Kim Kee-duk

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1934-09-29 (83 years old)

Deathday

2017-09-07

Place of Birth

Seoul, Korea

Kim Kee-duk

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.

Production

1961

Five Marines

as Editor

1964

1961

Five Marines

as Director

1975

Best Singer

as Director

1965

North and South

as Director

1966

Horse-year Bride

as Director

1960

1956

The Tragedy of King Dan Jong

as Assistant Director

1956

Prince in Yam Clothes

as Assistant Director

1956

1963

Private Tutor

as Director

1969

Until That Day

as Director

1970

My Seoul

as Director

1965

Buy My Fist

as Director

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