Event: Choi Min-Shik Tribute: Chi-hwa-seon at Museum of the Moving Image
The Korea Society and MoMI(the Museum of Moving Images) will be holding a retrospective of the work of Choi Min-shik, one of Korea's most recognizable contemporary actors.
The Choi Min-shik tribute will be presented at the newly renovated Museum of the Moving Image. Films are free with museum admission.
Sunday, June 3rd, 2012. 3 PM.
Chiwaseon (2002, 120 min)
Director: Im kwon-taek
Starring: Choi Min-sik, Ahn Sung-kee and Yu Ho-jeong
A powerful performance in this historical costume drama brought Choi Min-sik international recognition.
The Museum of the Moving Image
36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, NY 11106
About Choi Min-shik
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's 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 "fake" 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's 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.
