Kim Ki-dukFilmography

Occupation:: Art Director, Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter
Biography:: One of the most controversial Korean directors, Kim Ki-duk is a self-taught filmmaker who prides himself on his outsider status, openly setting himself apart from contemporaries like Hong Sang-soo and Lee Chang-dong, who he considers too intellectual. Kim's films have drawn vitriol for their...Read More

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Rough Cut

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Hong Soo-hyeon, Ko Chang-Seok

Synopsis: Having recently beaten-up his co-star after losing his temper on set, a high-profile Korean film star recruits a genuine gangster to take the damaged actor's place under the strict stipulation that all violence in the film will be 100% real. Gang-pae is the second in command in his organization. Read More

9/11/08
Beautiful

Crew: Executive Producer, Screen Story

Actors: Cha Soo-yeon, Lee Chun-Hee, Choi Myeong-su, Kim Min-Soo, Lee Min

Synopsis: In an era where the public's obsession with beauty has become completely absurd, a strikingly attractive woman begins to consider her appearance the enemy, and sets out to destroy it by becoming as hideous as humanly possible. Eunyoung has always been beautiful; every man lusts after her, and Read More

2008
Dream

Crew: Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Jô Odagiri, Lee Na-Young, Park Ji-ah, Kim Tae-hyeong

Synopsis: In this unusual and slightly ominous romantic fantasy from Korea, Joe Odagiri stars as Jin, a young man who experiences a foreboding nightmare about a traffic accident and feels compelled, upon waking, to travel to the same spot he visited in the dream. As it turns out, a hit-and-run accident Read More

2008
Time

Crew: Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Seong Hyeon-ah, Ha Jeong-woo, Park Ji-yeon, Kim Seong-min, Kim Ji-hyeon

Synopsis: A woman obsessed with her appearance takes drastic measures to hold onto the man she loves, with startling results in this offbeat drama from South Korean filmmaker Kim Ki-duk. Se-heui (Park Ji-yeon) is a beautiful woman who has become convinced she isn't beautiful enough. Se-heui is certain her Read More

7/13/07
Breath

Crew: Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Chang Chen, Zia, Ha Jeong-woo, Gang In-hyeong

Synopsis: A convicted prisoner gradually begins to develop feelings for the woman who decorates his cell in director Kim Ki-duk's minimal dialogue love story. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

2007
3-Iron

Crew: Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Lee Seung-yeon, Jae Hee Song, Gweon Hyeok-ho, Ju Jin-mo, Choi Jeong-ho

Synopsis: A battered woman finds her soul mate in a most unusual manner in this drama from Korean filmmaker Kim Ki-Duk. Tae-suk (Jae Hee Song) is a young drifter who appears to be homeless by inclination as much as necessity; he squats in the homes of strangers while they're away, carefully seeing to it Read More

4/29/05
The Bow

Crew: Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Jeon Sung-hwan, Han Yeo-reum, Seo Ji-seok, Jeon Guk-hwan, Kim Il-tae

Synopsis: A crusty old man and his teenage bride-to-be find their secluded life at sea turned upside down with the arrival of a mysterious teenage boy in The Isle director Kim Ki-duk's quiet and contemplative drama. They've been together for ten years, and as the girl's seventeenth birthday draws near so Read More

2005
The Nine Lives of Korean Cinema

Actors: Ahn Sung-ki, Bae Chang-Ho, Bong Joon-ho, Derek Elley, Hong Sang-soo

2005
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter ...And Spring

Crew: Director, Editor, Screenwriter

Actors: Oh Yeong-su, Kim Ki-duk, Kim Yeong-min, Seo Jae-gyeong, Ha Yeo-jin

Synopsis: Korean director Kim Ki-duk's Buddhism-inspired fable takes place on a placid lake nestled among hills on which floats a small, one-room monastery housing two monks, one old and one young. The action takes place over the course of several years, and is divided into five sections denoted by the Read More

4/2/04
Samaritan Girl

Crew: Art Director, Director, Editor, Screenwriter

Actors: Lee Eol, Gwak Ji-min, Seo Min-jung, Gweon Hyeon-min, Oh Yong

Synopsis: South Korean filmmaker Kim Ki-duk writes, directs, and edits Samaria (Samaritan Girl), an abstract drama told in three parts. In part one, "Vasumitra," best friends Yeo-jin (Gwak Ji-min) and Jae-yeong (Seo Min-jung) work together in a prostitution scam in order to save money for a trip. Jae-young Read More

2004
The Isle

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Kim Yu-seok

Synopsis: Recalling both the erotic tension and the surrealist imagery of Woman of the Dunes, Kim Ki-duk's film is set near a remote lake where men come far and wide to fish on anchored rafts. Running a little bait-and-tackle shop is the earthy -- almost feral -- young lass Hee-jin (Seoh Jung), who Read More

8/16/02
The Coast Guard

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jang Dong-gun, Park Ji-ah, Kim Jeong-hak, Yu Hae-jin

Synopsis: Kim Ki-duk's Haeanseon (The Coast Guard) is set on the South Korean coastline. Kang Han-cheol (Jang Dong-gun) is an eager military private who wants nothing more than to shoot a North Korean spy. The villagers in town are at odds with the military presence because they claim there are no more Read More

2002
Bad Guy

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jo Jae-hyeon, Seo Weon

Synopsis: Korean director Kim Ki-duk's film begins with Han-ki (Jo Jae-hyeon), the leader of a gang of street thugs who patrol a Seoul red light district, becoming infatuated with Sun-hwa (Seo Weon), a college girl he glimpses in another part of the city. When he tries to force a kiss on her he is beaten up Read More

2001
Address Unknown

Crew: Art Director, Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Yang Dong-Kun, Kim Young-Min, Ban Min-Yung, Cho Jae Hyun, Pang Eun-Jin

Synopsis: Following up on his hallucinatory meditation on sex, death, and fish hooks in The Isle, Korean filmmaker Kim Ki-duk spins this brutal exploration on the lingering anger and exploitation of America's occupation of South Korea. Even though all her letters are returned stamped "Address Unknown," a Read More

2001
Shilje Sanghwang

Crew: Art Director, Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Kim Ki-yeon

Synopsis: An unstable artist (Ju Jin-mo) is sent over the edge during a walk in the park when a woman with a video camera (Kim Jin-ah) begins following him. Flying into a murderous rage, the artist begins running loose through the city, leaving dead bodies in his wake, until he winds up back in the park Read More

2000
Yasaeng Dongmool Pohokuyeok

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Kim Ki-duk wrote and directed this allegorical South Korean drama about Korean expatriates on the edge of the Paris art world. The original title translates as "Wild Animal Reservation Zone." Artistically inclined hustler Chong-Hae (Cho Jae-hyun) and his pal Hong-san (Jang Dong-jik) sign on as Read More

1998
Palan Taemun

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Lee Ji-eun, Lee Hye-Eun

Synopsis: Birdcage Inn is a drama about experiences moulding people's lives. After the clearing of the red light districts in Seoul, a young prostitute named Jin-Ah settles in at the Birdcage Inn, a family-run establishment in a small port town. Although the family seem to be quite "normal," with a Read More

1998
Crocodile

Crew: Director

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