Shin Gu

Acting

Shin Gu

Born

1936-08-13 (90)

Place of birth

Seoul, South Korea

Known for

Acting

Credits

70 titles

Shin Gu (신구), born Shin Soon-gi (신순기), is a South Korean actor.

Known for

Film credits

2010s · 9 titles

Shoot Me in the Heart poster
7.7

After a young man is forcibly institutionalized, he plans to break out – bringing formerly-passive fellow resident along for the ride!

Shoot Me in the Heart

2015

Forbidden Dream poster
7.1

A true historical drama about King Sejong, the greatest ruler in Joseon history who sought to enhance national prosperity and military power through astronomy, and Jang Yeong-sil, the most remarkable scientist.

Forbidden Dream

2019

Bluebeard poster
6.7

A doctor finds himself in the middle of an unsolved serial murder case after discovering a secret from a sedated patient. When dismembered bodies show up close to home, he must solve the riddle before the killer realizes what he knows.

Bluebeard

2017

The Con Artists poster
6.9

A wily safecracker is forced to help a mob boss pull off a $150 million heist, but smells a double-cross in the works.

The Con Artists

2014

Daddy You, Daughter Me poster
7.1

Sangtae and his teenage daughter Doyeon are constantly arguing and haven't had a genuine conversation in years. When their souls are switched by a magical force for seven days, they must learn to tackle the awkward and unfamiliar situation in each other's shoes.

Daddy You, Daughter Me

2017

Be-Bop-A-Lula poster
8.3

Old age is an inevitable future for every human being. But these four old men are not willing to succumb to time or the younger generations; they are ready to make their own decisions and overcome any obstacle. They try to live the rest of their lives to the fullest and achieve life goals.

Be-Bop-A-Lula

2018

Proof of Innocence poster
7.8

A disgraced ex-cop, seeking revenge on his treacherous ex-partner, sticks his nose into a high-profile murder case. But in the process, he finds himself in conflict with much more powerful and dangerous forces.

Proof of Innocence

2016

The First Shot poster
7.8

Jo Dal-hwan plays Lee Ho-yeon, a salesman from a pharmaceutical company who is very people-shy.

The First Shot

2019

The Language of Love poster
NR

'The Language of Love’ is one of the two movie projects starring the boy band group, Supernova as the leads. In-Ha (Jin Se-Yun) used to be a popular singer. She is now blind and has closed her to mind to the world. Tae-Oh (Sung-Mo) is mute. He works tuning pianos. In-Ha takes a walk every morning. Tae-Oh (Sung-Mo) plays a piano for her when when she passes by.

The Language of Love

2014

2000s · 12 titles

Natural City poster
5.4

Two cops, R and Noma, hunt down renegade cyborgs. Cyborgs are used as commandos by the military, as lust objects and for companionship. Normaly they have a limited lifespan of three years but black market technology is being developed to be able to transfer a cyborg's artificial intelligence into human host. This drives R to find a suitable host for his expiring cyborg Ria.

Natural City

2003

The Foul King poster
6.9

Dae-ho is a timid, unproductive, constantly harassed bank clerk. He starts secretly wrestling and adopts the persona of the cheating villain wrestler "The Foul King". He starts to stand up for himself but things soon start to get out of hand.

The Foul King

2000

2009: Lost Memories poster
6.2

A failed assassination attempt in Harbin, China in 1909 changes the course of history. Now two JBI agents must find the connections between it and an ancient Korean artifact.

2009: Lost Memories

2002

Modern Boy poster
6.8

During the Japanese occupation, a Korean modern boy, who wants to fit in with the Japanese, falls in love with a Korean freedom fighter.

Modern Boy

2008

Heaven's Postman poster
6.8

Jae-jun delivers letters to heaven from those who can't get over the loss of their loved ones. One day Ha-na, who writes to her late boyfriend, discovers Jae-jun's secret identity. He offers her a part-time job assisting him, and they set off on a 14-day journey.

Heaven's Postman

2009

Going by the Book poster
7.4

The chief of Sampo City Police Office, Seung-u, organizes a simulation of a bank robbery, but a by-the-book cop gets too caught up in the role playing in which the simulation doesn't go the way he had anticipated.

Going by the Book

2007

Murder, Take One poster
6.5

A woman is killed in a hotel room. The ensuing police investigation is conducted in front of TV cameras for the entire country to watch as it unfolds.

Murder, Take One

2005

YMCA Baseball Team poster
6.3

Ho-chang accidentally sees missionaries and Jeong-rim play baseball at the YMCA hall. He falls in love with Jeong-rim, and takes interest in baseball. As a result, he gathers people to form the first YMCA baseball team of Joseon.

YMCA Baseball Team

2002

Righteous Ties poster
6.4

After learning his boss betrayed him, a mob lackey plans to break out of prison and take revenge.

Righteous Ties

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

A Bold Family poster
6.2

Discovering that the father, who was displaced from the North Korea, made a will to his lawyer that unless the two-divided Korea become unified, his veiled property is to be veiled property is to be donated to the country after his death, the whole family decided to fool their father into thinking that the unification is finally realized. However, their bold play doesn’t go smoothly always...

A Bold Family

2005

Cherry Tomato poster
5.0

Park-Goo makes a living for himself and his granddaughter Da-Sung by collecting recyclables on the street. Their situation becomes worse when his son is released from prison and steals Park's savings, and his bicycle-drawn cart ― his only tool for making money ― is destroyed by construction workers. Park visits the house of the construction company's head, where he ends up trying to steal meat for his hungry granddaughter. But the meat, which was for the owner's dog, had been poisoned by the housekeeper, who doesn't like her boss.

Cherry Tomato

2008

1990s · 5 titles

1980s · 3 titles

Applause poster
10.0

Na-young is a Korean-American college student. Staying with her uncle in Korea, Na-young is forced to learn Korean dances, Korean traditional songs, and sewing from her aunt. Unable to bear it any longer, Na-young leaves her uncle's home. In a music salon, she meets Hyung-rok and his band. Hyung-rok is a singer and a college student. Na-young learns of love and friendship from them. When the music salon is closed down, Hyung-rok and his band decide to enter the college song contest to reopen the salon. Despite old instruments and hunger, the band wins the contest with Na-young's help. Na-young learns of how precious her home country is through Hyung-rok and his band. She asks her uncle to build a fancy music salon. Leaving behind love and friendship, Na-young returns to America.

Applause

1982

The Whereabouts of Eve poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Whereabouts of Eve

1982

No artwork available
NR

Je-je's father was working at the Gu-ro Industrial Complex when he caused an accident and was subsequently fired. As his family falls into hardship, Je-je doesn't receive much love or interest from his parents. One day, the family moves to a house in the forest protection zone. When he fools around, Je-je is scolded and he would whine to the tree in the backyard. He is still mischievous when he enters the elementary school. One day, Je-je is picking flowers in the neighbor's yard when he is caught. He hurts himself as he is running away. As injured Je-je goes to school, the Japanese dean, Mudoa helps him and they become friends. He learns about love from Mudoa but she dies in a car crash. From the shock, Je-je lingers between life and death. He finally recovers and the family smiles again. Je-je keeps the love in his heart despite the bitterness and becomes strong.

My Friend, Je-Je

1989

1970s · 7 titles

You Become a Star, Too poster
10.0

A butterfly flies from the mountain to the city. Sang-Kyu, who works in a company, buys a house in the suburbs and lives with his wife and daughter, Yun-Jeong. But Yun-Jeong becomes a somnambulist because of the illusion of a butterfly flying to the house. Sang-Kyu happens to know Mi-Wu, a singer, who loves Song Cheol-Ho but wanders in her life after his death. On the other hand, Yun-Jeong regains her consciousness with the help of an English psychicist and a nun. After Sang-Kyu has a sex with Mi-Wu, he falls out of the window and loses his consciousness. As she feels affection for Sang-Kyu, Mi-Wu becomes a butterfly in the soul world and leaves him.

You Become a Star, Too

1975

Transgression poster
6.3

Chim-Ae, an orphan, is saved by an old monk of Seo San Temple, Mu Bul Dang while he is wandering in war fires. Then he enters the priesthood and trains himself a mountaineering asceticism. When he becomes an eminent young priest, the last trial to receive the mantle of the preceding abbot applies on him. The old monk sends the fairest of the fair, Myo-Hyang of cottage Ni Am to Chim-Ae to form a connection with her. But Chim-Ae quickly removes his earthly desires towards woman and goes through this hardship by fasting meditation. However the old monk recognizes that love sprouted between two youngsters and shows Chim-Ae the face of transgression which he mentally violated without hesitation to make Chim-Ae and Myo-Hyang go back to mundane existence.

Transgression

1974

Never Never Forget Me poster
7.0

Yeong-su and Jeong-ah experience many problems as their budding romance defies the strict rules of the co-ed highschool they attend. After graduation when it looks like they can be free to live their own lives, Yeong-su joins the military and their relationship will never be the same.

Never Never Forget Me

1976

Blue Days poster
8.0

A woman refuses to give into her fiance's desire that she take a job as a secretary in his father's office. Instead she eventually decides to try to make a life for herself with fatal results.

Blue Days

1976

Rocking Horse And A Girl poster
10.0

Sang-gyu is a baseball player suffering from a batting slump. His unlucky streak ends when he meets a girl who is dying of anemia.

Rocking Horse And A Girl

1976

Ecstasy poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ecstasy

1974

Love In The Rain poster
7.0

One rainy day, a young auto-repair shop worker, Cheol, falls in love with the housemaid of a rich family, Young-hee. Cheol lies to her that he is a college student, and she also conceals what she does.

Love In The Rain

1975

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

The Clinic for Married Couples: Love and War poster
NR

The Clinic for Married Couples: Love and War, aka Husbands and Wives: Love or War, is a South Korean TV program.

The Clinic for Married Couples: Love and War

1999

Nattering with Nah poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Nattering with Nah

2023

My Mister poster
8.5

In a world that is less than kind, a young woman and a middle-aged man develop a sense of kinship as they find warmth and comfort in one another.

My Mister

2018

웬만해선 그들을 막을 수 없다 poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

웬만해선 그들을 막을 수 없다

2000

Kimchi Cheese Smile poster
5.0

Kimchi Cheese Smile (Korean: 김치 치즈 스마일; RR: Kimchi Chiseu Seumail) is a South Korean sitcom revolving around the life of a kimchi-like (having a popular & conservative thought) family headed by Shin Goo who are to become in-laws with Sunwoo Eun-sook's cheese-like (rich & stylish class) family. With contrasting classes and family values, the sitcom follows these two families through various events of their lives.

Kimchi Cheese Smile

2007

Kairos poster
6.3

Kim Seo-Jin is a man who is driven only to achieve success in his life. Thanks to his efforts, he is the youngest executive at his company. His life is perfect, with his beautiful violinist wife Kang Hyun-Chae and a daughter. His wonderful life comes to a halt when his young daughter is kidnapped. He falls deep into despair. To change the past, when his daughter was kidnapped, he contacts Han Ae-Ri approximately one month in the past. Han Ae-Ri has busy days with her studies and working a part-time job to make enough money to pay for her sick mother's operation. One day, her mother suddenly goes missing. Han Ae-Ri falls into despair, when Kim Seo-Jin from the future contacts her.

Kairos

2020

The Sound of Your Heart poster
7.8

Comedy following Cho Seok's ridiculous but hilarious adventures with his girlfriend-turned-wife Ae Bong, their dogs, older brother Jo Joon, and parents. Based on the popular webtoon series of the same name.

The Sound of Your Heart

2016

The Gentlemen of Wolgyesu Tailor Shop poster
6.8

Depicts the trials and tribulations of four men who work at Laurel Tree Tailor Shop.

The Gentlemen of Wolgyesu Tailor Shop

2016

Three Meals a Day: Jeongseon Village poster
7.4

Celebrities are chosen to live for three days a week in a rural setting. They are required to use their own means to find food for and prepare three meals a day.

Three Meals a Day: Jeongseon Village

2014

A Hundred Year Legacy poster
5.5

A warm-hearted family drama about a three-generation family and their noodle factory that they operate in the outskirts of Seoul.

A Hundred Year Legacy

2013

Grandpas Over Flowers poster
9.2

Grandpas Over Flowers is a South Korean travel-reality show that airs on tvN. It stars four veteran actors in their seventies— Lee Soon-jae, Shin Goo, Park Geun-hyung and Baek Il-seob — as they go on a backpacking tour to overseas travel destinations alongside Lee Seo-jin, an actor in his forties. Grandpas Over Flowers became a cultural phenomenon, receiving high ratings for a Korean cable program and spawning several spin-offs and remakes.

Grandpas Over Flowers

2013

Dear My Friends poster
7.5

Life is ever-delightful — and ever-challenging — for a group of friends in their twilight years as they rediscover themselves through love and family.

Dear My Friends

2016

Heartstrings poster
7.2

Lee Gyu Won is the daughter of one of the top three maestros of pansori and is also a gayageum protégé herself. Following her grandfather’s wishes for her to study the gayageum, she enrolls as a major of gugak, or traditional Korean music. Lee Shin is unfriendly, yet a clever student in the Applied Music Department who also is the famed vocalist and talented guitarist of the handsome band named The Stupid. With charming looks equal to those of a handsome character in a romance comic and a cold, taciturn personality, he thinks gugak is boring and belittles it. As the vocalist Lee Shin and Gayageum Protégé Lee Gyu Won passionately confront each other to champion their respective music, they soon fall in love.

Heartstrings

2011

The Empire Of Law poster
4.6

Depicts the vulgar scandals of Korea’s nobles of the robe (whose rank came from holding judicial or administrative posts) who dream of hereditary succession. Han Hye Ryul is the chief of the special division of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office. Han Hye Ryul is from a family of judicial workers who has had wealth and power for three generations. She is an ambitious figure who is not satisfied with her current position and aims to become a prosecutor general or someone higher up the ladder.

The Empire Of Law

2022

No artwork available
NR

Han Sang Jin is married to Kim Na Young and they have a 7 year old daughter, Min Joo. They live with his mom, younger brother, younger sister, and sister's daughter. One day, Sang Jin vanishes while on a business trip. He remains missing for over 7 years until one day he is spotted by his college friend, Nam Hyun Pil, at a ski resort. Min Joo, now 15, sees him as well but she just thinks he looks like her dad. Hyun Pil begins digging and finds out that the man is called Min Young Tae. Young Tae is married to Hyun Ja and they have a 3 year old son, Ung Pyo. Hyun Ja doesn't care about that all she knows is that he's her husband and the father of her child. Hyun Pil makes the hard decision to tell the truth to Na Young, to whom he's just proposed. The question is now which man will he live as, Han Sang Jin or Min Young Tae, since each man has a different wife.

Wife

2003

Family's Honor poster
7.0

Family's Honor is a South Korean television series starring Yoon Jung-hee, Park Si-hoo, Jeon No-min, Kim Sung-min, Shin Da-eun, Jeon Hye-jin, and Maya. It aired on SBS from October 11, 2008 to April 19, 2009 on Saturdays and Sundays at 21:55 for 54 episodes. With its strong focus on family traditions and values, the series revolves around the tangled and less than perfect lives of the illustrious Ha family. It centers on the filial granddaughter of the Ha household, played by Yoon Jung-hee. Writer Jung Ji-woo said, "I wanted to write a story about a very backward woman. I wanted to see how a woman who cannot speak up for herself and likes to sew could survive in modern society." Director Park Young-soo added that, "I wanted to revive the significance of our dying traditions. I worked hard to capture that."

Family's Honor

2008

Youn's Kitchen poster
8.9

Follow the cast in their journey to Gili Trawangan, a tropical island in Indonesia, where they open a pop-up restaurant for 10 days. Viewers can see the heartwarming struggles the actors go through to start their business, enjoy the gorgeous island backdrop, and laugh at the humorous situations that arise throughout the show.

Youn's Kitchen

2017

God's Gift - 14 Days poster
7.8

Kim Soo Hyun experiences the unfathomable when her daughter is kidnapped and murdered. Discovering a miraculous ability to go back in time exactly two weeks before the event, Soo Hyun races against the clock to unravel the plot and save her daughter. But when a private investigator sheds new light on the crime, Soo Hyun uncovers a secret far more treacherous than she could have ever imagined.

God's Gift - 14 Days

2014

I'm Sorry, I Love You poster
7.9

Cha Moo Hyuk is a man who was adopted by an Australian family but treated cruelly and then abandoned at a young age. By chance, he meets Song Eun Chae, a fashion coordinator dedicated to her employer, singer Choi Yune. Their meeting will have implications for the rest of Cha Moo Hyuk's life as a devastating turn of events leads him to delve into his past, and ultimately find happiness.

I'm Sorry, I Love You

2004

School poster
NR

School is a drama series that deals with realistic issues South Korean teenagers faced in high school in the late 1990's.

School

1999

Money's Warfare poster
7.2

War of Money is a 2007 South Korean television drama series adaptation of Park In-kwon's comic of the same name. Starring Park Shin-yang and Park Jin-hee, it aired on SBS from May 16 to July 19, 2007 on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55 for 20 episodes. Originally scheduled for 16 episodes, due to its popularity it was extended to 20, but only Park Shin-yang starred in the four-episode "bonus round."

Money's Warfare

2007

Ruler of Your Own World poster
9.0

Ruler of Your Own World is an MBC Korean drama series. It was written by In Jung-ok and directed by Park Sung-soo.

Ruler of Your Own World

2002

Eighteen, Twenty-Nine poster
7.6

Yu Hye Chan is 29 years old. Hye Chan is married to Kang Bong Man who is her old classmate in high school whom she despised and hated but later fell for. The story opens with her decision to get a divorce. She has a car accident on the way to the courthouse. When she wakes up at the hospital, she has no memory of her life past age 18. Her husband tries to support her since she is basically helpless now. As she recovers her memory, she also starts to recover a relationship with her husband and begins to fall for him all over again.

Eighteen, Twenty-Nine

2005

Thank You poster
8.2

Gi Seo is a renowned doctor at the top of his profession, but he’s racked with guilt because he wasn’t able to save his girlfriend, Ji Min, who was HIV-positive. He escapes to work on a small island and fulfill Ji Min’s dying wish: to find a little girl named Bom who she accidentally infected with HIV while she was a medical intern. Bom lives on the island with her single mom Young Shin and grandfather, who has dementia. Gi Seo grows increasingly fond of the family and finds a reason to live again, discovering beautiful miracles on the island.

Thank You

2007

Someday poster
7.0

Someday is about four different people's story about love. Hana Yamaguchi (Bae Doo-Na) was a successful young cartoonist in Japan. Abandoned by her parents and brought up by her grandma, she was cold and aloof and did not believe in love which to her was only a simple biological response. When the elderly neighbourhood street sweeper died, she discovered the affection between him and her neighbour which lasted 60 years. Hana could not understand this kind of love, so she decided to trace her neighbour's footstep to Korea when she disappeared with her lover's ashes. Go Jin Pyo (Kim Min Joon) was a doctor who was a comic book fan of Hana. He was overjoyed in meeting Hana and believed that he was in love for the first time in his life. He decided to help Hana in fulfilling her wish to look for her neighbour and enlisted the help of a private eye, Lee Seok Man (Lee Jin Wook).Lee was the sole survivor of a car accident whereby his parents and brother were killed. He carried a lot of guilt towards the parents of the other victim and did his best to help out even at the expense of owing money to the loan sharks. Hye Young (Oh Yoon Ah) was a PD of animation projects and a close friend of Jin Pyo. she didn't realize that she was in love with him till Hana appeared.

Someday

2006

Ms. Kim’s Million Dollar Quest poster
6.0

On her wedding day, Kim Eun Jae is left standing at the altar by her groom, Yoo Young Hoon, for wealthy Suh Woo Kyung. Her wedding photographer, Park Moo Yeol, is a rich playboy who helps Eun Jae avoid embarrassment by pretending to be her husband. Soon after Moo Yeol's family goes bankrupt. The family home will be sold if he can't come up with money quick. Eun Jae meanwhile is convinced that if she becomes wealthy, Young Hoon will come back to her. Eun Jae and Moo Yeol decide to join forces. They move in together and invest in moneymaking schemes one after the other. Making money, unfortunately, isn't as easy as they had hoped. As outside forces (and Woo Kyung) line up against them, the two begin to realize that though they may be unlucky in money, they are very lucky in love.

Ms. Kim’s Million Dollar Quest

2004

Dance of Breaking Sky poster
NR

Drama about Sejo's ousting and murder of King Danjong. Was cancelled early as the story too closely resembled contemporary politics at the time.

Dance of Breaking Sky

1980

Amnok River Flows poster
4.0

This drama portrays the turbulent life of Lee Mi Reuk, a Korean expatriate who fought for the freedom of his country while studying medicine in Tokyo, during the period when Korea was under Japanese colonial rule. He fled to China and eventually settled in Germany.

Amnok River Flows

2008

After the Rain poster
4.0

This is a drama about Bong Gil who is forty, single and dying to move to Seoul and away from his 90-year-old father who’s been making Pyeongyang Naengmyun for the past 70, lonely years.

After the Rain

2018

The Royal Road poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Royal Road

1991

Ambergris poster
7.0

It is the year 2053, all of humanity now enjoys the fruits of the advances in science and technology. However, there is 'one thing' the human race yet fails to resolve, and this problem has driven all society into a state of gloom and despair. A girl reminiscent of her childhood, a newscaster longing escape from his mundane life and the Artificial Intelligence that accompanies them set out on a journey. Why have they struggled to the edge of land? What has drawn them to the sea?

Ambergris

2018