Choi Sung-rok

Movies

Mustache
Sound Designer
Follows Ilyas, a 13-year-old boy who navigates the social hierarchy of his new school in California with a mustache his parents won't let him shave.
I Was a Simple Man
Sound Designer
A ghost story set in the pastoral countryside of the north shore of O‘ahu, Hawai‘i. Told in four chapters, it tells the story of an elderly man facing the end of his life, visited by the ghosts of his past.
A Woman's Work: The NFL's Cheerleader Problem
Sound Designer
Three brave cheerleaders take on the NFL, battling the massive, male-dominated sports league for recognition — and a raise.
Searching
Thanks
After David Kim's 16-year-old daughter goes missing, a local investigation is opened and a detective is assigned to the case. But 37 hours later and without a single lead, David decides to search the one place no one has looked yet, where all secrets are kept today: his daughter's laptop.
August at Akiko's
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Musician Alex sets off to an island to find his ancestral home with only childhood memories as his navigational system. As he fails to find his home, he reaches a retreat run by a Buddhist woman, Akiko, where he decides to stay for a while. Over a course of few weeks, they share a special spiritual bond out of music and therapeutic techniques.
August at Akiko's
Supervising Sound Editor
Musician Alex sets off to an island to find his ancestral home with only childhood memories as his navigational system. As he fails to find his home, he reaches a retreat run by a Buddhist woman, Akiko, where he decides to stay for a while. Over a course of few weeks, they share a special spiritual bond out of music and therapeutic techniques.
Who is Arthur Chu?
Sound Mixer
Documentary feature about 11-time Jeopardy! champion and Internet iconoclast, Arthur Chu.
Occasionally, I Saw Glimpses of Hawai'i
Sound Designer
An audio-visual collage looking at 100 years of Hollywood representation of Hawai'i.
Girl Flu.
Sound Designer
Bird, a smart level-headed tween, and her immature stoner mom gracelessly navigate the arrival of Bird's first period, which she gets on the last day of school… in front of the entire class.
Snowpiercer
Sound Designer
In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class system evolves aboard the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe via a perpetual-motion engine.
Duelist
Dialogue Editor
Detective Nam-soon goes undercover with her partner Detective Ahn to investigate the counterfeit money. She discovers that one loyal henchman, Sad Eyes, a beautiful swordsman with a pale, blank face, is related to the truth. Nam-soon and Sad Eyes confront each other in a series of duels and become confused between love and obligation to duty.
The President's Barber
Dialogue Editor
A well-meaning but politically naive barber gets pulled into the inner circle of the South Korean dictator Park Chung-Hee, with rather baleful consequences for his hapless family. This sharp political satire covers roughly twenty years in South Korean political history, from the viewpoint of the barber's son.
Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War
Dialogue Editor
When two brothers are forced to fight in the Korean War, the elder decides to take the riskiest missions if it will help shield the younger from battle.
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
Sound Effects Editor
A deaf man and his girlfriend resort to desperate measures in order to fund a kidney transplant for his sister. Things go horribly wrong, and the situation spirals rapidly into a cycle of violence and revenge.
Kilimanjaro
Dialogue Editor
This Korean thriller begins as an organized crime kingpin murders his wife and child and then turns his gun on himself. His policeman brother, an identical twin, returns to his hometown only to find, to his surprise, that he is immediately mistaken for his dead brother. As disillusioned with law enforcement as his brother was with criminal life, the policeman takes on his brother's identity, enmeshing himself in the violent life that ultimately lead to his brother's demise.
Barking Dogs Never Bite
Dialogue Editor
An idle part-time college lecturer is annoyed by the yapping sound of a nearby dog. He decides to take drastic action.