Lee Yang-hee

Acting

Lee Yang-hee

Born 1965-01-03

After graduating Seoul Institute of the Arts, Yang Hee has performed in plays, musicals, TV shows, and films for over a span of 30 years. As a veteran actor in the Korean entertainment industry, his most recent notable projects include Kingdom (2019-2020) and Cicada (2020), the latter of which he has received critical acclaim for playing the leading role. Over the years, Yang Hee has come to be regarded as a highly skilled actor people recognize by face but not by name, as he has appeared as a supporting actor in the works of many prominent directors such as Lee Chang-dong and Lee Choong-Ryul. With a deep love of independent cinema, Yang Hee still finds time to appear in many indie features and short films. In fact, he has appeared in over 400 short films in just the past decade alone.

Acting credits

A Dirty Carnival poster
7.0

A small-time thug who collects debts for the local triad is torn between his criminal aspirations and his devotion to family.

A Dirty Carnival

2006

Seoul Vibe poster
6.5

Chasing speed, dreams and money, a team of drivers get involved in the slush fund investigation of a powerful figure during the 1988 Seoul Olympics.

Seoul Vibe

2022

Steel Rain poster
7.1

Amid a coup, a North Korean agent escapes south with the country's injured leader in an attempt to keep him alive and prevent a Korean war.

Steel Rain

2017

The Man Standing Next poster
7.1

When the investigation of 'Koreagate' takes place, Park Yong-gak, a former KCIA director who knows everything about the government's operations, heads to the United States in exile.

The Man Standing Next

2020

Masquerade poster
7.7

Though it places his own life in danger, a look-alike commoner secretly takes the place of a poisoned king to save his country from falling into chaos.

Masquerade

2012

Cobweb poster
6.5

In the 1970s, Director Kim is obsessed by the desire to re-shoot the ending of his completed film Cobweb, but chaos and turmoil grip the set with interference from the censorship authorities, and the complaints of actors and producers who can't understand the re-written ending. Will Kim be able to find a way through this chaos to fulfill his artistic ambitions and complete his masterpiece?

Cobweb

2023

My Secret Partner poster
5.1

A single father struggling to make his comeback as a screenwriter falls in love with one of his students. Meanwhile his son, studying to become a chef, falls in love with his teacher. Love is great for creativity, but it comes with a price.

My Secret Partner

2011

Oasis poster
7.7

A young man released from prison visits the widow of the man he killed drunk-driving and becomes infatuated with his cerebral palsy-stricken daughter.

Oasis

2002

Endless Rain poster
5.9

About a man and a woman who miss each other but cannot meet. Young-ho, a young man who took several tries to get into college, doesn't have any special goals in life, and starts exchanging letters with someone.

Endless Rain

2021

Citizen of a Kind poster
7.5

After losing her laundry store to a fire incident, a single mom Duk-hee receives a call from a bank offering a generous upfront loan so she takes it right away. But soon after, she finds out that she has become a victim of a voice phishing scheme. Devastated, Duk-hee turns to the police for help, only to be more disappointed that there is no hope of retrieving her money. At the moment of despair, Jae-min, the phisher who tricked her, rings her phone once again to tip Duk-hee off about the criminal organization that locked him up and coerced him to make voice phishing calls from China. With that call, Duk-hee makes up her mind to investigate this case for herself and take a plane to China with her friends.

Citizen of a Kind

2024

Default poster
6.8

Only one week left until South Korea will go under sovereign default. Han Shi-hyun is a leader of the monetary policy team at the Bank of Korea. and is assigned to a crisis team.

Default

2018

Phantom: The Submarine poster
5.9

Korea's first nuclear submarine and a crew with no record of existence embark on a do-or-die mission into the deep waters of the Pacific.

Phantom: The Submarine

1999

House of the Disappeared poster
7.1

After being wrongly imprisoned for murdering her husband, a woman returns to the house where the incident occurred to solve the mystery of his death.

House of the Disappeared

2017

The Apartment with Two Women poster
6.7

Su-kyung lives with her daughter Yi-jung. They don't quite get along, though. Su-kyung is too hot tempered, while Yi-jung is slow and passive. After having a fight one day, Su-kyung runs over Yi-jung, who thinks she did it on purpose. Their clash ends up in court.

The Apartment with Two Women

2022

Man on the Edge poster
6.7

A gangster is chosen to become a shaman. How can he balance his totally opposite life, between beating people and helping people. Then, his boss coincidentally hates shaman.

Man on the Edge

2013

Perfect Proposal poster
6.2

An indebted young woman gets a proposal from a handsome man to apply for work on a luxury yacht with his boss, the difficult, infirm old chairman of a large company, where they can manipulate him to get their hands on his wealth.

Perfect Proposal

2015

Red Family poster
6.1

A growing friendship with their neighbors softens the resolve of a group of North Korean spies who are posing as an ordinary South Korean family.

Red Family

2013

Double Agent poster
5.9

A North Korean diplomat defects to the South during the Cold War, but the South Koreans have their suspicions as to whether he is an actual defector or a double agent.

Double Agent

2003

Pepper poster
NR

When the Korean goddess of birth visits a maternity ward to grant a couple their son, an unforeseen ghost alters her plan.

Pepper

2018

Teatime with Mr.Park poster
NR

It is refreshing to see classic film styles in today’s movies. Seemingly normal conversations with a few elements of mystery makes the movie strange but interesting.

Teatime with Mr.Park

2022

Living Through the Same Season poster
NR

Se-hun and Jeong-i, two people who express their hearts in vastly different ways. A journey through four seasons—winter, spring, summer, autumn, and back to winter again. How will the time we shared be remembered?

Living Through the Same Season

2026

Cicada poster
7.5

Duk-bae is a seasoned Dasiraegi performer who puts on a stage play-like ritual that ushers the dead into the next life and comforts the bereaved family. His estranged daughter Su-nam comes back home with her child Flower when she hears of her grandmother’s passing after leaving Jindo 20 years ago. Flower is initially scared of her grandfather, but Duk-bae soon opens his heart to the little girl. Su-nam’s trauma kicks in whenever she hears cicadas' crying that she heard when she witnessed her mother committing suicide as a child. Finally, Duk-bae begins the last Dasiraegi of his life to save Su-nam who has been driven to the cliff of life without any hope.

Cicada

2022

Playing With Fire in Water poster
NR

Young-hoon, the lighting director of a musical, has an out-of-body experience during the intermission of his final performance before retirement. As a wandering spirit, he encounters Soyul, an actress in the show.

Playing With Fire in Water

2025

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Observer's Shell

2026