Choi Min-sik (최민식)

[ChanMi's drama news] "You're Beautiful" Jang Geun-seok imitates Choi Min-sik?

Source | 2009/10/17 | 0 comments | Permalink |

The SBS drama "You're Beautiful" has imitated the scenes of Choi Min-sik from the film "Old Boy".

Jang's character imagined himself stuck in a room alone eating dumplings like Choi.

Audience say that this scene was very funny and even said that he should shoot a commercial film for dumplings!

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Japanese College Holds Film Festival Dedicated to Kim Hye-soo

Source | 2009/10/14 | 0 comments | Permalink |

The Korea Research Center of Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University of Japan will hold the 4th Korean Film Festival on October 23-25. This year, the festival is dedicated to Korean actress Kim Hye-soo, who is considered a symbol of independent women.

The festival is aimed at shedding light on Korean cinematography, history and culture through movies that star a certain actor or actress. Launched in 2006, the festival has so far screened movies starring Moon So-ri, Choi Min-sik and Ahn Swong-gi.

This year, six films starring Kim Hye-soo will be screened. They are "Kick The Moon", "YMCA Baseball Team", "Hypnotized", "A Good Day To Have An Affair", "The War Of Flower" and "Modern Boy". The festival will also feature a symposium of Korean and Japanese film experts.

Kim Hye-soo will meet with the audience to talk about her life and acting career.

An official from the festival's organizing committee said that Korean movies were not only high-quality entertainment content but that th...| More

[ChanMi's movie news] Stars' voices in a cartoon film!

Source | 2009/07/23 | 0 comments | Permalink |

Moon So-ri, Yoo Seung-ho, Choi Min-sik, and Park Cheol-min have come together as voice actors! The new cartoon film, "Runaway Hen" will be full of unique and personalized voices!

The film is about a Hen Ip-sak who wants to become a mother and escapes the chicken farm after meeting the orphaned little duck, Cho-rok. Ip-sak has a dream to become a mother and takes on the adventure outside the farm. The voice of Ip-sak will be Moon So-ri, Cho-rok will be Yoo Seung-ho, hunter goose Nagunae will be Choi Min-sik, wild otter Dal-su will be Park Cheol-min....| More

Director Jeon Soo-il Talks About `Himalaya'

Source | 2009/06/17 | 0 comments | Permalink |

By Lee Hyo-won
Staff Reporters

Director Jeon Soo-il can be grouped among "the Kim Ki-duk clan" of artists who are better appreciated in the international film festival circuit than in local theaters.

His latest film "Himalaya, Where the Wind Dwells" is slated to compete in July _ when he turns 50 _ at the 44th Karlovivary International Film Festival in the Czech Republic. This means that all six of Jeon's features will have been invited to major cinema events.

But as much as the film, now showing in theaters, marked the comeback of "Old Boy" star Choi Min-sik, its press preview attracted a mad crowd of reporters (Some 20 people had turned up for his previous multiple award-winning "With a Girl of Black Soil").

The aforementioned Kim is known to provoke onscreen, and Jeon also does not hesitate to depict shocking characters that take performance art to an extreme degree and commit suicide on stage ("I Have the Right to Destroy Myself").

"I had Choi Min-sik in mind when ...| More

Independent Movie, 'Himalaya, Where the Wind Dwells'

Source | 2009/06/11 | 0 comments | Permalink |

A stranger's death is the beginning of a journey to the middle of nowhere.
A simple yet profound independent film has opened at Korean box offices amidst a flood of speedy, sensual blockbusters.
Let me invite you to a sanctuary for tired souls, "Himalaya, Where the Wind Dwells".
Choi has spent his whole life trying to get ahead.
He has sent his family abroad while working in Korea.
Unfortunately, he is fired due to a corporate restructuring.
Then one day, Choi emerges from his misery to take the ashes of a Nepalese laborer to his family.

[Interview : Jeon Soo-il Director of "Himalaya, Where the Wind Dwells" ] "It's the story of a man setting out to return the remains of a stranger to his home. But the journey turns out to be a soul search, and the man reflects upon his own identity".

A man who escapes from the world and finds himself in nature.
The part of Choi is played by Choi Min-sik.

Choi Min-sik is an actor already receiving worldwide recognition.
In "Old Boy" he ...| More