Kim Kee-duk
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 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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Best Singer (1975)
Director
무작정 상경 (1970)
Director
Beauty in Black Rose Castle (1969)
Director
Until That Day (1969)
Director
Yongary, Monster from the Deep (1967)
Director | Screenplay
Horse-year Bride (1966)
Director
내 주먹을 사라 (1965)
Director
North and South (1965)
Director
The Barefooted Young (1964)
Director
Private Tutor (1963)
Director
Five Marines (1961)
Director | Editor
The Moral of Youth (1960)
Editor
A Skinny and a Fatty Go to Camp Nonsan (1959)
Editor
Prince in Yam Clothes (1956)
Assistant Director
Prince Ho-Dong and Princess Nak-Rang (1956)
Assistant Director
The Tragedy of King Dan Jong (1956)
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