Jo Woo-jin’s Typical Vibe
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Jo Woo-jin has 14 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2010s through the 2020s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Guardian: The Lonely and Great God.
Recurring themes

Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
2016
Action · Thriller

Havoc
2025
Action · Crime

Pushpa 2 - The Rule
2024
Action · Drama

Salaar: Part 1 - Ceasefire
2023
Action · Crime

Hamilton: In the Interest of the Nation
2012
Thriller · Action

Take Point
2018
Action · Thriller

SPL 2: A Time for Consequences
2015
Action · Crime

Ad Vitam
2025
Thriller · Drama

Hard Hit
2021 · Movie · Actor
Top 8%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Seobok
2021 · Movie · Actor
Top 14%Prime Video · Included

Happiness
2021 · Series · Actor
Top 15%Netflix · Included

Steel Rain
2017 · Movie · Actor
Top 17%Netflix · Included

Alienoid
2022 · Movie · Actor
Top 19%Hulu · Included

Rampant
2018 · Movie · Actor
Top 27%Prime Video · Included

In his quest for a bride to break his immortal curse, a 939-year-old guardian of souls meets a grim reaper and a sprightly student with a tragic past.
Dir. Lee Eung-bok, Kim Eun-sook · With Gong Yoo, Kim Go-eun, Lee Dong-wook

On his way to work, a bank manager receives an anonymous call claiming there's a bomb under his car seat, and if anyone exits the car, it will explode unless he can pay a ransom.
Dir. Kim Chang-ju · With Jo Woo-jin, Lee Jae-in, Ji Chang-wook
A son to a high-ranked official in North Korea commits a series of murders going across the countries around the world. The movie depicts the following events as South Korea, North Korea and Interpol start chasing down after him.
Dir. Park Hoon-jung · With Kim Myung-min, Jang Dong-gun, Park Hee-soon

Ex intelligence agent Ki-heon is tasked with safely transporting Seo Bok, the first ever human clone, who holds the secret of eternal life. Several forces try to take control of Seo Bok to serve their own agendas.
Dir. Lee Yong-ju · With Gong Yoo, Park Bo-gum, Jo Woo-jin

A new type of deadly virus spread throughout the city, and the apartment where has different social classes of people is sealed off. With the fear of the virus, and the conflicts of the different classes, the residents have to spend and survive in the new habitation.
Dir. Han Sang-un · With Han Hyo-joo, Park Hyung-sik, Joo Jong-hyuk

Amid a coup, a North Korean agent escapes south with the country's injured leader in an attempt to keep him alive and prevent a Korean war.
Dir. Yang Woo-seok · With Jung Woo-sung, Kwak Do-won, Kim Kap-soo

Gurus in the late Goryeo dynasty try to obtain a fabled, holy sword, and humans in 2022 hunt down an alien prisoner that is locked in a human's body. The two parties cross paths when a time-traveling portal opens up.
Dir. Choi Dong-hoon · With Ryu Jun-yeol, Kim Woo-bin, Kim Tae-ri

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

Ean has a critical mission to return to the future to save everyone. However, she becomes trapped in the distant past while trying to prevent the escape of alien prisoners who are locked up in the bodies of humans. Meanwhile, Muruk, who helps Ean escape various predicaments, is unnerved when he begins sensing the presence of a strange being in his body. Traveling through the centuries, they are trying to prevent the explosion of the haava.
Dir. Choi Dong-hoon · With Ryu Jun-yeol, Kim Tae-ri, Kim Woo-bin

A disgruntled henchman teams up with an ambitious prosecutor to bring down a leading presidential candidate and the news editor behind him who is truly pulling the strings.
Dir. Woo Min-ho · With Lee Byung-hun, Cho Seung-woo, Baek Yoon-sik

An ordinary entrepreneur joins a secret government mission to capture a Korean drug lord operating in South America.
Dir. Yoon Jong-bin · With Ha Jung-woo, Hwang Jung-min, Park Hae-soo
The secret society of contract killers falls into chaos, unleashing a new breed of assassins. With old rules in ruins, who dares claim the shadows?
Dir. Lee Tae-sung · With Yim Si-wan, Park Gyu-young, Choi Hyun-wook

Ancient Korea, 17th century. The powerful Khan of the Jurchen tribe of Manchuria, who fights the Ming dinasty to gain China, becomes the first ruler of the Qing dinasty and demands from King In-jo of Joseon to bow before him; but he refuses, being loyal to the Mings. On December 14th, 1636, the Qing horde invades Joseon, so King In-jo and his court shelter in the mountain fortress of Namhan and prepare to defend the kingdom.
Dir. Hwang Dong-hyuk · With Lee Byung-hun, Kim Yun-seok, Park Hae-il

Busan, South Korea, 1970s. Lee Doo-sam is a small-time smuggler. After helping a drug gang to smuggle meth, he falls into the dark crime world. Quick-witted and full of ambition, he eventually takes over the drug underworld and starts to lead a double life: a good community leader during the day but an infamous drug lord during the night.
Dir. Woo Min-ho · With Song Kang-ho, Cho Jung-seok, Bae Doona
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