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Best Choi Min-sik movies

Today we present the best Choi Min-sik movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen ... and that you love! Let's go there with the best movies from Choi Min-sik:

TOP 13: Shiri

Original Title: ์‰ฌ๋ฆฌ
Character: Park Mu-young
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Release: 1999
North Korea's 8th Special Forces hijacks a shipment of CTX, a potent new liquid explosive, and threatens South Korea as part of a plot to re-unify the two countries.Ryu and Lee, special agents of O.P., South Korea's secret intelligence service, attempt to track down the terrorists and find the CTX. Meanwhile Hee, the 8th's ultra-bad female sniper, resurfaces to wreak havoc and haunt Ryu.


TOP 12: Lucy

Character: Mr. Jang
Genre: Action, Science Fiction
Release: 2014
A woman, accidentally caught in a dark deal, turns the tables on her captors and transforms into a merciless warrior evolved beyond human logic.

TOP 11: Nameless Gangster

Original Title: ๋ฒ”์ฃ„์™€์˜ ์ „์Ÿ
Character: Choi Ik-hyun
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Release: 2012
A corrupted customs officer, Choi Ik-hyeon, faces losing his job. Then, his life turns around as he meets ganster Choi Hyeong-bae who has connection with the Yakuza. They quickly form a partnership; Hyeong-bae helps Ik-hyeon set up a business with the money from drug trafficking while Ik-hyeon lobbies for his partner Hyeong-bae. As the government declares war on crime, however, their partnership begins to crack.


TOP 10: The Admiral: Roaring Currents

Original Title: ๋ช…๋Ÿ‰
Character: Admiral Yi Sun-Shin
Genre: War, Action, Drama, History
Release: 2014
The film mainly follows the famous 1597 Battle of Myeongryang during the Japanese invasion of Korea (1592-1598), where the iconic Joseon admiral Yi Sun-sin managed to destroy a total of 133 Japanese warships with only 13 ships remaining in his command. The battle, which took place in the Myeongryang Strait off the southwest coast of the Korean Peninsula, is considered one of the greatest victories of Yi.


TOP 9: The Quiet Family

Original Title: ์กฐ์šฉํ•œ ๊ฐ€์กฑ
Character: uncle
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Release: 1998
A family decides to buy a lodge in a remote hiking area. Their first customer commits suicide and the distraught family buries his body to avoid the bad publicity. But their luck gets worse, the bodies start piling up, and the family becomes frantic to rectify the situation.

TOP 8: Failan

Original Title: ํŒŒ์ด๋ž€
Character: Kang-jae
Genre: Drama, Romance
Release: 2001
After losing both her parents, Failan emmigrates to Korea to seek her only remaining relatives. Once she reaches Korea, she finds out that her relatives have moved to Canada well over a year ago. Desperate to stay and make a living in Korea, Failan is forced to have an arranged marriage through a match-making agency.


TOP 7: Crying Fist

Original Title: ์ฃผ๋จน์ด ์šด๋‹ค
Character: Gang Tae-shik
Genre: Drama
Release: 2005
Jobless, besieged by creditors, and abandoned by his wife, the once silver medalist Tae-shik has sunk to street hustling, becoming a human punching bag. Meanwhile, young Sang-hwan's delinquent ways land him behind bars. Both men look to boxing to turn around lives gone astray, aiming for the amateur title, ultimately pitting them against each other, but more importantly, against themselves.


TOP 6: New World

Original Title: ์‹ ์„ธ๊ณ„
Character: Section chief Kang Hyung-chul
Genre: Thriller
Release: 2013
An undercover cop has his loyalties tested when the boss of the corporate gang he's spent years infiltrating dies.

TOP 5: Sympathy for Lady Vengeance

Original Title: ์นœ์ ˆํ•œ ๊ธˆ์ž์”จ
Character: Mr. Baek
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Release: 2005
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?


TOP 4: Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War

Original Title: ํƒœ๊ทน๊ธฐ ํœ˜๋‚ ๋ฆฌ๋ฉฐ
Character: North Korean commander
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
Release: 2004
When two brothers are forced to fight in the Korean War, the elder decides to take the riskiest missions if it will help shield the younger from battle.


TOP 3: I Saw the Devil

Original Title: ์•…๋งˆ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์•˜๋‹ค
Character: Kyung-chul
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Release: 2010
Kyung-chul is a dangerous psychopath who kills for pleasure. He has committed infernal serial murders in diabolic ways that one cannot even imagine and his victims range from young women to even children. The police have chased him for a long time, but were unable to catch him. One day, Joo-yeon, daughter of a retired police chief becomes his prey and is found dead in a horrific state. Her fiance Soo-hyun, a top secret agent, decides to track down the murderer himself. He promises himself that he will do everything in his power to take bloody vengeance against the killer, even if it means that he must become a monster himself to get this monstrous and inhumane killer.

TOP 2: The Tiger: An Old Hunter's Tale

Original Title: ๋Œ€ํ˜ธ
Character: Cheon Man-deok
Genre: Action, Fantasy, History, Thriller
Release: 2015
In 1925 Korea, Japanese rulers demand the last remaining tiger be killed. The tiger easily defeats his pursuers until a legendary hunter takes him on.


TOP 1: Oldboy

Original Title: ์˜ฌ๋“œ๋ณด์ด
Character: Oh Dae-su
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Release: 2003
With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate businessman seeks revenge on his captors.


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