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<\/a><\/p>\nDirector: Park Chan-wook
\nStarring: Choi Min-shik, Kang Hye-jung, and Yu Ji-tae<\/p>\n
Director Park Chan-wook\u2019s flamboyant colors and giltzy cinematography and Choi Min-shik\u2019s unforgettable performance made Old Boy an international hit.<\/p>\n
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).<\/p>\n
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
This Choi Min-shik tribute will be presented at the newly renovated Museum of the Moving Image, home to New York City\u2019s finest, state-of-the-art screen. Films are free with museum admission. This tribute is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. Taxi 10 minutes from The Korea Society or NQ Train Outbound to 36th Ave., 36th Street and 35th Avenue, Astoria.<\/p>\n