Han Tae-il

Acting

Han Tae-il

Born

1941-10-16 (85)

Place of birth

Jeju, South Korea

Known for

Acting

Credits

49 titles

Known for

The Rich Son poster
8.0

Lee Gwang Jae is the son of a rich family who is reckless and immature. His father dies and leaves behind large debts. Gwang Jae promises to pay off his debt for his father's honor, but it's not as easy as he thinks. Kim Young Ha supports Gwang Jae with her positive personality and love, giving encouragement to him whenever he needs it.

The Rich Son

2018

Coma poster
5.0

A horror-mystery set in a hospital that is being shut down due to its dubious practices.

Coma

2006

Holy Punch poster
4.3

Gang leaders Gyeong-cheol and Tae-yong hide after an attack, while psychopath In-seong wreaks havoc. Detective Cha Do-pil, seeking revenge, convinces them to join forces. A pastor, a monk, and a detective unite for a chaotic showdown.

Holy Punch

2024

Mulberry poster
5.8

Sam-po is a gambler living without concern for how his wife will manage their houselhold without his earning money. In order to get food and provisions, his wife An-hyeob, sleeps with various merchants in the village. One of the few men she does not sleep with, a lustful servant named Sam-dol, decides to reveal her activities to her husband for revenge.

Mulberry

1986

I Am Lady Number 77 poster
7.0

Due to her father's debts, Yun Go-na marries Song Kye-nam but she is unhappy because of Kye-nam's self-indulgent lifestyle. Go-na takes her daughter, Min-hi, and goes to Seoul where she gets a job as a hostess. One day, Mun Byung-kil proposes to Go-na. Troubled by her situation, Go-na turns him down. But Go-na is touched by his sincerity and marries him. The three live happily as a family but then Kye-nam shows up and demands his daughter Min-hi. However, Ky0e-nam goes away when he realizes which is real happiness of his daughter.

I Am Lady Number 77

1978

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

Film credits

1990s · 9 titles

Crocodile poster
6.3

Under the Han River lives Crocodile, a rugged member of the lumpenproletariat who exists from schemes and stealing. His position as a scavenger of society undermines South Korea’s boasts of its newfound economic position as an Asian Tiger. One day, Crocodile finds a girl floating in his river.

Crocodile

1996

Two Cops 3 poster
4.8

A pair of tough, unconventional cops take on the underworld.

Two Cops 3

1998

Mulberry 3 poster
NR

Freedom fighter Sam-po learns that his location has been discovered by the Japanese police so he flees in the night but not before leaving his girlfriend, Ahn Ak, behind as collateral on his gambling debts. Ahn Ak is uneducated and has no job skills, so the debtor forces her to work as a prostitute if she wants to earn her freedom.

Mulberry 3

1992

Two Cops 2 poster
4.6

An unlikely pair of cops take part in a massive crackdown against the local mob.

Two Cops 2

1996

Jungle Story poster
7.5

This film depicts the passion and frustration of young people who dream of becoming popular rock musicians. Dohyun neglects his studies because he is only interested in one thing - rock music. He comes to Seoul to work and ente rs a band. he meets his future manager, Jeewoo, and makes his debut as a singer. However, the production of his first album is cancelled because it is considered 'not commercial' enough. Dohyun returns to his hometown, depressed. Jeewo, however, finds him and helps him open his first gig after weeks of practice. The gig turns out to be a complete failure. Dohyun and his friends sing in the middle of the street with pedestrians as their spectators. The film ends with Dohyun frustrated over his unsuccessful career as a rock musician.

Jungle Story

1996

The Woman and The Man poster
8.0

A maternity ward nurse meets and falls in love with an obiturary columnist. Despite their apparent happiness, the nurse begins to feel that something is terribly wrong with their relationship.

The Woman and The Man

1993

Road to Cheongsong Prison poster
7.0

An habitual, but good-natured, criminal is in and out of prison 38 times. Finally he is sentenced to 10 years though without a trial after facing the accusation of stealing a goat. Feeling certain that the elderly jailbird would die before his sentence is complete, the warden takes pity on him, helps him escape, and keeps the fugitive hidden in his home treating him like one of the family.

Road to Cheongsong Prison

1990

No artwork available
10.0

Jin-hie's dream is to study and teach physical education, but all her applications to various universities were rejected. She studies on her own, gaining mastery of martial arts. When a friend of hers dies from an overdose of steroids, Jin-hie joins the police in tracking down the illegal supplier.

Black Snow

1991

Byeon Geum-ryeon 2 poster
7.0

Byeon Geum-ryeon is once again kidnapped from her hometown by conmen who need her help in pulling off a huge land fraud that will make them all rich. Geum-ryeon transforms herself into the queen of high society to get financial backers while working on a way to cheat her partners out of their share of the take.

Byeon Geum-ryeon 2

1992

1980s · 14 titles

Mulberry poster
5.8

Sam-po is a gambler living without concern for how his wife will manage their houselhold without his earning money. In order to get food and provisions, his wife An-hyeob, sleeps with various merchants in the village. One of the few men she does not sleep with, a lustful servant named Sam-dol, decides to reveal her activities to her husband for revenge.

Mulberry

1986

The Stolen Apple Tastes Good poster
NR

After witnessing her mother's infidelity, Su-mi's psychological scar creates abnormal sexual tendencies. When she meets the hoodlum Ma Do-yub, Su-mi transforms herself into a sexy woman but runs away from the rough Do-yub. Afterwards, Su-mi marries the potter, Se-hyung. But Su-mi is unsatisfied with Se-hyung's abstinence so she lives a double life by wandering the streets at night. Ultimately, Su-mi falls into depression and ends up in a mental institution. She confesses everything to her husband and tries to regain her happy life. At this time, Do-yub reappears and torments Su-mi. She returns to her hometown. Se-hyung protects Su-mi even when Do-yub demands to hand her over. But Se-hyung gets in a car accident and ends up in the hospital. Su-mi goes to him and asks for his forgiveness.

The Stolen Apple Tastes Good

1985

The Age of Success poster
6.6

Kim Pan-chok is assigned to work in the sales promotion department of Yumi Inc., a sweetener manufacturer. He falls ill after a heated sales war with Gammi Inc., a leading competitor and is hospitalized. He devises a genius plan while in the hospital.

The Age of Success

1988

The Hut poster
5.8

An attractive young woman has been called on to help rid a haunted family of its demons - the male heirs all die young, and one is now in a coma - she has to clear the environment where several exorcists have failed before her.

The Hut

1981

No artwork available
NR

Falsely accused of murder, Na Ok-min is arrested. In the next cell, Suh Pil-sun sits, his eyes focused on the ceiling. He has an old booklet and a necklace with a strange pattern. He gazes at Ok-min. Ok-min's mother is murdered. Pil-sun dies in prison. Pil-sun's old booklet and necklace have been placed at the head of Ok-min's bed. Afterwards, Ok-min is found not guilty and released from jail. Those involved in the murder of Ok-min's mother are killed off one by one. Suspecting that Ok-min is the serial killer, the investigators look into every detail. They realize that the murders occur when Ok-min is asleep. It is revealed that Ok-min's spirit had been killing those responsible for her mother's death.

Devil in the Heart

1983

The Dragon's Snake Fist poster
7.0

In central China, the Dragon Fist and the Jeet-Kune are two competing martial arts schools. When Dragon Fist master, Ho Cho, breaks his leg in a competition between the schools, he vows revenge. The Jeet-Kune school is damaged and student Lee Jin battles to regain the school in a death-duel!

The Dragon's Snake Fist

1982

Three Women Under the Umbrella poster
NR

Yu Mi-young, an ordinary housewife, loses her husband in a car accident. Two women come to his funeral and she is raged with his betrayal. She finds out in his diary that it wasn't an accident and plans a revenge against the two women, Sin-ae and Su-mi.

Three Women Under the Umbrella

1980

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Rose Woman

1983

A Water Mill poster
9.0

On the first full moon of January, in the town of Ha-pyung, there is a festival going on in the yard of Shin Chi-gyu, the town's biggest landowner. They are playing yut, a game of throwing four short sticks. The winner of the game is Ok-bun's husband, Lee Bang-won. Having no money, Ok-bun and Bang-won had been tenant farmers on Chi-gyu's land. With their winnings, they try to start their own business. Chi-gyu had always been drawn to Ok-bun. When Bang-won leaves, Chi-gyu comes on strong to Ok-bun. Ok-bun waits eagerly for her husband's return but Bang-won has failed in his business and returns a pauper. As their dreams go up in smoke, Ok-bun falls into deep despair.

A Water Mill

1986

Eunuch poster
5.7

Jeong-ho is castrated by an ambitious minister for loving above his station. The minister also happens to be the father of Ja-ok, the girl Jeong-ho loved. He sends his daughter to the king as a concubine in a bid to gain favor, but the king sees through his motives and the instead forces Ja-ok into the position of a lowly kitchen maid. Jeong-ho sole hope in life is to save his former lover.

Eunuch

1986

The Last Witness poster
7.3

Detective Oh goes searching for the murderer of Yang, a small-time brewer bludgeoned to death by a quiet riverside with no witnesses, no apparent motive. As he wanders about the winter landscape of South Jeolla Province and Seoul, he finds himself caught in a story of treachery, rape and murder.

The Last Witness

1980

The Cruel Story of a Woman Who Spins and Spins the Wheel poster
6.6

A young and beautiful woman born in the Korean countryside has to go through the many hardships arising from jealousy, lust and overbearing social control.

The Cruel Story of a Woman Who Spins and Spins the Wheel

1984

Kwangdong Viper poster
6.3

After witnessing the brutal murder of his mother, Ma-ryong grows up intent on revenge and sets out to become a master of martial arts. When Ma-ryong kills his mother’s murderer, Il-pyung, the son of Ma-ryong’s enemy, seeks a master to learn how to fight. Ma-ryong and Il-pyung form a bond as master and apprentice leading to an inevitable showdown.

Kwangdong Viper

1983

Reminiscent Flame poster
NR

Si-Wuk is a repeater who is taking the entrance exam after one failure. When his neighbor Yun-Ho and Ji-Hee family take a trip, their aunt Hye-Bin comes to the house to keep the empty house and Si-Wuk feels love for her.

Reminiscent Flame

1985

1970s · 14 titles

I Am Lady Number 77 poster
7.0

Due to her father's debts, Yun Go-na marries Song Kye-nam but she is unhappy because of Kye-nam's self-indulgent lifestyle. Go-na takes her daughter, Min-hi, and goes to Seoul where she gets a job as a hostess. One day, Mun Byung-kil proposes to Go-na. Troubled by her situation, Go-na turns him down. But Go-na is touched by his sincerity and marries him. The three live happily as a family but then Kye-nam shows up and demands his daughter Min-hi. However, Ky0e-nam goes away when he realizes which is real happiness of his daughter.

I Am Lady Number 77

1978

Great King Sejo poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Great King Sejo

1970

Never Never Forget Me poster
7.0

Yeong-su and Jeong-ah experience many problems as their budding romance defies the strict rules of the co-ed highschool they attend. After graduation when it looks like they can be free to live their own lives, Yeong-su joins the military and their relationship will never be the same.

Never Never Forget Me

1976

Cruel history of Myeong Dong poster
10.0

An omnibus of three stories all taking place in the Myeongdong district of Seoul.

Cruel history of Myeong Dong

1972

49 Days of Hell poster
8.0

A battalion of North Korean soldiers sieze Eoluk Isalnd on the east coast of Korea. The villagers organize a resistance and set a date to strike back at the occupying force which is terrorizing the population.

49 Days of Hell

1979

A Woman Pursued poster
8.0

At the death of her father, A-mi returns to Korea and realises he was implicated in the theft of a chest full of gold bars. She then becomes the target of a criminal organisation.

A Woman Pursued

1970

The Magnificent Duo poster
7.5

Lee Sung-sun is nicknamed Sirasoni (means a baby tiger) for his gentle personality. Because of his strong sense of justice, Sung-sun gets into a fight with Japanese students and this keeps him from going on his honeymoon. He flees to China. There, he helps a Chinese woman being harassed by the Japanese and ends up working with the Chinese dock laborers. The dock manager doesn't pay the workers fairly and represses them. When Sung-sun loses a friend because of this, he confronts the Japanese and puts a big dent in their pride.

The Magnificent Duo

1979

Why Did I Do That? poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Why Did I Do That?

1975

Rely on Your Brother poster
10.0

Two families are pulled into a repeating spiral of murder and revenge.

Rely on Your Brother

1979

Manchurian Tiger poster
7.0

In Manchuria during the 1940's, a karate master named Sazaki and hapkido champion Wang make plans to rob the Korean Independence Army of its funds. However, unknown to them, the money is guarded by one Mr Lee--a grand master of taekwondo.

Manchurian Tiger

1974

Love My Whole Body poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Love My Whole Body

1973

Whirl of Betrayals on Myeongdong poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Whirl of Betrayals on Myeongdong

1972

Four Iron Men poster
NR

Ingeol and Ki-seong are masters of taekwondo and are bamboo shoots, but they parted ways to spread the traditional martial art, Taekwon, to the whole country. Upon arriving at Ganghwa Island, Ingeol discovers a group of suspicious people and tracks them. Meanwhile, Ki-seong, who had been traveling the country separately, heard the news and ran to Ganghwa Island, and together with In-geol's younger sister, Non-smoking, smacked the Ming merchants and Hyuk-soo gang to protect the gold.

Four Iron Men

1977

Rain Outside the Porthole poster
9.0

In 1946, Tae-woong, a man nicknamed "The Bear" who dominated the streets of Busan with his fists, have returned after twenty years. Tae-woong is still haunted by his former love, Yeonsuk, and is confused when he meets Jung-hee, who looks exactly like Yeonsuk. Meanwhile, Dal-ji, a former subordinate of Tae-woong's, schemes to get rid of him.

Rain Outside the Porthole

1970

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