
Choi Il-hwa
Actor · b. 1959
Movies24
Movie7.4ThrillerCrimeAn undercover cop has his loyalties tested when the boss of the corporate gang he's spent years infiltrating dies.
Movie7.4DramaA young girl is asked by strangers to impersonate a prodigal daughter to fulfill a father's dying wish, and in doing so tests the fragility of family bonds.
Movie6.6ThrillerDramaPeople binge eat and suffer from extreme thirst, which leads them to go crazy for water. They cannot control themselves because they are brainwashed by a parasite.
Movie6.7ActionCrimeA professional GO player gathers a team to help him carry out his revenge against the man who killed his brother.
Movie7.0DramaHistoryTwo clowns living in Korea's Chosun Dynasty get arrested for staging a play that satirizes the king. They are dragged to the palace and threatened with execution but are given a chance to save their lives if they can make the king laugh.
Movie7.4ComedyWhen a woman dies after a mistake by personalities in the afterlife, she needs to exist as a different woman for a while.
Movie6.7CrimeActionA group of swindlers unite to hunt down an infamous con man who was known dead, amid their hidden motives and deception.
Movie6.7ComedyRomanceA man sets up the First Love Agency to help people locate their long-lost first love. But then he ends up falling in love with his first client.
Movie6.7ComedyCrimeA gangster is chosen to become a shaman. How can he balance his totally opposite life, between beating people and helping people. Then, his boss coincidentally hates shaman.
Movie7.0MysteryThrillerA woman suddenly disappears. Her fiance then sets out to find her and, in the process, uncovers layers of dark hidden secrets.
Movie4.6DramaThe life of a happy family is thrown into turmoil when they are given 30 days to pay back a relative's massive debt or lose everything.
Movie6.5DramaActionA thriller about the passengers with different objectives on board a cruiser headed for China, being chased over and over again and unexpected happening of things.
Movie6.7RomanceComedyA baseball player learns he has three months to live and drowns his sorrows at a bar, where the female bartender turns out to be a longtime admirer.
Movie6.0ComedyRomanceJunko, a Japanese exchange student, goes to Korea where she unexpectedly finds herself forced to share a room with Jong-man, a disagreeable young man, who has been forced to tutor her.
Movie6.5ActionComedyA middle-aged gangster's lifetime of mistakes catch up with him as his personal and professional life is destroyed.
Movie5.3ComedyRomanceA gay man and a lesbian get married to hide their sexuality. They juggle their secret identities, fool friends and family, and search for true love.
Movie6.9DramaThe Lotte Giants' Choi Dong-won and the Haitai Tigers' Seon Dong-ryeol are rival pitchers in 1980s baseball. The film reenacts the legendary match of May 16, 1987, which baseball fans today still recall as "the perfect match," when Choi and Sun compete as pitchers for the last time.
Movie5.0DramaHistoryIn the late 19th century Catholicism was gaining a foothold on Jeju island, much to the horror of the Confucian community, who were seeing their influence diminishing as well as getting increased taxes from Catholic-friendly government officers. The conflict became a religious war that resulted in a rebel Confucian army massacring hundreds of Christians in little more than a matter of days. The Uprising details the events leading up to the assault, focusing on the story of Yi Jae-su, the young man destined to become the leader of the rebel army.
Movie6.1ActionThrillerA vengeful refugee-turned-pirate steals nuclear materials to attack and obliterate the Koreas in a Nuclear Typhoon. A top South Korean naval officer is assigned the task to stop his plans and execute him.
Movie6.8ComedyRomanceHee-soo is desperate for money and finds her ex-boyfriend who owes her money. He goes around to various ex-girlfriends to get cash and she trails along to make sure he does not cheat her.
Movie6.4MysteryThrillerThe President of South Korea races against time to prove the seal on documents from long dead King Gojong is fake by charging outspoken historian Choi Min-jae, and a descendant of the royal bloodline Kim Yu-shik, to find the long lost seal in order to prove that the Japanese claim to railroads is false, a claim that will stop the reunification of the two Koreas.
Movie7.7DramaA struggling musician takes a job teaching music to middle school children in a rural mining town.
Movie6.6ActionDramaIn the 11th year of Kwang Hae-gun, Jo-seon soldiers go to war with China after an invasion. In the middle of Manchu, three people who have barely survived are being cornered by the Chinese forces, and begin a bloody battle not with their enemies but with their friends.
Movie6.7DramaActionThis movie is a political/espionage thriller, based on a real kidnapping incident of Korean politician, Kim Dae-Jung.
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2002 · 3 votes
Series24
TV8.1ComedyDramaDumped by her boyfriend of 15 years for gaining weight, a lawyer gets help from a hotshot personal trainer to get in shape and turn her life around.
TV5.5DramaFamilyOh Dan-Byul lost her parents due to her own mistake. She marries Joon-Young, but her husband passes away. Meanwhile, her mother-in-law, Ho-Duk, divorces because of her husband's infidelity and her sister-in-law, Se-Sil, returns to South Korea after divorcing her Italian husband. Now, these three women live together while overcoming their own personal problems and becoming important to each other.
TV5.2DramaKim Chunchu is the grandson of King Jinji, but when his grandfather is overthrown, Chunchu is denied the chance to become a successor to the throne of Silla. He later meets Kim Yushin, and the two men begin a friendship. Chunchu later becomes King Muyeol, the 29th Korean monarch who leads the unification of three ancient kingdoms - Goguryeo, Baekje and Silla, while Kim Yushin becomes one of the greatest generals in Korean history.
TVDramaFamilyBy depicting the dreams of people living in farming villages, this drama also reveals problems that today’s residents of rural areas face, such as a growing number of biracial children from international marriages and the cutthroat competition to survive.
TVComedyFamilyA family drama involving a 32-year-old unmarried man who is raising four children! Kim Tae Pyung is a domestic helper and a legal guardian for four children who are not related by blood. Mr. Kim and his children go through a range of difficulties on their way to becoming a family. Let’s find out how they learn to accept each other as family members and become a true family!
TV7.3DramaDeep Rooted Tree is a 2011 South Korean television series starring Jang Hyuk, Shin Se-kyung and Han Suk-kyu. Based on the novel of the same title by Lee Jeong-myeong, it aired on SBS from October 5 to December 22, 2011 on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55 for 24 episodes. Taking its name from the poem Yongbieocheonga that says that trees with deep roots do not sway, the series tells the story of a royal guard investigating a case involving the serial murders of Jiphyeonjeon scholars in Gyeongbok Palace while King Sejong comes to create the Korean written language.
TV7.5Action & AdventureDramaThe story takes place in Seoul, 2011. Lee Yoon-sung is a talented MIT-graduate who's working on the international communications team at the Blue House. He encounters dangerous situations while solving a variety of cases, both big and small, for people who need his help, and eventually becomes a "city hunter."
TV8.2ComedyDramaAn immature company heir falls for his hardworking new cafe employee, but there’s a catch: he thinks she’s a man, and he's... ok with it?
TV3.4Action & AdventureWar & PoliticsJingbirok, the name of a book written by real-life Joseon historian and scholar Ryu Seong Ryong (Kim Sang Joong),detailing the Imjin War (1592-1598). The drama will be a telling of historical events with the scholar as the central character, in the samevein as “Jung Do Jun”(who influenced the founding of the Joseon dynasty). Ryu Seong Ryong was an official who served during King Seonjo’s reign in the late 16th century. He was a brilliant Confucian scholar who was put in charge of military operations during the Imjin War, and greatly influenced AdmiralLee Soon Shin.
TV4.5DramaFamilyJung Woo Jin is an ambitious doctor. After he failed in love, he no longer believes in true love. He views marriage as just a business. Meanwhile, Lee Hae Soo works as an assistant chef. She dreams of getting married to the right man and having a family. Then, Woo Jin falls in love with Hae Soo and He comes into conflict with love and ambition.
TV4.3Action & AdventureDramaBased in the 1930's of Shanghai, China, this drama is a story about love, friendship, patriotism and desire. Shin Jung Tae (Kim Hyun Joong) is an outrageous and clumsy man, but has an unconditional love for his country and family. He was known as the best fighter in the alleys of Shanghai.
TV4.9DramaMysterySet during the reign of King Injong, the protagonist is a royal physician desperate to cure his ailing daughter. He becomes a fugitive when he gets entangled in an assassination plot to poison the crown prince, and fights to save both his daughter's life and his own.
TV2.0ComedyDramaGo Bong-sil is separated from her husband by death and almost comes to bankruptcy when she becomes a writer for the best seller.
TV7.9DramaSci-Fi & FantasyA wealthy heir's arranged marriage spirals into chaos when a kind-hearted lookalike replaces his cold bride, challenging a century-old family curse.
TV7.4ComedyMysteryCha Dong-Tak is a detective in pursuit of justice. A swindler's spirit takes possession of his body. The detective and swindler's spirit cooperate to solve cases. The detective falls in love with a reporter.
TV6.4DramaA modern twist on Cinderella follows warm-hearted Hyo-sun, adored by everyone, and her guarded stepsister Eun-jo, whose painful past fuels a growing resentment as their mother begins to favor Hyo-sun.
TV5.0DramaKang Jae is a wealthy businessman and gangster and Mi Joo is a plastic surgeon. These two meet after Mi Joo mistakes Kang Jae as being her sleazy brother-in-law. Kang Jae just happens to be the boyfriend of Mi Joo's pregnant neighbour, Yoo Jin. Sae Yeon meets Mi Joo and falls in love with her feisty attitude. Kang Jae works for the father of Sae Yeon who is a gangster. Mi Joo and Kang Jae fall in love.
TV6.9DramaA coldhearted heiress, a man from her past and an ambitious new hire in her company all become entangled on a battleground for money and power.
TV5.5CrimeDramaH.I.T, also known as Homicide Investigation Team, is a 2007 South Korean television series starring Go Hyun-jung, Ha Jung-woo, Kim Jung-min, and Yoon Ji-min. It aired on MBC from March 19 to May 22, 2007 on Mondays and Tuesdays at 21:55 for 20 episodes. A police procedural crime drama that integrated crime scene analysis with action, suspense, and romance, H.I.T represented a departure from the usual Korean drama subjects of love and relationships.
TV6.7DramaTo pay a debt, a married man receives billions of won from a woman. In return for the money, the man gives himself to the woman.
TV7.2DramaKim Seok Joo (Kim Myung Min) is a cold, calculating lawyer who is vying to become successful at all costs. After a fateful accident causes him to lose his memory, Kim Seok Joo must rediscover who he is as a person and choose whether he will fight for justice or fall back into his old ways. Before the accident, he was engaged to the only grandchild of a wealthy family, Yoo Jung Sun (Chae Jung Ahn), but with no memory of her, he begins to fall for Lee Ji Yoon (Park Min Young), an idealistic intern at his law firm. As he regains his memories, will his heart choose new love or old greed?
TV5.4DramaA former PGA champion with a mysterious past transforms two contrasting women into golf's next rising stars, challenging their limits and redefining their destinies.
TV6.0DramaAction & AdventureIn a time somewhere in the future, North and South Korea have joined to form a unified Korean Peninsula. Suh Myung-Joon (Hwang Jeong-min) is the president of this newly-formed, fragile country. He strives to protect the alliance when the two sides begin a vicious battle over the country's natural resources. In this endeavour he's supported by his beautiful wife Lim Jin-Jae (Kim Jung-Eun), and finds a rival in NIS agent Kang Dong-Won (Ji Hoo).
TV1.5DramaThe Reputable Family is a 2010 South Korean television series starring Cha In-pyo, Han Go-eun, Kim Sung-min, and Lee Hee-do. It aired on KBS1 from January 1 to February 21, 2010 on Saturdays and Sundays at 21:40 for 16 episodes. The historical drama revolves around the Choi family, a famous clan based in Gyeongju, North Gyeongsang Province. After the death of the head of their family, Choi Jin-lip during the second Manchu invasion of Korea, his grandson Guk-seon vows to reclaim the honor of his clan. The Choi family must overcome obstacles and hardships both in their hometown Gyeongju, and in Hanyang. Many of the scenes were filmed at the Korean Folk Village in Seoul. The series failed to attract many viewers, receiving an average rating of 10.9%. But it was recognized as a well-made drama among critics.