Biography
Song Kang-ho (송강호) (born January 17, 1967) is a South Korean actor. Considered one of the best actors of the 21st century, he is most known for his collaborations with directors Park Chan-wook and Bong Joon-ho. He was part of the cast that won Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture at the 26th Screen Actors Guild Awards for Parasite (2019), was awarded Best Actor at the 75th Cannes Film Festival for his performance in Broker (2022), and has been named Gallup Korea's Film Actor of ...
Known For
Complete Filmography

One Win
2024
as Kim Woo-jin
A former volleyball star, Woo-jin has been struggling to keep his children's volleyball school that's about to go out of business. Left without much c...

Cobweb
2023
as Director Kim
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 inte...

Emergency Declaration
2022
as Gu In-ho
While investigating a terroristic threat that goes viral online, Korean authorities discover that a suspect has recently boarded an international flig...

Broker
2022
as Sang-hyun
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 t...

Lee Chang-dong: The Art of Irony
2022
as Self
A portrait of the South Korean screenwriter, director and producer Lee Chang-Dong through his work, this documentary provides a thematic analysis of h...

The King's Letters
2019
as King Sejong
In the 15th century, despite so many accomplishments he has made for the people, King Sejong, his biggest goal is still remaining; the invention of or...

Parasite
2019
as Kim Ki-taek
All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpe...

The Drug King
2018
as Lee Doo-sam
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-...

Memories
2018
as Self
The documentary gives a voice to all those who have experienced the crazy adventure of shooting Memories of Murder.

A Taxi Driver
2017
as Kim Man-seob
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 foreig...

Decades Apart
2017
as Sgt. Oh Kyeong-pil
For the work Decades Apart commissioned by the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain for the exhibition Highlights, PARKing CHANce has conceived a...

The Age of Shadows
2016
as Lee Jung-chool
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 explos...

The Throne
2015
as King Yeongjo
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 a...

The Attorney
2013
as Song Woo-seok
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 hi...

Where is my DVD?
2013
as Self
Go Gi-hwan is the actor who was starred in a large number of short films. However, he couldn't get any dvd from the directors. He's decided to collect...

The Face Reader
2013
as Nae-kyung
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.

Snowpiercer
2013
as Namgoong Minsu
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 tr...

Day Trip
2012
as Teacher
A master and his student visit a mountain to practice pansori (a musical storytelling performed by a singer and a drummer) after a music competition w...

Ari Ari the Korean Cinema
2012
as Himself
Director Chung Ji-Young criticizes the thought that older directors have difficulties in making certain movies. Actress Yoon Jin-Seo agonizes over her...

Howling
2012
as Jo Sang-gil
A beat cop and his rookie partner investigate a series of killings that seem to be carried out by a mysterious wolfdog.

Hindsight
2011
as Du-heon
A young assassin is sent to kill a retired mob boss. But things get complicated when she begins to like him.

A Little Pond
2010
as Police officer (cameo)
The Korean war does not start well for the US. They are being routed by the North Koreans and In July 1950, the early stage of the Korean War, at the ...

Secret Reunion
2010
as Lee Han-kyu
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 S...

Thirst
2009
as Priest Sang-hyeon
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 transfu...

The Good, the Bad, the Weird
2008
as Yoon Tae-goo
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 hun...

Secret Sunshine
2007
as Kim Jong-chan
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...

The Show Must Go On
2007
as Kang In-goo
A middle-aged gangster's lifetime of mistakes catch up with him as his personal and professional life is destroyed.

The Host
2006
as Park Gang-du
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 he...

Making Memories of Murder
2005
as Himself
Made in 2004, this extensive documentary chronicles the production and release of Memories of Murder.

Lady Vengeance
2005
as Assassin 1
Released after being wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for 13 years, a woman begins executing her elaborate plan of retribution.

Antarctic Journal
2005
as Choi Do-hyung
Arctic cold and paranoia take their toll as Korean explorers are beset by the same strange occurrences that preceded the disappearance of a British te...
The Power of Love
2004

The President's Barber
2004
as Seong Han-mo
A well-meaning but politically naive barber gets pulled into the inner circle of the South Korean dictator Park Chung-Hee, with rather baleful consequ...

Memories of Murder
2003
as Detective Park Doo-man
During the late 1980s, two detectives in a South Korean province attempt to solve the nation's first series of rape-and-murder cases.

YMCA Baseball Team
2002
as Lee Ho-chang
Hochang accidentally sees missionaries and Jeongrim play baseball at the YMCA hall. He falls in love with Jeongrim, and takes interest in baseball. As...

Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
2002
as Dong-jin
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 situ...

Joint Security Area
2000
as Sgt. Oh Kyeong-pil
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 t...

The Foul King
2000
as Lim Dae-ho
A timid and extravagant bank clerk, Dae-ho is considered inefficient at his workplace. As he tries to be recognized by his superior, his efforts only ...

Shiri
1999
as Lee Jang-gil
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 ...

The Quiet Family
1998
as Young-min
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 b...

No. 3
1997
as Jo-pil
Tae-joo manages to rise in rank in a gang for saving the boss's life. However, prosecutor Dong-pal appears in front of him as his sworn enemy. Meanwhi...

Timeless Bottomless Bad Movie
1997
as Big Eyes
Children who refuse to live with their families or give up on the streets work at a bar or steal money. When you don't have money, you'd rather starve...

Green Fish
1997
as Pan-su
Returning home and finding his town drastically changed, a former soldier falls in with gangsters.

The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well
1996
as Dong-suk
The lives of 4 interconnected South Koreans - a married couple, a novelist the wife is having an affair with, and a second woman the novelist is simul...

Shaolin Women's Soccer
N/A
The Emei team participated in Asian Women's Champions League, and was not favored, but captain Shuangshuang were invincible after getting help from se...
Drishyam
N/A
Producer
A Korean-language remake of the critically and commercially acclaimed 2015 Malayalam film of the same name. A simple, street-smart man tries to protec...