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Lee Byung-hun has 25 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2020s. 2 sit in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including KPop Demon Hunters.
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14 Blades
2010
Drama · Action

Raees
2017
Thriller · Action

The White Storm
2013
Drama · Action

Chasing the Dragon
2017
Action · Crime

Outrage
2010
Action · Crime

Skyfall
2012
Action · Adventure

The Raid 2
2014
Action · Crime

Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
2016
Action · Thriller

KPop Demon Hunters
2025 · Movie · Voice
Top 1%Netflix · Included

Squid Game: Making Season 2
2025 · Movie · Actor
Top 3%Netflix · Included

No Other Choice
2025 · Movie · Actor
Top 6%Hulu · Included

Joint Security Area
2000 · Movie · Actor
Top 6%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Emergency Declaration
2022 · Movie · Actor
Top 6%Prime Video · Included

The Good, the Bad, the Weird
2008 · Movie · Actor
Top 10%AMC+ · Included

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 himself that he will do everything in his power to take vengeance against the killer, even if it means that he must become a monster himself.
Dir. Kim Jee-woon · With Lee Byung-hun, Choi Min-sik, Jeon Kuk-hwan

When K-pop superstars Rumi, Mira and Zoey aren't selling out stadiums, they're using their secret powers to protect their fans from supernatural threats.
Dir. Chris Appelhans, Maggie Kang · With Arden Cho, May Hong, Ji-young Yoo

From set designs to character arcs, get exclusive cast and director interviews on how Season 2 of the globally most-watched series was brought to life.
With Hwang Dong-hyuk, Lee Jung-jae, Lee Byung-hun

Kim Sun-woo is an enforcer and manager for a hotel owned by a cold, calculative crime boss, Kang who assigns Sun-woo to a simple errand while he is away on a business trip; to shadow his young mistress, Hee-soo, for fear that she may be cheating on him with a younger man with the mandate that he must kill them both if he discovers their affair.
Dir. Kim Jee-woon · With Lee Byung-hun, Kim Yeong-cheol, Shin Min-a

After being laid off and humiliated by a ruthless job market, a veteran paper mill manager descends into violence in a desperate bid to reclaim his dignity.
Dir. Park Chan-wook · With Lee Byung-hun, Son Ye-jin, Park Hee-soon

Two North Korean soldiers are killed in the border area between North and South Korea, prompting an investigation by a neutral body. The sergeant is the shooter, but the lead investigator, a Swiss-Korean woman, receives differing accounts from the two sides.
Dir. Park Chan-wook · With Lee Young-ae, Lee Byung-hun, Song Kang-ho

While investigating a terroristic threat that goes viral online, Korean authorities discover that a suspect has recently boarded an international flight bound for the United States. When a healthy passenger on the same flight suddenly dies a gruesome death of unknown cause, panic erupts both in-flight and on the ground. With steadily decreasing fuel and international refusals to offer aid, the captain and crew will be forced to take unprecedented emergency measures in an attempt to save the lives of their passengers.
Dir. Han Jae-rim · With Song Kang-ho, Lee Byung-hun, Jeon Do-yeon

The story of three Korean outlaws in 1930s Manchuria and their dealings with the Japanese army and Chinese and Russian bandits. The Good (a bounty hunter), the Bad (a hitman), and the Weird (a thief) battle the army and the bandits in a race to use a treasure map to uncover the riches of legend.
Dir. Kim Jee-woon · With Song Kang-ho, Lee Byung-hun, Jung Woo-sung

Set in the early 1900s, this drama tells the story of a young man from Korea who grows up in the United States. When he returns to Korea as a US Marine Corps officer, he meets and falls in love with a noblewoman who is fighting for Korean independence. Their romance is complicated by social class and political ideology.
Dir. Lee Eung-bok, Kim Eun-sook · With Lee Byung-hun, Kim Tae-ri, Yoo Yeon-seok

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 explosives from Shanghai to destroy key Japanese facilities in Seoul, and Japanese agents trying to stop them.
Dir. Kim Jee-woon · With Song Kang-ho, Gong Yoo, Han Ji-min

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

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 earthquake may be, in the heart of Seoul there is only one apartment building left standing. It is called Hwang Gung Apartments. As time passes, outsiders start coming in to Hwang Gung Apartments trying to escape the extreme cold. Before long, the apartment residents are unable to cope with the increasing numbers. Feeling a threat to their very survival, the residents enact a special measure.
Dir. Um Tae-hwa · With Lee Byung-hun, Park Seo-jun, Park Bo-young

A group of unlikely heroes from across the Korean peninsula try to save the day after a volcano erupts on the mythical and majestic Baekdu Mountain.
Dir. Kim Byung-seo, Lee Hae-jun · With Lee Byung-hun, Ha Jung-woo, Don Lee

Hundreds of cash-strapped players accept a strange invitation to compete in children's games. Inside, a tempting prize awaits — with deadly high stakes.
Dir. Hwang Dong-hyuk · With Lee Jung-jae, Yim Si-wan, Wi Ha-jun
Retired C.I.A. agent Frank Moses reunites his unlikely team of elite operatives for a global quest to track down a missing portable nuclear device.
Dir. Dean Parisot · With Bruce Willis, John Malkovich, Mary-Louise Parker

When the investigation of 'Koreagate' takes place, Park Yong-gak, a former KCIA director who knows everything about the government's operations, heads to the United States in exile.
Dir. Woo Min-ho · With Lee Byung-hun, Lee Sung-min, Kwak Do-won

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

Korea’s biggest network marketing scam reveals a far greater network of corruption and conspiracy lurking underneath.
Dir. Cho Ui-seok · With Lee Byung-hun, Gang Dong-won, Kim Woo-bin

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

Looking to mine for gold, greedy industrialist Bartholomew Bogue seizes control of the Old West town of Rose Creek. With their lives in jeopardy, Emma Cullen and other desperate residents turn to bounty hunter Sam Chisolm for help. Chisolm recruits an eclectic group of gunslingers to take on Bogue and his ruthless henchmen. With a deadly showdown on the horizon, the seven mercenaries soon find themselves fighting for more than just money once the bullets start to fly.
Dir. Antoine Fuqua · With Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke

While in medieval Korea, a young girl sets out to revenge the betrayal and the death of her mother. But therefore she must face one of the most powerful men and warriors of the Goryeo Dynasty.
Dir. Park Heung-sik · With Lee Byung-hun, Jeon Do-yeon, Kim Go-eun

The year is 2029. John Connor, leader of the resistance continues the war against the machines. At the Los Angeles offensive, John's fears of the unknown future begin to emerge when TECOM spies reveal a new plot by SkyNet that will attack him from both fronts; past and future, and will ultimately change warfare forever.
Dir. Alan Taylor · With Emilia Clarke, Jai Courtney, Arnold Schwarzenegger

Framed for crimes against the country, the G.I. Joe team is terminated by Presidential order. This forces the G.I. Joes into not only fighting their mortal enemy Cobra; they are forced to contend with threats from within the government that jeopardize their very existence.
Dir. Jon M. Chu · With Dwayne Johnson, Bruce Willis, Jonathan Pryce

From the Egyptian desert to deep below the polar ice caps, the elite G.I. JOE team uses the latest in next-generation spy and military equipment to fight the corrupt arms dealer Destro and the growing threat of the mysterious Cobra organization to prevent them from plunging the world into chaos.
Dir. Stephen Sommers · With Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Christopher Eccleston, Lee Byung-hun
An ambitious lawyer finds himself caught in a power struggle between a corrupt pharmaceutical executive and his firm’s senior partner. When the case takes a deadly turn, he must race to uncover the truth before he loses everything.
Dir. Shintaro Shimosawa · With Josh Duhamel, Anthony Hopkins, Al Pacino
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