The best Choi Jung-woo’s movies

Choi Jung-woo

Choi Jung-woo

17/02/1957 (67 años)
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The Witch: Part 1. The Subversion

The Witch: Part 1. The Subversion
7.1/10
Ja-yoon is a high school student who struggles with memory loss after she endured some unknown trauma during her childhood. While trying to uncover the truth, she is unwittingly dragged into a world of crime and finds herself on a journey that will awaken many secrets hidden deep within.

Sympathy for Lady Vengeance

Sympathy for Lady Vengeance
7.5/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 29/07/2005
  • Character: Dong-hwa's Father
After a 13-year imprisonment for the kidnap and murder of a 6 year old boy, beautiful Lee Guem-ja starts seeking revenge on the man that was really responsible for the boy's death. With the help of fellow inmates and reunited with her daughter, she gets closer and closer to her goal. But will her actions lead to the relief she seeks?

The Chaser

The Chaser
7.8/10
Joong-ho is a dirty detective turned pimp in financial trouble as several of his girls have recently disappeared without clearing their debts. While trying to track them down, he finds a clue that the vanished girls were all called up by the same client whom one of his girls is meeting with right now.

Secret Reunion

Secret Reunion
6.9/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 04/02/2010
  • Character: National Intelligence Deputy
Six years ago a mysterious shooting takes place in Seoul. The after effects of the shooting results in Han-kyu Lee (Song Kang-Ho) losing his job at the NIS (National Intelligence Service). Six years later, Ji-won Song (Kang Dong-Won), an ex North Korean spy. Now operates somewhere in the Seoul metropolitan area. As these two men hide their identities and work their particular angles, trouble brews again...

The Front Line

The Front Line
7.3/10
In 1951 ceasefire is declared, but two remaining armies fought their final battle on the front line Towards the end of the Korean War, a South Korean battalion is fiercely battling over a hill on the front line border against the North in order to capture a strategic point that would determine the new border between two nations. The ownership of this small patch of land would swap multiple times each day. Kang is dispatched to the front line in order to investigate the tacit case that’s been happening there. But he gets spiraled into the war that’s more terrifying than death itself when he meets his friend Kim, who has transformed into a war machine, and his unit. As the countdown for ceasefire begins, both sides become more vicious, resulting in deaths of countless lives until the last man could claim the land.

V.I.P.

V.I.P.
6.6/10
A son to a high-ranked official in North Korea commits a series of murders going across the countries around the world. The movie depicts the following events as South Korea, North Korea and Interpol start chasing down after him.

Deranged

Deranged
6.3/10
  • Genre: Thriller
  • Release: 05/07/2012
  • Character: Health Minister (uncredited)
Jae-hyuk is a pharmaceutical worker for a medical supplies company. When a series of dead bodies are found floating in the Han River. The public is shocked to discovered that the deaths are related to a fatal outbreak of virus-infected mutant parasitic horsehair worms, called 'Yeongasi', that can control the human brain. Those infected shows symptoms of hunger and thirst, hence jumps into the river to combat dehydration. Whilst the authorities work to find a cure, Jae-hyuk struggles to save his family when they also exhibits similar symptoms.

Three

Three
6.1/10
Memories: A woman wakes up on a street without memory. A husband cannot remember why his wife left him. The woman wanders the streets trying to contact the only phone number she has on her. The husband see's her ghost in his apartment and discovers her mutilated body in a large bag in his home (Korea). The Wheel: Extravagant cursed puppets cause fires, deaths, physical pain and a little girl to be possessed (Thailand). Going Home: A father goes in search of his missing son and is abducted by a strange man. The strangers wife has died of cancer three years prior but he keeps her in his apartment under the impression she will 'wake up' (Hong Kong)

Like a Virgin

Like a Virgin
6.6/10
A chubby high school student participatee in a sports competition to win a cash prize for sex change surgery.

Hanbando

Hanbando
4.9/10
A Korean reunification plan is upset by a Japanese invasion plot, revealing a century-old secret between the countries.

The Suicide Forecast

The Suicide Forecast
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 14/04/2011
  • Character: (uncredited)
An insurance agent helps a financially desperate client make his suicide look like an accident and becomes the target of a fraud investigation. To protect his career, he must visit all his remaining suicide-prone clients and talk them out of killing themselves.

Big Bang

Big Bang
6.7/10
An otherwise model citizen's petty crime quickly escalates into felony when he runs away from the police station, dragging a career criminal with him.

Another Public Enemy

Another Public Enemy
6/10
Things start to heat up when public prosecutor Kang takes on the case of Han Sang-woo, a former high school classmate and the future chairman of the Myung-Sun Foundation. Despite his innocent facade, Kang's old friend looks to be guilty of bribery, embezzlement, and even murder. But with Han always one step ahead of Kang, what can our hero do to bring this white collar "public enemy" to justice?

Indian Summer

Indian Summer
6.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 05/05/2001
  • Character: Lawyer Hwang
A woman stands trial for her life with a lawyer who is determined to save her despite her refusal to be saved.

Yellow Hair 2

Yellow Hair 2
6.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 21/07/2001
The events that precede and follow, for each of those present in turn, when a young woman is asked for verification of her identity one time too many, in this case when presenting a check at a convenience store. Despite the repetition of the central scene the personal stories and consequences are interestingly varied and unpredictable. The problem for the central character is that her country allows her no usable identity following her change of sex. This was true for the lead actress, South Korea's most famed woman of transsexual history, Ha Ri-su, but that is about as far as the plot bears any resemblance to her actual life. Since the film was released the actress became, by a landmark court case, the first in her country to to be allowed proper recognition and papers. There are of course many other countries which still impose the same difficulties on similar young women.

Girl Scout

Girl Scout
5.5/10
  • Genre: ActionComedy
  • Release: 05/06/2008
  • Character: Director Han
When the head of a credit union disappears with the credit union's money, four women create a team called Bong Chon Girl Scouts Troop #3 to recover the stolen money, and chaos ensues.

Sky and Sea

Sky and Sea
6.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 28/10/2009
  • Character: Jeong-hwan
Singer-turned-actress Jang Na-ra, nominated for The Best Actress Award at the Daejong (Grand Bell) Film Festival, the country's most prestigious film awards, plays the role of an autistic musician in the movie "The Sky and the Sea," which is the story of the friendship between three friends ― Sky, Sea and Jin-gu. However, their moment to leave one another comes closer.

Memories

Memories
A woman with amnesia wakes up in the middle of the road and tries to figure out what happened to her. Meanwhile a man is haunted by some strange figure in his lonely residence.

The Influence

The Influence
5.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 03/03/2010
  • Character: Chairman Lee Man-hee
To keep their values, characters are at a critical juncture to act upon their promises throughout time.

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