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- South China Morning Post
12 best movies of Squid Game's Front Man, Lee Byung-hun, ranked
One of the most recognisable and successful performers in South Korea, Lee Byung-hun is back on our screens this week in the dramatic conclusion of Netflix's global K-drama phenomenon,
Squid Game
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Since his television debut in 1991, Lee has found sustained critical and commercial acclaim on the big and small screen, overcome tabloid scandals, and even appeared in Hollywood action blockbusters like G.I. Joe, Terminator Genisys and
The Magnificent Seven
Lee will also be the subject of a 10-film retrospective in South Korea later this month at the Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival, where he is this edition's actor in focus.
Here we rank his 12 finest cinematic performances to date.
12. The Man Standing Next (2020)
The assassination of President Park Chung-hee in 1979 by his own intelligence chief, Kim Jae-gyu, was one of the most shocking incidents in Korea's history and has been dramatised numerous times, not least in 2005's darkly comic The President's Last Bang.
