Ki-young Kim

A composer who works at a factory hires one of the young women there as his housemaid which causes tension and drama in his life.

A schoolgirl goes from braids to bouffant when her mother makes her a bar hostess/prostitute. She cures impotence for Professor Lee and becomes his concubine. His entrepreneurial wife is initially shocked but soon accepts the arrangement and even gives the girl and allowance. (imdb)

Prior to the adoption of Confucianism, it was the tradition to abandon one's parents on a mountainside if they were over 70 years of age. (imdb)

Mild-mannered and modest Sook-young looks like your usual middle-aged woman, but happens to be a man-killing murderess. On a train trip to Mokpo, she remembers an earlier trip as a prisoner on furlough accompanied by a menacing but kind butch female guard. On the train they meet Hoon, a young man who falls for Sook-young. The guard lets them be alone at a bizarre marriage in a hill-top graveyard. (imdb)

An investor planning on developing a tourist resort begins an investigation into the legends of the mysterious Io Island in the hope of exploiting its unspoiled beauty (imdb)

When Kim Dong-sik wife's business grows and his position at home gets blurred, he starts to feel inferior and becomes concerned. He has an affair as a means of escape. But he ends up supporting two homes and Dong-sik falls into deeper despair. Meanwhile, his wife and mistress are quite realistic so they form an unspoken alliance and decide to share Dong-sik. Though Dong-sik tried to ignore and escape the reality before him, he ultimately ends up in the hole he dug himself. (Korean Movie Database)

Suk Yong-bin became paranoid since the car accident but has a vision that convinces him that he can get over any hardships. He goes on an exploration of a cave with a well-known archaeologist Jang Im-du and brings back a several thousand year old skull. That night he sees the spirit of the skull and goes back to work for the professor Jang. He starts dreaming about the Jang's daughter Hye-won. When he wakes up, he shares love with her in reality. (kmdb.or.kr)

Two lovers are forced into suicide as the only way to maintain their forbidden love. (imdb)

A Korean man, forced into service in the Japanese army during WWII, marries his Japanese girlfriend despite everyone's objections. Later, he becomes the sole survivor when the Americans attack. (imdb)

Dong-sik and Myeong-ja are found dead near a poultry farm, with twelve stab wounds. The police, assuming that this is a robbery case, start investigation. One day Myeong-ja, comes to work for free at the farm, in order to marry well. Dong-sik, a songwriter, becomes close to Hye-suk who wants to be a singer. However Myeong-ja comes in between them, and gets pregnant with Dong-sik's child... (KMDb)

This is a remake of the classic "The Housemaid" (aka Hayo). This time it takes place on a chicken farm run by the wife. This gives a new animal horror to add to Kim's trademark rats (see The Insect Woman). Kim also gives the philandering husband a clock fetish. Before he has sex with the maid for the first time, he winds up a wall of clocks. These chime the hour in a cacophonous crescendo that matches the pace of their sexual passion. (imdb)

The film is a melodrama about a man who falls in love with a woman while traveling to Seoraksan. The man becomes infatuated with the woman's hair. The woman, who has a terminal illness, promises to leave her hair to the manafter she has died. Later the man finds that the woman has died, and her hair has been sold to someone else. He then has a romantic relationship with another woman who turns out to be... (mydramalist)

In ancient China, a salt merchant takes three wives. However their rivalry, plots and in-fighting destroy more than one family. (imdb)

A Korean woman raised in Spain with European values towards life and romance finds living in her ancestral land stifling and it eats away at her vitality. (imdb)

AKA Woman of Water; Jin-seok returns from the Vietnam war, injured and marries Sun-ok. But financial difficulties cause them to argue. One day, Sun-ok brings bamboo trees from her parents' home and succeeds in running a bamboo ware manufacturing company. Sun-ok has a stuttering problem and their son inherits the habit and he is sent to a special school. Meanwhile Jin-seok falls for Chu-wol and begins abusing Sun-ok. Chu-wol schemes to ruin his family, but Jin-seok escape...

A boy raised in a temple by the monks must resist the test of temptation before he can become an abbot of his order...

AKA Women at the Front; The household maid becomes pregnant by her employer's husband and she flees to the countryside to raise her daughter on her own. (imdb)

While protesting the urban renewal project that will destroy their hovels, a group of squatters slowly come to the conclusion that it is their own fault they are without homes. They leave to find new lives for themselves. (imdb)

Seok-ho is unable to overcome his fear that he will not graduate from college for only a limited number of the class will get their diplomas. Seok-ho tries to kill himself and ends up in a mental institution. Then he persuades his fellow patient, Hong-ik, to escape with him. After dealing with several incidents, they become miners. They meet a simple young woman. In order to construct an ideal land, they head for a deserted island in the South Sea. However, just before they're about to leave for

Worldy renowned for his masterpiece The Housemaid (1960), Kim Ki-young debuts with his first short film I Am a Truck (1953), which was sponsored by UN and made a year after the armistice of the Korean War. This film is a fascinating glimpse into the mind of a soon-to-be powerful auteur and influential filmmaker in the post-war Korean cinema, if not the whole history of Korean cinema.