Known for Acting
Choi Jung-woo (최정우) is a South Korean actor.
Born
February 17, 1957
Died
May 27, 2025 (age 68)
Birthplace
South Korea
Filmography
26 films, 31 shows


Project Silence
2024 · 1h 36m
country: South Korea
Due to sudden deteriorating weather conditions, visibility on the Airport Bridge is severely impaired, leaving people stranded and at risk of the bridge collapsing due to a series of chain collisions and explosions. Amidst the chaos, the canine subjects "Echo" from the military experiment "Project Silence," who were being transported in secret, break free, and all human survivors become targets of relentless attacks.


Ransomed
2023 · 2h 12m
country: South Korea
In Beirut 1986, during the Lebanese civil war a Korean diplomat is taken hostage without a trace. Two years pass and long forgotten, a young diplomat Min-jun receives a phone call proving that the hostage is still alive. With the given mission, Min-jun is sent to Beirut to save the hostage with a bag of ransom money.


The Moon
2023 · 2h 9m
country: South Korea
In 2029, Korea's lunar probe Woori embarks on a historic journey to the moon, capturing global attention.


The Childe
2023 · 1h 58m
country: South Korea
Han, a Filipino-Korean boxer hits the final punch against his opponent at an illegal game and returns home with a few dollars to pay for his mother's surgery.


The Witch: Part 1. The Subversion
2018 · 2h 6m
country: Hong Kong
Ja-yoon is a high school student who struggles with memory loss after she endured some unknown trauma during her childhood. While trying to uncover the truth, she is unwittingly dragged into a world of crime and finds herself on a journey that will awaken many secrets hidden deep within.


V.I.P.
2017 · 2h 8m
country: South Korea
A son to a high-ranked official in North Korea commits a series of murders going across the countries around the world. The movie depicts the following events as South Korea, North Korea and Interpol start chasing down after him.


Deranged
2012 · 1h 49m
country: South Korea
People binge eat and suffer from extreme thirst, which leads them to go crazy for water. They cannot control themselves because they are brainwashed by a parasite.


The Front Line
2011 · 2h 13m
country: South Korea
In 1951 ceasefire is declared, but two remaining armies fought their final battle on the front line Towards the end of the Korean War, a South Korean battalion is fiercely battling over a hill on the front line border against the North in order to capture a strategic point that would determine the new border between two nations. The ownership of this small patch of land would swap multiple times each day. Kang is dispatched to the front line in order to investigate the tacit case that’s been happening there.


The Suicide Forecast
2011 · 2h 4m
country: South Korea
An insurance agent helps a financially desperate client make his suicide look like an accident and becomes the target of a fraud investigation. To protect his career, he must visit all his remaining suicide-prone clients and talk them out of killing themselves.


The Influence
2010 · 1h
country: South Korea
To keep their values, characters are at a critical juncture to act upon their promises throughout time.


Secret Reunion
2010 · 1h 57m
country: South Korea
Two spies share a secret bond, despite their loyalties. A North Korean assassin is sent to Seoul to kill a dissident, but instead he teams up with a South Korean agent in search for revenge.


Sky and Sea
2009 · 1h 44m
country: South Korea
Singer-turned-actress Jang Na-ra, nominated for The Best Actress Award at the Daejong (Grand Bell) Film Festival, the country's most prestigious film awards, plays the role of an autistic musician in the movie "The Sky and the Sea," which is the story of the friendship between three friends ― Sky, Sea and Jin-gu. However, their moment to leave one another comes closer.


Girl Scout
2008 · 1h 40m
country: South Korea
When the head of a credit union disappears with the credit union's money, four women create a team called Bong Chon Girl Scouts Troop #3 to recover the stolen money, and chaos ensues.


The Chaser
2008 · 2h 5m
country: South Korea
Joong-ho is a dirty detective turned pimp, who's in financial trouble as several of his girls have recently disappeared without clearing their debts. While trying to track them down, he finds a clue that the vanished girls were all called up by the same client, whom one of his girls is meeting with right now.


Our Town
2007 · 1h 54m
country: South Korea
A writer kills his landlady and stages the body to look like the work of an active serial killer. Anxious that the police might figure out the truth, he decides to insert himself into the investigation using his detective friend.


Big Bang
2007 · 1h 58m
country: South Korea
An otherwise model citizen's petty crime quickly escalates into felony when he runs away from the police station, dragging a career criminal with him.


Maundy Thursday
2006 · 2h
country: South Korea
Yu-jeong is suicidal, yet she reluctantly goes to prison for volunteer work. There, she meets a prisoner who is waiting for death penalty. The two quickly fall in love despite their differences, yet they do not have much time.


Like a Virgin
2006 · 1h 57m
country: South Korea
A chubby high school student participatee in a sports competition to win a cash prize for sex change surgery.


Hanbando
2006 · 2h 27m
country: South Korea
The President of South Korea races against time to prove the seal on documents from long dead King Gojong is fake by charging outspoken historian Choi Min-jae, and a descendant of the royal bloodline Kim Yu-shik, to find the long lost seal in order to prove that the Japanese claim to railroads is false, a claim that will stop the reunification of the two Koreas.


Lady Vengeance
2005 · 1h 55m
country: South Korea
Released after being wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for 13 years, a woman begins executing her elaborate plan of retribution.


Another Public Enemy
2005 · 2h 28m
country: South Korea
A criminal psychopath from a wealthy family is confronted with Chul-jung Kang, a former classmate who no longer likes his activities.


Dance with the Wind
2004 · 2h 12m
country: South Korea
In a hospital parking lot, Officer Song Yeon-hwa is briefed about Park Pung-shik, an alleged gigolo who preys on rich housewives. One of his latest victims is the police chief's wife, who refuses to testify against him, despite giving him $30,000. Song is told to go undercover as a hospital patient in order to secure evidence leading to his arrest. In the hospital, she finds the mild-mannered Park and talks to him over coffee, where he mentions that he ballroom dances for a living. Song asks him why he came to become a dancer and he starts his story.


Three
2002 · 2h 9m
country: Hong Kong
An anthology consisting of three horror shorts from different Asian directors: Memories by Kim Jee-woon, The Wheel by Nonzee Nimibutr, and Going Home by Peter Chan.


Memories
2002 · 41m
country: South Korea
A woman with amnesia wakes up in the middle of the road and tries to figure out what happened to her. Meanwhile a man is haunted by some strange figure in his lonely residence.


Running Blue
2001 · 1h 42m
country: South Korea
The events that precede and follow, for each of those present in turn, when a young woman is asked for verification of her identity one time too many, in this case when presenting a check at a convenience store. Despite the repetition of the central scene the personal stories and consequences are interestingly varied and unpredictable. The problem for the central character is that her country allows her no usable identity following her change of sex. This was true for the lead actress, South Korea's most famed woman of transsexual history, Ha Ri-su, but that is about as far as the plot bears any resemblance to her actual life. Since the film was released the actress became, by a landmark court case, the first in her country to to be allowed proper recognition and papers. There are of course many other countries which still impose the same difficulties on similar young women.


Indian Summer
2001 · 1h 44m
country: South Korea
A woman stands trial for her life with a lawyer who is determined to save her despite her refusal to be saved.