Cinematography: Choi Young-hwan

The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Choi Young-hwan. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.


A Man Who Was Superman

2008 · Movie · 102 min. · South Korea

Direction Chung Yoon-chul

Cast Hwang Jung-min · Jun Ji-hyun · Jin Ji-hee · Sun Woo-Sun

Plot ONG Soo-jung is a producer going on her third year at a small company. Her specialty is human interest stories. She is driven to produce these shallow stories for the...

6.9

437 votes

6.9

437 votes

Smugglers

2023 · Movie · min. · South Korea

Direction Ryoo Seung-Wan

Cast Kim Hye-soo · Yum Jung-ah · Jo In-sung · Park Jung-min

Plot An action crime film set in the 1970s in a small, peaceful village by the sea where two women get unexpectedly caught up in a high-stakes smuggling scheme.

6.7

105 votes

6.7

105 votes

Take Care of My Cat

2001 · Movie · 112 min. · South Korea

Direction Jeong Jae-eun

Cast Doona Bae · Lee Yu-won · Ok Ji-young · Eung-sil Lee

Plot In the port city of Icheon, five female friends struggle to stay close while forging a life for themselves after high school. When one of the group, upwardly-mobile Hae-ju, moves...

6.6

90 votes

6.6

90 votes

Tazza: The High Rollers

2006 · Movie · 139 min. · South Korea

Direction Choi Dong-hoon

Cast Cho Seung-woo · Kim Hye-soo · Baek Yoon-sik · Yoo Hae-jin

Plot From cards to mahjong, from dice to go, gambling and gamblers have become regular protagonists of movie productions from the Asian continent. Following this constant feature, in his second film...

6.5

109 votes

6.5

109 votes

Veteran

2015 · Movie · 124 min. · South Korea

Direction Ryoo Seung-Wan

Cast Hwang Jung-min · Yoo Ah-in · Yoo Hae-jin · Oh Dal-su

Plot Jo Tae-Oh was born into a wealthy family and has got to fill the shoes of his father by becoming a top-manager. But Tae-Oh is bored with his life and...

6.0

678 votes

6.0

678 votes

The Thieves

2012 · Movie · 135 min. · South Korea

Direction Choi Dong-hoon

Cast Kim Yoon-seok · Kim Hye-soo · Lee Jung-jae · Jun Ji-hyun

Plot Popie (Lee Jung-Jae), Yenicall (Gianna Jun), Chewingum (Kim Hae-Suk) and Zampano (Kim Soo-Hyun) are a team of professional thieves in South Korea. After they score a valuable antique vase, they...

6.0

3K votes

6.0

3K votes

Escape from Mogadishu

2021 · Movie · 121 min. · South Korea

Direction Ryoo Seung-Wan

Cast Kim Yoon-seok · Jo In-sung · Heo Jun-ho · Gyo-Hwan Koo

Plot It is 1991, Mogadishu, capital city and most populous city of Somalia was torn by civil war. The personnel and the families of the South Korean embassy, isolated with no...

5.9

296 votes

5.9

296 votes

The Berlin File

2013 · Movie · 120 min. · South Korea

Direction Ryoo Seung-Wan

Cast Ha Jung-woo · Jun Ji-hyun · Werner Daehn · Ryu Seung-beom

Plot A North Korean agent in Berlin is betrayed and cut loose in the midst of a financial espionage intrigue. Together with his wife, a translator at the North Korean embassy...

5.9

1K votes

5.9

1K votes

Princess Aurora

2005 · Movie · 106 min. · South Korea

5.8

207 votes

5.8

207 votes

The Big Swindle

2004 · Movie · 116 min. · South Korea

Direction Choi Dong-hoon

Cast Park Shin-yang · Yum Jung-ah · Baek Yoon-sik · Jeon Ho-jin

Plot After being convicted for fraud, one month has passed since CHOI Chang-Hyuk's release from jail. But this time around he's got an elaborate plan cooked up. It's the biggest bank...

5.8

31 votes

5.8

31 votes

Petty Romance

2010 · Movie · 118 min. · South Korea

5.8

48 votes

5.8

48 votes

Jeon Woochi: The Taoist Wizard

2009 · Movie · 136 min. · South Korea

5.5

1K votes

5.5

1K votes

Seven Days

2007 · Movie · 125 min. · South Korea

Direction Won Shin-yun

Cast Kim Yoon-jin · Kim Mi-suk · Hie-sun Park · Choi Moo-sung

Plot A successful lawyer who, in order to save her daughter, is pressured into defending the innocence of a man slated to receive the death penalty.

5.4

52 votes

5.4

52 votes

Pandora

2016 · Movie · 136 min. · South Korea

Direction Park Jeong-woo

Cast Kim Nam-gil · Kim Yeong-ae · Moon Jung-hee · Jeong Jin-yeong

Plot Jae-Hyeok (Kim Nam-Gil) struggles to save his family and country from a nuclear disaster.

5.4

988 votes

5.4

988 votes

Bestseller

2010 · Movie · 117 min. · South Korea

Direction Lee Jeong-ho

Cast Ryu Seung-ryong · Cho Jin-woong · Hwa-yeong Kim · Eom Jeong-hwa

Plot Best Seller is a thriller centered around writer Hee-Soo (Eom Jeong-Hwa) who moves to a small house in a rural area after becoming involved in a plagiarism scandal. Hee-Soo then...

5.0

72 votes

5.0

72 votes

No Blood No Tears

2002 · Movie · 116 min. · South Korea

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The Secret Mission

2019 · Movie · 135 min. · South Korea

Direction Eom Yu-na

Cast Yoo Hae-jin · Yoon Kye-sang · Kim Hong-fa · Woo-Hyeon

Plot Imprisoned several times during the 1940s, when Korea was under Japanese occupation, Kim Pan-Soo is illiterate and does not know how to read or write Korean or any other language....

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Saving My Hubby

2002 · Movie · 92 min. · South Korea

Direction Hyeon Nam-seob

Cast Doona Bae · Kim Tae-woo · Woo Hyeon

Plot Geum-soon, once a top-ranked volleyball player, is now a common housewife with a six-month old daughter and a clumsy husband. On the first day her husband goes to work and...

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Moodori

2006 · Movie · 100 min. · South Korea

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Coming Out

2001 · Movie · 40 min. · South Korea

Direction Kim Jee-woon

Cast Gu Hye-ju · Shin Ha-kyun · Jang I-ji · Woo Hee-jin

Plot This little goldmine from writer/director Ji Woon Kim starts with a young woman who asks her brother to videotape her confession. The brother thinks this is all a joke and...

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Not rated