Choo Chang-min (born 1966) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. His 2012 period film '' Masquerade'' became one of the top-grossing Korean films of all time.

Career

Choo Chang-min began his career as an assistant director on such films as ''

City of the Rising Sun ''City of the Rising Sun'' () is a 1998 South Korean film about two friends, Hong-ki and Do-chul in their mid twenties, struggling on life in the late 1990s Korean scenario. The film stars Jung Woo-sung as Do-chul and Lee Jung-jae as Hong-ki. Sto ...

'' (1999) and ''The Happy Funeral Director'' (2000). His first

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, ''The End of April'' (2000), was highly acclaimed at several international film festivals. Choo made his

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debut with hit comedy '' Mapado: Island of Fortunes'' (2005). Choo then directed the

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- Song Yun-ah melodrama '' Lost in Love'' (2006), followed by the senior citizen romance '' Late Blossom'' (2011) which became a

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through

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after it was released. His

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film '' Masquerade'' (2012) was a huge critical and commercial success, for which Choo won Best Director at the prestigious Grand Bell Awards and the

Baeksang Arts Awards The Baeksang Arts Awards (), also known as the Paeksang Arts Awards, are awards for excellence in film, television and theatre in South Korea. The awards were first introduced in 1965 by Chang Key-young, the founder of the Hankook Ilbo newspap ...

Filmography

*'' Seven Years of Night'' (2018) - director, screenwriter *'' Masquerade'' (2012) - director *'' Late Blossom'' (2011) - director, screenplay, editor *'' Lost in Love'' (2006) - director, screenplay *'' Mapado'' (2005) - director *''The End of April'' (

, 2000) - director, screenplay, producer *''The Happy Funeral Director'' (2000) - assistant director *''

'' (1999) - assistant director

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* * * South Korean film editors South Korean film directors South Korean screenwriters 1966 births Living people Best Director Paeksang Arts Award (film) winners {{SouthKorea-film-director-stub