Kim Jae-rok

Kim Jae-rok

Birth : 1965-11-07,

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Kim Jae-rok

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New World
Shin-taek
Take Care of My Mom
Real Estate Agent
Dust and Ashes
Hae-su works at a factory on the outskirts of Seoul. Returning home from work, she makes a phone call that goes to voicemail; nearing her residence, another phone call comes in, but she doesn't pick up. Inside the house is her mother's body—she died from mysterious circumstances. A knock on the door goes unanswered, but when a plainclothes police officer arrives, Hae-su lets him in. An exchange of documents, uncertain glances. With Hae-su and her tempermental brother the only attendants at her mother's funeral, there are more questions than answers.
Suspicious Court
One day, Chang Hyeok learns about his friends' sad family stories and makes a big decision for them! He's going to solve their problems! Chang Hyeok's mother who is a judge is touched by his words and decides to use all her strength to help. The mother uses her status within the boundaries of the law to appear in a mock court organized by Chang Hyeok to resolve the pain of the children. Finally, the mock court begins!
My Lovely Angel
Jae-sik's Father
A life-changing story of a man who has lived as a loner his entire life. Jae Shik begins to live together with a child with a hearing-visual disability, as they change each other's lives and try to find a way to communicate.
Fighter
Father
After a few months of social adjustment training, the North Korean refugee Jina moves to a small studio in Seoul and starts her new life. To bring her father to South Korea, she needs money but no matter how hard she works, the discrimination doesn’t let her save enough money.
A Bedsore
Kang Moon-soo
Chang-sik, a retired man, lives with his wife, Gilsoon and her caretaker, Soo-ok, an illegal immigrant. One day, a bedsore develops on Gilsoon, which does not seem to heal. Even though Gilsoon is in poor shape, Soo-ok insists on taking time off on weekends. Chang-sik realizes Soo-ok is trying a sham marriage for a new visa. Upon hearing this, Chang-sik suggests they get married.
Black Money
Bae Young-guk
A prosecutor is falsely accused of sexual assault in a suicide note from a woman that he is convinced was actually murdered. As he investigates her death to clear his name, he realizes that the truth lies in a huge financial scandal.
Microhabitat
House Owner
Miso lives from day to day by housekeeping. Cigarettes and whiskey are the two things that get her through the day. As cigarette prices and rent start to rise, Miso decides to give up her house for cigarettes and whiskey, leading her to couch surf with old friends while reconsidering her place in life.
Come, Together
Ho-joon
Beom-goo, an honest man in his 40s working as an engineer is fired from his work. His wife, Mi-yeong, a salesperson for a credit card company works even harder to make a living for the entire family. Their daughter, Ha-na, a college entrance exam preparer for the second time feels extremely nervous as she is waiting for the announcement of additionally accepted students.
Seoul Station
Mr. Lee (voice)
In this animated prequel to "Train to Busan," a group of survivors deals with a zombie pandemic that unleashes itself in downtown Seoul.
A Dreaming Butterfly
Tae-gyoo
Middle aged Tae-gyu spends every night making love to his young and beautiful wife and everything seems like a happy dream to him. One night while his wife is out of town, someone keeps knocking on the door. The knocker doesn't reveal him or herself so Tae-gyu opens the door to find a woman who looks just like his wife, standing there. No, this woman looks just like his wife but she is wearing thick and heavy make up, has blonde hair and is wearing torn and ripped clothes. She's more decadent than his sentimental wife. After she's gone, Tae-gyu suffers every night from a nightmare in which he is being raped by an unknown figure and is confused if that is reality or just a dream. When the femme fatale comes back, Tae-gyu feels his wife's scent from her and is sure she is his wife by the look in her eyes. When she looks at him, he sees deep sadness. He knows that she wants him to kill himself when she hands him a knife so he stabs himself in the neck. Tae-gyu is dead, but it isn't over.
Train to Busan
Mr. Kim
When a zombie virus pushes Korea into a state of emergency, those trapped on an express train to Busan must fight for their own survival.
Boy Meets Girl
Ha Jin's Dad
I will call you! So you better answer your phone! In the year 2020, a homestay is being conducted for male and female teenagers in preparation for a union between North Korea and South Korea. North Korean girl Ha-jin goes to South Korean boy Woo-yeong's house to homestay. Woo-yeong starts to bully Ha-jin who has taken his room, but alas! First love has found its way to these children. Woo-yeong runs away to Seoul with Ha-jin to help her meet her father.
Buddy's Mom
Kyeong-soo's father
20-year-old Kyeong-soo is a man who's full of assumptions. He learned about sex from Internet porn, but nothing about the real thing. He's only had crushes and has never even kissed before. He got embarrassed when he confessed his feelings to Ji-yeon, his crush. He comforted himself from the shame with Japanese girls in his room with his right hand. One day, he has a fight with his father and remembers his friend Baek-hyeon had invited him over to Gangwon-do. There he falls in love with his friends' mother. Written by lament
We Will Be OK
Jae-rok
Sang-seok (Kim Sang-seok) is an actor whose career has stalled before it has even begun. He has never been in a major film production, he is completely unknown and though he wishes he could take part in the Busan International Film Festival his hopes are no more than pipe dreams. In an effort to help his situation, Sang-seok’s friends Jae-ho and Tae-hee suggest making a film with him as the star. However, when the movie is cancelled, utterly dejected Sang-seok heads to a karaoke bar to drown his sorrows. There he meets a beautiful woman, Hwa (Lee Hwa), and falling instantly for her all the pain of the failed film project is overtaken by thoughts of her. Baek Jae-ho’s nuanced first directorial feature has already been invited to a number of Korean film festivals, including BIFF.
In Her Place
Policeman
A wealthy couple seeks to secretly adopt the unborn child of an impoverished and troubled rural teenager, in this slow-burning and ultimately shocking drama from writer-director Albert Shin.
One on One
Manager
On May 9th, a female high school student was brutally murdered. There are 7 suspects and 7 shadows that terrorize them. Who are they and which one of them is you?
Yoon Hee
Byeong-sam
A North Korean refugee named Yoon-hee works hard to bring her daughter who is left alone in China but one day crashes with a handicapped person with her milk delivery bike. The disabled refuses to go to the hospital but sues her as a hit-and-run and this gets spread all over the Internet. She is criticized by netizens and gets fired from all of her jobs. It turns out that the man who sued her is a self-injuring blackmailer disguised as a disabled person. Yoon-hee learns that she's going to need alot of money to win the case and to bring her daughter. She tries to make money through surrogacy but she ends up not getting paid. Being accused falsely, Yoon-hee doesn't trust the lawyer she has who only thinks about the cost and decides to stand up for herself
Red Vacance Black Wedding 2
Creep
Hong-chae has never been in a relationship before and she's tired of the man who has been coming into her flower shop everyday for the past 2 years. She's scared of Jeom-dong who shows obsession and one day tells him that she's got a fiance so to stop coming through her co-worker Hae-wook. Jeom-dong stabs her and runs away. A year later, Hong-chae was living a normal life, without a thought about Jeom-dong when she meets him again. This time, he approaches her through her childish mother, Seon-ae, as her boyfriend. He starts showing crazy love towards them, desperate and violent...
Cat Girl
Director
Wannabe actor Joon-cheol is living with his girlfriend who wants to get married. He tries to convince her to get married after he's made his debut but she breaks up with him in the end and kicks him out. Joon-cheol has nowhere to go but a friend of his has to go on a business trip and asks him to take care of his pet cat. However, what's waiting for him is not a cat but a girl with aphasia. Joon-cheol quarrels with his friend about calling the cops and comes out of the house. He goes back to his girlfriend but she doesn't accept him so he starts living with the cat girl.
The Fake
Chil-sung (voice)
A convict returns to his home town to torturing again his family and face his neighbors trying to destroy the local religious fanatics and their plans to keep money from the village people.
Red Family
North Korean Defector Journalist
Based on a screenplay by the prolific Kim Ki-duk. Two families live next door to each other in identical suburban white houses with green lawns. One family is from South Korea, the other is a fake family assembled from North Korean spies. The North Koreans must strictly obey every order from their regime, who holds their real families hostage. The problem is that the families affect each other and after a while, the political rift in the North Korean house becomes apparent. Naturally, there also occurs cross-border romantic entanglements between old and young alike.
Godsend
A woman who desperately wants a baby asks a girl who is considering abortion to give her the baby instead. The two arrive at an isolated vacation home to spend time in seclusion until the girl gives birth to a baby, but they unexpectedly encounter a mysterious young painter and some criminal hunters.
Moebius
Doctor
A wife, overwhelmed with hatred for her husband, inflicts an unspeakable wound on their son, as the family heads towards horrific destruction.
Pietà
Monk (uncredited)
A loan shark is forced to reconsider his violent lifestyle after the arrival of a mysterious woman claiming to be his long-lost mother.
Poongsan
Mr. Yoon's Son
Poongsan has the unenviable - and death-defying - job of delivering messages across the North and South Korean border to separated families. When South Korean government agents ask him to smuggle in In-ok, the lover of a high-ranking North Korean defector, into the South, the damsel and rescuer fall in love instead.
Passerby #3
Sang-woo
Jiwan quits her job and start working on a script to become a film director. She has worked on her script for many years but making it into a film seems almost impossible. As she runs around the field in frustration, shee sees a shining rainbow in a puddle and finds hope to work on a new project. She writes to a new script of the title 'Rainbow' that is about the fantastic band playing by 7 color.
A Broom Becomes a Goldfish
Yoon-ho
Middle aged Jang-Pil lives in a small one room apartment in Shinrim-dong. In the past, he might have studied for his bar exam, but now he makes a living by collecting junk, managing the apartment building he lives in and also makes wooden dolls to sell. One day he lends money to a young man in the same apartment building, but the man ends up taking his job. Jang-Pil is also tricked by a woman he met in the neighborhood.
Heaven's Postman
branch manager
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.
Bandhobi
Homeroom Teacher
Min-Seo, a 17-year old rebellious high school Korean girl, lives in a small apartment with her mother and her mother’s penniless lover. She hates her mother’s lover and doesn’t understand both of them. Karim, a 29-year old Muslim migrant worker from Bangladesh has to leave Korea in a month. Before departing, he is desperately searching for his ex-boss to get his unpaid salary. One day, as Min-Seo’s summer vacation begins, Karim encounters Min-Seo on a bus, and together they set out on an emotional journey.
Go Go 70's
Recording Engineer
In the 1970s, Devil's, a legendary band, participates in a Korean band contest. The band mesmerizes the audience with its style and dance. However, the night is put at risk when an unexpected situations arises.
Crossing
NGO Planner
Yong-soo is an ex-soccer player who lives in a small coal-mine village in North Korea with his wife and young son, Joon. Although living in extreme poverty like many other families in North Korea, the family is happy just to be with each other. Then one day, Yong-soo's pregnant wife becomes critically ill. Let alone medicine, Yong-soo can't even find food for her in North Korea. So he decides to secretly cross the border to China hoping to find the medicine for his wife.
Lovers of 6 Years
Manager Kim
Da-Jin and Jae-Young have been in an all too comfortable relationship for the past six years. Although they don't live together, their apartments reside side by side. But trouble brews for the couple when they begin to fall for their respective co-workers. Can Da-Jin and Jae-Young's relationship survive these outside temptations?
A Man Who Was Superman
Bruce Lee (uncredited)
A snobbish producer makes a documentary about the extraordinary behavior of her neighbor who believes himself to be Superman.
Host & Guest
Ho-jun
A cynical, divorced intellectual has a bizarre life-changing (and life-saving) encounter with a stoic evangelist, who turns out to have his own problems. From amusingly varied viewpoints, the two bond and start to take a stand against the oppressing forces in their lives.
Marathon
Police Station Officer
With the help of his family and a coach, an autistic man trains and competes in a lengthy marathon. The young man had always dreamed of competing in an event like that.
Too Beautiful to Lie
Thief
A professional lady con makes herself the pharmacist's fiancée overnight, and faces a disastrous blemish in her impeccable con-woman career.
Christmas in August
Jung-won's Friend 1
It's a sweltering summer, but Jung-won, a terminally ill, thirty-something photographer, is already in the winter of his life when he begins a tentative romance with a young traffic cop who doesn't know about his condition. Is their relationship doomed before it even begins?
Lowborn
Yoo Jin-sa