Choi Dong-hoon (Korean: ìµœë ™í›ˆ; born February 24, 1971) is a South
Korean film director and screenwriter. He ranks as one of the most
consistently successful directors working in contemporary Korean
cinema, with all five of his films becoming commercial hits -- The Big
Swindle attracted 2.12 million viewers, Tazza: The High Rollers at
6.84 million, Jeon Woo-chi: The Taoist Wizard at 6.13 million, The
Thieves at 12.9 million, and Assassination at 12.7 million.After
graduating from the prestigious Korean Academy of Film Arts, Choi
Dong-hoon first worked as an assistant director on Im Sang-soo's Tears
(he subsequently appeared in acting cameos in several of Im's
films).After working on the screenplay for two years, Choi made his
feature film directorial debut in 2004 with The Big Swindle and
single-handedly re-imagined the heist and crime thriller genre into
something uniquely Korean. His follow-up Tazza: The High Rollers, a
gambling flick adapted from Huh Young-man and Kim Se-yeong's manhwa,
was the second highest grossing Korean film of 2006, and
producer/Sidus FNH CEO Cha Seung-jae praised Choi as "a genius
storyteller for his spectacular ability to develop elaborate stories."
2009's Jeon Woo-chi: The Taoist Wizard was lauded as the first Korean
fantasy/superhero blockbuster movie, earning Choi a reputation as an
artistically innovative and commercially successful writer-director.He
returned to the heist genre in 2012 with the star-studded crime caper
The Thieves, which attracted almost 13 million viewers in 70 days to
become the second all-time highest grossing movie in Korean film
history. In 2015, Choi made his first period film with Assassination,
about freedom fighters during Japan's colonial rule, and it was once
again a box office hit, crossing the 10 million admissions milestone
on the 70th anniversary of South Korean independence.
Korean film director and screenwriter. He ranks as one of the most
consistently successful directors working in contemporary Korean
cinema, with all five of his films becoming commercial hits -- The Big
Swindle attracted 2.12 million viewers, Tazza: The High Rollers at
6.84 million, Jeon Woo-chi: The Taoist Wizard at 6.13 million, The
Thieves at 12.9 million, and Assassination at 12.7 million.After
graduating from the prestigious Korean Academy of Film Arts, Choi
Dong-hoon first worked as an assistant director on Im Sang-soo's Tears
(he subsequently appeared in acting cameos in several of Im's
films).After working on the screenplay for two years, Choi made his
feature film directorial debut in 2004 with The Big Swindle and
single-handedly re-imagined the heist and crime thriller genre into
something uniquely Korean. His follow-up Tazza: The High Rollers, a
gambling flick adapted from Huh Young-man and Kim Se-yeong's manhwa,
was the second highest grossing Korean film of 2006, and
producer/Sidus FNH CEO Cha Seung-jae praised Choi as "a genius
storyteller for his spectacular ability to develop elaborate stories."
2009's Jeon Woo-chi: The Taoist Wizard was lauded as the first Korean
fantasy/superhero blockbuster movie, earning Choi a reputation as an
artistically innovative and commercially successful writer-director.He
returned to the heist genre in 2012 with the star-studded crime caper
The Thieves, which attracted almost 13 million viewers in 70 days to
become the second all-time highest grossing movie in Korean film
history. In 2015, Choi made his first period film with Assassination,
about freedom fighters during Japan's colonial rule, and it was once
again a box office hit, crossing the 10 million admissions milestone
on the 70th anniversary of South Korean independence.
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