Song Kang-ho

Song Kang-ho

Birthday: 1967-01-17

Place of Birth: Gimhae, South Gyeongsang, South Korea

Biography: Song Kang-ho (송강호) (born January 17, 1967) is a South Korean actor. Considered one of the best actors of the 21st century, he is most known for his collaborations with directors Park Chan-wook and Bong Joon-ho. He was part of the cast that won Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture at the 26th Screen Actors Guild Awards for Parasite (2019), was awarded Best Actor at the 75th Cannes Film Festival for his performance in Broker (2022), and has been named Gallup Korea's Film Actor of the Year four times.

Movies

The Host
The Host

A teenage girl is captured by a giant mutated squid-like creature that appears from Seoul's Han Rive...

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Joint Security Area
Joint Security Area

Two North Korean soldiers are killed in the border area between North and South Korea, prompting an ...

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Shiri
Shiri

North Korea's 8th Special Forces hijack a shipment of CTX, a potent new liquid explosive, and threat...

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Secret Sunshine
Secret Sunshine

Shin-ae moves to her recently late husband’s hometown. Despite her efforts to settle in this unfamil...

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Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance

A deaf man and his girlfriend resort to desperate measures in order to fund a kidney transplant for ...

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Memories of Murder
Memories of Murder

During the late 1980s, two detectives in rural South Korea attempt to solve a series of gruesome rap...

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Thirst
Thirst

A respected priest volunteers for an experimental procedure that may lead to a cure for a deadly vir...

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Cobweb
Cobweb

In the 1970s, Director Kim is obsessed by the desire to re-shoot the ending of his completed film Co...

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The Good, the Bad, the Weird
The Good, the Bad, the Weird

The story of three Korean outlaws in 1930s Manchuria and their dealings with the Japanese army and C...

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Antarctic Journal
Antarctic Journal

Arctic cold and paranoia take their toll as Korean explorers are beset by the same strange occurrenc...

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Secret Reunion
Secret Reunion

Two spies share a secret bond, despite their loyalties. A North Korean assassin is sent to Seoul to ...

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The Foul King
The Foul King

A timid and extravagant bank clerk, Dae-ho is considered inefficient at his workplace. As he tries t...

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The Quiet Family
The Quiet Family

A family decides to buy a lodge in a remote hiking area. Their first customer commits suicide and th...

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The Show Must Go On
The Show Must Go On

A middle-aged gangster's lifetime of mistakes catch up with him as his personal and professional lif...

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The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well
The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well

The lives of 4 interconnected South Koreans - a married couple, a novelist the wife is having an aff...

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Green Fish
Green Fish

Returning home and finding his town drastically changed, a former soldier falls in with gangsters....

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No. 3
No. 3

Tae-joo manages to rise in rank in a gang for saving the boss's life. However, prosecutor Dong-pal a...

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A Little Pond
A Little Pond

The Korean war does not start well for the US. They are being routed by the North Koreans and In Jul...

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Making Memories of Murder
Making Memories of Murder

Made in 2004, this extensive documentary chronicles the production and release of Memories of Murder...

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Day Trip
Day Trip

A master and his student visit a mountain to practice pansori (a musical storytelling performed by a...

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The Attorney
The Attorney

Song Woo-seok is a lawyer with no clients. When his friend's son is falsely accused of a crime and t...

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The Face Reader
The Face Reader

An exceptionally talented face reader becomes entangled in a bloody power struggle between a child k...

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Howling
Howling

A beat cop and his rookie partner investigate a series of killings that seem to be carried out by a ...

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Hindsight
Hindsight

A young assassin is sent to kill a retired mob boss. But things get complicated when she begins to l...

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The President's Barber
The President's Barber

A well-meaning but politically naive barber gets pulled into the inner circle of the South Korean di...

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Memories
Memories

The documentary gives a voice to all those who have experienced the crazy adventure of shooting Memo...

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Lee Chang-dong: The Art of Irony
Lee Chang-dong: The Art of Irony

A portrait of the South Korean screenwriter, director and producer Lee Chang-Dong through his work, ...

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Snowpiercer
Snowpiercer

In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class syst...

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The Throne
The Throne

Ancient Korea, July 4, 1762. The Crown Prince Hyojang, posthumously named Sado, son of King Yeongjo ...

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The Age of Shadows
The Age of Shadows

Set in the late 1920s, The Age of Shadows follows the cat-and-mouse game that unfolds between a grou...

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Lady Vengeance
Lady Vengeance

Released after being wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for 13 years, a woman begins executing her ...

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Timeless Bottomless Bad Movie
Timeless Bottomless Bad Movie

Children who refuse to live with their families or give up on the streets work at a bar or steal mon...

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A Taxi Driver
A Taxi Driver

May, 1980. Man-seob is a taxi driver in Seoul who lives from hand to mouth, raising his young daught...

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YMCA Baseball Team
YMCA Baseball Team

Hochang accidentally sees missionaries and Jeongrim play baseball at the YMCA hall. He falls in love...

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Parasite
Parasite

All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for thei...

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The Drug King
The Drug King

Busan, South Korea, 1970s. Lee Doo-sam is a small-time smuggler. After helping a drug gang to smuggl...

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Decades Apart
Decades Apart

For the work Decades Apart commissioned by the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain for the exh...

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The King's Letters
The King's Letters

In the 15th century, despite so many accomplishments he has made for the people, King Sejong, his bi...

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Ari Ari the Korean Cinema
Ari Ari the Korean Cinema

Director Chung Ji-Young criticizes the thought that older directors have difficulties in making cert...

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Emergency Declaration
Emergency Declaration

While investigating a terroristic threat that goes viral online, Korean authorities discover that a ...

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One Win
One Win

A former volleyball star, Woo-jin has been struggling to keep his children's volleyball school that'...

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Broker
Broker

Sang-hyun is always struggling from debt, and Dong-soo works at a baby box facility. On a rainy nigh...

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Where is my DVD?
Where is my DVD?

Go Gi-hwan is the actor who was starred in a large number of short films. However, he couldn't get a...

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The Power of Love
The Power of Love

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Shaolin Women's Soccer
Shaolin Women's Soccer

The Emei team participated in Asian Women's Champions League, and was not favored, but captain Shuan...

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Gardeners
Gardeners

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Making of Thirst
Making of Thirst

90 minute making of doc...

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The Process of Mr. Vengeance
The Process of Mr. Vengeance

This making-of is made up of a series of short vignettes, starting with a piece on Shin Ha-Kyun and ...

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