Im Sung-jae

Acting

Im Sung-jae

Born

1987-01-18 (39)

Place of birth

South Korea

Known for

Acting

Credits

43 titles

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).

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 17 titles

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

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

Secret: Untold Melody poster
6.5

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nothing Serious poster
6.8

Rookie journalist Woo-ri takes on a dating and relationships column and meets Ja-young through an app, where their casual encounter begins to deepen.

Nothing Serious

2021

Nocturnal poster
6.2

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

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

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

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

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

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

2010s · 4 titles

Series credits

Moving poster
8.5

Children who live in hiding with superpowers, along with their parents who live with painful secrets of the past, face enormous dangers together.

Moving

2023

Dr. Romantic poster
8.1

An eccentric, triple board-certified virtuoso surgeon leaves a top job in Seoul and ends up at a provincial hospital, where he mentors young doctors.

Dr. Romantic

2016

Vincenzo poster
8.5

During a visit to his motherland, a Korean-Italian Mafia lawyer gives an unrivaled conglomerate a taste of its own medicine with a side of justice.

Vincenzo

2021

Extraordinary Attorney Woo poster
8.5

With a genius-level IQ, Woo Young-woo learns to embrace her extraordinary self while forming a tight-knit community of friends and allies.

Extraordinary Attorney Woo

2022

Hellbound poster
7.3

Unearthly beings deliver bloody condemnations, sending individuals to hell and giving rise to a religious group founded on the idea of divine justice.

Hellbound

2021

The WONDERfools poster
8.8

A goofy group of townies stumbles into superpowers and fights rising evil as doomsday panic grows in this wild, turn-of-the-century action comedy.

The WONDERfools

2026

D.P. poster
8.0

A young private's assignment to capture army deserters reveals the painful reality endured by each enlistee during his compulsory call of duty.

D.P.

2021

Newtopia poster
8.0

Jae-yoon, a late military enlistee, and his girlfriend, Young-joo, break up over the phone over growing misunderstandings. But a zombie outbreak rocks the world. A national emergency is declared, a plane crashes in the city center, and Jae-yoon and his unit get trapped on top of a Seoul skyscraper. Young-joo risks the zombie-filled streets to find him. Can their love survive the apocalypse?

Newtopia

2025

Black Knight poster
7.4

In a dystopian 2071 devastated by air pollution, the survival of humanity depends on the Black Knights — and they’re far from your average delivery men.

Black Knight

2023

The Worst of Evil poster
8.4

Set in the 1980s, a husband and wife, both detectives, infiltrate a massive criminal organization responsible for the illegal drug trade between Korea, China, and Japan.

The Worst of Evil

2023

Bad and Crazy poster
7.9

A superhero drama about Soo-yeol who has lived his whole life as a materialistic police detective, but changes into a champion for justice and fights against police corruption when a hidden persona called "K" awakens inside him.

Bad and Crazy

2021

Gangnam B-Side poster
7.4

When Jaehee, a top call girl at a club in Gangnam, goes missing, Detective Kang Dongwoo returns to crack the case. Prosecutor Min Seojin aims to rise in rank, while the notorious pimp, Yoon Gilho becomes a prime suspect. They unravel a web of secrets and connections behind the case.

Gangnam B-Side

2024

When the Stars Gossip poster
7.4

From two different worlds and with separate missions, an astronaut and a space tourist entangle in space — only to start falling for each other.

When the Stars Gossip

2025

Law and the City poster
7.7

Story of a lawyer who is known for his good appearance and straightforward personality and is working with Gyeongmin Law Firm for 9 years.

Law and the City

2025

H.U.S.H. poster
7.7

Lee Ji Su is a bold intern reporter who isn’t afraid to say what needs to be said, even during a job interview. When she meets Han Jun Hyeok as her mentor, she begins to dream of becoming a true journalist.

H.U.S.H.

2020

Welcome 2 Life poster
7.7

Lee Jae-Sang is a lawyer at JK Law Firm, which is one of the biggest law firms in South Korea. He is an excellent lawyer, but he only cares about winning for his benefit. One day, he has a mysterious car accident and he is drawn into a parallel world. There, Lee Jae-Sang finds himself working as a prosecutor. He is strict in carrying out the law. He is married to Ra Shi-On, who loves Lee Jae-Sang and is faithful to him. In the world where Lee Jae-Sang came from, he broke up with Ra Shi-On ten years earlier and Ra Shi-On works as a detective. Lee Jae-Sang struggles to cope with his different selves.

Welcome 2 Life

2019

Love: Track poster
5.8

A romance anthology featuring 10 different love stories, each with its own unique tone and charm. It has an ensemble cast.

Love: Track

2025

The Perfect Lie poster
NR

After a heart-fluttering date, Joonho, a heart surgeon with a perfect smile, and Jisun, a free-spirited teacher-librarian, share a special night. The next day, they meet at a police station with completely different memories. A shocking polygraph result turns their lives upside down.

The Perfect Lie

2026

Unframed poster
NR

Unframed is an omnibus film project made by four actors who each wrote and directed an episode for themselves.

Unframed

2021

Every Village Needs Grandchildren poster
NR

Shows the challenges of 'city puppies' to becoming grandchildren of a rural village. Shows how they gradually become accustomed to life in a rural village as they help the elderly with chores, show off their long skills, and even eat and work together at a country table full of their tastes.

Every Village Needs Grandchildren

2025