Kim Kee-duk

from Seoul, Korea

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Biography

KIM Ki-duk is a South Korean film director and professor. Best-known outside of Korea for his 1967 giant-monster film, Yonggary, KIM Ki-duk directed 66 movies in total from his directorial debut in 1961 until his retirement from the film industry in 1977. Along with KIM Soo-yong and LEE Man-hee, KIM was one of the leading young directors of the Korean cinematic wave of the 1960s. The most distinctive and successful genre of this period was the melodrama.

Timeline

1975Aged 41

  • Poster for Best Singer

    Director

1970Aged 36

  • Poster for My Seoul

    Director

1969Aged 35

1967Aged 33

  • Poster for Yongary, Monster from the Deep

    Editor

1966Aged 32

  • Poster for Horse-year Bride

    Director

1965Aged 31

  • Poster for North and South

    Director

  • Poster for Buy My Fist

    Director

1964Aged 30

  • Poster for The Barefooted Young

    Director

1963Aged 29

  • Poster for Private Tutor

    Director

1961Aged 27

  • Poster for Five Marines

    Editor

1960Aged 26

  • Poster for The Moral of Youth

    Editor

1959Aged 25

  • Poster for A Skinny and a Fatty Go to Camp Nonsan

    Editor

1956Aged 22

  • Poster for The Tragedy of King Dan Jong

    Assistant Director

  • Poster for Prince Ho-Dong and Princess Nak-Rang

    Assistant Director

  • Poster for Prince in Yam Clothes

    Assistant Director