Im Sung-jae

Acting

Im Sung-jae

Born 1987-01-18 · South Korea

Im Sung-jae is a South Korean actor. He is best known for starring in Extraordinary Attorney Woo (2022), Black Knight (2023), The Worst of Evil (2023), and Newtopia (2025).

Acting credits

Emergency Declaration poster
7.4

While investigating a terroristic threat that goes viral online, Korean authorities discover that a suspect has recently boarded an international flight bound for the United States. When a healthy passenger on the same flight suddenly dies a gruesome death of unknown cause, panic erupts both in-flight and on the ground. With steadily decreasing fuel and international refusals to offer aid, the captain and crew will be forced to take unprecedented emergency measures in an attempt to save the lives of their passengers.

Emergency Declaration

2022

Deliver Us from Evil poster
6.9

A retired contract killer goes on a bloody rampage when a young girl finds herself at the mercy of gangland human traffickers and only one man can come to her rescue, with an arsenal of weapons and years of experience in the art of killing.

Deliver Us from Evil

2020

Hunt poster
6.7

After a high-ranking North Korean official requests asylum, KCIA Foreign Unit chief Park Pyong-ho and Domestic Unit chief Kim Jung-do are tasked with uncovering a North Korean spy, known as Donglim, who is deeply embedded within their agency. When the spy begins leaking top secret intel that could jeopardize national security, the two units are each assigned to investigate each other.

Hunt

2022

Bogotá: City of the Lost poster
7.0

After moving to Bogotá for a chance at a better life, a young Korean man rises through the Colombian black market — risking peril for a shot at success.

Bogotá: City of the Lost

2024

Confidential Assignment 2: International poster
7.0

Follows Rim Chul-ryung heading back to South Korea in pursuit of a brutal and secret criminal organization. He teams up again with Kang Jin-tae, who volunteers to work with the North Korean in order to get back on the investigation team after a mistake landed him in the cyber crime department.

Confidential Assignment 2: International

2022

Nocturnal poster
6.1

Min-tae, a once-notorious gangster who now leads a peaceful retired life, discovers the bloody corpse of his only next of kin: his younger brother Seok-tae. With his brother’s missing wife Moon-young as the prime suspect, Min-tae uncovers a suspicious last phone call between her and a mysterious novelist, sparking a vicious hunt for the truth despite his seemingly deceitful former crime syndicate and the police in hot pursuit.

Nocturnal

2025

The Ugly poster
6.9

One day while overseeing a documentary crew filming his blind father at work, Im Dong-hwan gets a phone call that his missing mother’s remains have been found after forty years. Determined to find the truth of her disappearance, Dong-hwan embarks on a twisted odyssey through his family’s traumatic past, uncovering dark secrets along the way.

The Ugly

2025

Unforgettable poster
8.0

On a live music radio show, a letter arrives from twenty-three years in the past. Through the letter, the first love and friendships of five friends are revealed.

Unforgettable

2016

Nothing Serious poster
6.8

Woo-ri, 32, and Ja-young, 28, who both dislike being alone but have particular anxieties when it comes to dating, meet through an app.

Nothing Serious

2021

A Year-End Medley poster
7.2

A romantic comedy of a young man and woman that is told in the background of hotel 'Emross'. It has stories of people who met each other at Hotel Emross during the New Year holidays. Each one has his own memory to relate and create relationships or just going nostalgic.

A Year-End Medley

2021

Secret: Untold Melody poster
6.4

A promising pianist in a slump has a chance meeting with a young woman playing mysterious music, and the encounter forces him to make a once-in-a-lifetime choice.

Secret: Untold Melody

2025

Don't Buy the Seller poster
6.8

Soo-hyun, who has recently moved into a new house, buys a used washing machine through a second-hand app but finds out it doesn’t work. Annoyed by the seller’s irresponsibility, she leaves a comment calling the seller a con man, and reports it to the police. Little does she know that the seller is a psychopathic serial killer who uses an online second-hand market to lure his victims. Her comment renders his hunt for a new victim all but impossible so she becomes his next target. She starts receiving obscene phone calls, countless unwanted food deliveries, and strange men knocking on her door looking for a good time. A trip to the sender’s address proves deadly serious when the police and Soo-hyun find a man’s dead body.

Don't Buy the Seller

2023

The Anchor poster
6.0

A mysterious informant calls a broadcast news anchor to request that the anchor report on the informant’s inevitable death.

The Anchor

2022

Gentleman poster
6.0

Hyun-soo, a C.E.O of a private detective agency, visits a pension with a client asking for her dog. While waiting outside of pension, he is falsely accused of kidnapping the client. During the arrest Hyun-soo, a serious car accident occurs and people misunderstand Hyun-soo as a prosecutor instead of a suspect. To find the real criminal, Hyun-soo pretends to be a prosecutor. Hwa-jin is an elite prosecutor but demoted to the provinces while trying to catch a law firm conglomerate Do-hoon, who colluded with the prosecutor’s leadership, meets Hyun-soo. Hwa-jin finds out the case is related to Do-hoon, she begins cooperating with Hyun-soo. While cooperating is on-going, they realize that there is a dirty truth behind the crime.

Gentleman

2022

Sunset in My Hometown poster
7.2

On the day that underground rapper Hak-soo fails his 7th audition, he receives a call from his hometown that his father is in the hospital. But he finds out that it was his father's plot to bring him to Byeon-san. To top it all, he is suspected as a phishing scam criminal and locked up in this small, boring suburb.

Sunset in My Hometown

2018

The Day I Died: Unclosed Case poster
7.0

The detective Hyun-soo tries to track down a girl who disappeared off of a cliff during a stormy night.

The Day I Died: Unclosed Case

2020

The King's Letters poster
7.2

In the 15th century, despite so many accomplishments he has made for the people, King Sejong, his biggest goal is still remaining; the invention of original letters that can be read and written by all the people. But courtiers who want to dominate the knowledge and the power, are against his will and discourage his belief. Frustrated King Sejong hears about a bonze Sinmi a phonogram expert, and secretly brings him in the palace.

The King's Letters

2019

Mission: Cross 2 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Mission: Cross 2

Three of a Kind poster
NR

Caught up in the heat of the moment, three women plan a bank robbery that spirals out of control. Left with no way forward and no way back, they plot one final heist of a lifetime.

Three of a Kind

Somewhere in Between poster
5.2

Gi-tae, who continuously failed on his exam, returns to his hometown for the first time in ten years. He tried all different manual labors, but his debt-ridden life never seems to end. Soon Later, he starts working at a worn-out theater and meets Oh, the sign painter. Oh is never sober and always blunt, accordingly difficult to figure out. But Gi-tae doesn’t feel awkward around him.

Somewhere in Between

2020

Heaven: To the Land of Happiness poster
6.5

In order to find the last happiness of his life, inmate 203 escapes from prison. Nam-sik is poor and sick. These two men happen to meet and obtain a large amount of money. Nam-sik joins inmate 203's journey to find the last happiness.

Heaven: To the Land of Happiness

2021

Dreamers poster
4.0

I'm sure everyone has this experience. You had a happy dream but you don't remember it at all. Or you had a nightmare and it felt so real as if it was a reality. Or the reality was just so harsh that you just kept on sleeping. This story has been created for those people. (Source: KBS World TV)

Dreamers

2018

The Apartment poster
NR

The taxi driver picks up the customer and enters the apartment complex. After dropping off the customer, the taxi driver can't find the way out. Every path he takes is a dead end. Meanwhile, another guest got on board. Will the taxi driver be able to get out of the apartment complex with new guests?

The Apartment

2021