Kim Choo-wol

Acting

Kim Choo-wol

Born 1959-09-18 · Seoul, South Korea

Acting credits

The Host poster
7.0

A teenage girl is captured by a giant mutated squid-like creature that appears from Seoul's Han River after toxic waste was dumped in it, prompting her family into a frantic search for her.

The Host

2006

On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate poster
6.7

After being rejected for a film role, a stage actor leaves Seoul to visit a friend and, in his travels, winds up getting involved with two women.

On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate

2002

Hypnotized poster
5.6

A psychiatrist fails to help a mental patient during her stay in hospital. The doctor becomes obsessed with his former patient, seeks her on the outside and uses hypnosis to fulfill his sexual desires.

Hypnotized

2004

Alice in Earnestland poster
6.8

A young woman struggles to pay the hospital bills of her vegetative husband. Despite her hard work, there's no hope for him to ever wake up, until an opportunity arises.

Alice in Earnestland

2015

Snail Gosiwon poster
4.0

A young woman gets into male-only prep school.

Snail Gosiwon

2010

Cart poster
7.2

In response to a sudden dismissal of staff, workers at a big retail store begin a protest against their employer's oppressive labor policies.

Cart

2014

Three House poster
5.0

First, never leave the house. Second, take your medicine and sleep once it gets dark. Third, never touch the locked doors. Having spent his entire life trapped inside under his father's strict rules, Jae-jun begins to question everything. Myung-sook, who cares alone for her father suffering from dementia, encounters an unidentified woman in the mountains on the anniversary of her daughter's death. And on the day of a move-in cleaning, Jung-hye finds herself alone with the cleaners when her husband suddenly stops answering her calls…

Three House

2026

My Mother the Mermaid poster
6.7

Na-young works at a post office and is sick and tired of being around her shamefully unyielding mother and her pushover father who's excessively nice. The only thing that she can look forward to is her trip abroad in a few days. But one day, her father leaves home without any notice. Her mother doesn't care what happens to him and doesn't care to look for him. Na-young has no choice but to give up her dream trip abroad and to search for her father instead. Once she arrives at her parents' hometown, Na-young is shocked to meet someone she'd never expect, even in her dreams.

My Mother the Mermaid

2004

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Boy's Physics

Last Child poster
7.7

Six months ago the son of the married couple drowned. The couple, together with the teenager that their son saved, begin a journey to cope with the loss.

Last Child

2018

Where Are You Going? poster
6.0

In a blighted area of Seoul, four brothers live in a building set to be demolished due to an urban development plan. The eldest brother than tries to benefit from all the confrontations ...

Where Are You Going?

2009