Shin Hyeon-jong

Acting

Shin Hyeon-jong

Acting credits

Memories of Murder poster
8.1

A sadistic serial rapist and murderer of young women terrorizes a small province in 1980s South Korea. To prevent further crimes, three increasingly desperate detectives with conflicting methods race against time to unravel the violent mind of the killer in a futile effort to solve the case.

Memories of Murder

2003

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

Hostage: Missing Celebrity poster
6.8

A box office star has to prove his action credentials in the real world when he's kidnapped and held for ransom.

Hostage: Missing Celebrity

2021

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

Seven Days poster
6.7

A successful lawyer who, in order to save her daughter, is pressured into defending the innocence of a man slated to receive the death penalty.

Seven Days

2007

My Teacher, Mr. Kim poster
7.4

A teacher attempts to lure his handful of students in a small, rural school to Seoul so that he can move on to a better school. His efforts backfire however, and his school becomes one of the highest ranked in the nation.

My Teacher, Mr. Kim

2003

The Scam poster
5.6

Hyun-soo is a skillful individual stock investor, so-called ‘ant’. One day, he cashes in up seventy thousand dollars through stock trading and this jackpot gets him implicated in a $60 million stock manipulation by scam artists from various fields. With a huge pot of money before their eyes, the scam seems to be perfectly unfolding. But another scam is emerging underneath team as the scammers chase each other and are being chased at the end.

The Scam

2009

Waikiki Brothers poster
6.8

Waikiki Brothers is a band going nowhere. After another depressing gig, the saxophonist quits, leaving the three remaining members to continue on the road. The band ends up at the lead singer's hometown, which was a popular hot spring resort in the '80s, but the return home is filled with reservations of previous and past disappointments, a lost love, unemployment and tragedy.

Waikiki Brothers

2001

An Old Lady poster
7.3

Hyo-jeong, a 69-year-old woman, is raped—but few people, including the police, are willing to believe what she says.

An Old Lady

2020

Dance with the Wind poster
5.7

In a hospital parking lot, Officer Song Yeon-hwa is briefed about Park Pung-shik, an alleged gigolo who preys on rich housewives. One of his latest victims is the police chief's wife, who refuses to testify against him, despite giving him $30,000. Song is told to go undercover as a hospital patient in order to secure evidence leading to his arrest. In the hospital, she finds the mild-mannered Park and talks to him over coffee, where he mentions that he ballroom dances for a living. Song asks him why he came to become a dancer and he starts his story.

Dance with the Wind

2004