Lee Joon Ik

Lee Joon Ik is a South Korean film director and producer. He is best known for directing and producing King and the Clown (2005), one of the highest-grossing Korean films of all time. Other notable films include Sunny (2008), Hope (2013), The Throne (2015) and Dongju: The Portrait of a Poet (2016).

Information

Name Lee Joon Ik

Nationality South Korean

Gender Male

Born September 25, 1959

Age 62

Type South Korean

Statistics

Popularity #25

Movie

Na Mi fondly recalls her childhood pal Chun Hwa, who befriended her as the ostracized, new girl in school, welcoming her into a clique nicknamed “Sunny.” Together, they survive tumultuous ’80s Seoul and vow to remain together forever. Now a housewife with an ungrateful teenage daughter and trapped i...

On the way to school, a young girl named So Won (which literally means "desir" or "hope" in Korean) is sexually assaulted by a drunk male unknown. As a result, she suffers from multiple internal injuries and has to undergo a major surgical operation, but her emotional injuries are just as difficult...

At the height of the 16th-century Joseon Dynasty, a pair of rural male actors - boisterous, macho Jang Seng and quiet, feminine Gong Gil - travels to Seoul and team up with a struggling acting troupe. When their irreverent show, complete with enough bawdy humor and gender-bending to make a contempor...

In the year 1762, when King Yeong Jo of the Joseon dynasty's been ruling for 35 years already, Crown prince Sa Do is accused of plotting treason by his biological mother lady Yi. King Yeong Jo falls into a dilemma since he could not penalize his own son as a traitor as it would mean that he would be...

The underground rapper Hak Soo challenged the television audition program for 6 years but never came to the final. On the day he failed his 7th audition, he received a call from his hometown telling him that his father was in the hospital. He rushed to his hometown, Byun San, which he had left from...

Based on the life and work of Korea’s renowned poet, Yun Dong Ju. Dong Ju, while studying literature in Japan, was charged and detained for having participated in the Korean Independence Movement. Known to have created hundreds of poems during his time in jail where he spent the last two years of hi...

History takes place in Korea under Japanese domination. In 1923, a strange rumor spread that about 6,000 Koreans were massacred after the great Kanto earthquake. In order to conceal this event, the Japanese ministry decides that they need another great subject to divert people's attention. They then...

Ki Young is an unemployed lay-about who, after attending a school chum's funeral, persuades two other friends to restart their old college band. The hardworking Sung Wook and the lonely Hyuk Soo reluctantly agree when they come to the realization that two jobs and solitary nights can't be all there...

In 1971 Korea, Soon Yi is an average housewife, whose only hobby is singing. At the time, some 320,000 Korean men are dispatched to fight alongside American troops in the Vietnam War, and her husband, Sang Gil, is one of them. She decides to go to Vietnam to search for Sang Gil by joining a "consola...

A.D. 667C, a rising kingdom in the Korean peninsula, Shilla, attacks the biggest kingdom Goguryeo in alliance with Tang. Goguryeo has been the most powerful kingdom so far even threatening the Tang Dynasty in China. Natural-born-strategist Kim from Shilla notices Tang’s ambition about conquering Shi...

In the 600's, there were endless disputes between the three separate kingdoms that now make up the modern-day Korean peninsula, Baekche, Goguryo and Shilla. The king of Shilla, Kim Choon Chu established diplomatic and military ties with the super-power Tang, or as we know it today, China. He ordered...

Ishikawa Kazuto is a first-class architect. He is married to Kiyomi. They have a son, Tadashi, who attends high school and a daughter, Miyabi, who attends middle school. They live together in a refined home, designed by Kazuto. An injury causes Tadashi to quit playing soccer. Since that time, Tadash...

A Hong Kong computer designer moved to Canada in 1997. After a series of trials, he and his family returned to Hong Kong. He was successful in his career until he was caught up in politics and scandals behind the scenes at the 2004 Olympic Games in China.

Jung Yak Jeon is a scholar and bureaucrat. He is exiled to the remote island Heuksando. There, he becomes fascinated with fish and decides to write about them. Jung Yak Jeon asks young fisherman Chang Dae for help, but Chang Dae turns him down. He states that he does not want to help a criminal. Jun...

Set in 16th Century Joseon era (1592) South Korea, "Like the Moon Escaping from the Clouds" details the plight of men from the lower classes of society who fight for social equality.

The year 1988 saw a bunch of flashes in the pan in the pop music industry, and has-been rock star CHOI Gon was one of them. After his only hit song 'The Rain and You', he became involved in drug problems, mob fights, and now sings in a café in the countryside. He one day gets into a fight with one o...

Jun Ho plans to give a present to his favorite female friend, Eun Su. However, Junho's plan failed due to Hyung Tae's advancement towards Eun Su. This has prompted Junho to go to a shopping mall, where Eun Su's favorite singer holds a fan meeting. The kids meet together and disturbed the shopping ma...

A Philippine adaptation of the 2011 hit Korean movie, Sunny is the story of a middle-aged woman who dreams to fulfill her dying wish to reunite with high school friends. (Source: msn)

Drama

Set in the 2040s in the large city area of South Korea. It depicts the story of a man who lives in agony, unable to forget his wife who died of cancer. Then one day, he receives an unknown email and chooses to abandon his body to go live with his wife. It will portray a world where one can live...

TV Show

On this hilarious talk show, four DJs ask their celebrity guests those sensitive questions that everyone wants to know the answer to.

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