My is Kim Soo Hyun in One Ordinary Day, that performance made me feel like I was the one being falsely accused. What about you guys?

A couple really memorable ones for me were Wu Lei in Love Like the Galaxy (especially the revenge scene) and Lee Joon Gi in Flower of Evil.

If I have to pick only one then Shin Hye Sun in Mr Queen.

Yeah those are super good.

Mine would be the Mom in Beautiful World. It's always is so heartbreaking and inspiring 

Here's a kinda sorta top 10  :)

Ko Chia Yen in Someday or One Day

Shibasaki Kou in Orange Days

Ma Si Chun in Mr Fighting  and Soul Mate

Cho Seung Woo in Forest of Secrets  and  Forest of Secrets 2

Kiyohara Kaya in Okaeri Mone

Jian Man Shu in The Arc of Life

Zhou Dong Yu in Soul Mate

Lee Bo Young in Agency

Jo Bo Ah in Goodbye to Goodbye

Koshiba Fuka in Yuganda Hamon

  1. Park Earn Bin -Extraordinary Attorney Woo
  2. Son Ho Jun - Go Back Couple
  3. Yoo Seung Ho-I'm Not a Robot
  4. Seo Yea Ji-It's Okay to Not Be Okay
  5. Apo Nattawin Wattanagitiphat and Bible Wichapas Sumettikul-KinnPorsche
  6. Kim Jung Hyun-Kokdu: Season of Deity
  7. So Ji Sub-Oh My Venus 
  8. Lee Jong Suk - W 
  9. Kim Hae Sook and Kim Hye Soo -Under the Queen's Umbrella
  10. Raiku-Life: Love on the Line (Director's Cut)

In no particular order and too many to choose from but these are the most memorable to me so far for their preparation for the role and the emotions that they make me feel (good or bad)

  • Ji Sung - Kill Me Heal Me
  • Lee Joon Gi - Flower of Evil

But really, I just get impressed when I watch several of one actor's works back to back and the characters in each are very distinct. At the moment, thanks to Goblin, Gong Yoo and Lee Dong Wook are on my radar. The former through a comparison between his role as Goblin and the MC in Train to Busan, more so given they released in the same year. The latter between his role as Reaper and the secretive uncle in A Shop For Killers which I just finished binging this morning.

I agree with Kim Soo-hyun, he's a great actor. Some other performances that I was blown away by are:

  • Jeon Yeo-been in A Time Called You
  • Kim Tae-ri in Revenant
  • Lee Do Hyun in The Good Bad Mother
  • Hong Kyung in Weak Hero Class 1
  • Kim Soo-hyun, Oh Jung Se, and Seo Ye-jin in ITONBO
  • Shin Eun-soo in Twinkling Watermelon
  • Go Min Si in Youth of May