Top 6 South Korean Action Movies Ever Till 2022

Korean cinematography has expanded significantly in the last two decades and is now among the best outside of Hollywood. Everything they produce is a little unique, very alluring, and very interesting. Their films are definitely worth watching, whether mind-blowing thrillers or tragic dramas.

Here is the list of the top 6 south Korean action movies ever till 2022 for you.

1. Train to Busan (2016)

An intense family drama, a spine-tingling horror film, and an action-packed adventure are all combined in this film, which also features one of the supernatural world's greatest threats to humanity: zombies.

The plot centres on a busy father and his young daughter who take a fast train from Seoul to Busan at the start of the end of the world when most people start turning into zombies. The nightmare starts at this point, and this one is even more dramatic because the main protagonists are in a closed space, are unaware of what is happening outside, and are constantly threatened by the danger that not only lurks outside but soon also inside.

2. Snowpiecer (2013)

One of the tense and well-received SCI-FI action films of the past ten years is Snowpiercer. It takes place in the future, after a climate change experiment has killed everyone but the passengers of the Snowpiercer train. The passengers are divided into classes on this train that circles the globe, and as these divisions result in new class structures, gradually everything starts to change. There will be some passengers who will strongly object to those changes.

3. A Hard Day (2014)

Detective Go Geon-soo had a terrible day because everything that could have gone wrong did in the past 24 hours: his wife filed for divorce, his mother passed away, and the police are looking into him and his colleagues for possible embezzlement. And if that weren't enough, Go Geon-soo commits a fatal hit-and-run and conceals the body in his mother's coffin in this action thriller, which then introduces us to a game of cat and mouse. Soon after, he receives a strange phone call from a stranger who threatens him and claims to have seen everything. Geon-see is becoming more and more entangled in this nightmare of crime and poor decisions as the plot thickens.

4. Assassination (2015)

This action-crime drama, which is set in 1933, transports us to a time when the Japanese army was occupying Korea and the Korean resistance was beginning to plan attacks on their adversaries. Many of them are now attempting to act from a distance after being sent to China. They intend to kill the Japanese commander, but Ahn Ok-yun, who is currently serving time in a prison in Shanghai, is their best sniper. The Koreans discover there is a traitor among them as soon as the Japanese learn about the resistance agent's plan to rescue her and her friends from captivity. The real action starts at this point because Ahn Ok-yun must not only escape the Chinese prison but also deal with the Japanese army.

5. I Saw the Devil (2010)

It is a crime drama about an astute secret agent who made the decision to find a dangerous serial killer who had committed numerous horrifying murders. Soo-hyun will start a hunt where he will question his personal beliefs and views and even allow them to be changed in order to receive justice, motivated by his own personal motivations and feelings of retribution. Due to its incredibly realistic portrayal of a dejected man who has lost everything, this movie is a great example of how sometimes even the best of us can lose it and forget who we were. As a result, it is so well-liked by the audience.

6. Space Sweepers (2021)

Despite its lack of familiar Korean cinematography, Space Sweepers is still a film worth mentioning for its diversity of genres. This action-packed drama, which is set in the year 2092, centres on the crew of The Victory, a space junk collector ship tasked with clearing out a region littered with hazardous waste and abandoned goods. They are also searching for trash that they can use to generate income, but when they come across Dorothy, a humanoid robot known to be a weapon of mass destruction, their objectives are completely altered.