Ryoo Seung-bum

Acting

Ryoo Seung-bum

Born

1980-08-09 (46)

Place of birth

Seoul, South Korea

Known for

Acting

Credits

44 titles

Known for

Film credits

2010s · 15 titles

The Servant poster
5.7

A servant falls in love with a girl whom his master also desires. Although the girl loves the servant, she also longs to improve her station in life.

The Servant

2010

New World poster
7.4

An undercover cop has his loyalties tested when the boss of the corporate gang he's spent years infiltrating dies.

New World

2013

The Berlin File poster
6.7

When an illicit arms deal goes bad, North Korean spy Pyo Jong-seong finds himself targeted not just by the South Koreans but also his own bosses.

The Berlin File

2013

Tazza: One Eyed Jack poster
6.0

A young poker player at the top of his game joins a team led by the legendary poker player One-Eyed Jack. While successfully working on a plan to win a huge jackpot, a single mistake puts the entire team in a life-or-death situation.

Tazza: One Eyed Jack

2019

Perfect Number poster
6.7

A brilliant math teacher formulates the perfect cover-up after his neighbor murders her abusive ex-husband.

Perfect Number

2012

No Mercy poster
7.4

A forensic pathologist is about to retire in order to spend some time with his daughter. However, he is forced to continue working when his daughter is kidnapped.

No Mercy

2010

Doomsday Book poster
6.2

In 'A Brave New World', a virus brings the city to ruins and zombies flood the streets of Seoul. In 'The Heavenly Creature', a robot reaches enlightenment while working at a temple, but its creators deem this phenomenon a threat to mankind. In the final segment, 'Happy Birthday', a young girl logs onto a strange website and places an order for a new billiard ball for her father. Soon afterwards a meteor heads toward Earth and people flee to underground bomb shelters.

Doomsday Book

2012

The Unjust poster
6.6

An honest cop has to compromise with his principles when he is told to find a scapegoat for a high-profile serial killer case in exchange for a big promotion.

The Unjust

2010

The Net poster
7.4

A poor North Korean fisherman finds himself an accidental defector, and is groomed to be a spy by an ambitious South Korean military officer.

The Net

2016

Human, Space, Time and Human poster
5.6

A group of very different people set sail on an old warship. The passengers include a senator with his son, a newly-wed couple, a mysterious old man, a group of sex workers and a gang of violent criminals. At first the aggressive behaviour of the thugs and their leader is directed at the first class passengers, but then more and more indiscriminately against the rest of those on board. Rape is followed by murder and it’s not long before the first of numerous and increasingly brutal mutinies takes place.

Human, Space, Time and Human

2018

Intimate Enemies poster
5.2

Four strangers discover a bag full of money which belongs to a corrupt politician. Instead of using the money for themselves, they decide to join forces to take down corrupt conglomerates.

Intimate Enemies

2015

Over My Dead Body poster
6.5

A scientist, his friend's daughter and a con artist get entangled in a scheme to steal the body of a greedy pharmaceutical executive.

Over My Dead Body

2012

A Brave New World poster
NR

A geek is left home alone and his negligence causes the spread of a deadly contamination that infects the entire local population and turns them into flesh-eating zombies.

A Brave New World

2012

Foxy Festival poster
5.8

A bright sexy comedy about a wholesome town and four mysterious couples and their sneaky lives. It is the new work of director Lee Hae-yeong, who secured a spot as a new director with the work "Like a Virgin".

Foxy Festival

2010

The Suicide Forecast poster
6.7

An insurance agent helps a financially desperate client make his suicide look like an accident and becomes the target of a fraud investigation. To protect his career, he must visit all his remaining suicide-prone clients and talk them out of killing themselves.

The Suicide Forecast

2011

2000s · 19 titles

Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance poster
7.5

A deaf man and his girlfriend resort to desperate measures in order to fund a kidney transplant for his sister. Things go horribly wrong, and the situation spirals rapidly into a cycle of violence and revenge.

Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance

2002

Arahan poster
6.6

Sang-hwan became a cop in order to help the downtrodden, but he doesn't get much respect. All that changes when he meets the Seven Masters.

Arahan

2004

The End poster
NR

An omnibus of four episodes each of which stars four protagonists: a guy suffering from nightmares; a lady having an arranged marriage set up following a break-up with her longstanding boy friend; another guy endlessly talking to his supposed-to-be-brother, and another lady unable to meet the deadline for her translations.

The End

2009

Guns & Talks poster
6.6

Four unlikely assassins question their assignments because they genuinely care about their customers and victims. However, they attract police attention and a prosecutor is on their trail.

Guns & Talks

2001

Underground Rendezvous poster
6.0

During the 1980s, Jang-geun, the new teacher at Cheongsol Village, runs into problems during his travels. The village folk mistake Kong Young-tan, a former inmate at the government's re-education camp, as the missing teacher.

Underground Rendezvous

2007

Dachimawa Lee poster
5.9

Under Japanese imperialism, Korean national treasure Golden Buddha is stolen. More important to national security, the statue contains vital information concerning Korean freedom fighters and their whereabouts as well as their true identities. The interim Korean government appoints legendary Korean spy Agent Dachimawa Lee to recover the fabled statue and reveal the dark plot behind the theft.

Dachimawa Lee

2008

Crying Fist poster
7.3

Tae-sik, a troubled middle aged man and Sang-hwan, a troubled youth will meet in the ring with their respective mission. To change their life.

Crying Fist

2005

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

Die Bad poster
6.2

Die Bad is an inventive feature made up of four distinct episodes, each with their own style. With their criss-crossing characters and themes, they add up to a fairly comprehensive account of the causes and effects of male aggression, both tribal and individual.

Die Bad

2000

Aachi & Ssipak poster
6.3

Sometime in the future, mankind has depleted all energy and fuel sources, however they have engineered a way to use human excrement as fuel. To reward production, the government hands out extremely addictive, popsicle-like "Juicybars", which in turn also act as a laxative. Aachi and Ssipak are street hoodlums who struggle to survive by trading these bars in the black market.

Aachi & Ssipak

2006

Family Ties poster
6.3

A story of three families living different but similar lives. They always fight and quarrel, but love is the common denominator for their relationship, making people think about what families are for.

Family Ties

2006

The Beast and the Beauty poster
6.2

An unattractive guy and a beautiful blind girl are in love. But their relationship is turned upside down when she regains her eyesight and he doesn't want to show her his face.

The Beast and the Beauty

2005

Bloody Tie poster
6.2

A crystal meth dealer with a tragic past is forced to team up with a renegade cop to take down a powerful crime lord.

Bloody Tie

2006

No Blood No Tears poster
6.1

A former safecracker makes a living as a taxi driver but continues to be haunted by her past. One day she chances upon an aspiring singer, who is a spitting image of herself back in the day. Together, the two women plot to steal money from gangsters.

No Blood No Tears

2002

Conduct Zero poster
6.7

When Joong-pil, the biggest bully in his high-school by far finds himself harboring feelings for a classmate, his entire identity is thrown off balance. Suddenly his smoking, his drinking, his constant swearing and his habit of pushing underclassmen into walls don't seem like good habits anymore. Without his nastiness, who is he? He might just like this girl enough to find out, if he can figure out how.

Conduct Zero

2002

Digital Short Film Omnibus Project Twentidentity, Vol. 2 poster
NR

In order to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Korean Film Academy, 20 of the academy's former students (who are respected director's today) were invited to shoot an omnibus movie consisting of 20 short films. Overall this work was very well received by the critiques at the 17th Tokyo International Film Festival. The films include Twenty, Secrets and Lies, Looking for Sex, Race, A Runners High, Neighborhood, My Baby, It's different On Mobile Queen, At 2 O'clock and Sink & Rise.

Digital Short Film Omnibus Project Twentidentity, Vol. 2

2003

Dachimawa Lee poster
8.5

Hwa-nyeo and Chung-nyeo, two country girls who have come to Seoul with big dreams. They are thrilled just to see the wondrous Seoul landscape, but a group of thugs, including Shanghai Park, appears before them. Just as they face a terrible fate, a man by the name of Dachimawa Lee appears like a comet. He suavely fights off the thugs and rescues Hwa-nyeo and Chung-nyeo. The two girls become infatuated with his manly image, and Hwa-nyeo and Dachimawa Lee fall in love. Meanwhile, the head of the thugs, the Nameless Man of the East, hears that his underlings have been harshly beaten and decides to make Dachimawa Lee pay. Finally, there is a battle between Dachimawa Lee and the gang of the Nameless Man of the East.

Dachimawa Lee

2000

Radio Dayz poster
6.4

In April 1933, Korea’s Japanese occupiers launched the country’s first radio station, JODK. It broadcasts propaganda so as to better brainwash the Korean people into becoming loyal Japanese citizens. In need of a Korean producer for a radio drama about the greatness of Japan’s Asian Empire, they appoint Lloyd Park, a young man who has only joined the radio station through his father’s connections.

Radio Dayz

2008

No Comment poster
6.7

3 short movies: "Enemies in Four Directions": A bunch of thugs, an assassin who uses a screwdriver as a weapon of choice, a young gigolo and his housewife "customer," and other motley crew of guests converge in a hotel, creating havoc for one another through a series of misunderstandings and identity confusions. "My Nike": In contrast, is a modest, gentle but savvy evocation of an urban lower-middle class family life in 1980s Korea. The chapter is told from the point of view of a 14 yo junior high school student whose greatest desire in the world is to own a pair of Nike sneakers. "The Church Sister": Stars Kim Il-yong as a young soldier on a vacation leave. He is secretly in love with the friendly and beautiful "big sister" from the Sunday school, whom he has known since childhood. They go see a movie, eat lunch together, walk around the neighbourhood aimlessly, waiting for the train to carry him off to the barracks. Will he confess his true feelings to her in time?

No Comment

2002

Series credits

You Quiz on the Block poster
8.3

Yoo Jae-suk and Jo Se-ho who enter ordinary people's everyday lives, chat with them, and give them surprise quizzes! The talk and quiz show program will spotlight these people's lives and aims to gift them a refreshing, different kind of day. Recently they're also inviting celebrities & professionals to the show.

You Quiz on the Block

2018

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

Splendid Days poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Splendid Days

2001

Family Matters poster
8.0

A group of people with supernatural powers form a surrogate family to protect themselves from a criminal syndicate.

Family Matters

2024

고독 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

고독

2002

Shining Days poster
4.5

Yeon Woo grew up happy in a loving family. One day, her father had died mysteriously, and her mother remarried a man who was 10 years younger than her. Misfortunes never come singly. Her mother died of Wilson’s disease and her step-father ran away with money. Min Ho, an old friend of hers, is always there to comforther. Min Ho decided to be a policeman to catch a murderer who killed Yeon Woo’s father. Eun Sup came back to Korea with the sole purpose of stopping his lover Soo Ah from getting married, but Soo Ah gave him an outright denial. To make matter wose, his father sent people over to his hotel to catch him. He ran away from the hotel and he accidentally fell into the subway track and became unconscious. Yeon Woo saw the whole scene in the platform and saved his life. Eun Sup asked her if he could stay in her place temporarily since he had no place to go. So Yeon Woo, Min Ho and Eun Sup all started living in a same house.

Shining Days

2004

Summer Days poster
4.0

This is about how three people crossing fates come together on a summer day.

Summer Days

2008

The Dealer poster
NR

Brilliant casino dealer Geon-Hwa's wedding plans suddenly fall apart, forcing her to unleash her long-hidden powers and plunge into the dangerous world of gambling in order to successfully make it down the aisle.

The Dealer

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