Jan

30

2008
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Min-sik Choi hasn’t been seen on the big screen since his 2005 film’s “Sympathy for Lady Vengeance” and “Crying Fist”. Within the last year he has kept a lower profile than usual due to bad publicity. Last year, when popular Korean actors and directors protested against the lowering of screen quotas for foreign films, Min-sik Choi took an active part in those protests. Shortly afterwards he appeared in paid commercials for a Korean company named Leadcorp (리드코프). Leadcorp is a lender of money to consumers, but allegedly charges unusually high interest rates. The public took Min-sik’s protest appearances (promoting Korean culture) and his paid commercial appearance (advocating unusually high interest rates to the public) and deducted those two acts as being self-centered, callous, or insincere to the public’s interest.

Since that time, he hasn’t been seen in the public very much but that should change soon. The man who played “Oldboy” will be appearing in his first film in over three years, which will be called “Himalaya: Barami Buneun Kot (The Place Wind Blows)”. In the movie a Nepalese man, who is a factory worker in South Korea, dies. Min-sik’s character then takes the worker’s remains back to his home village in the Himalayan mountains of Nepal (perhaps “Failan” - minus the romance and shown from the vantage point of a factory worker and his exposure to Nepal?). The film will be directed by highly regarded indie director Soo-ill Jeon, who has done such works as “With a Girl of Black Soil,” “Time Between Dog and Wolf” (***I’m dying to see this film***), and “My Right To Ravage Myself”. Filming will start next month in Nepal.

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