Lee Mi-yeon Movies

A would-be North Korean defector still reeling over the killing of his family by the communist government when he was just a child determines to destroy the Korean peninsula in a tense, politically minded action thriller directed by Kwak Kyung-taek and starring Jang Dong-gun, Lee Jung-jae, and Lee Mi-yeon. When a vessel sailing a few hundred kilometers off the northeast port of Jt Long in Taiwan is hijacked by pirates and the National Intelligence Service learns that a nuclear guidance kit has been stolen, they quickly dispatch naval lieutenant Kang, Se-jong (Lee Jung-jae) to find out who was responsible for the deed and to bring him to justice. The criminal mastermind in question is Sin (Jang Dong-gun), a man who harbors a deep-rooted hatred for the Korean government due to a tragic event that took place in his childhood. As a young boy, Sin's family had tried to defect to South Korea. When they were turned away by a government who feared complicating their relationship with China, however, Sin watched as his parents were brutally executed and his only sister, Choi, Myung-ju (Lee Mi-yeon), was taken away. Upon learning that Sin currently resides in Russia, Lieutenant Kang travels to the Eastern European republic as the tragedy of Sin's past slowly comes into focus for the sympathetic military man. His mission to apprehend Sin is clear, though, and despite his personal feelings Lieutenant Kang remains determined to get his man by any means necessary. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

Park Yeong-hun's Jungdok (Addicted) stars Lee Byeong-heon as man who may be possessed by his brother. Ho-jin (Lee Eul and Dae-jin (Byeong-heon) are brothers who are so close that Dae-jin continues to live with Ho-jin even after Ho-jin marries Han Eun-su (Lee Mi-yeon). Both brothers are involved in terrible auto accidents. When Dae-jin wakes out of his coma a few years later, he claims to be his brother. Eun-su does not believe Dae-jin, until he reveals a piece of information that only Ho-jin would have known. They eventually begin a relationship together. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide

A woman's love grows into something dangerous and troubling in this drama from South Korea. Jung Ae-ryeon (Lee Mi-yeon) is an obsessively tidy young woman who runs a video store. When musician Yu Dong-seok (Choe Woo-je) stops into the store to rent a movie, Jung is immediately taken with him, and quickly strikes up a friendship, though he informs her he has a girlfriend and isn't looking for another relationship. Jung's infatuation with Yu begins to develop into something deeper as she begins pulling strings to help his career, and before long her desire has crossed the line into an unhealthy fixation, as she starts sneaking into his apartment and following him in his daily routine. Mulgogi Jari marked the feature debut for director and screenwriter Kim Hyung-tae. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Eun-seok (Lee Jeong-jae), a struggling young filmmaker, is interviewing actors for an upcoming project when he is introduced to Yeong-heui (Shim Eun-ha), a hairdresser who tagged along with a close friend auditioning for a role. Eun-seok is struck by Yeong-heui's beauty, and he interviews her for a role, though she's quite shy and doesn't seem comfortable in front of a camera. Before Eun-seok can get his project off the ground, Yeong-heui disappears, and he discovers that the woman used an assumed name for her impromptu audition. Twelve months later, Eun-seok is working in France as part of the camera crew of another director's film, and he discovers Yeong-heui is living there, working as a dance instructor. He soon learns the truth about her recent past, while she is told of his failed romance in Paris. Intyebyu was shown in its native South Korea in a version running 107 minutes, while the print prepared for international distribution was expanded to 124 minutes. The original South Korean edition also bore the imprint of Dogma 95, a movement championing aesthetic asceticism in filmmaking that was founded in part by director Lars von Trier, though the longer cut did not carry the Dogma logo. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Every three years, the gloomy halls of a highly regimented all-girl Korean school are haunted by the spirit of a student who died as a result of her teachers' cruel forms of discipline. Though outwardly a Gothic, sometimes gruesome horror tale, the story is actually a critique of Korea's militaristic approach to education. At the school, it is not uncommon for errant students to be slapped or hit hard upon the head. The ghost died a decade before in a freak accident and since then her restless spirit reemerges at the same time and interval to get revenge by taking over the body of a new student and using her to cause all kinds of trouble for the instructors. One of those educators was a former student and a best friend of the deceased girl. The ghost's reign of terror is threatened by the presence of a shaman's daughter, who has at her disposal the means to send the ghost away forever. Yeogo Goedan was screened at the 1998 Vancouver Film Festival. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

Room 407 in a Seoul "love hotel" is rented by the night or by the hour. Four sequences take place inside Room 407: a young man awaits his girlfriend so they can celebrate her birthday; a college student plans to complete a video necessary for his filmmaking class, but his female lead is delayed by a TV news crew; and the young woman from the first sequence drunkenly returns to make love with a different man. In the concluding segment, a man phones a former girlfriend and invites her to room 407 -- an encounter that leads to some unpleasant memories. Shown at 1997 film festivals (Vancouver, Sundance). ~ Bhob Stewart, All Movie Guide