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Best Gong Yoo movies

We present our ranking of the best Gong Yoo movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Gong Yoo.

TOP 11: Yakuza: Like a Dragon

Original Title: 龍が如く 劇場版
Gong Yoo as: Park
Genre: Action, Crime
Release: 2007
Former Yakuza underling Kiryu Kazuma, who has recently been released from prison after a lengthy incarceration, and is trying to piece his life together and distance himself from his Yakuza past. Unfortunately Kiryu's problems slowly escalate as he is pursued by a former associate, the baseball bat-wielding psycho Majima Goro who has a grudge to settle with Kiryu.


TOP 10: She's on Duty

Original Title: 잠복근무
Gong Yoo as: Kang No-young, boy at school, Jae-in's neighbour
Genre: Action, Comedy
Release: 2005
A boisterous detective goes undercover in a high school in order to befriend the teenage daughter of a notorious gangster.

TOP 9: Spy Girl

Original Title: 그녀를 모르면 간첩
Gong Yoo as: Choi Ko-bong
Genre: Action, Comedy, Romance
Release: 2004
The plot of this film has a young beautiful spy from North Korea going south to capture another rogue spy. She goes undercover at Burger King and soon she's battling with her co-workers for the affections of the local boys, dealing with a culture clash between North and South, and a very cute young man who's posted pictures of her on a website of local "angels" possibly blowing her cover.


TOP 8: My Tutor Friend

Original Title: 동갑내기 과외하기
Gong Yoo as: Jong-soo
Genre: Comedy
Release: 2003
This is a touching story of two completely different students from two completely different worlds. One is a rich male repeating his third year of high school and the other a poor girl in her second year of university struggling to make ends meet.


TOP 7: Finding Mr. Destiny

Original Title: 김종욱 찾기
Gong Yoo as: Han Gi-Joon
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Family
Release: 2010
A woman named Seo Ji-Woo (Im Soo-Jung) traveled to India and met her first true love Kim Jong-Ok. Since that time Ji-Woo can't forget her first love. She then turns the company "첫사랑 찾기 주식회사" - which means literally "Finding Your First True Love Company" to help track down Kim Jong-Ok. Han Gi-Joon (Gong Yoo) started "Finding Your First True Love Company" and he takes on Seo Ji-Woo is the company's first client. The pair travel all over Korea to find Seo Ji-Woo's first love and & in the process Han Gi-Joon falls in love with his first client ...

TOP 6: The Suspect

Original Title: 용의자
Gong Yoo as: Ji Dong-chul
Genre: Action, Thriller
Release: 2013
Dong-chul was the best special field agent in North Korea, but he’s abandoned by his government during a mission. While on the run, he looks for his wife and child, who were sold as slaves to China, only to discover their corpses. He soon finds out that his colleague was behind the killing and defects to the South in search of his nemesis. He looks for him during the day, and works as a temp driver at night and as a personal driver for Chairman PARK. One night the chairman is attacked and killed by an assassin, but not before handing over a pair of glasses to Dong-chul. He is now on the run again, accused of the chairman’s murder by the intelligence service, while trying to uncover the secret contained inside the glasses. Little did he know that depending on who ultimately gains control of the secret, it could either become a national threat or treasure.


TOP 5: A Man and a Woman

Original Title: 남과 여
Gong Yoo as: Ki-hong
Genre: Drama, Romance
Release: 2016
Two strangers have dropped their kids off at a pickup area for a children’s camp in Helsinki, Finland. A spark of mutual interest is ignited between the man and woman.


TOP 4: The Age of Shadows

Original Title: 밀정
Gong Yoo as: Kim Woo-jin
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Release: 2016
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 explosives from Shanghai to destroy key Japanese facilities in Seoul, and Japanese agents trying to stop them.

TOP 3: Train to Busan

Original Title: 부산행
Gong Yoo as: Seok Woo
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Release: 2016
Martial law is declared when a mysterious viral outbreak pushes Korea into a state of emergency. Those on an express train to Busan, a city that has successfully fended off the viral outbreak, must fight for their own survival…


TOP 2: Kim Ji-young, Born 1982

Original Title: 82년생 김지영
Gong Yoo as: Jung Dae-hyun
Genre: Drama
Release: 2019
Kim Ji-young, an ordinary woman in her 30s, suddenly shows signs of being inhabited by others such as her late mother and older sister, and the stories of the people connected to her.


TOP 1: Silenced

Original Title: 도가니
Gong Yoo as: Kang In-ho
Genre: Drama
Release: 2011
Based on actual events that took place at Gwangju Inhwa School for the hearing-impaired, where young deaf students were the victims of repeated sexual assaults by faculty members over a period of five years in the early 2000s.

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