Choi Jin-sil

Acting

Choi Jin-sil

Born 1968-12-24 · Seoul, South Korea

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

Acting credits

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

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

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

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

The Legend of Gingko poster
5.4

Caught in between an ethnic war, Bee struggles between love and death.

The Legend of Gingko

2000

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

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

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

Ghost Mama poster
5.7

Ghost Mama is a 1996 South Korean romance fantasy film.

Ghost Mama

1996

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

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

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

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

Mister Mama poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Mister Mama

1992

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

Straight poster
5.5

No synopsis available yet.

Straight

1990