Choi Min-sik

Choi Min-sik

  • Born: 1962-1-22
  • Birthplace: Seoul, Korea
  • Height: 5' 9¾" (1.77 m)
  • Profession: actor
  • Nationality: South Korea
  • Graduate School: Dongguk University
  • Representative Works: Swiri, Old Boy, Chihwaseon, Happy End, I Saw the Devil, Rules Of The Time, New World, 명량-회오리바다
  • CHOI MIN SIK (Choi Min-sik) [1]  , was born in Seoul, South Korea on May 30, 1962, graduated from the Department of Drama and Film , Dongguk University , and is a Korean actor.
    In 1999, starred in the action film " Swiri ". In 2002, he starred in " Happy End " and " Chihwaseon " [2-3]  . In 2003, with the thriller " Old Boy " won the Cannes Film Festival Jury Award, won the Grand Bell Awards , Blue Dragon Awards , Baeksang Art Awards three awards for best actor. In 2008, he starred and directed the first movie "Himalaya: Where the Wind Stops" [4]  .
    In 2010, with the thriller " I Saw the Devil ", he won the Golden Crow Award and the Baeksang Film Award in the competition of the 29th Brussels International Fantasy Film Festival [5-7]  . In 2011, with " Rules Of The Time ", he won the Best Actor in Asia Pacific Screen Awards, Blue Dragon Awards and Built Film Awards. In 2013, with the action film " New World ", he won the 34th Korean Film Blue Dragon Awards and the 49th Korean Baeksang Art Awards [8]  . In 2014, with the action history film " 명량-회오리바다 " and the action thriller " Lucy ", he became the first Korean actor to star in two films and win box office titles in South Korea and North America at the same time [9]  . On December 16, 2014, he won the "Korea TOP STAR" award in the "2014 Star Night" event [10]  . In January 2015, starring in the historical action film " 명량-회오리바다 " broke the box office record of Korean film history [11]  , and won the 51st Korean Film Grand Bell Awards and the 6th Annual Film Awards for Best Actor. In 2016, he participated in the movie " The Mayor ".

    Performing Experience

    In 1999, he starred in the action film " Swiri " and played a North Korean agent   . In 2001, he cooperated with CC in the film " Failan ", which won the special prize of the jury of the South Korean film Grand Bell Awards   . In 2002, CHOI MIN SIK, Do-yeon Jeon and Joo Jin Mo starred in " Happy End " and played the banker Min Ki   . In the same year, with Ahn Sung Kee and Son Ye Jin, he starred in the biopic " Chihwaseon " directed by Kwon-taek Im . The film won the Palme d’Or. For this film, CHOI MIN SIK won the Cannes Film Festival’s Best Director Award, shaping 16 The artistic image of the talented Korean painter Jang Seung-se of the century . 
    In 2003, CHOI MIN SIK and Korean noir film director Park Chan-wook released the second thriller " Old Boy " in the "Revenge Trilogy" , which won the Grand Bell Awards , The Best Actor Award for the three awards ceremony of Blue Dragon Awards and Baeksang Art Awards  . In 2004, he starred in the film " Springtime " and in the same year participated in the war film " TaeGukGi: Brotherhood Of War ", playing the role of the Korean People's Soldier   .
    In August 2005, CHOI MIN SIK and Li Qiu, Xu Huilin starring action film " Jumeogi UNDA ", plays beaten boxer living on the streets of the Thai ginger plant, and 류승범 played by Liu juvenile training centers with the last hope for change challenge Rookie finals, pay tribute to Jackie Chan  . Because the film was released in South Korea in advance, it lost the qualification to participate in the Cannes competition, but won the "Critics Association Award" in the "Director's Fortnight" unit, and was hailed as one of the ten best films of the year by the Korean media and "2005" The first Asian film in 2015"   . In the same year, CHOI MIN SIK and Park Chan-wook once again collaborated on the final chapter of the "Vengeance Trilogy", "The Kind Gold ", and Kaneko , played by the heroine Lee Young Ae , tried his best to revenge   .
    In October 2008, he starred and directed the first film "Himalaya: Where the Wind Stops", which was co-operated with China Zhongbo Film and Television, and played a middle-aged man named CHOI . In 2010, he co-starred with Lee Byunghun in the thriller " I Saw the Devil " and played a serial murderous demon. The film won the Golden Crow Award and the Baeksang Film Award at the 29th Brussels International Fantasy Film Festival .    
    In 2011, co-starring with Ha Jung Woo in the crime film " Rules Of The Time " directed by Yoon Jong-bin , won the 6th Asia Pacific Screen Awards for Best Actor and 33rd Blue Dragon Awards for Best Actor Actor and Best Actor in the 21st Buil Film Awards . 
    In 2013, CHOI MIN SIK co-starred with Hwang Jeong Min and Lee Jung Jae in the action film " New World " directed by Hoon-jung Park . In the film, he played the old detective of the police station and Hwang Jeong who starred in the "second boss" of the gangster. Min fought with Lee Jung Jae, who was an "inside line" of the police, and the film won the 34th Korean Film Blue Dragon Awards and the 49th Korean Baeksang Art Awards .   
    In 2014, he starred in the action history film " 명량-회오리바다 " directed by Han-minKim , which was adapted from the historical 1597 "Battle of Mingliang". CHOI MIN SIK played the role of a famous general Yi Sun-sin in the film   . In the same year, he co-starred with Scarlett I. Johansson and Morgan Freeman in the Taipei-based sci-fi action film " Lucy " directed by Luc Besson , as the villain . " 명량-회오리바다 " and " Lucy " respectively won the North American box office champions in South Korea. CHOI MIN SIK became the first Korean actor to appear in the two films to win the box office champions in South Korea and North America at the same time .  
    In 2015 , he co-starred with Jeong Man Sik and Kim Sangho in the historical war film " The Tiger " with the background of the Korean Japanese Occupation period , and played the well-known tiger hunter Cheon Mandeok  . In 2016, he co-starred with Guo Duyuan in " The Mayor " directed by 박인제 , and played the role of a politician who challenged the three elections of the mayor of Seoul in the film   .

    Character Evaluation

    In " I Saw the Devil ", CHOI MIN SIK's acting skills are really superb. A serial killer makes him shudder. He shows a completely demon-like character who is completely inhuman, who enjoys killing people and has no specific purpose. sex   , with " Old Boy " by the media and critics called a "dream-like performance", "fantastic interpretation of" Korean cinema known as the "Korean Chow Yun Fat " (LOS . 
    Extended Reading
    • Fabian 2022-04-20 09:02:25

      Korean native movies under standard Hollywood routines

      Because of the recent Korean film studies course, I have been frantically supplementing Korean films recently. This is also the third Korean film I supplemented myself with. Compared with "Old Boy", "Drunk Painting Fairy", "The Next Girl", "Empty Room", etc. that I have seen before, it is very...

    • Bernard 2022-04-19 09:02:45

      over time

      Maybe it was a good movie in 1998. I heard that the financial turmoil in those years actually promoted the prosperity of Korean movies. This movie increased the attendance rate of the movie with an average audience of 1 million to 6 million. It is for this reason that I found this movie to watch....

    • Coralie 2022-04-24 07:01:23

      God forgive me I only watched this movie now

    • Francisca 2022-04-24 07:01:23

      Choi Min-sik Choi Min-sik~