Choi Min-sik’s Typical Vibe
Signature vibe

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Choi Min-sik has 13 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2020s. 2 sit in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Oldboy.
Recurring themes

Blood Ties
2013
Thriller · Crime

Dogman
2018
Crime · Drama

2048: Nowhere to Run
2017
Science Fiction · Thriller

5 Is the Perfect Number
2019
Drama · Thriller

Aftermath
2017
Drama · Thriller

Cargo
2017
Drama · Thriller

Vengeance: A Love Story
2017
Action · Drama

Inhale
2010
Drama · Action

The Tiger
2015 · Movie · Actor
Top 6%Prime Video · Included

Exhuma
2024 · Movie · Actor
Top 7%AMC+ · Included

The Quiet Family
1998 · Movie · Actor
Top 10%The Roku Channel · Free w/ ads

Lady Vengeance
2005 · Movie · Actor
Top 11%AMC+ · Included

The Admiral: Roaring Currents
2014 · Movie · Actor
Top 34%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Lucy
2014 · Movie · Actor
Top 37%Netflix · Included
With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate man seeks revenge on his captors.
Dir. Park Chan-wook · With Choi Min-sik, Yoo Ji-tae, Kang Hye-jung

Kyung-chul is a dangerous psychopath who kills for pleasure. Soo-hyeon, a top-secret agent, decides to track down the murderer himself. He promises himself that he will do everything in his power to take vengeance against the killer, even if it means that he must become a monster himself.
Dir. Kim Jee-woon · With Lee Byung-hun, Choi Min-sik, Jeon Kuk-hwan

An undercover cop has his loyalties tested when the boss of the corporate gang he's spent years infiltrating dies.
Dir. Park Hoon-jung · With Lee Jung-jae, Choi Min-sik, Hwang Jung-min

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.
Dir. Park Hoon-jung · With Choi Min-sik, Jeong Man-sik, Kim Sang-ho

After tracing the origin of a disturbing supernatural affliction to a wealthy family's ancestral gravesite, a team of paranormal experts relocates the remains—and soon discovers what happens to those who dare to mess with the wrong grave.
Dir. Jang Jae-hyun · With Choi Min-sik, Kim Go-eun, Yoo Hai-jin

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.
Dir. Kim Jee-woon · With Park In-hwan, Na Moon-hee, Choi Min-sik

Released after being wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for 13 years, a woman begins executing her elaborate plan of retribution.
Dir. Park Chan-wook · With Lee Young-ae, Choi Min-sik, Kwon Yea-young

Based on a bestselling preteen novel of the same title that has sold more than 1 million copies in Korea, “Leafie, A Hen into the Wild” is about a laying hen named Leafie who is destined to live the “same old” repetitive life confined on the chicken farm. Her fate changes when she escapes from the chicken farm and hatches a duck egg. With the duckling (who believes Leafie to be his mother), sets off on a journey into the wild with her new son to find her freedom.
Dir. Oh Sung-yoon · With Moon So-ri, Yoo Seung-ho, Choi Min-sik
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.
Dir. Song Hae-sung · With Choi Min-sik, Cecilia Cheung, Son Byung-ho

Admiral Yi Sun-sin faces a tough challenge when he is forced to defend his nation with just 13 battleships against 300 Japanese enemy ships in the Battle of Myeongryang.
Dir. Kim Han-min · With Choi Min-sik, Ryu Seung-ryong, Cho Jin-woong

A woman, accidentally caught in a dark deal, turns the tables on her captors and transforms into a merciless warrior evolved beyond human logic.
Dir. Luc Besson · With Scarlett Johansson, Morgan Freeman, Choi Min-sik

Ik-hyeon, a corrupt officer, joins forces with another crook, Hyung-bae, to continue his illegal activities before he loses his job. Eventually, he decides to escape and pin the blame on his partner.
Dir. Yoon Jong-bin · With Choi Min-sik, Ha Jung-woo, Kwak Do-won

North Korea's 8th Special Forces hijack 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.
Dir. Kang Je-kyu · With Han Suk-kyu, Choi Min-sik, Yunjin Kim
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