Choi Min-sik

This is a Korean name; the family name is Choi.

Choi Min-sik
Born	January 22, 1962 (1962-01-22) (age 49) Seoul, South Korea
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1989 - present
Korean name
Hangul	최민식
Hanja	崔岷植
Revised Romanization	Choe Min-sik
McCune–Reischauer	Ch'oe Minsik

Choi Min-sik is a South Korean actor famous for his critically acclaimed roles in Oldboy and I Saw the Devil.

Early life

Min-sik was born on January 22, 1962 in Seoul, South Korea.

Movie career

Along with Song Kang-Ho, he is one of the premiere Korean actors both domestically and on the global scene. Choi started his career as a theatrical actor before adding film roles, first with parts in Park Jong-won's films Kuro Arirang and Our Twisted Hero and later in the 1990s by appearing as a police investigator in No. 3 and as a North Korean agent in Korea's most successful film ever at that point, Shiri.

In the 2000s, aided by the success of Shiri, Choi continued to get versatile lead roles first as a gangster in Failan and then as a 19th-century painter in Chihwaseon. In 2003, he took on the role that brought him international attention as revenge-seeking Oh Dae-su in Oldboy.

At various points during 2006, Choi (and several other Korean filmmakers, though separately from Choi) demonstrated in Seoul and at the Cannes Film Festival against the Korean decision to reduce the Film Quota from 146 to 73 days.

In November 2008 after Universal confirmed they would try to make a Hollywood adaption of Oldboy, Choi admitted to many French media reporters that he was upset at Hollywood for using what he described as low-style pressure tactics on Asian and European film makers so they could remake foreign movies in the United States. In 2010, Choi starred in the thriller I Saw the Devil alongside Lee Byung-hun which is directed by Kim Ji-woon.^[1]

Filmography

• Kuro Arirang (1989)
• 우리들의 일그러진 영웅 (Urideurui ilgeureojin yeongung) (1992)
• Sara Is Guilty (1993)
• No. 3 (1997)
• The Quiet Family (1998)
• Shiri (1999)
• Happy End (1999)
• Failan (2001)
• Chi-hwa-seon (2002)
• Oldboy (2003)
• Taegukgi (2004) - cameo appearance
• Springtime (2004)
• Crying Fist (2005)
• Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (2005)
• Himalaya, Where the Wind Dwells (2009)
• I Saw the Devil (2010)

References

1. ^ "Saw a Devil Next for Tales of Two Sisters Director". DreadCentral. http://www.dreadcentral.com/news/35375/saw-a-devil-next-tales-two-sisters-director. 

External links

• Choi Min-sik at the Internet Movie Database
• Choi Min-sik at Koreanfilm.org
• Choi Min-sik Photo Gallery
• Choi Min-sik and Bong Joon-Ho Holding Screen Quota Vigils at Cannes @ Twitch Film
• Korean Screen Quota Reduced From July

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Name	Choi, Min-sik
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Date of birth	January 22, 1962
Place of birth	Seoul, South Korea
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