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Song Kang-ho has 23 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2020s. 2 sit in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Memories of Murder.
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A Taxi Driver
2017 · Movie · Actor
Top 3%Prime Video · Included

Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
2002 · Movie · Actor
Top 4%AMC+ · 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

The Quiet Family
1998 · Movie · Actor
Top 10%The Roku Channel · Free w/ ads

All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.
Dir. Bong Joon Ho · With Song Kang-ho, Lee Sun-kyun, Cho Yeo-jeong

A sadistic serial rapist and murderer of young women terrorizes a small province in 1980s South Korea. To prevent further crimes, three increasingly desperate detectives with conflicting methods race against time to unravel the violent mind of the killer in a futile effort to solve the case.
Dir. Bong Joon Ho · With Song Kang-ho, Kim Sang-kyung, Kim Roi-ha

May, 1980. Man-seob is a taxi driver in Seoul who lives from hand to mouth, raising his young daughter alone. One day, he hears that there is a foreigner who will pay big money for a drive down to Gwangju city. Not knowing that he’s a German journalist with a hidden agenda, Man-seob takes the job.
Dir. Jang Hoon · With Song Kang-ho, Thomas Kretschmann, Yoo Hai-jin

A teenage girl is captured by a giant mutated squid-like creature that appears from Seoul's Han River after toxic waste was dumped in it, prompting her family into a frantic search for her.
Dir. Bong Joon Ho · With Song Kang-ho, Byun Hee-bong, Park Hae-il

A deaf man and his girlfriend resort to desperate measures in order to fund a kidney transplant for his sister. Things go horribly wrong, and the situation spirals rapidly into a cycle of violence and revenge.
Dir. Park Chan-wook · With Song Kang-ho, Shin Ha-kyun, Bae Doona

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

Song Woo-seok is a lawyer with no clients. When his friend's son is falsely accused of a crime and tortured, he takes up the case and the course of his life changes for good.
Dir. Yang Woo-seok · With Song Kang-ho, Kim Young-ae, Oh Dal-su

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

A family decides to buy a lodge in a remote hiking area. Their first customer commits suicide and the distraught family buries his body to avoid the bad publicity. But their luck gets worse, the bodies start piling up, and the family becomes frantic to rectify the situation.
Dir. Kim Jee-woon · With Park In-hwan, Na Moon-hee, Choi Min-sik

In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class system evolves aboard the Snowpiercer; a train that travels around the globe via a perpetual-motion engine.
Dir. Bong Joon Ho · With Chris Evans, Song Kang-ho, Ed Harris

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

A road rage incident between two strangers — a failing contractor and an unfulfilled entrepreneur — sparks a feud that brings out their darkest impulses.
Dir. Lee Sung Jin · With Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, Cailee Spaeny

Shin-ae moves to her recently late husband’s hometown. Despite her efforts to settle in this unfamiliar and too-normal place, she finds that she can’t fit in. After a sudden tragedy, Shin-ae turns to Christianity to relieve her pain, but when even this is not permitted, she wages a war against God.
Dir. Lee Chang-dong · With Jeon Do-yeon, Song Kang-ho, Jo Young-jin
Sang-hyun is always struggling from debt, and Dong-soo works at a baby box facility. On a rainy night, they steal the baby Woo-sung, who was left in the baby box, to sell him at a good price. Meanwhile, detectives were watching, and they quietly track them down to capture the crucial evidence.
Dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda · With Song Kang-ho, Gang Dong-won, Bae Doona

A respected priest volunteers for an experimental procedure that may lead to a cure for a deadly virus. He gets infected and dies, but a blood transfusion of unknown origin brings him back to life. Now, he’s torn between faith and bloodlust, and has a newfound desire for the wife of a childhood friend.
Dir. Park Chan-wook · With Song Kang-ho, Kim Ok-vin, Kim Hae-sook

Ancient Korea, July 4, 1762. The Crown Prince Hyojang, posthumously named Sado, son of King Yeongjo of Joseon, is accused of treason. Thus, the king asks him to commit suicide, but his closest vassals prevent it, so the king orders the prince to get inside a wooden rice chest, where he suffers deprivation of food and water.
Dir. Lee Joon-ik · With Yoo Ah-in, Song Kang-ho, Lee Hyo-je

Two spies share a secret bond, despite their loyalties. A North Korean assassin is sent to Seoul to kill a dissident, but instead he teams up with a South Korean agent in search for revenge.
Dir. Jang Hoon · With Song Kang-ho, Gang Dong-won, Jeon Kuk-hwan

An exceptionally talented face reader becomes entangled in a bloody power struggle between a child king and his uncle who plans to usurp the throne.
Dir. Han Jae-rim · With Song Kang-ho, Lee Jung-jae, Baek Yoon-sik

In the 1970s, Director Kim is obsessed by the desire to re-shoot the ending of his completed film Cobweb, but chaos and turmoil grip the set with interference from the censorship authorities, and the complaints of actors and producers who can't understand the re-written ending. Will Kim be able to find a way through this chaos to fulfill his artistic ambitions and complete his masterpiece?
Dir. Kim Jee-woon · With Song Kang-ho, Lim Soo-jung, Oh Jung-se

North Korea's 8th Special Forces hijack a shipment of CTX, a potent new liquid explosive, and threatens South Korea as part of a plot to re-unify the two countries. Ryu and Lee, special agents of O.P., South Korea's secret intelligence service, attempt to track down the terrorists and find the CTX. Meanwhile Hee, the 8th's ultra-bad female sniper, resurfaces to wreak havoc and haunt Ryu.
Dir. Kang Je-kyu · With Han Suk-kyu, Choi Min-sik, Yunjin Kim

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
A beat cop and his rookie partner investigate a series of killings that seem to be carried out by a mysterious wolfdog.
Dir. Yoo Ha · With Song Kang-ho, Lee Na-young, Lee Sung-min
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