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Highest-ranked title
Highest-ranked title
Hwang Jo-yoon has 4 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2010s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Oldboy.
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With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate man seeks revenge on his captors.
Dir. Park Chan-wook · With Choi Min-sik, Yoo Ji-tae, Kang Hye-jung
Though it places his own life in danger, a look-alike commoner secretly takes the place of a poisoned king to save his country from falling into chaos.
Dir. Choo Chang-min · With Lee Byung-hun, Ryu Seung-ryong, Han Hyo-joo
A former serial killer with Alzheimer's fights to protect his daughter from her mysterious boyfriend who may be a serial killer too.
Dir. Won Shin-yun · With Sul Kyung-gu, Kim Nam-gil, Kim Seol-hyun
Ancient Korea, 17th century. While the paranoid King Lee Jo of Joseon, vassal of the Qing dynasty, feels surrounded by conspirators and rebels, a dark evil emerges from the bowels of a merchant ship and the exiled Prince Lee Cheung returns to the royal court, ignoring that he will have to lead the few capable of defeating the ambitious humans and the bloody monsters who threaten to destroy the kingdom.
Dir. Kim Sung-hoon · With Hyun Bin, Jang Dong-gun, Jo Woo-jin
