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Biography

Choi Min-shik is an actor who established himself in theater before moving into film. An early screen role came in Park Chong-won's acclaimed Our Twisted Hero (1992). Through the mid-1990s he continued on stage and in television dramas, among them Moon Over Seoul with Han Seok-gyu. He returned to film in 1997 in Song Neung-han's No. 3 (1997), playing a police investigator known for tough talk. In 1999 he appeared in Shiri, then Korea's most successful film, playing a North Korean agent; the performance earned him a Best Actor award at the Grand Bell Awards. After starring in a stage production of Hamlet in spring 1999, he appeared in Happy End (1999) and then played a low-level gangster opposite Cecilia Cheung in Failan (2001). In 2003 he starred in Oldboy (2003), which became a classic.

Movie Career

Films
16
Career span
26 years1998 to 2024

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Min-sik Choi movies on Netflix

Best known for

The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.

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  1. Lucy2014 Action, Sci-Fi, Thrilleras Mr. Jang

    IMDb rating 6.4586K votes

  2. Sympathy for Lady Vengeance2005 Crime, Drama, Thrilleras Mr. Baek

    IMDb rating 7.595K votes

  3. Exhuma2024as Kim Sang-duk

    IMDb rating 6.931K votes

  4. The Admiral: Roaring Currents2014as Admiral Yi Sun-Shin

    IMDb rating 7.114K votes

  5. Nameless Gangster2012as Choi Ik-hyun

    IMDb rating 7.08.0K votes

  6. The Tiger: An Old Hunter's Tale2015as Chun Man-duk

    IMDb rating 7.27.6K votes

  7. Shiri1999as Mu-young Park

    IMDb rating 6.59.0K votes

  8. Failan2001as Kang-jae

    IMDb rating 7.56.6K votes

Most often with

Je-kyu Kang directed two of these films, Ji-woo Jung two. Park Ji-il appears in three of them, more than any other actor. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.

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Films together

Box office

What Min-sik Choi's films earned in cinemas worldwide.

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Combined worldwide box office

$757 million

7 of the 16 films have a worldwide figure.

Of the 16 films: 7 worldwide figure; 2 us gross only; 7 figure not found.

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  • 2US gross only
  • 7Figure not found

Highest grossing

The seven biggest films earned 100% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.

  1. 1
    Lucy2014as Mr. Jang
    $469M62.0% of the total
  2. 2
    The Admiral: Roaring Currents2014as Admiral Yi Sun-Shin
    $138M18.3% of the total
  3. 3
    Exhuma2024as Kim Sang-duk
    $98M12.9% of the total
  4. 4
    $24M3.1% of the total
  5. 5
    Leafie, a Hen Into the Wild2011as Wanderer - Nagnae
    $13M1.7% of the total
  6. 6
    $11M1.5% of the total
  7. 7
    Heart Blackened2017as Yim Tae-san
    $3.6M0.5% of the total