Lee Joo-sil

Acting

Lee Joo-sil

Born — Died

1944-03-08 — 2025-02-02

Place of birth

Bucheon, Gyeonggi, South Korea

Known for

Acting

Credits

58 titles

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 7 titles

Whispering Corridors 6: The Humming poster
6.6

After being appointed as the vice-principal of her alma mater, Eun-hee becomes plagued by hallucinations. Branded a troublemaker by the teachers, Ha-young hears strange sounds coming from the school's dilapidated restroom.

Whispering Corridors 6: The Humming

2021

New Normal poster
6.4

New Normal is a captured record of 4 days in Seoul, 2022, which is a time of chaos that all the mankind never have been experienced before in entire human history. It depicts the unexpected risks and identity of fears that are hidden in everyday life and common space.

New Normal

2023

Hommage poster
6.8

A struggling filmmaker finds unexpected solidarity and validation when she takes on the job of restoring a classic 1960s film directed by the first known female South Korean director.

Hommage

2022

Mind Universe poster
5.0

Mind Universe is made up of two episodes that share the same subject matter about a mind-uploaded artificial intelligence. Today Of Tomorrow is about a story of an old woman, meeting her deceased AI husband who has been mind-uploaded. Our Universe is an episode at a virtual online funeral of famous Korean composer Kim Hyung-suk and is about music, love, and family.

Mind Universe

2022

Mother and Child Stroll poster
5.0

One peaceful and quiet summer day, the actress's cat disappears from the pension, and the owner of the pension and her son Seong Jong struggled to find the missing cat. It is a pension where the last energy of autumn passes. Comedian Sang Hoon, who comes there remembers the trip he took with his mother, and is burdened by the people who ask him to be funny wherever he goes. By the end of his last trip with his mother who can no longer be with him, Sang Hoon finally laughed. A man whose ID is 'mother' and a woman whose ID is 'son' meet in a quiet winter's pension to spend the end of their lives together. A woman who doesn't seem to want to die makes men confused, and their last day has an unexpected development...

Mother and Child Stroll

2022

Flower Hands poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Flower Hands

2021

Sound of the Divine Bell poster
NR

Susanna is about to become a nun in three days, and she finds herself sharing a room with an older nun, Teresa. This situation leaves her feeling confused and uncertain about whether she can successfully go through with the profession rite.

Sound of the Divine Bell

2024

2010s · 10 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

The Admiral: Roaring Currents poster
7.0

Admiral Yi Sun-sin faces a tough challenge when he is forced to defend his nation with just 13 battleships against 300 Japanese enemy ships in the Battle of Myeongryang.

The Admiral: Roaring Currents

2014

Svaha: The Sixth Finger poster
6.7

Pastor Park, the head of a religious investigation center that exposes cults and cult leaders, begins looking into a suspicious new religion called Deer Mount.

Svaha: The Sixth Finger

2019

The Tower poster
7.0

Tower Sky, a luxurious building complex, has organised a lavish Christmas party for its VIP guests. However, things go awry when a fire breaks out and thousands of lives are endangered.

The Tower

2012

Commitment poster
7.2

The son of a North Korean spy decides to follow in his father's footsteps to protect his little sister.

Commitment

2013

One Way Trip poster
6.6

Four friends on a trip rescue a woman who is being beaten by a man, only to be pursued by the police. One of them lapses into unconsciousness following an ensuing car accident and the other three are arrested on suspicion of murder.

One Way Trip

2016

Notebook from My Mother poster
9.0

A diligent mother who runs a side-dish store keeps calling her son, a part time teacher, incompetent. The son resents his mother’s prickliness, but he isn’t very sweet to her either. One day, all of a sudden, his mother gets dementia.

Notebook from My Mother

2018

Chang-ok's Letter poster
5.3

Housewife Eun-ha is busy every day: In addition to taking care of her husband who doesn’t help out at all and her willful daughter and son, she has to care for her nagging mother-in-law, who is nearly bedridden.

Chang-ok's Letter

2017

Welcome poster
5.0

One day, Hye-sook is tricked by her mother into visiting her hometown. When she finds out that her mother is fine and tries to leave for Seoul, she hears about the passing of Taek-gyu's father. After the funeral, Hye-sook plans to return to the city. Gi-ju, a struggling writer, tries to drown himself at Andong lake but Taek-gyu saves him. Hye-sook used to draw for Gi-ju's writings when they were young. The two were each other's first love and through the reunion, they are about to rekindle their old romance.

Welcome

2014

Clown of a Salesman poster
5.0

Il-bum works hard to pay off his daughter’s hospital bills but one day gets fired for being wrongly accused as a molester. After series of failures, Il-bum finds a job at a PR company which provides free entertainment to old women in exchange for buying their products. Il-bum feels shameful to play dirty tricks on old women but he has no other choice. Despite his initial concerns, Il-bum starts to feel a sense of worth entertaining old women. A new team member, Ok-nim joins and Il-bum becomes a good friend to her, making her feel warm and safe which she never gets from her own son. But, the joy of their friendship won’t hold long when Il-bum’s debt reaches beyond help.

Clown of a Salesman

2015

2000s · 16 titles

Marriage Is a Crazy Thing poster
6.7

Joon-yeong is a Korean professor of English literature and confirmed bachelor. But when he meets Yeon-hee on a blind date, his days of bachelorhood seem numbered.

Marriage Is a Crazy Thing

2002

Hello, Schoolgirl poster
6.9

Kwon Yeon-woo is a thirty year old low-level civil servant who works in a district office; quite innocent for his age, he has been on numerous blind dates in an unsuccessful bid to find a wife. After moving into a new place, he begins to encounter a high school girl, Soo-yeong, on his way to work every morning, and she begins to develop feelings for him. Meanwhile, Kang Sook has just started working at the district office straight out of high school, and falls head over heels for older woman Kwon Ha-kyeong.

Hello, Schoolgirl

2008

Hello, Schoolgirl poster
6.9

Kwon Yeon-woo is a thirty year old low-level civil servant who works in a district office; quite innocent for his age, he has been on numerous blind dates in an unsuccessful bid to find a wife. After moving into a new place, he begins to encounter a high school girl, Soo-yeong, on his way to work every morning, and she begins to develop feelings for him. Meanwhile, Kang Sook has just started working at the district office straight out of high school, and falls head over heels for older woman Kwon Ha-kyeong.

Hello, Schoolgirl

2008

Black House poster
6.1

Jun-oh, an insurance claims agent, faces off with a client who he suspects of committing murders with the intention of collecting insurance premiums.

Black House

2007

The City of Violence poster
6.6

Tae-su, a detective fighting organized crime, returns to his hometown for his high school friend Wang-jae's funeral. There, he meets his old friends Pil-ho, Dong-hwan and Seok-hwan and they reminisce. Suspecting something fishy about Wang-jae's death, Tae-su and Seok-hwan start investigating it, each in his own way. Their investigations lead to a land development project that Pil-ho is directing.

The City of Violence

2006

Hot for Teacher poster
5.3

Strict teachers, all those hours inside four walls, all your desires and youthful energy repressed. School is an endless drag - until she comes along. Uhm Ji Young has a perfect body and metric tons of sex appeal, and she knows it. Needless to say, all the students go crazy, and the male teachers too! They should be preparing for the annual school festival, but they're all occupied with other matters.

Hot for Teacher

2006

The Sword with No Name poster
6.1

Mu Myeong is a Joseon dynasty headhunter who meets and falls in love with lady Ja Yeong who will become the future Empress Myseongseong. A few years later, Ja Yeong enters the royal palace to marry King Gojong. Mu Myeong still having feelings for Ja Yeong and in an attempt to get closer to her becomes her personal body guard.

The Sword with No Name

2009

Le Grand Chef poster
6.0

A disgraced chef tries to restore his name by competing in a culinary contest to win the knife of Korea's last royal chef.

Le Grand Chef

2007

Running Wild poster
6.2

A homicide detective joins forces with a prosecutor to avenged the murder of his half-brother. The aggressive detective and the by-the-book prosecutor must put aside their differences in order to find the killer.

Running Wild

2006

The Uninvited poster
5.8

An engaged interior designer sees two small girls on the subway train that die there. He sees them again in his apartment. A woman he meets can also see them. He talks to her about his forgotten childhood.

The Uninvited

2003

Face poster
5.5

A serial killer is burning away the flesh of his victims with acid, leaving only the bones behind. The police turn to Hyun-min, a former forensic sculptor adept in reconstructing faces by examining and interpreting skulls. With the victim's bones in his house, Hyun-min's daughter begins to experience disturbing visions. As he races against time to find the answers and save his daughter, the deadly truth behind these victims reveals a sinister conspiracy that threatens everyone involved.

Face

2004

Sunny poster
6.2

With hopes of reuniting with her husband, who left for the Vietnam War without telling her, a young wife joins a traveling band as the lead singer.

Sunny

2008

Antique poster
6.3

Jin-hyeok opens a cake shop in an old antique shop, hiring Seon-woo, Korea's best pastry chef, who fell in love with him in high school. Also there, are Su-young, crushing on Seon-woo, ex-boxer Ki-beom, and Seon-woo's French ex-boyfriend.

Antique

2008

Blossom Again poster
6.4

A 30-year-old teacher at a private school in Seoul falls in love with a teenage student in one of her night classes.

Blossom Again

2005

Saving My Hubby poster
5.8

Geum-sun, a former volleyball star, is married to a clumsy husband and has a baby daughter. She struggles to adjust to her boring life until kidnappers call claiming they have her husband and demand money for booze.

Saving My Hubby

2002

Punch Lady poster
5.6

Ha-eun, an ordinary housewife who has endured her husband's violence for 13 years, challenges her husband, who is a mixed martial arts champion, to a duel in the ring.

Punch Lady

2007

Series credits

Squid Game poster
7.9

Hundreds of cash-strapped players accept a strange invitation to compete in children's games. Inside, a tempting prize awaits — with deadly high stakes.

Squid Game

2021

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

The Uncanny Counter poster
8.3

A group of supernatural demon hunters known as "Counters," each with unique abilities, disguise themselves as employees of a noodle restaurant, while tracking down evil spirits that terrorize the mortal world.

The Uncanny Counter

2020

Voice poster
7.3

It's 3 minutes for hearers, but a life for the callers. A crime thriller chasing even the slightest sounds to rescue people's lives calling for urgent help.

Voice

2017

The Good Detective poster
7.2

A drama about the race between people who want to get closer to the truth and those who want to cover it up. Jang Seung Jo will take on the role of Oh Ji Hyuk, an elite detective of nine years who does not share his feelings with others due to pain he experienced when he was young. He is not swayed by money and power, even with the huge wealth he inherited from his uncle.

The Good Detective

2020

Treadstone poster
7.1

The Treadstone project, having created super spy Jason Bourne, turns its attention on a new protocol to develop unstoppable superhuman assassins.

Treadstone

2019

The Good Bad Mother poster
8.9

A tragic accident leaves an ambitious prosecutor with the mind of a child – forcing him and his mother to embark on a journey to heal their relationship.

The Good Bad Mother

2023

Juvenile Justice poster
8.1

A tough judge balances her aversion to minor offenders with firm beliefs on justice and punishment as she tackles complex cases inside a juvenile court.

Juvenile Justice

2022

Move to Heaven poster
8.0

Finding life in all that’s left behind, a detail-oriented trauma cleaner and his estranged uncle deliver untold stories of the departed to loved ones.

Move to Heaven

2021

A Time Called You poster
8.2

A grieving woman magically travels through time to 1998, where she meets a man with an uncanny resemblance to her late love.

A Time Called You

2023

Mystic Pop-up Bar poster
8.0

At this mysterious late-night food cart run by an equally mysterious woman and her part-timer, customers are provided a space for respite and counseling through their dreams. But most importantly, everyone here is treated equally—living or dead.

Mystic Pop-up Bar

2020

Wife and Woman poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Wife and Woman

2008

The Guest poster
8.0

The story of a psychic, a priest, and a detective who fight unusual crimes committed by strange powers.

The Guest

2018

It's Beautiful Now poster
7.8

Three brothers search for marriage partners in order to win the apartment offered by their family elders.

It's Beautiful Now

2022

Meow, the Secret Boy poster
6.9

What if your cat was capable of turning into a charming boy? After taking time off, Sol Ah returns to school as she finds herself a place to live alone. Per her friend’s favor, Sol Ah takes in a cat named Hong Jo, and a story of the life of two housemates unfolds. However, Sol Ah is not aware that the cat, Hong Jo, has the ability to shapeshift into a human. Sol Ah’s friends start to notice weird things about Hong Jo whenever they run into his human form. Things are about to change around the peaceful single-resident complex, and Hong Jo finds it difficult just being a mere cat whenever Sol Ah is too busy with her life to pay attention to him. Will Sol Ah be able to recognize Hong Jo in his human form? Sol Ah and Hong Jo “Welcome!” you into their romance fantasy story.

Meow, the Secret Boy

2020

Sell Your Haunted House poster
7.2

A real estate agent who rids haunted buildings of vengeful ghosts, partners with a con man to solve a 20-year-old case that is close to her heart.

Sell Your Haunted House

2021

Divorce Attorney Shin poster
7.9

Driven by a personal tragedy, a pianist-turned-lawyer navigates the complex world of divorce — fighting for his clients to win by any means necessary.

Divorce Attorney Shin

2023

Loving You a Thousand Times poster
6.6

Loving You a Thousand Times is a South Korean television drama starring Lee Soo-kyung, Jung Gyu-woon, Go Eun-mi, Ryu Jin and Lee Si-young. It aired on SBS from August 29, 2009 to March 7, 2010 on Saturdays and Sundays at 20:50 for 55 episodes.

Loving You a Thousand Times

2009

Would You Like a Cup of Coffee? poster
6.5

A revelatory cup of coffee at a café leads a man to overhaul his entire life. Inspired, he sets out to learn about both coffee and people's lives.

Would You Like a Cup of Coffee?

2021

Someday poster
7.0

Someday is about four different people's story about love. Hana Yamaguchi (Bae Doo-Na) was a successful young cartoonist in Japan. Abandoned by her parents and brought up by her grandma, she was cold and aloof and did not believe in love which to her was only a simple biological response. When the elderly neighbourhood street sweeper died, she discovered the affection between him and her neighbour which lasted 60 years. Hana could not understand this kind of love, so she decided to trace her neighbour's footstep to Korea when she disappeared with her lover's ashes. Go Jin Pyo (Kim Min Joon) was a doctor who was a comic book fan of Hana. He was overjoyed in meeting Hana and believed that he was in love for the first time in his life. He decided to help Hana in fulfilling her wish to look for her neighbour and enlisted the help of a private eye, Lee Seok Man (Lee Jin Wook).Lee was the sole survivor of a car accident whereby his parents and brother were killed. He carried a lot of guilt towards the parents of the other victim and did his best to help out even at the expense of owing money to the loan sharks. Hye Young (Oh Yoon Ah) was a PD of animation projects and a close friend of Jin Pyo. she didn't realize that she was in love with him till Hana appeared.

Someday

2006

Goodbye Solo poster
6.0

Goodbye Solo is a 2006 South Korean television series starring Chun Jung-myung, Yoon So-yi, Kim Min-hee, Bae Jong-ok, Lee Jae-ryong, Kim Nam-gil, and Na Moon-hee. It aired on KBS2 from March 1 to April 20, 2006 on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55 for 16 episodes. In the urban melodrama, seven lead characters of different generations and backgrounds are all haunted by loneliness; they gradually interact and form a "family" borne out of emotional connection and mutual understanding. Renowned for her in-depth, realistic portrayals of ordinary lives, writer Noh Hee-kyung said that the drama's theme is that all human beings are beautiful just the way they are, simply by existing in the world.

Goodbye Solo

2006

Ordinary Love poster
5.0

"Ordinary Love" is about a psychiatrist who treats patients, while having many problems himself. He meets a woman who teaches him that love does not have to be complicated.

Ordinary Love

2012

Chang-ok's Letter poster
6.0

Housewife Eun-ha is busy every day: In addition to taking care of her husband who doesn't help out at all and her willful daughter and son, she has to care for her nagging mother-in-law, who is nearly bedridden.

Chang-ok's Letter

2017