Won Jin

Acting

Won Jin

Born

1962-12-08 (63)

Place of birth

Seoul, South Korea

Known for

Acting

Credits

37 titles

South Korean martial arts master known mainly for his role as Sonny Wong in The Scorpion King (aka Operation Scorpio) and his action direction of the My Wife Is A Gangster movie series. He created a very unique style that was well ahead of it's time, showcasing many techniques used in modern Tricking and he also inspired famous martial art actors such as Scott Adkins and Tony Jaa. He began learning Taekwondo around age 7 and created his own style of kicking and acrobatics. He was was a big fan of Bruce Lee and fell in love with the nunchaku He would go on to learn Hapkido, Wushu and various other styles. In late 70s he trained alongside Elton Jeong at the YMCA Mechanical Gymnastics Club…

Known for

My Name poster
8.2

Following her father's murder, a revenge-driven woman puts her trust in a powerful crime boss — and enters the police force under his direction.

My Name

2021

Hero - Beyond the Boundary of Time poster
5.1

Wai Siu-Bo travels to the future on a mission to cure the emperor's illness.

Hero - Beyond the Boundary of Time

1993

The Suspect poster
6.9

Betrayed and on the run, a former North Korean agent tries to seek revenge on the man who killed his wife, find his missing daughter, and uncover the secrets hidden inside the eyeglasses of a dead man.

The Suspect

2013

The Battle: Roar to Victory poster
7.5

Over a 4 day period, a fierce battle takes place between Korean independence militias and imperialist Japanese forces in Manchuria, China. The militia includes a master swordsman and an expert marksman.

The Battle: Roar to Victory

2019

To Catch A Thief poster
6.2

Developer Ms. Cheung (Carol 'Do Do' Cheng) yearns for a quieter life in Hong Kong and moves to the countryside, getting herself caught in a showdown between a gang of jewel thieves and two police officers along the way. While Ms. Cheung survives the ordeal, the thieves' injured getaway driver (Siu-Chun To) sneaks into Cheung's moving van and escapes to the countryside, into Cheung's new home. As Cheung settles down into her new environment, she befriends Pak-Lam (Pak Lam Cheng), a skillful and inquisitive little boy who lives in the village. While Pak-Lam helps Cheung tend to her house, he encounters the injured thief. After a brief exchange, Pak-Lam realizes the thief has a harmless and non-aggressive attitude and decides to shelter him in his secret makeshift hideout, not knowing his new friend has in his possession a bag of stolen jewels, in which both the police and the gangsters are searching for.

To Catch A Thief

1991

China Strike Force poster
5.5

A young Chinese Security Officer, Darren, is called for Team 808, which fights against the smuggling of drugs and corruption. Noriko, a Japanese Interpol officer, collaborates with Darren for the destruction of a large international drug cartel. At the same time, a senior government officer's daughter is suspected of corruption.

China Strike Force

2000

Film credits

2000s · 3 titles

1990s · 14 titles

Hero - Beyond the Boundary of Time poster
5.1

Wai Siu-Bo travels to the future on a mission to cure the emperor's illness.

Hero - Beyond the Boundary of Time

1993

To Catch A Thief poster
6.2

Developer Ms. Cheung (Carol 'Do Do' Cheng) yearns for a quieter life in Hong Kong and moves to the countryside, getting herself caught in a showdown between a gang of jewel thieves and two police officers along the way. While Ms. Cheung survives the ordeal, the thieves' injured getaway driver (Siu-Chun To) sneaks into Cheung's moving van and escapes to the countryside, into Cheung's new home. As Cheung settles down into her new environment, she befriends Pak-Lam (Pak Lam Cheng), a skillful and inquisitive little boy who lives in the village. While Pak-Lam helps Cheung tend to her house, he encounters the injured thief. After a brief exchange, Pak-Lam realizes the thief has a harmless and non-aggressive attitude and decides to shelter him in his secret makeshift hideout, not knowing his new friend has in his possession a bag of stolen jewels, in which both the police and the gangsters are searching for.

To Catch A Thief

1991

Operation Scorpio poster
6.4

After an aspiring comic book artist rescues a young girl from a prostitution ring, he submits to the teachings of an aging kung fu master in order to take on the local mob boss' son: a deadly assassin who's a master of the scorpion kung fu technique.

Operation Scorpio

1992

Women on the Run poster
5.2

A young woman named Yin dreams of leaving her modest village life for a chance to try to make it big as a martial arts movie star. Leaving for the big city with her boyfriend, life takes a turn for poor Yin when she soon finds herself addicted to drugs and being pimped out by her boyfriend. After a violent altercation forces Yin to flee to Hong Kong, it's not long before she ends up on the radar of the police. Without any other options, Yin makes a deal with the police to go undercover with one of their straight-laced female detectives, Hung, in order to try and bring down a notorious drug dealer nicknamed "King Kong." Victimized by the men in their lives, the two unlikely friends must team up to protect each other from the criminals out to get them and work together to get revenge on those who have betrayed them.

Women on the Run

1993

Saviour Of The Soul II poster
4.8

Ching-yan lives with his young protege Tim and an inventor referred to only as The Doctor. One day they decide to embark on a quest to the Snowy Mountain in hopes of finding a special block of ice that is said to contain the life essence of immortality. The evil Devil King also wants the ice, but Ching-yan thinks that it contains the secret to meeting a woman who appears in his dreams and attempts to keep it for himself.

Saviour Of The Soul II

1992

Thunder Ninja Kids 5: Little Kickboxer poster
5.4

A young boy learns Tae Kwon Do, not only to defeat the gangsters threatening his family, but also to defeat the man who killed his father.

Thunder Ninja Kids 5: Little Kickboxer

1991

Swordsman San Ji-Ni Appeared in the City poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Swordsman San Ji-Ni Appeared in the City

1991

The Trio Stars poster
9.0

Korean movie.

The Trio Stars

1991

Thunder Ninja Kids in the Golden Adventure poster
5.8

Three young martial artists travel to the big city to retrieve a sacred statue that was stolen by ninjas for a criminal gang.

Thunder Ninja Kids in the Golden Adventure

1992

Swordsman San Ji-Ni 2 - Swordsman San Ji-Ni Appeared At The Port poster
NR

Korean movie.

Swordsman San Ji-Ni 2 - Swordsman San Ji-Ni Appeared At The Port

1992

Venomous poster
4.0

Korean martial arts movie starring Ricky Jun and Lee In-Seop. Special guest Won Jin "The Scorpion King".

Venomous

1999

The Doofus Detective And The Twin Light Brothers poster
4.0

Miss Jin, a female detective, meets the head of a human trafficking organization in an undercover plan to destroy it. But she falls into their trap and gets caught. Jin's younger brother and two young men who both have unrequited love for Jin try to save her, but they fail due to the appearance of The Twin Light Brothersrothers. However, Detective Kim defeats The Twin Light Brothers and rescues Jin from the villain's lair.

The Doofus Detective And The Twin Light Brothers

1990

A Boy & 2 Cops - Kids Sold To The Island poster
4.0

The fists of Taekwondo boys explode on a remote uninhabited island...!! The Taekwondo demonstration team for children who came to the beach for training are caught by gangsters who travel between the beach and the island and are sold to the island. The children who woke up on the island began to live a hellish life, where they are beaten severely even for small mistakes, and even adults had to work hard and live like slaves . On the other hand, Yong-Pal, who has lost the children, searches for the children with the police, but their whereabouts becomes obscure. Then by chance he finds out that gangsters using begging children and he gives chace.

A Boy & 2 Cops - Kids Sold To The Island

1995

The Expert poster
6.0

Korean martial arts movie staring Won Jin "The Scorpion King". The background of the period was under Japanese rule in the 1930s. Japan's oppression and extortion devastated the lives of civilians, and a small number of pro-Japanese factions parasitize in the power class of Japan, and all kinds of evils are committed. The years like a tunnel of darkness when people's resentment and resistance consciousness reached their peak. The movie is about a pro-Japanese father who wants to marry his daughter Seung-hee to the son of Nomura, a skilled Japanese man. Won Jin plays a hook-handed martial arts master, out for revenge.

The Expert

1998

1980s · 9 titles

Inchon poster
3.9

Gen. Douglas MacArthur leads a Korean War campaign, and the war tests a married couple's relationship.

Inchon

1981

Manager Of The Shaolin Hall poster
6.2

Mang-wol, a master of martial arts, has doubts about the life he has led. Taking Yong, the son of Pak who he had nearly killed in a fight, Mang-wol disappears. As time passes, Mang-wol teaches Yong martial arts. Yong becomes an adult. He goes into the city to get medicine for Mang-wol. Yong runs into Nan-si, a woman of the Shaolin training hall, who takes all his gold. Yong is unable to defeat Paeng's fighting skills but Mang-wol saves him from his predicament. Paeng knows that Mang-wol is the enemy who killed Yong's father. Paeng searches out Mang-wol. Yong deceives Mang-wol and goes to see Nan-si. Yong becomes the manager of the Shaolin Hall but Paeng cruelly beats him up and Yong returns to Mang-wol. Mang-wol tells Yong the truth about his past and dies in a fight with Paeng. Yong practices the new fighting technique he's developed and fights Paeng.

Manager Of The Shaolin Hall

1982

Hitman in the Hand of Buddha poster
5.6

A country bumpkin arrives to help his brother's rice business. Things get out of hand while a rival company becomes corrupt. The bumpkin, an ace martial artist, fights off the rivals. Angered, the rivals hire a martial arts expert to fight the hero, only to get beaten up himself. The expert send his teacher to hurt the hero and succeeds. The hero is sent to a temple where he learns a new style of kung fu. Now with the skills, our hero is ready to get even.

Hitman in the Hand of Buddha

1981

Brave Trio poster
6.5

Three young martial artists travel to the big city to retrieve a sacred statue that was stolen by gangsters.

Brave Trio

1988

Sadae Shaolin Temple poster
5.7

A general goes on a search for a book that reveals the names of revolutionaries in the area, leading to a showdown at a Shaolin temple where he faces off against the revolutionaries.

Sadae Shaolin Temple

1984

Super Hong Gil-Dong 3 poster
4.0

No synopsis available yet.

Super Hong Gil-Dong 3

1989

Master Of Guangdong Hall poster
5.8

The evil Dong Won has unbeatable kicking legs and proudly travels the land proving his expertise. But when a young man loses his foster parent to Won's deadly kick, he seeks out an old drunken master to learn a way to defeat the Master of the Leg.

Master Of Guangdong Hall

1983

Park Cheol-Su's Hello Lim Guk-Jeong poster
4.0

Chun-bo and Bong-dal are members of a bandit who voluntarily claim to be Im Kek-jeong's subordinates. They didn't even know that there was a horse plaque on the clothes of the fishermen, and they were yangban and decided to play the role of a real female haenger. They perform good deeds such as scolding Tamgwan-duck for the unfair and powerless people and distributing grain to poor residents.

Park Cheol-Su's Hello Lim Guk-Jeong

1987

Imbecile 3 poster
2.0

No synopsis available yet.

Imbecile 3

1987

1970s · 2 titles

Series credits

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