Best Lee Hee-jun movies

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Best Lee Hee-jun movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Lee Hee-jun movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don't know about Lee Hee-jun.

TOP 13:

Quick

Quick
Original Title: 퀵
Lee Hee-jun as: Daemang Chief
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller, Comedy
Release: 2011
A biker is forced to deliver a ticking time bomb by a mysterious caller who has put an explosive helmet on his ex-girlfriend.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Oh Jung-se movies?

TOP 12:

The Drug King

The Drug King
Original Title: 마약왕
Lee Hee-jun as: Choi Jin-pil
Genre: Crime, Adventure, Action
Release: 2018
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-witted and full of ambition, he eventually takes over the drug underworld and starts to lead a double life: a good community leader during the day but an infamous drug lord during the night.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Yoo Jae-myung movies?


TOP 11:

The Unjust

The Unjust
Original Title: 부당거래
Lee Hee-jun as: Detective Nam
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 Yoo Hae-jin movies?

TOP 10:

Badland Hunters

Badland Hunters
Original Title: 황야
Lee Hee-jun as: Yang Gi-su
Genre: Science Fiction, Action
Release: 2024
After a deadly earthquake turns Seoul into a lawless badland, a fearless huntsman springs into action to rescue a teenager abducted by a mad doctor.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Roh Jeong-eui movies?

TOP 9:

Sea Fog

Sea Fog
Original Title: 해무
Lee Hee-jun as: Chang-wook
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Release: 2014
A fishing-boat crew takes on a dangerous commission to smuggle a group of illegal immigrants from China to Korea.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Kim Sang-ho movies?


TOP 8:

The Man Standing Next

The Man Standing Next
Original Title: 남산의 부장들
Lee Hee-jun as: Kwak Sang-cheon
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Release: 2020
When the investigation of 'Koreagate' takes place, Park Yong-gak, a former KCIA director who knows everything about the government's operations, heads to the United States in exile.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Seo Hyun-woo movies?

TOP 7:

Secret Sunshine

Secret Sunshine
Original Title: 밀양
Lee Hee-jun as: Outdoor Player Meeting Volunteer
Genre: Drama
Release: 2007
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 fit in. After a sudden tragedy, Shin-ae turns to Christianity to relieve her pain, but when even this is not permitted, she wages a war against God.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Jang Hye-jin movies?

TOP 6:

Helpless

Helpless
Original Title: 화차
Lee Hee-jun as: No Seung-joo
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Release: 2012
A woman suddenly disappears. Her fiance then sets out to find her and, in the process, uncovers layers of dark hidden secrets.


TOP 5:

The Yellow Sea

The Yellow Sea
Original Title: 황해
Lee Hee-jun as: Boeun Cop 2
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Crime
Release: 2010
A Korean man in China takes an assassination job in South Korea to make money and find his missing wife. But when the job is botched, he is forced to go on the run from the police and the gangsters who paid him.

TOP 4:

Miss Baek

Miss Baek
Original Title: 미쓰백
Lee Hee-jun as: Jang-seop
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Crime
Release: 2018
A woman's past as a convict follows her everywhere and because of this she doesn't open up to others. But then she strikes up a friendship with a broken child who has suffered from domestic violence and decides to save the girl from the cruel world. A man who holds feelings for the woman, tries to protect her in his own way.

TOP 3:

The Flu

The Flu
Original Title: 감기
Lee Hee-jun as: Byung-Ki
Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
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.


TOP 2:

Another Child

Another Child
Original Title: 미성년
Lee Hee-jun as: Mr. Park
Genre: Drama
Release: 2019
Teenage girls suffer from conflicts from their parents' affairs. A baby from the affair is born, and the two families have to accept reality.

TOP 1:

1987: When the Day Comes

1987: When the Day Comes
Original Title: 1987
Lee Hee-jun as: Reporter Yoon Sang-sam
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.


If you like the best Lee Hee-jun movies, then you will also like the best Ma Dong-seok movies, where many of their films coincide.