Biography
Yang Ik-june (born October 19, 1975) is a South Korean actor and film director. He is best known for the 2009 film Breathless, which he wrote, directed, edited, and starred in.
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Killers
2024
as Boss (segment "Metamorphosis")
Four master helmers from Korea reload the hitman flick. Vampire sleaze, assassin slapstick, neo-noir, and an avant-garde mind-bender to die (kill) for...

Confession
2024
as Ryu Ji-yong
A suspense thriller about two men, one of whom tells his darkest secret to the other, and the ensuing fight for survival between the two in a snowboun...

Believer 2
2023
as Chief Woo
A determined detective continues his search for the truth behind Asia's largest drug organization and its elusive boss he has unfinished business with...

Jjigae
2023
as Jung
Amy, adopted by an American family as a child, visits a jjigae restaurant in Jungnang-gu, Seoul. She introduces herself as a chef from the U.S. to Eun...

Re-LOVE
2022

Re-LOVE
2022
Director

Departure
2021
as him
She's coming back to where she used to be after 3 years of journey to Japan. There she wanted to stay and get over feelings from break up.

Departure
2021
Director, Writer, Editor
She's coming back to where she used to be after 3 years of journey to Japan. There she wanted to stay and get over feelings from break up.

Sunwoo and Ikjune
2021
as Ik-june
Currently, Sunwoo and Ikjune are lovers and co-directors of a movie. The film starts with a landscape shot at dawn. Ikjune is smoking a cigarette from...

Sunwoo and Ikjune
2021
Director, Writer, Editor
Currently, Sunwoo and Ikjune are lovers and co-directors of a movie. The film starts with a landscape shot at dawn. Ikjune is smoking a cigarette from...

Georgia
2021
Associate Producer
When the police refuse to investigate their daughter’s alleged suicide, two computer-illiterate parents decide to design a protest banner. Based on t...
Kashi bōto jū san-gō
2020
Although greatly abbreviated and simplified, and in a back-and-forth sequence, almost all of the dialogue and narration is based on words extracted fr...

LaLaLa
2017
Director, Writer
Min-joon is resting with his eyes closed on the bench. At that time, Woo-yeon begin to tell Min-joon worries about her acting, and Min-joon sincerely...

Ah, Wilderness: Part 2
2017
as Barikan ('Hair clipper')
Set in the near future around Shinjuku, Tokyo. Shinji got out from a youth detention center. Barikan suffers from stuttering and extreme shyness. The...

Ah, Wilderness: Part 1
2017
as Barikan ('Hair clipper')
Set in the near future around Shinjuku, Tokyo. Shinji got out from a youth detention center. Barikan suffers from stuttering and extreme shyness. The...

The Poet and the Boy
2017
as Hyun Taek-ki
Trapped in routine, a Jeju poet finds himself drawn to a boy—and to emotions he’s never dared name.

A Quiet Dream
2016
as Ik-june
They're losers, but nice ones. Every day they sit at Yeri's bar, smitten by the young Chinese-Korean woman. Yeri doesn't have a preference. To her, th...

Canola
2016
as Choong-seop
A girl who went missing after an accident returns 10 years later and reunites with her grandmother.

Intimate Enemies
2015
as Eumbuki
At a car accident site, Ji-Noo (Ryoo Seung-Bum), Na-Mi (Koh Joon-Hee), Jung-Sook (Ryoo Hyoun-Kyoung) and Yakuboo (Samuel Okyere) find a bag filled wit...

Set Me Free
2014
as Beom-tae's Father
The seventeen year old 'Yeong-jae' was safely sent away to the group home 'Isaac's house'. He is old enough to leave now, but doesn't want to go back ...

Short Plays
2014
Director
Football seen through the eyes of some of the best directors of the world.

The Fake
2013
as Kim Min-chul (voice)
A convict returns to his home town to again torture his family, face his neighbors and try to destroy the local religious fanatics and their plans to ...

Maruyama, the Middle Schooler
2013
Katsuya Maruyama is a middle school student boy full of obscene thoughts. He then meets Tatsuo Shimoi, a single father who moves into the same apartme...
Shibata & Nagao
2012
Director, Writer
Shibata and Nagao meet and talk. Stories about the seasons, stories about the people who have who live their. And their story ends with one end.

Our Homeland
2012
as Mr. Yang
From the late 1950s through the '70s, more than 90,000 of the ethnic Koreans in Japan emigrated to North Korea, a country that promised them affluence...

The King of Pigs
2011
as Jung Jong-suk (voice)
Two friends, Jung Jong-suk and Hwang Kyung-min, meet after several years and talk about their time in school, which left them scarred.

Immaturity
2011
Director, Writer, Editor
Jin-cheol wakes up in the morning to find a stranger in bed with him. To make matters worse, she is in high school! What will happen to the two? Will ...

A Time to Love
2011
Director, Screenplay
Moon, a middle aged woman who works at a mart while raising a high school daughter alone. Moon had come to Lake Sanjeong with her crush on a picnic la...

Magic and Loss
2010
as Bellboy
A dreamlike drama produced by and starring Sugino Kiki, a rising star in the independent film world. Two women who meet on a mysterious resort island ...

Looking for My Wife
2010
as Hwang Dong-min
With a body and voice that’s easy on the eyes and ears, popular music critic Sung-hee announces his plans for divorce on live radio without informing ...

Breathless
2009
as Sang-hoon
Sang-hoon is a lowlife gangster, a debt collector exercising thuggish ways to collect his money. The recipient of nothing but anger since his childhoo...

Breathless
2009
Director, Writer, Editor
Sang-hoon is a lowlife gangster, a debt collector exercising thuggish ways to collect his money. The recipient of nothing but anger since his childhoo...

Lovers
2008
Unique sensibility of independent film being ' Triple Treats ' omnibus melodrama tied a piece of 11 short films director .

Love Is Protein
2008
as Jae-ho
One idle summer night, three poor housemates, Jae-ho, Kyeong-soon, and Hong-chan order fried chicken with the money from the shattered piggy bank. Whe...

Viva! Love
2008
as Student Boarder 1
An unhappy woman in her 50s is knocked up by her daughter's boyfriend after a one night stand. With the neighborhood in shock and her family up in arm...

The Worst Man of My Life
2007
as advertising company employee (cameo)
Ju-eyon and Seong-tae have been best friends ever since they first met each other 10 years ago. But in one night their 10 year friendship comes crashi...

Maundy Thursday
2006
as Hwan-gyu
Yu-jeong is suicidal, yet she reluctantly goes to prison for volunteer work. There, she meets a prisoner who is waiting for death penalty. The two qui...

Les Formidables
2006
as Yang Jin-soon
Desperate to discover who framed him for murder, criminal Su-hyun escapes from police custody and crosses path with cop Sung-woo. After realizing they...

Always Behind You
2005
as Jun-ho
Jun-ho likes taking pictures, and so does Sung-hee... He is showing her how to take pictures. One day, Suk-ho who has taught him taking pictures asks ...

Always Behind You
2005
Editor, Director, Writer
Jun-ho likes taking pictures, and so does Sung-hee... He is showing her how to take pictures. One day, Suk-ho who has taught him taking pictures asks ...

Arahan
2004
as Drain Pipe Worker 2 (uncredited)
Sang-hwan became a cop in order to help the downtrodden, but he doesn't get much respect. All that changes when he meets the Seven Masters.

Conduct Zero
2002
as Seseam 2
When Joong-pil, the biggest bully in his high-school by far finds himself harboring feelings for a classmate, his entire identity is thrown off balanc...