Cinematography: Kim Woo-hyung

The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Kim Woo-hyung. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.


1987: When the Day Comes

2017 · Movie · 129 min. · South Korea

Direction Jang Joon-hwan

Cast Kim Yoon-seok · Ha Jung-woo · Yoo Hae-jin · Kim Tae-ri

Synopsis In 1987 Korea, under an oppressive military regime, a college student gets killed during a police interrogation involving torture. Government officials are quick to cover up the death and order the body to be cremated. A prosecutor who is supposed...

7.2

380 votes

7.2

380 votes

No Mercy

2010 · Movie · 123 min. · South Korea

Direction Kim Hyeong-joon

Cast Sul Kyoung-gu · Hye-jin Han · Kyung-eub Nam · Sang-wook Park

Synopsis Forensic pathologist Kang (Seol Kyeong-gu) is assigned to examine the dismembered corpse of a female murder victim. Detective Min (Han Hye-jin) points to a fanatic environmentalist, Lee Sung-ho (Ryoo Seung-beom), as the primary suspect. But when Kang’s daughter is kidnapped,...

7.1

1K votes

7.1

1K votes

The Front Line (Battle of Highlands)

2011 · Movie · 133 min. · South Korea

Direction Jang Hoon

Cast Shin Ha-kyun · Go Soo · Ryu Seung-soo · Ko Chang-seok

Synopsis Towards the end of the Korean War an uneasy ceasefire is ordered, but out on the Eastern front line of the Aerok Hills fierce fighting continues. A race to capture a strategic point to determine a new border between the...

6.9

323 votes

6.9

323 votes

Direction Park Chan-wook

Cast Florence Pugh · Alexander Skarsgård · Michael Shannon · Clare Holman

Synopsis TV Miniseries (2018). 6 Episodes. This miniseries adaptation of John Le Carré novel centers on an actress (Florence Pugh) in the late ’70s who becomes embroiled in a plot involving a mysterious stranger Khalil (Alexander Skarsgård) and a controlling spy...

6.8

2K votes

6.8

2K votes

Voice of a Murderer

2007 · Movie · 122 min. · South Korea

Direction Park Jin-pyo

Cast Sul Kyoung-gu · Nam-ju Kim · Gang Dong-won · Kim Yeong-cheol

Synopsis One day, the only son of famous news anchor, HAN Kyung-bae, disappeared without a trace. Soon, the kidnapper calls the nine-year-old boy's mother, OH Jisun, demanding $100,000 as ransom. The police assign veteran detective KIM Wook-jung to the case and...

6.6

120 votes

6.6

120 votes

Cart

2014 · Movie · 110 min. · South Korea

Direction Boo Ji-young

Cast Yum Jung-ah · Moon Jung-hee · Kim Yeong-ae · Ji Woo

Synopsis Some female employees of a Korean hypermarket are suddenly side-lined by the management. In an environment in which the customer is always right and the staff subservient, these women - against all expectations - fight back. The man, or in...

6.6

74 votes

6.6

74 votes

Happy End

1999 · Movie · 99 min. · South Korea

Direction Jung Ji-woo

Cast Choi Min-sik · Jeon Do-yeon · Joo Jin-mo · Woo Hyeon

Synopsis A provocative drama that caused a storm of controversy in its native Korea. A recently laid-off man has trouble dealing with being unemployed. Depressed and unable to find another job, he feels that his career-oriented wife has lost interest in...

6.6

45 votes

6.6

45 votes

The President's Last Bang

2005 · Movie · 102 min. · South Korea

Direction Im Sang-soo

Cast Song Jae-ho · Han Seok-gyu · Baek Yoon-sik · Jung Won-joong

Synopsis On October 26, 1979, President Park Chung Hee, who had ruled South Korea since a 1961 coup, was assassinated by Kim Jae Kyu, his director of intelligence. The film depicts the events of that night, with a coda about the...

6.4

40 votes

6.4

40 votes

Assassination

2015 · Movie · 140 min. · South Korea

Direction Choi Dong-hoon

Cast Jun Ji-hyun · Lee Jung-jae · Ha Jung-woo · Choi Duek-mun

Synopsis Korea in the year 1933, the country is occupied by the Japanese army. Many warriors of the resistance where forced into the exile in China. Now they are trying to organize the fight from the distance. Now the resistance has...

6.4

788 votes

6.4

788 votes

Late Autumn

2010 · Movie · 115 min. · South Korea

6.3

72 votes

6.3

72 votes

The Old Garden

2006 · Movie · 112 min. · South Korea

Direction Im Sang-soo

Cast Ji Jin-hee · Youn Yuh-jung · Yum Jung-ah · Yu-ri Kim

Synopsis The 80s in a South Korea under repressive dictatorship that reads spy infiltrated by the communists from the North into every rebellious student. Hyun-woo escapes Kwangju during the uprising, stealing his way to a mountain village where he is given...

6.3

52 votes

6.3

52 votes

Paju

2009 · Movie · 110 min. · South Korea

Direction Park Chan-Ok

Cast Lee Seon-gyun · Jeong Man-shik · Kim Han-Joon · Woo Seo

Synopsis Paju, is the name of a place everyone has heard of but don't really know. There, we see a man sharing the lot of the neglected, and the women surrounding him. Bearing the paradox of liaison in the name of...

5.8

80 votes

5.8

80 votes

Cyrano Agency

2010 · Movie · 117 min. · South Korea

Direction Kim Hyun-seok

Cast Uhm Tae-woon · Lee Min-jeong · Park Shin-hye · Daniel Choi

Synopsis The Cyrano Agency helps people who can't date to have a love life. The agency helps the client by moving together as an organization and having secret missions. One day, the agency's representative Byeong-hoon meets an unpredictable client. He has...

5.6

81 votes

5.6

81 votes

Life is But a Dream (S)

2022 · Movie · 22 min. · South Korea

Direction Park Chan-wook

Cast Kim Ok-bin · Park Jung-min · Woo Sang-gi · Kwon Ji-hoon

Synopsis An undertaker who needs woods to build a coffin for the savior of his village digs up an abandoned grave. But while doing so, he accidentally awakens the ghost of an ancient swordsman. Now the ghost tries to take back...

5.5

31 votes

5.5

31 votes

A Good Lawyer's Wife

2003 · Movie · 105 min. · South Korea

Direction Im Sang-soo

Cast Moon So-ri · Kim In-mun · Hwang Jung-min · Youn Yuh-jung

Synopsis The story involves dancer Ho-jeong (Mun So-Ri), wife of the unfaithful Yeong-jak (Hwang Jeong-min) and mother to a seven-year-old son. She meets a teenage boy and named Ji-un (Bong Tae-gyu) and the two share an intimate friendship despite their age...

5.3

412 votes

5.3

412 votes

The Warrior's Way

2010 · Movie · 100 min. · New Zealand

Direction Sngmoo Lee

Cast Kate Bosworth · Danny Huston · Geoffrey Rush · Tony Cox

Synopsis An Asian warrior assassin finds peace, contentment and perhaps love in a forgotten western town on the edge of the desert but is then faced with...?

5.3

2K votes

5.3

2K votes

The Taste of Money

2012 · Movie · 114 min. · South Korea

Direction Im Sang-soo

Cast Kim Kang-woo · Youn Yuh-jung · Baek Yoon-sik · Kim Hyo-jin

Synopsis Young-jak who is a private secretary of madam Baek, the center power of Korean conglomerate, deals with immoral private issues of her wealthy family. He reports to madam Baek that her husband, Mr. Yoon is having an affair with a...

5.2

105 votes

5.2

105 votes

Lies

1999 · Movie · 115 min. · South Korea

Direction Jang Sun-woo

Cast Lee Sang Hyun · Kim Tae Yeon · Jeon Hye-jin · Choi Hyun Joo

Synopsis A conscious exploration of fantasy and flesh. The director talks about the novel upon which the film is based, we see the crew at work, the actors talk about what's going on. Y, a schoolgirl of 18, chooses her first...

4.6

410 votes

4.6

410 votes

Resurrection of the Little Match Girl

2002 · Movie · 123 min. · South Korea

Direction Jang Sun-woo

Cast Eun-kyeong Lim · Hyun-sung Kim · Jin-pyo Kim · Sing Jin

Synopsis To Chinese restaurant delivery boy 'Ju', the only joy in life is spending time at the electronic game room. One day, 'Ju' who was engrossed in an electronic game as usual, is advised to log-on to a game called RESURRECTION...

4.6

131 votes

4.6

131 votes

The King of Kings

2025 · Movie · South Korea

Direction Seong-ho Jang

Cast Kenneth Branagh · Uma Thurman · Mark Hamill · Pierce Brosnan

Synopsis The story of JesusChrist as told by Charles Dickens and seen through the innocent eyes of a child. Renowned storyteller Charles Dickens finds it challenging to bond with his imaginative son, Walter, amidst his busy career. After Walter disrupts one...

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