Kim Ki-young

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1919-10-10 (79 years old)

Deathday

1998-02-05

Place of Birth

Seoul, South Korea

Kim Ki-young

Biography

Kim Ki-young (October 10, 1919 – February 5, 1998) was a South Korean film director, known for his intensely psychosexual and melodramatic horror films, often focusing on the psychology of their female characters. Kim was born in Seoul during the colonial period, raised in Pyongyang, where he became interested in theater and cinema. In Korea after the end of World War II, he studied dentistry while becoming involved in the theater. During the Korean War, he made propaganda films for the United States Information Service. In 1955, he used discarded movie equipments to produce his first two films. With the success of these two films Kim formed ...

Production

1961

The Sea Knows

as Producer

1961

The Sea Knows

as Adaptation

1955

Yangsan Province

as Screenplay

1955

1960

The Housemaid

as Screenplay

1960

The Housemaid

as Director

1977

Ieoh Island

as Director

1971

Woman of Fire

as Director

1963

Goryeojang

as Writer

1963

Goryeojang

as Director

1982

1975

Promises

as Director

1972

Insect Woman

as Writer

1972

Insect Woman

as Director

1955

Yangsan Province

as Director

2010

The Housemaid

as Original Story

1985

Beasts of Prey

as Director

1985

1969

Lady Hong

as Director

1990

1979

Water Lady

as Writer

1961

The Sea Knows

as Director

1979

Water Lady

as Director

1984

1984

Hunting of Fools

as Director

1971

Woman of Fire

as Writer

1974

Transgression

as Director

1974

Transgression

as Writer

1978

Soil

as Director

1968

Woman

as Writer

1981

Ban Geum-ryeon

as Director

1956

Touch-Me-Not

as Producer

1956

Touch-Me-Not

as Editor

1957

A Woman's War

as Director

1957

Twilight Train

as Director

1955

Boxes of Death

as Director

1956

Touch-Me-Not

as Director

1957

1957

A Woman's War

as Editor

1960

1958

The First Snow

as Director

1959

1960

A Sad Pastorale

as Director

1958

1969

Elegy of Ren

as Director

1964

Asphalt

as Editor

1964

Asphalt

as Director

1980

The Deaf Worker

as Adaptation

1982

Free Woman

as Director

1968

Woman

as Director

1980

The Deaf Worker

as Producer

1963

Goryeojang

as Editor

1963

Goryeojang

as Producer

1960

The Housemaid

as Producer

1982

1953

I Am a Truck

as Director

1980

The Deaf Worker

as Director

1990

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