Choi Jin-sil

Acting

Choi Jin-sil

Born — Died

1968-12-24 — 2008-10-02

Place of birth

Seoul, South Korea

Known for

Acting

Credits

29 titles

Choi Jin-sil (최진실) was a South Korean actress.  She committed suicide in 2008.

Known for

Roses and Bean Sprouts poster
10.0

"Roses and Bean Sprouts" revolves around the Choi family and their four sons.

Roses and Bean Sprouts

1999

Bad Woman, Good Woman poster
NR

Bad Woman, Good Woman explores the true meaning of family and love, as a wife who considers herself a "good woman" agonizingly finds out about her husband's 6-year-long affair.

Bad Woman, Good Woman

2007

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Since We Met

2002

폭풍의 계절 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

폭풍의 계절

1993

My Rosy Life poster
7.5

Maeng Soon-yi has sacrificed everything in her life for the sake of others. She missed out on her youth because she was too busy taking care of her father, who started drinking heavily after her mother abandoned them when Soon-yi was 10 years old. Soon-yi gave up on her own education so that she could earn the money to pay for her younger siblings' tuition. Soon-yi's younger sister Young-yi, is now a successful career woman. She is having an affair with a married man, Lee Jung-do. Jung-do was Young-yi's first love, but he broke up with her for the sake of his career. While younger brother Chul-soo has settled down in the United States where he's earning his doctorate degree, completely ignoring his responsibilities at home. Soon-yi perseveres despite the constant hardships that life throws at her. Until one day, she is jolted when Ban Sung-moon , her husband with whom she has two daughters, tells her that he has fallen in love with another woman and demands a divorce. Worse, she is diagnosed with stomach cancer shortly after. Abandoned by everyone around her, all those who she has worked so hard to make happy her entire life, Soon-yi decides that it's never too late to start living the life you want, and begins to be a little selfish and find some true happiness. When they find out about her disease, her family finally realizes what she means to them. And her husband Sung-moon also rethinks his actions and finally shows her the genuine meaning of marital love.

My Rosy Life

2005

Star in My Heart poster
8.0

Star In My Heart was a 1997 Korean drama series run on MBC. One of the earlier Korean dramas to air outside of Korea, as part of what became known as the Korean Wave, it was very popular and helped its cast become widely recognized.

Star in My Heart

1997

Film credits

1990s · 16 titles

Mom Has a New Boyfriend poster
4.0

Eun-jae, a children’s book illustrator, runs into Jin-woo at a bookstore. Jin-woo and Eun-jae met years ago on a train. Although each has a family to go home to, both believe that their meeting is more than coincidence and begin to see each other.

Mom Has a New Boyfriend

1995

Baby Sale poster
7.5

Ad copywriter Sang-joon and event planner Ji-hyun meet for the first time in an elevator and decide to get married right away. But marital bliss is short lived for these two with the arrival of their son Nu-ri. Ji-hyun, exhausted from raising a baby, wants to go back to work. She thinks of a clever plan to return to her job.

Baby Sale

1997

North Korean Partisan in South Korea poster
7.2

Reporter for a North Korean news service joins the partisans when the Americans and UN forces invade South Korea.

North Korean Partisan in South Korea

1990

Holiday in Seoul poster
5.4

A hotel bellboy having recently been dumped falls in love with a leg model who's a regular guest at the hotel' she and her lover meet regularly in room 901. One day, her lover gets killed in a hit-and-run accident. Also around this hotel is a telephone operator, whom wishes to waste her time. Her fixation is with a taxi ride. When she gets into a cab, she doesn't tell the driver where to go, and the driver doesn't ask. They just speed along the city at night.

Holiday in Seoul

1997

My Love, My Bride poster
6.7

Young-min and Mi-young graduated from the same college and fell in love. They finally got married. As time goes by, they bicker over even the tiniest of issues. One day, at a coffee shop, Mi-young waits for Young-min and meets her ex-boss. Young-min sees them together and jumps to the conclusion that he is her ex-boyfriend. When Mi-young goes to visit her parents, Young-min tempts another woman.

My Love, My Bride

1990

I Wish for What Is Forbidden to Me poster
7.5

A woman decides to take revenge for the violence she has witnessed towards other women. She chooses a movie star as her target because of his high profile and because he is adored by young women. She kidnaps him and holds him prisoner in her apartment.

I Wish for What Is Forbidden to Me

1994

You Know What? It's a Secret 2 poster
7.0

Three highschool girls try to get money from their parents to help pay the hospital bills for a friend. They come up with a scheme where one of them pretends to be kidnapped in order to receive the ransom money. However, the plan is revealed and two of the girls are taken into police custody. When released, one of the girls jumps from the roof of the school out of shame and to call attention to the plight of their friend.

You Know What? It's a Secret 2

1991

Mister Mama poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Mister Mama

1992

Who Drives Me Mad? poster
7.0

Lee Jong-du, a salesman who believes that luck will change when he becomes a famous writer. However he is forced to give up after his story failed to win at a spring literature contest. Added to this is the fear that his girlfriend Joo-young will leave him. After Joo-young gets a job Jong-du realizes his mistakes that knows that she will never leave him.

Who Drives Me Mad?

1995

How to Top My Wife poster
5.3

After a long term office relationship, Bong-su and So-young decide to tie the knot. However, marriage life is not as fulfilling as they expected. Not wanting a divorce, nor to continue the relationship, Bong-su decides to hire a contract killer to take out his wife.

How to Top My Wife

1994

Susanne Brink's Arirang poster
7.2

The life and experiences of Susanne Brink, an adult Korean adoptee from Sweden who suffered abuse and racism in her adoptive home and country.

Susanne Brink's Arirang

1991

Straight poster
5.5

No synopsis available yet.

Straight

1990

Ghost Mama poster
5.7

Ghost Mama is a 1996 South Korean romance fantasy film.

Ghost Mama

1996

Mayonnaise poster
5.7

Ah-jung is a married woman in her mid-30s and has a five year-old son. She ghostwrites other people's biographies and at the moment, she is writing the biography of "an insurance sales queen." When Ah-jung's husband goes away on a business trip, she has no choice but to let her mother stay in their apartment. Ah-jung has problems dealing with her mother, a meddlesome woman who throws constant fits, probably the result of never having been loved by her husband. Mother also has a habit of putting mayonnaise in her hair to make it shinier..

Mayonnaise

1999

The Girl for Love and The One for Marriage poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Girl for Love and The One for Marriage

1993

The Letter poster
7.6

A happily married couple see only good days ahead of them; but the husband discovers that he is dying of cancer. Heartbroken at the possibility of leaving his wife behind, he proceeds to write love letters aimed at consoling his wife.

The Letter

1997

Series credits

Roses and Bean Sprouts poster
10.0

"Roses and Bean Sprouts" revolves around the Choi family and their four sons.

Roses and Bean Sprouts

1999

Bad Woman, Good Woman poster
NR

Bad Woman, Good Woman explores the true meaning of family and love, as a wife who considers herself a "good woman" agonizingly finds out about her husband's 6-year-long affair.

Bad Woman, Good Woman

2007

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Since We Met

2002

폭풍의 계절 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

폭풍의 계절

1993

My Rosy Life poster
7.5

Maeng Soon-yi has sacrificed everything in her life for the sake of others. She missed out on her youth because she was too busy taking care of her father, who started drinking heavily after her mother abandoned them when Soon-yi was 10 years old. Soon-yi gave up on her own education so that she could earn the money to pay for her younger siblings' tuition. Soon-yi's younger sister Young-yi, is now a successful career woman. She is having an affair with a married man, Lee Jung-do. Jung-do was Young-yi's first love, but he broke up with her for the sake of his career. While younger brother Chul-soo has settled down in the United States where he's earning his doctorate degree, completely ignoring his responsibilities at home. Soon-yi perseveres despite the constant hardships that life throws at her. Until one day, she is jolted when Ban Sung-moon , her husband with whom she has two daughters, tells her that he has fallen in love with another woman and demands a divorce. Worse, she is diagnosed with stomach cancer shortly after. Abandoned by everyone around her, all those who she has worked so hard to make happy her entire life, Soon-yi decides that it's never too late to start living the life you want, and begins to be a little selfish and find some true happiness. When they find out about her disease, her family finally realizes what she means to them. And her husband Sung-moon also rethinks his actions and finally shows her the genuine meaning of marital love.

My Rosy Life

2005

Star in My Heart poster
8.0

Star In My Heart was a 1997 Korean drama series run on MBC. One of the earlier Korean dramas to air outside of Korea, as part of what became known as the Korean Wave, it was very popular and helped its cast become widely recognized.

Star in My Heart

1997

그대 그리고 나 poster
NR

《그대 그리고 나》는 1997년 10월 11일부터 1998년 4월 26일까지 방영된 MBC 주말연속극이다. 《예스터데이》 후속으로 방영되었다. 방영 내내 관심과 화제를 불러일으키며 경이로운 시청률을 기록하였다.

그대 그리고 나

1997

Asphalt Man poster
9.5

Asphalt Man is a 1995 South Korean television series starring Lee Byung-hun, Choi Jin-shil, Jung Woo-sung, and Lee Young-ae. Based on the 1991 comic of the same title by manhwa artist Huh Young-man, it aired on SBS from May 17 to July 6, 1995 on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55 for 16 episodes.

Asphalt Man

1995

The Last Scandal of My Life poster
6.0

The Last Scandal of My Life is  about a 39-year-old housewife who finds love with a top actor after a painful divorce.

The Last Scandal of My Life

2008

사랑의 향기 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

사랑의 향기

1994

War of the Roses poster
10.0

"War of Roses" is a story about love quarrels people make in the course of finding their love. This series will surely bring smiles and touch the heart of the audience. Two different sisters with two different values about love. It takes place in a obstetrics & gynecology hospital. Naturally, a lot of information related to women ranging from pregnancy to delivery is also provided and sure to catch the women audience in their twenties up to sixties.

War of the Roses

2004

Jealousy poster
10.0

A 1992 TV drama series sparked romance, and also jealousy across Korea. Aired on MBC from June to July of 1992, the 16-episode TV drama “Jealousy (질투)” depicted the pure love, infused with a subtle sense of jealousy, of a young couple. The series answered the much asked question: “Is it possible for a man and woman who are 'just friend' to fall in love?" The show was based on the 1991 novel, “Long Shadow of My Love” by Yoon Myung-hye.

Jealousy

1992