Um Tae-goo
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1983-11-09
Locus Natus: Seoul, South Korea
Et ut: 엄태구, Um Tae-gu, Eom Tae-goo, Eom Tae-gu, Eom Tae-ku, Uhm Tae-goo, 嚴泰久
The Time of Good Light
2009 Intermediate Narrative Workshop, Film Dept.
release : 2015.01.01popularis : 0.112
Like a season
This is a short film I made for my graduation work in 2007. - Excellence Award at the Korea University Film Festival.
release : 2007.01.01popularis : 1.128
Faith
A short film about an armed man in a secret location.
release : 2023.03.15popularis : 1.945
Concrete Utopia
The world has been reduced to rubble by a massive earthquake. While no one knows for sure how far the ruins stretch, or what the cause of the...
release : 2023.08.09popularis : 24.386
Home Sweet Home
Homeless Man-sik has a home. He arrived at home after begging all day. He shaved his head and took a shower at home. Getting in the bed, he heard...
release : 2010.11.13popularis : 1.31
KARMA
Bong-sik dies after committing a heinous crime. Yet, even before the god of the underworld, he remains unrepentant and earns a hundred years of the...
release : 2023.10.08popularis : 1.694
Cobweb
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...
release : 2023.09.27popularis : 15.028
The Witch: Part 2. The Other One
A girl wakes up in a huge secret laboratory, then accidentally meets another girl who is trying to protect her house from a gang. The mystery girl...
release : 2022.06.15popularis : 56.81
Horror Stories
A teenager is abducted and forced to tell the scariest tales she knows, leading to this anthology of four stories: a brother and sister are under...
release : 2012.07.25popularis : 5.246
No Charge Airline Ticket
Donghwan is unemployed. One day, he applies for a quiz for a no charge airline ticket on the Internet. The next day, he receives a phone call asking...
release : 2009.10.09popularis : 1.256
The Age of Shadows
Set in the late 1920s, The Age of Shadows follows the cat-and-mouse game that unfolds between a group of resistance fighters trying to bring in...
release : 2016.09.07popularis : 15.671
A Taxi Driver
May, 1980. Man-seob is a taxi driver in Seoul who lives from hand to mouth, raising his young daughter alone. One day, he hears that there is a...
release : 2017.08.02popularis : 13.566
Secretly, Greatly
Three elite North Korean sleeper agents live under cover for so long that they believe their cover stories are their real identities. They are...
release : 2013.06.05popularis : 13.748
Veteran
When an old collaborator gets severely injured, a veteran policeman tries to figure out the way to bring to justice the ultimately suspected...
release : 2015.08.05popularis : 14.391
Coin Locker Girl
A child abandoned in a subway coin locker is sold to a ruthless and calculating loan shark and gangster boss dubbed Mother, who runs an...
release : 2015.04.29popularis : 9.374
Vanishing Time: A Boy Who Returned
Days after her friends disappear during a trip to a mysterious cave, a girl is approached by a grown man claiming to be one of her missing pals.
release : 2016.11.10popularis : 8.644
The Unfair
Residents, who are evicted from their homes in a designated urban renewal, demonstrate against their removal. The police arrive and attempt to end...
release : 2015.06.24popularis : 3.842
Barracks
In an old military bus are Myeong-hoon, his girlfriend Yeong-eun, and survival game friends; they are headed to a private camp to experience army...
release : 2015.03.05popularis : 1.758
Obsessed
A secret, passionate affair happens in the summer of 1969 between Colonel Jin Pyeong, trapped in a loveless marriage with Soo Jin, and Jong Ga Heun,...
release : 2014.05.14popularis : 31.004
18 Years
A short drama about Seok-joo who doesn't want to live like his brother.
release : 2014.05.11popularis : 0.892
INGtoogi: The Battle of Internet Trolls
An online feud evolves into something more real when two keyboard warriors take their battle offline in a mixed martial arts matchup.
release : 2013.11.14popularis : 3.484
Choked
In a recession-battered Seoul, a young man in the dodgy relocation business must deal with loan sharks and aggrieved parties owed large sums by his...
release : 2011.10.08popularis : 1.243
Heart Vibrator
When I'm with you, my heart vibrates.
release : 2011.09.01popularis : 0.699
Anyang, Paradise City
Set in Anyang, South Korea, crew members for an upcoming documentary research the devastating fire that took occurred in a factory prior to the 1988...
release : 2010.09.01popularis : 1.631
Adulthood
At her dad's funeral, Kyungun meets her uncle Jaemin, a complete stranger. He bilks her father's insurance money. She demands her money back, but he...
release : 2018.08.23popularis : 3.197
The Great Battle
Kingdom of Goguryeo, ancient Korea, 645. The ruthless Emperor Taizong of Tang invades the country and leads his armies towards the capital, achieving...
release : 2018.09.19popularis : 14.255
I Saw the Devil
Kyung-chul is a dangerous psychopath who kills for pleasure. Soo-hyeon, a top-secret agent, decides to track down the murderer himself. He promises...
release : 2010.08.12popularis : 26.646
Trivial Matters
The prospective director ,Do-hwan, is suffering from a past love affair. He goes to a freelance meeting and finds a strange and charming Eun-ha. With...
release : 2017.06.30popularis : 1.837
Forest
A little action puts my friend in danger. I want to believe that my actions are not intended.
release : 2012.06.28popularis : 2.129
My Punch-Drunk Boxer
Byung-gu, a once-famous former professional boxer, makes ends meet doing odd jobs at the gym. While eager to start boxing again, he gets diagnosed...
release : 2019.10.09popularis : 3.466
Night in Paradise
An assassin named Tae-goo is offered a chance to switch sides with his rival Bukseong gang, headed by Chairman Doh. Tae-goo rejects the offer that...
release : 2020.09.03popularis : 23.959
Keep quiet
At the library Sung-mo picks up the ringing phone of a person on the opposite side of his desk in an unguarded moment while the person is out. A...
release : 2012.06.28popularis : 0.913
S.I.U.
Sung-Bum is a hot-tempered detective who relies on his intuition to crack cases. He rarely comes across a case that he cannot solve. The body of a...
release : 2011.11.24popularis : 3.795
Insadong Scandal
A fabled painting from royal palace was discovered after 400 years. Once properly restored, it could fetch at least $40 million in the international...
release : 2009.04.30popularis : 2.153
Midnight FM
Popular TV anchorwoman & late night DJ Ko Sun-young set to host her final radio program. During the show, she receives a startling text message...
release : 2010.10.14popularis : 5.696
The Servant
A servant falls in love with a girl whom his master also desires. Although the girl loves the servant, she also longs to improve her station in life.
release : 2010.06.02popularis : 12.316
Spellbound
A magician meets a weird girl and offers her to work together in his magic show. It's only until a year later that he starts to know her personally...
release : 2011.12.01popularis : 8.107
Incomplete Life: Prequel
Grae, who failed to be a professional Baduk player, Young-i, who always has been lonely because of changing schools frequently, Oh Deputy department...
release : 2013.05.24popularis : 1.751
Azooma
A mother goes to extreme measures against her daughter's attacker after after feeling that the local law enforcement have failed her.
release : 2013.04.18popularis : 3.412
Commitment
The son of a North Korean spy decides to follow in his father's footsteps to protect his little sister. After his father's botched espionage mission,...
release : 2013.11.05popularis : 13.71
Oki's Movie
Oki, a film student, gets involved in two relationships as she navigates the advances of a fellow student and grapples with her feelings for her much...
release : 2010.09.16popularis : 2.725
Epitaph
A traumatized girl sees visions of her dead mother in one of three tales set in a 1942 South Korean hospital.
release : 2007.08.01popularis : 3.308
Secret
A detective suspects that his wife murdered a gangster's brother. As he tries to misdirect the police and the bloodthirsty gangster while...
release : 2009.12.03popularis : 5.073
I Am Happy
A man suffers from mental illness after having lived with a mother suffering from dementia and a brother addicted to gambling. Now institutionalized,...
release : 2008.10.10popularis : 2.138
Texas Hit
Jae-Hun (Son Hyun-Joo) is separated from his wife and two daughters. He struggles to make ends meet, while working as a grocery deliveryman....
release : 2010.10.23popularis : 4.153