Choi Dong-joon

Acting

Choi Dong-joon

Born 1959-08-10

Acting credits

Cutting the Sorrow With a Knife Stuck in the Chest poster
4.0

A man accepts a job on a shrimp fishing boat unaware that he is being set up for slave labor along with the rest of the crew of social outcasts.

Cutting the Sorrow With a Knife Stuck in the Chest

1992

Downfall poster
5.3

A young woman is tricked into prostitution, thinking she is going to sell beverages at a village store. She soon learns about the dark world of Korea's red-light districts, where their pimps and society exploit her.

Downfall

1997

Selling Body Part II poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Selling Body Part II

1989

No artwork available
10.0

Jo Yang-eun was a leading mob boss in Korea in the 1970's leading the Yang-eun family. He was eventually arrested and charged under an internal security act and served 15 years in prison. This film, based on truth, is the story of his life in and outside of jail.

Boss

1996

Blood Rain poster
7.0

In 1808, an imperial investigator arrives on an idyllic island to investigate a series of grisly murders. The locals believe that a ghost is responsible, taking revenge for a wrongful execution seven years ago. But the investigator suspects that something else may be behind it all.

Blood Rain

2005

Sopyonje poster
7.8

The 1930s. Wishing to pass down his knowledge, the father teaches his children to sing Pansori. The elder daughter and the younger son become professional singers but time has changed and people are no longer interested in folk singing. The younger boy gives up on his studies and runs away from home. Fearful that the daughter might do the same, the father blinds her. The blind girl continues to practice with great diligence and achieves perfection in this art. Years pass, the brother is roaming the world in search of his sister and eventually finds her. All night long they sing together sharing their memories.

Sopyonje

1993

Madame Aema 5 poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Madame Aema 5

1991

Festival poster
7.4

While awaiting the publication of his fairytale about his dementia-stricken octogenarian mother, an acclaimed South Korean novelist receives news that she has passed away, so he leaves the city and returns to her village to take part in the funeral.

Festival

1996

Swamp of the Goddess poster
NR

Hyeran is from an orphan, but attends college with the care of the orphanage director. One day she has her body stolen by her manager, who has a black heart, and Hye-ran steals her manager's bankbook and she leaves the orphanage.

Swamp of the Goddess

1985

The Taebaek Mountains poster
6.9

Based on the great river story, The Taebaek Mountains chronicles the lasting generational conflict between proprietors and peasants in South Korea.

The Taebaek Mountains

1994

Fly High, Run Far poster
6.6

In mid-19th Century Korea, the people of Joseon Dynasty embrace the new religion Donghak. After the founder is executed, Choi Si-hyeong becomes Donghak’s second-generation leader and successfully propagates the religion, but in doing so becomes the object of oppression by the royal court.

Fly High, Run Far

1991

The Village of Mist poster
6.8

A young South Korean woman moves to an isolated mountain village, where all of the villagers are related except for a mysterious vagabond, to take up her first teaching post.

The Village of Mist

1983

Crying in a Butterfly's Embrace poster
NR

A beleaguered cabbie accompanies a mysterious and moody woman on an eventful journey across South Korea to find her long-lost lover.

Crying in a Butterfly's Embrace

1983

You Can't Stop a Flowing River poster
NR

In Korea during the Joseon Dynasty, a young man is forced to marry the king's daughter despite being betrothed to another woman, triggering a series of tragic events.

You Can't Stop a Flowing River

1984

Love is Oh Yeah! poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Love is Oh Yeah!

1993

Rosy Life poster
6.7

A comic book store in Garibong-dong is run by a beautiful woman better known as Madam. This store stays open late into the night, thus attracting varied types of people such as gangsters and hustlers.

Rosy Life

1994

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Until We Meet

1999

A Migrant Bird in a Nest poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

A Migrant Bird in a Nest

1988

Behind the camera

Third Son of the Dragon King poster
NR

Due to a drought that has occurred only once in a hundred years, the people of the Gaeryong and Gangho regions are plunged into misery. Upon this, Great Master Baekseong urges Geum-bung to find the Night-Glowing Pearl. Geum-bung meets Jung-yong, who was born as a dragon and was then transformed into a human, and sets off for the Gaeryong region to help him obtain the Night-Glowing Pearl and save the people. The film is a South Korean remake of a Taiwanese film titled Sea Gods and Ghosts, which this film also pilfers footage from.

Third Son of the Dragon King

1977

Legend of the White Snake poster
9.0

Based on the reincarnation theory of Buddhism, Heo Sun rescued a little white snake. Afterwards, a thousand-year-old white snake comes out to watch the May Festival when he discovers Heo Sun living in poverty. In order to thank him, the white snake takes the form of the maiden, Baek-ryang, and marries him, making a wealthy life for them. One day, the spiritual Buddhist priest Mo-san tells Heo Sun that Baek-ryang is a ghost. He tells him how to get rid of the woman but when he finds out that Baek-ryang is pregnant, he decides to wait a year. On the baby's 100th day celebration, Baek-ryang is buried in the gourd that Mo-san has made and she is unable to do any more magic.

Legend of the White Snake

1978

No artwork available
NR

In the Taebong dynasty towards end of King Gungye's reign in the deep ravines, a thousand year old pair of foxes lived. They were father and daughter practicing asceticism to become humans. Lee Mu-gi, a snake skilled at the martial arts, changes into a human to capture Hyo-nyo. He rescues Hyo-nyo from Ok-to dragon which came to earth to find the learned priest Gwang Seon-sa. Hwang Jeong and old man Hwang (the foxes) take a liking to Ok-to and decide to help him fight the thieves and they defeat Lee Mu-gi. Hwang Jeong falls for Ok-to. But knowing she can't love a human, Hwang Jeong gives her life to save Ok-to.

Sa-ho Martial Arts

1979