Kim Kee-duk

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Kim Kee-duk

Directing September 29, 1934

Seoul, Korea

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 di…

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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.

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  1. 1975
    Best Singer

    Movie Director

  2. 1970
    My Seoul

    Movie Director

  3. 1969
    Beauty in Black Rose Castle

    Movie Director

  4. 1969
    Until That Day

    Movie Director

  5. 1967
    Yongary, Monster from the Deep

    Movie Director

  6. 1966
    Horse-year Bride

    Movie Director

  7. 1965
    Buy My Fist

    Movie Director

  8. 1965
    North and South

    Movie Director

  9. 1964
    The Barefooted Young

    Movie Director

  10. 1963
    Private Tutor

    Movie Director

  11. 1961
    Five Marines

    Movie Editor

  12. 1960
    The Moral of Youth

    Movie Editor

  13. 1959
  14. 1956
    Prince in Yam Clothes

    Movie Assistant Director

  15. 1956
    Prince Ho-Dong and Princess Nak-Rang

    Movie Assistant Director

  16. 1956
    The Tragedy of King Dan Jong

    Movie Assistant Director