Ki-duk Kim
Date of Birth: 20 Dec 1960
Country: South Korea
Biography: One of the most controversial Korean directors, Kim Ki-duk is a self-taught filmmaker who prides himself on his outsider status. Kim's films have drawn vitriol for their subject matter and praise for their technique. Born in a mountainous village, Kim moved with his family to Seoul at the age of nine. During his teenage years he dropped out of school and worked in factories, experiences that inspired the gritty milieu of his films. (All Movies)
Total Credits at Criticker: 3 (Actor), 26 (Director), 32 (Writer)
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A lurid fable of obsessive love, using a potent mix of dark romance, surrealist technique, and violent action. Bad Guy paints a picture of a dark, hauntingly unforgettable neon-lit world, where two unlikely lovers meet on their own lonely street. (LifeSize Entertainment)
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Mute Hee-Jin is working as a clerk in a fishing resort in the Korean wilderness; selling baits, food and occasionally her body to the fishing tourists. One day she falls in love to Hyun-Shik, who is on the run for the police and rescues him with a fish hook, when he tries to commit suicide. (imdb)
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Entirely set on and around a tree-lined lake where a tiny Buddhist monastery floats on a raft amidst a breath-taking landscape, this film is divided into five segments with each season representing a stage in a man's life. (Sony Pictures Classics)
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A young drifter enters strangers' houses - and lives - while owners are away. He spends a night or a day squatting in, repaying their unwitting hospitality by doing laundry or small repairs. His life changes when he runs into a beautiful woman in an affluent mansion who is ready to escape her unhappy, abusive marriage. (imdb)
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Jae-Young is an amateur prostitute who sleeps with men while her best friend Yeo-Jin "manages" her, fixing dates, taking care of the money and making sure the coast is clear. When Jae-Young falls in love with one of those man she suppresses her feelings towards him in respect of her friend who's jealous.
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On a fishing boat at sea, a 60-year old man has been raising a girl since she was a baby. It is agreed that they will get married on her 17th birthday, and she is 16 now. They live a quiet and secluded life, renting the boat to day fishermen and practicing strange divination rites. Their life changes when a teenage student comes aboard... (imdb)
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To save her relationship, a woman puts herself through extensive plastic surgery. (imdb)
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Violent thug Crocodile lives under a bridge by the Han River in Seoul together with a peddling boy and a homeless old man. Crocodile saves a beautiful young woman Hyun-Jung from suicide by drowning, but only to use her for sex. Yet, for some reason the woman, betrayed by her lover, stays with Crocodile, and a peculiar family-like friendship forms between the four homeless people... (imdb)
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Romances end in blood and the frail hopes of individuals are torn apart in a vile karmic continuity of colonialism, civil war and occupation... (imdb)
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When an overzealous Korean Coast Guard soldier kills a local civilian at night when the civilian is in a restricted area, the officials give him a seven-day pass and he begins his descent into madness. (imdb comments)
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A love story involving a convicted prisoner who "slowly falls for a woman who decorates his prison cell". (imdb)
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Shot entirely in one day, Real Fiction follows a South Korean artist as he systematically seeks out, and then guns down his real or imagined enemies. (wikipedia.org)
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Eun-young is a woman cursed with great beauty. Wherever she goes, she gets unwanted admiration from men and jealousy from women. One day, one of her stalking admirer invades her place. (imdb)
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A man dreams he caused a car crash, then discovers a real hit-and-run accident. The driver is arrested by police as the prime suspect, though she claims she was not responsible. (movies.yahoo.com)
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Kim Ki-Duk's second film is the story of two illegal immigrants in Paris, a North-Korean former soldier and a South-Korean street painter, as they both struggle for survival in the French metropolis. Eventually, they develop a strong friendship whilst their association with the local underworld will have dramatic effects on their lives. (imdb.com)
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With a red-light district in Seoul being demolished, the residents there find they have to relocate. Jin-a opts to leave Seoul and heads to the eastern city of Pohang. There she takes up residence in a boarding house run by a small family. Besides the parents, there is a daughter attending university and a son in high school. At first Jin-a is very happy there, however she continues to sell her body driving her into confrontation with the repressed daughter, Hye-mi... (imdb)
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A young man crosses over North and South Korea to deliver the pain and longings of separated families. (imdb)
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The most internationally renowned South Korean filmmaker, Kim Ki-duk, has shot his latest film entirely in Europe, His camera follows the bizarre, disturbing journey of a young Korean girl who comes to Europe to search for someone she has to follow to Venice and Avignon. A mysterious character who hides behind a gas mask follows her everywhere and harasses her all the time. (mubi.com)
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A brutal man in the employ of a loan shark is forced to reconsider his violent lifestyle when a mysterious woman appears claiming to be his long-lost mother. But, as his attachment to her grows, he begins to discover the gruesome and tragic secret that made her seek him out. (tiff.net)
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A father driven into desire, a son coveting that of his father's, and the sorrowful maternity that hovers them into tragedy. (imdb)
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Young is a nameless actor who dreams of becoming a big movie star. Then one day, he makes his breakthrough with a film and becomes a star overnight. He discovers a new hidden world of fame, power, and pleasure, but inevitably all things have a dark side, which puts everyone around him in danger.
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On May 9, a high school girl named Oh Min-ju is brutally murdered. Afterwards, the seven suspects are hunted down by seven members of a terrorist group called "Shadow." (wikipedia)
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Seung-yeon achieves not quedarse embarazada. When a teenager who Conoce aborting quiere not convince duda in've got for you baby for her. When the chica installs itself in the house of Seung-yeon, the pairing is definitivamente away from home, it triggers a series of faits unstoppable. Filmed by a sus assistantship, this drama ago gala incomodidad Kim Ki-duk own.
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An ordinary fisherman drifts across the sea when the engine of his boat fails only to find himself in South Korean waters. He is suspected to be a North Korean spy, harshly interrogated and extradited to his country, where he is subject to similar distrust and is trapped between two ideologies.
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A group of North Korean spies pretend to be a normal family in South Korea while tracking down defectors.
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Chinese eel farmer Chen smuggles himself into Korea to prove that his eels are safe to eat. (koreanfilm.or.kr)
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A young married couple were exposed to radiation during the meltdown at Japan's Fukushima nuclear reactor. The young woman is pregnant and she and her husband must decide whether or not to keep the baby. Their assumption that the child will be disabled is certainly realistic, and they both gradually succumb to madness. (en.wikipedia.org)
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Kim Gang-il, a paratrooper who was mobilized to suppress the demonstrations during the May 18th Gwangju Democratization Movement, is working as a forklift driver after his retirement. Subsequently, he uncovers findings that will reveal the inconvenient truth from twenty years prior. (en.wikipedia.org)
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A young couple is on their honeymoon trip on an old battle cruiser. After a night of violence from the other passengers, the ship starts floating and everyones humanity is put to the test.
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Girl-1 bound by a traditional family and household. One day she meets Girl-2 with the same appearance. This girl has a free lifestyle and a rich sponsor who provides her with everything. (almatyfilmfestival.com)
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A young woman and an older man embark upon a relationship which becomes emotionally overwhelming for them both. (eyeforfilm.co.uk)
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