Choo Changmin

I. Introduction

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

II. Career

Borned in 1966, Choo Chang-min first worked on Film-Making (1997) as a production assistant and later on City of The Rising Sun (1998) as a script supervisor, before contributing to the screenplay of dark comedy The Happy Funeral Director (1999, directed by Chang Mun-il).

His first short film, The End of April (2000), was invited to several international film festivals.

Choo made his feature film debut with Mapado: Island of Fortunes (2004).

He found success with the elderly melodrama Late Blossom (2010), which took off through positive word of mouth and drew to theaters an audience that had long been neglected by the Korean film industry.

This was nothing, however, compared to the critical and commercial success of his following film the period drama Masquerade (2012). It reached 12.3 million admissions, the second highest score ever in Korea at the time, and literally swiped the award season, winning 15 of the 24 categories at the Grand Bell Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director.

He came back six years later with the thriller Seven Years of Night (2018), based on a novel by Jung Yoo-jung.

III. Filmography

Assistant Director

Director

Year	Poster	Title
2005		Mapado
2006		Lost in Love
2011		Late Blossom
2012		Masquerade
2018		Seven Years of Night

IV. Awards