Kim Sae-byuk

Acting

Kim Sae-byuk

Born 1986-12-04 · Busan, South Korea

Acting credits

Broker poster
7.2

When a young mother reconsiders abandoning her baby, she discovers a scheme selling foundlings for adoption.

Broker

2022

Tazza: The Hidden Card poster
6.9

Dae-gil has been skilled with his hands and has shown a strong desire for winning ever since he was a child. He will succeed his uncle and jump into the world of Tazza, risking his life in competition.

Tazza: The Hidden Card

2014

The Woman Who Ran poster
6.6

While her husband is on a business trip, Gamhee meets three of her friends. She visits the first two at their homes, and the third she encounters by chance at a theater. While they make friendly conversation, as always, several currents flow independently above and below the surface of the sea.

The Woman Who Ran

2020

Deranged poster
6.6

People binge eat and suffer from extreme thirst, which leads them to go crazy for water. They cannot control themselves because they are brainwashed by a parasite.

Deranged

2012

House of Hummingbird poster
7.6

14-year-old Eun-hee moves through life like a hummingbird searching for a taste of sweetness wherever she may find it. Ignored by her parents and abused by her brother, she finds her escape by roaming the neighborhood with her best friend, going on adventures, and exploring young love.

House of Hummingbird

2019

Sunny poster
7.8

Seven girls become good friends in high school, then events pull them apart for 25 years. When one of the friends lies dying in a hospital, she wishes to see each of them one last time.

Sunny

2011

The King of the Border poster
5.0

Eugene, a film school graduate, came to Poland to meet her old friends. Dongchul, who also studied film, came to Ukraine to meet his old friends also. They travel separately through Europe, visiting their own cities, and waiting for their own objects to arrive a few days later. Sometimes they imagine the movie they want to make.

The King of the Border

2019

Kingmaker poster
7.1

Seo Chang-dae, an ambitious political campaign strategist who ends up having ideological differences with his present client, receives a lucrative offer that will put his loyalty under the microscope.

Kingmaker

2022

A Resistance poster
8.0

17-year-old Yu Gwan-Sun participates in the Korean independence movement. The country is under the rule of Japan, which annexed the country in 1910.

A Resistance

2019

Jamsil poster
6.0

A young woman in her 20s, Chae Meehee, visits middle-aged Cho Sungsook and insists that they were once childhood best friends. Though Cho Sungsook has never seen Chae Meehee before, they become closer at Meehee’s insistence. Their pasts cross paths as though they were traveling through time.

Jamsil

2018

A Midsummer's Fantasia poster
7.4

Reality and fantasy melds as a Korean documentary film director attempts to capture life in the small town of Gojo, Japan.

A Midsummer's Fantasia

2015

Thank You for Your Cinema poster
NR

Min Jung and Sae Byuk are independent film directors with similar careers. Sae Byuk hasn't been able to make good achievements with her work and one day runs into Min Jung at the movies. Min Jung tells Sae Byuk that she 'enjoyed her movie'. However, that only deepens Sae Byuk's agony. The two of them decide to find better words to replace them.

Thank You for Your Cinema

2023

Grass poster
6.6

Ahreum sits in a small café, typing on her laptop. Around her, customers enact various dramas from their lives. Is she writing what she hears or is she hearing what's been written?

Grass

2018

Bloomed in the Water poster
7.0

When school picture day gets lost in translation between Korean-American single mom Min and her kindergartener son Noah, Min tries to course-correct with the ragtag help of her assimilated sisters, a sharp new outfit for Noah, and an ocean’s determination to give him better.

Bloomed in the Water

2024

A Blue Mouthed Face poster
5.0

A woman asks her mother to leave for the sake of her and her brother’s happy life. But her brother does not open his mind to her. Although she gets closer to her co-workers at her new workplace, she has no choice but to become a disrupter of them. Without hope, her brother commits suicide in front of her. Her family members and colleagues have left her. Left alone, she dreams of life again.

A Blue Mouthed Face

2018

Wednesday Prayer Group poster
NR

Hera is a middle-aged woman who visits and sells cosmetics. Hera, who has escaped from the crisis through a chance to meet Sojung, suggests a part-time job at Wednesday Prayer Group to Sojung who gave a favor to her.

Wednesday Prayer Group

2016

Adulthood poster
6.5

At her dad's funeral, Kyungun meets her uncle Jaemin, a complete stranger. He bilks her father's insurance money. She demands her money back, but he unashamedly refuses. To get her money back, she joins his next scam.

Adulthood

2018

In Front of Your Face poster
6.7

She has never lived in a high-rise apartment, and she wonders how her sister can live at this height every day. A few days ago she kind of burst in to stay with her sister, and she is now becoming re-accustomed to life in Korea. While seeming to keep a grave secret to herself, she manages life one day at a time with a sense of mindfulness. Meanwhile a certain director, some years younger than her, has asked her to join his project, and after a polite refusal, they have agreed to meet for the first time today. Downtown Seoul is filled with narrow alleys that harbor tiny old bars, and that's where they meet. As they are getting drunk, there is sudden rainfall and thunder.

In Front of Your Face

2021

The Day After poster
6.5

On her first day at work, Ahreum replaces a woman who broke up with the boss. The wife of the boss finds a love note, bursts into the office, and mistakes Ahreum for the other woman.

The Day After

2017

Manshin: Ten Thousand Spirits poster
7.7

A life documentary of a woman who was shunned for being possessed by spirits as a girl, oppressed for following superstitions as an adult, how she grows to be a great shaman who embraces the pain of all people, and how she comes to be honored as a national treasure of Korea with her outstanding artistic talents throughout Korea's tumultuous history.

Manshin: Ten Thousand Spirits

2014

The First Lap poster
6.0

Between reproaches over past problems that were never resolved and the uncertainty of a future that is relentlessly coming closer, a young couple takes a trip that will leave them at the beginning of a new life.

The First Lap

2017

Silence of the Lambs poster
4.0

A drama about the conflict between Captain Choi Hyeong-won, who has to silence a case to seize the last chance of promotion

Silence of the Lambs

2022

Queen of Walking poster
6.6

A high school girl, Man-bok, who has to walk for four hours every day back and forth between home and her school due to the congenital motion sickness disorder, happens to begin her training as a speed walking athlete unexpectedly. Through the cooperative training with her friend Soo-ji, whom she meets in the school track and field team, Man-bok discovers her path of life in this heartwarming and touching story.

Queen of Walking

2016

Stateless Things poster
5.3

Stateless Things crosscuts between the lives of two young men, one an illegal immigrant from North Korea stuck in dead-end jobs, the other the kept boy of a married businessman stifling in a swanky apartment.

Stateless Things

2012