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Song Kang-ho
Song Kang-ho is a leading South Korean film actor.
He was born January 17, 1967 in Gimhae (South Korea).
A graduate of Busan Kyungsang College, he started his career in theatre groups without professional training as an actor. He made his stage premiere in 1991, in the play Dongseung.
In 1996 Song started appearing in film roles and his 1997 part in No. 3, as a gangster training a group of recruits, won him his first acting award, at the Blue Dragon Film Awards. Song's cachet rose with his high-profile supporting role in the 1999 box-office hit Shiri.
In 2000, Song received his first leading roles as a wrestler in The Foul King and as a North Korean sergeant in Joint Security Area.
In recent years he has received critical acclaim for his portrayals of a vengeful father in Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002); an incompetent rural detective in Memories Of Murder (2003); a barber who dotes on his only son in The President's Barber (2004); and a semi-intelligent but doting father in the The Host (2006). He won Best Actor in the 2007 Asian Film Awards.
He plays the lead role as Priest Sang-hyeon in Chan-wook Park's film Thirst 2009 (aka Bakjwi).
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Thirst
(2009)
Starring: Song Kang-ho, Song Kang-ho, Shin Ha-Kyun
Director: Park Chan-Wook, Chan-Wook Park
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Sang-hyun is a priest who cherishes life; so much so, that he selflessly volunteers for a secret vaccine development project meant to eradicate a deadly virus. But, the virus takes the priest, and a blood transfusion is urgently ordered up for him. The blood he receives is infected, so Sang-hyun ..read more »
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Due for release on 25th January 2010
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Secret Sunshine
(2007)
Starring: Do-yeon Jeon, Song Kang-ho
Director: Chang-dong Lee
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Sin-ae moves with her son Jun to Miryang, the town where her dead husband was born. As she tries to come to herself and set out on new foundations, another tragic event overturns her life.
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62%
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The Host
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Song Kang-ho, Bae Du-na, Bae Du-Na
Director: Bong Joon-ho
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The Park family seem to lead a quite ordinary and peaceful life; well, maybe a little poorer than the average Seoul citizens. Park Hee-bong (played by Byun Hee-bong) is a man in his late 60s running a small snack bar on the banks of the Seoul's Han River and, living with his two sons, daughter and ..read more »
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61%
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Host, The - BLU-RAY Version
(2006)
Starring: Song Kang-ho, Bae Du-na, Bae Du-Na
Director: Bong Joon-ho
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Selling his wares to passers by along Seoul's Han River, life is peaceful for a small-time snack bar owner and his dim-witted son. However, the tranquillity of their day-to-day lives is shattered when a mutant creature emerges from the depths of the Han and embarks on a blood-thirsty rampage. While ..read more »
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58%
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Host, The - HD DVD Version
(2006)
Starring: Song Kang-ho, Bae Du-na, Bae Du-Na
Director: Bong Joon-ho
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Selling his wares to passers by along Seoul's Han River, life is peaceful for a small-time snack bar owner and his dim-witted son. However, the tranquillity of their day-to-day lives is shattered when a mutant creature emerges from the depths of the Han and embarks on a blood-thirsty rampage. While ..read more »
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59%
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Shiri
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Han Suk-Kyu, Choe Min-Sik, Song Kang-ho
Director: Jacky Kang, Je-gyu Kang
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In 1992, Hee was trained by a secret North Korean terrorist organisation to be a deadly assassin. Six years later, her extreme accuracy has taken the lives of many in South Korea, and Ryu--a special agent of OP, Korea's top secret intelligence agency--along with his cohort Lee, have devoted years ..read more »
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Memories Of Murder
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Song Kang-ho, Sang-Kyung Kim, Roe-Ha Kim
Director: Bong Joon-ho
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This shocking tale is designed to repulse viewers, chiefly because it's based on a horrific true story. Following the activities of South Korea's first serial killer, MEMORIES OF MURDER tracks the gruesome events through the eyes of the two detectives investigating the case. The murders unfolded in ..read more »
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71%
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Sympathy For Mr Vengeance
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Song Kang-ho, Hyun-Joon Shin, Bae Du-na
Director: Chan-Wook Park
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A deaf-mute man, Ryu, works in a smelting factory and inhabits his own silent world, oblivious to the din both at work and in his downscale apartment building. He idolizes his sister, who urgently needs a kidney transplant, and when he's laid off and then tricked out of his savings by organ ..read more »
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Joint Security Area - JSA
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Yeong-Ae Lee, Song Kang-ho, Tae-Woo Kim
Director: Chan-Wook Park
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JSA (Joint Security Area) tells the story of two North Korean soldiers who have apparently been killed by a South Korean soldier in the de-militarised zone between North and South Korea. The mystery of why a total of 16 bullets are found when one magazine only holds 15 forms the film's central ..read more »
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66%
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The Quiet Family
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: In-hwan Park, Mun-hee Na, Song Kang-ho
Director: Ji-woon Kim
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A family decides to buy a lodge in a remote hiking area. Their first customer commits suicide and the distraught family buries his body to avoid the bad publicity.
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Song Kang-ho facts
5 most recent films
Thirst - 4.0 stars
Good, The Bad, The Weird, The - BLU-RAY Version - 3.5 stars
The Good, The Bad, The Weird - 3.5 stars
Secret Sunshine - 3.0 stars
The Host - 3.0 stars
5 highest-rated films
Memories Of Murder - 3.5 stars
Sympathy For Mr Vengeance - 3.5 stars
Good, The Bad, The Weird, The - BLU-RAY Version - 3.5 stars
The Good, The Bad, The Weird - 3.5 stars
Joint Security Area - JSA - 3.5 stars
5 lowest-rated films
Secret Sunshine - 3.0 stars
Thirst - 4.0 stars
Host, The - BLU-RAY Version - 3.0 stars
Shiri - 3.0 stars
Host, The - HD DVD Version - 3.0 stars
Most frequent co-stars
Byung-hun Lee - 4 times
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Bae Du-Na - 4 times
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Bae Du-na - 4 times
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Park Hae-il - 3 times
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Ha-Kyun Shin - 3 times
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Most frequent directors
Chan-Wook Park - 5 times
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Ji-woon Kim - 5 times
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Bong Joon-ho - 4 times
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Je-gyu Kang - 1 times
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Park Chan-Wook - 1 times
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The Host 2 December 2006
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Aiding Bong immesurably is an excellent cast. Bong recasts his Memories star Song Kang-ho, a fine and versatile dramatic actor, as the layabout father at the centre of t...
