Best Yoo Hae-jin movies

Original Title: 부당거래
Yoo Hae-jin as: Jang Seok-gu
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Release: 2010
An honest cop has to compromise with his principles when he is told to find a scapegoat for a high-profile serial killer case in exchange for a big promotion.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Ma Dong-seok movies?

Original Title: 주유소 습격사건
Yoo Hae-jin as: Gang 1 (uncredited)
Genre: Action, Comedy
Release: 1999
A quartet of disaffected Korean youths have robbed a Seoul gas station. After taking the gas station over, their wacky antics ensue; forcing the manager to sing, kidnapping customers that complain about the service, and staging fist-fights between street gang members and gas station employees; all of these reflect their own gripes against society.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Yu Oh-seong movies?

Original Title: 전우치
Yoo Hae-jin as: Chorangyi
Genre: Adventure, Action, Comedy, Fantasy
Release: 2009
Spanning four centuries in Korea, this epic action-adventure concerns a powerful pipe and a trio of wizards who will do anything to protect it.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Kang Dong-won movies?

Original Title: 해적: 바다로 간 산적
Yoo Hae-jin as: Cheol-bong
Genre: Action, History, Adventure
Release: 2014
A band of pirates and a group of bandits fight to catch a gray whale that has swallowed a royal stamp.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Hyun Bong-sik movies?

Original Title: 극비수사
Yoo Hae-jin as: Kim Joong-san
Genre: Crime, Drama
Release: 2015
A detective and a fortune teller join forces to find a kidnapped child whom no one expects to be alive. Based on a true story.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Jang Young-nam movies?

Original Title: 해안선
Yoo Hae-jin as: Cheol-gu
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Release: 2002
An overzealous soldier mentally deteriorates after killing an innocent man he thought was a spy.

Original Title: 왕의 남자
Yoo Hae-jin as: Yuk-gab
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Release: 2005
Set in the late 15th century during the reign of King Yeonsan, two male street clowns and tightrope walkers, Jangsaeng (Gam Wu-seong) and Gong-gil (Lee Joon-gi), are part of an entertainer troupe. Their manager prostitutes the beautiful Gong-gil to rich customers, and Jangsaeng is sickened by this practice. After Gong-gil kills the manager in defense of Jangsaeng, the pair flee to Seoul, where they form a new group with three other street performers...

Original Title: 공조
Yoo Hae-jin as: Kang Jin-tae
Genre: Action
Release: 2017
When a crime organization from North Korea crosses borders and enters South Korean soil, a South Korean detective must cooperate with a North Korean detective to investigate their whereabouts.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Lee Yi-kyung movies?

Original Title: 럭키
Yoo Hae-jin as: Hyung-wook
Genre: Action, Comedy
Release: 2016
A reverse comedy that tells the story of a perfectionist assassin who falls and hits his head in a sauna, giving him amnesia. When a down-and-out actor switches locker keys with him, they switch lives until the hit-man, who soon becomes an action hero on TV, starts to remember things.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Lee Dong-hwi movies?

Original Title: 승리호
Yoo Hae-jin as: Bubs
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Science Fiction
Release: 2021
In the year 2092, space is full of dangerous floating garbage like discarded satellites and deserted spaceships. The crew of a space junk collector ship called The Victory discovers a humanoid robot that’s known to be a weapon of mass destruction. They get involved in a risky business deal and travel through space looking for garbage they can make money off of while also competing with rival junk collectors.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Kim Tae-ri movies?

Original Title: 인간중독
Yoo Hae-jin as: Lim
Genre: Drama, Romance, Adventure
Release: 2014
In a Korean military camp in 1969, a married colonel falls madly in love with the beautiful wife of his new subordinate officer.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Ali Larter movies?

Original Title: 타짜
Yoo Hae-jin as: Ko Gwang-ryeol
Genre: Crime, Comedy
Release: 2006
A guy with a talent for cards makes his way into the dangerous world of underground gambling in this crime thriller from South Korea. Go-ni is a small-town guy with a big appetite for gambling.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Kim Hye-soo movies?

Original Title: 무사
Genre: History, Drama, Action
Release: 2001
In 1375, China was in chaos between Yuan Dynasty and Ming Dynasty. Coryo (an ancient kingdom of Korea then) sent a delegation of many diplomats, soldiers and a silent slave to make peace with the new Chinese government. However, this delegation got charged as spies and sent in exile to a remote desert.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Mikhail Galustyan movies?

Original Title: 이끼
Yoo Hae-jin as: Villager, Kim Deok-cheon
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Crime, Mystery
Release: 2010
A city boy visits a remote village to find out the reason behind his father's strange death. The locals are watching his every move and are eager to see him leave. As he starts to investigate, the village's sinister secrets begin to unravel.

Original Title: 베테랑
Yoo Hae-jin as: Choi Dae-woong
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Release: 2015
When an old collaborator gets severely injured, a veteran policeman tries to figure out the way to bring to justice the ultimately suspected aggressor, a spoiled young executive, heir to a mega corporation, who believes he is above the law.

Original Title: 공공의 적
Yoo Hae-jin as: Yong-man
Genre: Action, Drama
Release: 2002
A notorious dirty cop makes an honest attempt to catch a serial killer who even murdered his own parents.

Original Title: 타짜: 신의 손
Yoo Hae-jin as: Ko Kwang-ryeol
Genre: Drama, Crime
Release: 2014
Dae-gil has been skilled with his hands and has shown a strong desire for winning ever since he was a child. He will succeed his uncle and jump into the world of Tazza, risking his life in competition.

Original Title: 혈의 누
Yoo Hae-jin as: Dok-gi
Genre: Thriller, Mystery
Release: 2005
In 1808, an imperial investigator arrives on an idyllic island to investigate a series of grisly murders. The locals believe that a ghost is responsible, taking revenge for a wrongful execution seven years ago. But the investigator suspects that something else may be behind it all.

Original Title: 감기
Yoo Hae-jin as: Bae Kyung-Ub
Genre: Action, Drama
Release: 2013
A case of the flu quickly morphs into a pandemic. As the death toll mounts and the living panic, the government plans extreme measures to contain it.

Original Title: 1987
Yoo Hae-jin as: Han Byung-yong
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Release: 2017
In 1987 Korea, under an oppressive military regime, a college student gets killed during a police interrogation involving torture. Government of officials are quick to cover up the death and order the body to be cremated. A prosecutor who is supposed to sign the cremation release, raises questions about a 21-year-old kid dying of a heart attack, and he begins looking into the case for truth. Despite a systematic attempt to silence everyone involved in the case, the truth gets out, causing an eruption of public outrage.

Original Title: 택시운전사
Yoo Hae-jin as: Hwang Tae-sul
Genre: Drama, History, Action
Release: 2017
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.