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Yoon Jong-bin (; born December 20, 1979) is a South Korean film director. He is best known for directing the feature films (2012), (2014), and The Spy Gone North (2018). Yoon also expanded into television, directing the series Narco-Saints (2022) and Nine Puzzles (2025).
His sophomore effort Beastie Boys (also known as The Moonlight of Seoul) showed another side of men -- male hosts who serve female clients in discreet salons tucked into the affluent fashion districts of southern Seoul.
In his third film , Yoon tackled corruption among prosecutors and customs officers and their collusion with the Kkangpae in 1980–1990s Busan. Unlike his first two films, Yoon's gangster saga was popular at the box office and became one of the biggest domestic hits of 2012.
Yoon further explored the themes of injustice and violence in his fourth film , a tale of 19th-century Joseon bandits who waged war against the nobility and corrupt government officials. When asked where he drew his inspiration from, Yoon answered, "I tapped into movies that I used to love as a child. Rather than making an intellectual film, I wanted to get hearts racing." By not giving the protagonist "hero-like characteristics," Yoon said he wanted to say through the film that "it is not the special or talented people, but very ordinary people who can change the world, especially when gathered en masse."
Yoon has worked with close friend and fellow Chung-Ang University alumnus Ha Jung-woo in all four of his features.
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| 2004 | Identification of a Man | |||
| 2005 | The Unforgiven | |||
| 2008 | Beastie Boys | |||
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| 2014 | ||||
| 2015 | A Violent Prosecutor | |||
| 2018 | The Spy Gone North | |||
| 2019 | Money | |||
| 2020 | The Closet | |||
| 2022 | Remember | |||
| 2025 | The Match |
| 2005 | The Unforgiven | Heo Ji-hoon | |
| 2008 | Nowhere to Turn | Cameo | |
| 2012 | Photographer | Cameo | |
| 2013 | The Berlin File | South Korean field analyst | Cameo |
| 2016 | A Quiet Dream | Jong-bin |
| 2022 | Narco-Saints | |||
| 2025 | Karma | |||
| Nine Puzzles |
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