{"id":18283,"date":"2012-05-20T08:24:14","date_gmt":"2012-05-20T12:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=18283"},"modified":"2012-05-14T20:29:57","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T00:29:57","slug":"retrospective-of-the-work-of-choi-min-shik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=18283","title":{"rendered":"Retrospective of the work of Choi Min-shik"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Korea Society<\/a> presents a retrospective of the work of Choi Min-shik, one of Korea\u2019s most recognizable contemporary actors, as part of our ongoing \u201cKorean Cinema Now<\/a>\u201d program with MoMI (the Museum of Moving Image<\/a>). Sunday, May 20, 2012 3 PM<\/p>\n

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Choi Min-shik had numerous television roles, but his big break came in 1999 when he played a cold-blooded North Korean soldier in Swiri (Dir. Kang Je-gyu) and suddenly gained a reputation as one of Korea\u2019s finest actors. His acting dominates the silver screen, but his characters have more than charisma. In Failan, he played a thug, married to a Chinese woman out of convenience, but who sheds tears of regret when his \u201cfake\u201d wife dies. In Strokes of Fire, which won the Best Director Prize at the 55th Cannes Film Festival, he played the famous nineteenth-century Korean painter Jang Seung-up. In 2004, Choi returned to Cannes when director Park Chan-woo\u2019s bloody revenge epic, Old Boy, won the Grand Prix-award. Choi’s impassioned and robust acting can seize an audience’s heart, and he is now known to film buffs worldwide.<\/p>\n

Failan (2001, 116 min)
\nDirector: Song Hae-sung
\nStarring: Choi Min-sik, Cecilia Cheung and Jeong Dae-Hoon
\nChoi Min-sik plays the perfect outsider in Song Hae-sung\u2019s tale of a down-and-out gangster who finally finds love.<\/p>\n

The Museum of the Moving Image
\n35th Avenue at 37th Street, Astoria
\nFrom midtown, taxi or N\/Q Train outbound to 36th Avenue
\nFilm free with museum admission at The Museum of the Movie Image<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Korea Society presents a retrospective of the work of Choi Min-shik, one of Korea\u2019s most recognizable contemporary actors, as part of our ongoing \u201cKorean Cinema Now\u201d program with MoMI (the Museum of Moving Image). Sunday, May 20, 2012 3 PM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stay-connected-to-the-latest-local-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18283"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18287,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18283\/revisions\/18287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}