One of the troikas of Choi Min-sik's Korean film Chungmuro, as long as you talk about Korean movies, you can't avoid Uncle Choi Min-sik, who was born in Seoul, South Korea in 1962 and graduated from Dongguk University's Department of Drama and Filming. Choi Min-sik is one of the few stars who have both acting prowess and box office appeal. Major South Korean movie websites joined forces to conduct a survey of South Korean netizens on the most charismatic actors in Korea, and Choi Min-sik ranked first. He is known as "Korean Chow Yun Fat" in the Korean film industry, and you will surely understand his current influence and position in Korean films.
The unsurprising and taciturn Choi Min-sik was an obscure stage actor in South Korea before his debut. In 1999, he starred in "Life and Death Spy Change", a landmark film in the history of Korean cinema, playing the leader of North Korean secret agents, although compared to the male number one Han Seok-gyu and male number two Song Kang-ho, but still left a very deep impression. In 2002, the psychologically complex husband in "Happy to Death" was portrayed vividly by him. In 2002, he also defeated Liang Chaowei with "Happy to Death" and won the title of "Asian Film Emperor". In 2003, he won the Grand Jury Prize of Cannes with "Old Boy", and also won the three major awards of the Korea Grand Bell Award. Let people remember this unattractive man!
At that time, I met the uncle Choi Min-sik from the movie "Old Boy", which is based on a Japanese manga, "Old Boy" is the second part of the "Revenge Trilogy" co-produced by Choi Min-sik and the Korean noir genre film Park Chan-wook. The third part, "Kind of Gold", Choi Min-sik continues to appear as a bad guy, and also makes more audiences know and love this unique Korean actor.
And 2010's "See the Devil" made me remember this terrifying image of the devil, and looking at his eyes can make people shudder. At that time, even her wife had a lot of criticism of this image played by him. When the reporter interviewed him that year, he said: The first thing my wife said to me after she came home after watching the movie was: You stinky pervert, give me out. I asked you to go make a movie, who made you evolve. Choi Min-sik (laughs) said: Anyway, the tone has been set, and if you want to shoot, you have to be crazy. In fact, the character had even more scenes in the hospital at that time, but it was cut for the sake of the film. You can imagine how deeply he shot this role.
In 2011, with "War with Crime: The Heyday of the Bad Guys", he shared the stage with Ha Zhengyu, and in the play, he did whatever it took to get money, and finally turned against him, which is a bit like Inspector Leiluo of the Hong Kong film, who began to embezzle and collude with each other and finally civil unrest. Playing a despicable and cunning villain figure into three points and winning three awards.
In 2015, "The Battle of Mingliang" set a new record for the Korean box office, mainly about the famous Korean general Lee Shun-chan military and civilian unity, which severely damaged the Japanese fleet and created a famous battle in the history of world naval warfare with fewer victories. Among them, 61 minutes of naval battles were completed in one go, which made people's blood boil. I heard that 18 million people went to the theater that year, which broke many records and beat many imported film records. I think it is mainly the victory over Japan, and the anti-Japanese plot in the hearts of Koreans wants to go to the theater to see it!
Choi Min-sik plays a bad guy to the bone. Although the first thirty years were not satisfactory, but mixed in the stage drama, brought him a solid foundation, and then had the opportunity to finally usher in a big explosion. Finally waited for his time, the spring of his career. At the same time, it has also brought us so many good works! I hope that if we are not satisfied, we can finally live the way we want!