1966Winner
Best Performance
The Monkey Goes West
Choi Eun-hee
Actor · Director · Producer
Gwangju, South Korea
November 20, 1926
Biography
Choi Eun-hee (November 20, 1926 – April 16, 2018) was a South Korean actress, who was one of the country's most popular stars of the 1960s and 1970s. In 1978, Choi and her then ex-husband, movie director Shin Sang-ok, were abducted to North Korea, where they were forced to make films until they sought asylum at the US Embassy in Vienna in 1986. They returned to South Korea in 1999 after spending a decade in the United States.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
1964Winner
Best Performance
Red Scarf
1962Nominee
Best Performance
Bound by Chastity Rule
Career Highlights
1955Highlight
Best Performance
The Youth
1987Highlight
Best Director
The Country I Saw
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The Monkey Goes West
The Lovers and the Despot