
Kwak Jae-yong
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Biography
Kwak Jae-yong is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. He studied physics at Kyung Hee University. He achieved success with his debut film Watercolor Painting in a Rainy Day in 1989, but the failure of his next two movies led to eight years of unemployment before a comeback with the smash-hit film My Sassy Girl in 2001. He is known for his limitless fondness of love stories set in a mix of different genres. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kwak Jae-yong, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For

Set in the Joseon Dynasty period, a romance takes place between cold-hearted Gyun-Woo and Princess Hyemyung who causes troubles.
My Sassy Girl

A group of close friends who attend a private school all have a debilitating crush on the sunny star pupil, Sun-ah. The only member of the group who claims not to is Jin-woo, but he ends up loving her as well.
You Are the Apple of My Eye

A dweeby, mild-mannered man comes to the aid of a drunk young woman on a subway platform. Little does he know how much trouble he’s in for.
My Sassy Girl

A romantic comedy of a young man and woman that is told in the background of hotel 'Emross'. It has stories of people who met each other at Hotel Emross during the New Year holidays. Each one has his own memory to relate and create relationships or just going nostalgic.
A Year-End Medley

A guy has his life planned out until he is wooed, groomed and then dumped by an elusive woman.
My Sassy Girl

Ji-hae's friend is having problems expressing her feelings to the boy she loves, so she asks Ji-hae to write e-mails to him in her name. As the boy falls in love with her letters, Ji-hae discovers the story of her mother's romance which is remarkably similar to her own circumstances.
The Classic

Ryokiteki na Kanojo is a Japanese television drama based on the South Korean movie My Sassy Girl. It narrates the story between Saburo Masaki, a marine biologist, and Riko Takami, an aspiring writer with a short temper. While the two are at odds with each other at first, they eventually become attracted to each other and develop a relationship. It received an average of 8.18% viewer rating throughout the series.
My Sassy Girl

A lonely university student develops a romance with a beautiful interesting woman, who turns out to be a cyborg from the future.
Cyborg She

A six-part extended version of the film "A Year-End Medley" (2021). It depicts the story of clients who visit the hotel 'Emross' with their own stories as they make their own relations in their own style.
A Year-End Medley: Extended Version

To fight for custody of his daughter who loves playing the piano, a steel factory worker decides to forge a piano from scratch.
The Piano in a Factory

Qian Niu is just a typical boy. On flight to Shanghai, he meets a superstar named Xiao Xia. She accidentally takes his luggage and then it begins their hilariously funny story... He unexpectedly becomes Xiao Xia's personal assistant and Xiao Xia just couldn't help herself but bullies him
My Sassy Girl

A painter in Amsterdam receives flowers from a mysterious admirer, while a hitman and cop find themselves in conflict.
Daisy

Kyung-jin, a police officer who finds herself chasing down a suspected bag-snatcher on her day off. However, the man she catches turns out to be Myungwoo, a passer-by who was himself trying to apprehend the real criminal.
Windstruck

Two brothers get into a sudden tragic accident and they both fall into a coma at the same time. A year later, the younger brother Dae-jin wakes up believing he is his older brother Ho-jin.
Addicted

One month earlier, Shang Zhen (Lynn Hung) arrives in Seoul, South Korea, where she coincidentally meets Jian Yu (William Li), who had his marriage proposal rejected. Shang Zhen, who is still heartbroken, had a sudden idea: to use Jian Yu to sabotage her ex-boyfriend's wedding. Thus, Jian Yu follows Shang Zhen back to China, where she reveals her "wild" side. Shang Zhen's cousin, Yong Zhen (Feng Yuanzhen), is also much of a headache for men. Working as a Taekwondo coach, Yong Zhen has a student named Zhi Kai (He Jiong) who lacks masculinity. Zhi Kai admires Yong Zhen greatly but often suffers under her fists and feet. Jian Yu accompanies Shang Zhen in preparing for the wedding sabotage, but during a rehearsal, they offended a stranger. Meanwhile, the wedding date is fast approaching. The film is an unofficial sequel of the 2001 South Korean film "My Sassy Girl".
My Sassy Girl 2

Chinese romance film directed and co-written by Kwak Jae-yong, starring Oho Ou, Zhang Huiwen, Yang Zi, Wang Zhi, and Yao Lu. The film is an adaptation of Kyoichi Katayama's 2004 novel Socrates in Love. Crying Out In Love was released by Beijing Enlight Pictures on 26 August 2016
Crying Out In Love

So-hwi is a martial arts prodigy and college student. Realizing that her superhuman strength is holding back her love life, she decides to quit martial arts to pursue handsome hockey player Joon-mo. But Joon-mo is in love with an older woman, and when So-hwi's mystical martial arts community comes under threat from an old enemy, Heuk-bong, her childhood friend Il-yeong must persuade her to return.
My Mighty Princess

A high-school teacher in 1983 and a detective in 2015 join forces through their dreams to change the perilous fate of the woman they both love—30 years apart.
Time Renegades

In a love triangle that miraculously mirrors her mother's romance years ago, a young woman let's her heart lead.
Classic Again

Yuri leaves Ryo with mysterious words. Ryo goes to Hokkaido knowing that his doppelganger magician is missing. Ryo realizes Yuri was also the magician’s lover and he learns magic. The story that crosses over two identities, illusion and magic.