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Yim Pil-sung (born May 13, 1972) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. He wrote and directed Antarctic Journal (2005), Hansel and Gretel (2007), and Scarlet Innocence (2014). Yim Pil-sung began directing short films in 1997, with Souvenir as his first. Brushing (1998), about an overweight teenage boy who is left home alone with his senile grandfather, was invited to the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival. Baby (1999) screened at the Venice Film Festival and Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. Mobile (starring Park Hae-il, Yoon Jin-seo, and Yoon Je-moon) was included in the 2003 omnibus Show Me.
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2026
Mad Concrete Dreams
TV show Director
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2025
Dark Nuns
Movie Original Story
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2023
Dear Jinri
Movie Executive Producer
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2023
NCT 127: The Lost Boys
TV show Executive Producer
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2023
Rewind, Pause, Then, Play
Movie Self
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2020
Catacomb
Movie Director
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2020
Departure, Sun
Movie Director
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2019
Persona
TV show Writer
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2018
Movie Room
TV show Self
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2017
The Nest
Movie Director
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2015
Three Summer Nights
Movie Original Story
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2014
Scarlet Innocence
Movie Director
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2013
Playboy Bong
Movie Director Yim Pil-Sung
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2013
Behind the Camera
Movie Self
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2012
Doomsday Book
Movie Director
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2012
A Brave New World
Movie Director
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2012
Happy Birthday
Movie Director
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2007
Hansel & Gretel
Movie Screenplay
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2006
The Host
Movie Fat Guevara
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2006
Sunday Seoul
Movie Writer
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2005
Antarctic Journal
Movie Director
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2000
Baby
Movie Director
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1998
Brushing
Movie Director
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The Tomb of Fog
Movie Director