously tortured in all manners by interrogators intent on forcing him to confess to communist collaboration.

National Security

2012

26 Years poster
6.8

Three relatives of victims come together to get revenge on a murderer twenty-six years after the massacre. The man had killed groups of people in the 1980 Gwangju murders.

26 Years

2012

Hill of Freedom poster
6.7

Kwon returns to Seoul from a restorative stay in the mountains. She is given a packet of letters left by Mori, who has come back from Japan to propose to her. Kwon drops and scatters the letters, all of which are undated. When she reads them, she has to make sense of the chronology.

Hill of Freedom

2014

Trade Your Love poster
5.8

Sung-seok and Hae-joo, who have been under pressure of marriage, devise a scheme at their first meet; a fake wedding. They reach an agreement under the desire of not only being free from their parents’ meddling but carrying their secret future plan. Sung-seok plans to run away with his lover who has a kid and Hae-joo plans to start her new career abroad after their planned marriage. However, their families get too much excited about this news more than their expectation and their near-flawless plan starts to become a mess.

Trade Your Love

2019

Yourself and Yours poster
6.3

While a South Korean man wanders the city in search of the woman he just broke up with, she successively meets and flirts with two men who claim to have met her before.

Yourself and Yours

2016

Running Man poster
6.3

A man who wrongly accused as a murderer know nothing but just running from everyone who want to catch him. Can he reveal the truth before things getting worst?

Running Man

2013

The Reservoir Game poster
7.5

An investigative reporter seeks to expose the whereabouts of a slush fund belonging to the former president of South Korea, Lee Myung-bak.

The Reservoir Game

2017

A Star of Greed poster
5.0

When the currency crisis swept Asia in 1997, Korea necessarily held hands of the IMF(Int’l Monetary Fund), but they asked tremendous change like restructuring and financial market opening in return. Then speculative capitals like Lone Star took over Korean companies and banks with legal and illegal methods and made huge profits in process of selling out them. After a long time, Korea is startlingly becoming like them.

A Star of Greed

2016

2000s · 4 titles

1990s · 7 titles

Series credits

Amazing Saturday poster
7.6

A group of hungry celebrities listen to poppin’ tunes, from recent hits to all-time-favorites, to correctly dictate a part of the lyrics. The songs may sound familiar, but the part they must dictate are unclear to the naked ear, as the lyrics are slurred, muffled by strong beats, etc. If they get the lyrics right, they get to share exquisite regional dishes. But if they get them wrong, a professional eater gobbles it up instead.

Amazing Saturday

2018

Taxi Driver poster
8.2

A former special forces soldier delivers revenge for victims of injustice while working for a secret organization that fronts as a taxi company.

Taxi Driver

2021

SNL Korea poster
7.0

"SNL Korea"! NBC's flagship program SNL, which won the Emmy Award, has returned for the first time in four years through Coupang Play.

SNL Korea

2021

Mr. Sunshine poster
8.4

Set in the early 1900s, this drama tells the story of a young man from Korea who grows up in the United States. When he returns to Korea as a US Marine Corps officer, he meets and falls in love with a noblewoman who is fighting for Korean independence. Their romance is complicated by social class and political ideology.

Mr. Sunshine

2018

Movie Room poster
9.4

Movie meets humanities! This talk show/variety show for movie enthusiasts features interesting discussions by a writer and two movie directors where film and humanities intertwine.

Movie Room

2018

The Recruit poster
7.5

Recruited out of law school by the CIA, a daredevil young attorney leaps unprepared into the dangerous world of international espionage.

The Recruit

2022

Flex X Cop poster
7.6

A chaebol cop joins forces with a gritty detective to take down criminals with a touch of wealth and a whole lot of wit.

Flex X Cop

2024

Flex X Cop poster
7.6

A chaebol cop joins forces with a gritty detective to take down criminals with a touch of wealth and a whole lot of wit.

Flex X Cop

2024

Beyond the Bar poster
8.1

A young, rookie lawyer with a strong sense of justice joins a top law firm — navigating the complex legal world under a cold, demanding mentor.

Beyond the Bar

2025

WeCrashed poster
7.4

Inspired by actual events—and the love story at the center of it all. WeWork grew from a single coworking space into a global brand worth $47 billion in under a decade. Then, in less than a year, its valuation dropped $40 billion. What happened?

WeCrashed

2022

Nattering with Nah poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Nattering with Nah

2023

Six Flying Dragons poster
7.2

The ambitious success stories of 6 people surrounding Prince Lee Bang Won, and the ideological and political conflict between Prince Lee Bang Won and Jung Do Jeon, the man instrumental in helping King Taejo establish the fledgling Joseon nation.

Six Flying Dragons

2015

Arthdal Chronicles poster
7.6

In a mythical land called Arth, the inhabitants of the ancient city of Arthdal and its surrounding regions vie for power as they build a new society.

Arthdal Chronicles

2019

The Trauma Code: Heroes on Call poster
8.5

To create a top-tier trauma center, a war-seasoned doctor arrives — bringing his blunt but skilled ways to transform his team into life-saving mavericks.

The Trauma Code: Heroes on Call

2025

Baeksang Arts Awards poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Baeksang Arts Awards

2012

W poster
8.4

After being pulled into the webtoon world created by her father, a surgical resident gets entangled in a murder mystery involving the story's hero.

W

2016

Cashero poster
7.3

An ordinary man who inherits super strength discovers a greater evil out to steal his power. The one catch? Every use drains money from his wallet.

Cashero

2025

My Fellow Citizens poster
5.8

This drama tells the story of a con man, who gets involved with unexpected incidents, marries a police officer and somehow ends up running to become a member of the National Assembly.

My Fellow Citizens

2019

Under the Queen's Umbrella poster
8.3

A spirited queen tries to rein in her rowdy sons in order to make one of them the next king of Joseon, while her competitors vie to snatch the throne.

Under the Queen's Umbrella

2022

Black Knight poster
7.4

In a dystopian 2071 devastated by air pollution, the survival of humanity depends on the Black Knights — and they’re far from your average delivery men.

Black Knight

2023

Memories of the Alhambra poster
7.6

While looking for the cryptic creator of an innovative augmented-reality game, an investment firm executive meets a woman who runs a hostel in Spain.

Memories of the Alhambra

2018

Low Life poster
7.0

A dangerous story of rough people obsessed with shameless greed who gather together with their own greed and logic to find underwater artifacts off the coast of Shinan.

Low Life

2025

Straight poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Straight

2018

Knock-Off poster
10.0

Kim Seong-jun, an ordinary man who lost his job during the IMF crisis, jumps into the counterfeit goods business in the late 20th century and grows into the world's counterfeit goods king in the 21st century, not just in South Korea.

Knock-Off

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Check in Hanyang poster
8.0

Four trainee servants from incredibly different backgrounds try to earn their keep at the grandest inn in the Joseon Dynasty!

Check in Hanyang

2024

Men on Fire poster
NR

Broadcasters famous for their quick tempers open a campsite and invite guests to share stories that provoke anger, helping them let go of the anger that remains in their hearts by confronting and overcoming it.

Men on Fire

2023

Dabang Sisters poster
NR

A five-generation tearoom, rich with the aroma of coffee and charm. Su-ji and Yi-rang’s sharp banter livens Dabang Sisters. Care for a cup of coffee and a deep chat? Welcome to Dabang Sisters.

Dabang Sisters

2025

Be Positive poster
3.5

Film student Hwan-dong reunites with his ex, popular drama actress Hye-jeong to make his debut film. Hwan-dong struggles with such things as casting and budget, which reality does not make easy.

Be Positive

2016

지선씨네마인드 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

지선씨네마인드

2022

Faraway Songba River poster
NR

Stories of Veterans in the Vietnam War 1960s

Faraway Songba River

1993

뜻밖의 미스터리 클럽 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

뜻밖의 미스터리 클럽

2017

No artwork available
NR

A snobbish lawyer falls into a deadly web of greed and conspiracy after using a mysterious app that grants wishes at a dangerous price.

Code

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Behind the camera