Choo Chang-min
Choo in March 2018
Born	1966 (age 57–58) South Korea
Occupation(s)	Film director, screenwriter
Korean name
Hangul	추창민
Revised Romanization	Chu Changmin
McCune–Reischauer	Ch‘u Ch‘ang

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 (1999) and The Happy Funeral Director (2000). His first short film, The End of April (2000), was highly acclaimed at several international film festivals. Choo made his feature film debut with hit comedy Mapado: Island of Fortunes (2005).^[1]

Choo then directed the Sol Kyung-gu-Song Yun-ah melodrama Lost in Love (2006),^[2][3] followed by the senior citizen romance Late Blossom (2011) which became a sleeper hit through word of mouth after it was released.^[4] His period 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.^[5][6][7]

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 (short film, 2000) - director, screenplay, producer
• The Happy Funeral Director (2000) - assistant director
• City of the Rising Sun (1999) - assistant director

Awards and nominations