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Kim Ki-Duk

Kim Ki-duk was born on December 20, 1960 in Bonghwa in Kyongsang province, South Korea. He studied fine arts in Paris from 1990 to 1993. After returning to South Korea, Kim began his career as a screenwriter and won the first prize in a scenario contest held by Korean Film Council in 1995. In the following year, Kim made his debut as a director with a low budget movie titled Crocodile (1996).
In 2004, he received Best Director awards at two different film festivals, for two different films. At the Berlin International Film Festival, he was awarded for Samaritan Girl (2004), and at the Venice Film Festival he won for 3 Iron (also 2004).

Filmography

1996 - Crocodile
1996 - Wild Animals
1998 - Birdcage Inn
2000 - Real Fiction
2000 - The Isle
2001 - Address Unknown
2001 - Bad Guy
2002 - The Coastguard
2003 - Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter And Spring
2004 - Samaritan Girl
2004 - 3 Iron
2005 - The Bow
2006 - Time
2007 - Breath
2008 - Dream

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Kim Ki-Duk - what members say

The Isle review by JuiceOfLife from

For people who understand Kim Ki-Duk's movies 15 August 2011
...e understanding for the characters and their actions. So far all i have seen in Kim Ki-Duk's movies is intelligence and great observations of the human mind. There is not... Read customer review

Real Fiction review by DrBoto from London

Minor work from a great director 27 July 2005
...n? The idea of what is and isn't real is a recurrent theme in a lot of director Kim Ki-Duk's films but usually he handles it with considerably more style and subtlety. Re... Read customer review

3 Iron review by SAI81 from Tonbridge, Kent

3-Iron 12 February 2007
...The best film of the insanely prolific (13 films in 10 years) Kim Ki-Duk is this hypnotic romance. Again Kim gives us main characters who seldom speak (for the record one... Read customer review

Kim Ki-Duk - filmography

The Bow on DVD (2005)
Starring: Yeo-reum Han, Gook-hwan Jeon, Si-Jeok Seo
Director: Kim Ki-Duk, Ki-Duk Kim, Ki-duk Kim
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Korean coming of age drama about an unusual relationship between a surrogate father and his teenage charge. A 16-year-old girl lives on a boat owned by a man in his 60s, who has kept her there since she was six years old. He goes back and forth to shore bringing men out to the boat who fish from ..read more »

58% from 1,195 member

3 Iron on DVD (2004)
Starring: Hyuk-Ko Kwon, Seung-Yeon Lee, Hyun-Kyoon Lee
Director: Kim Ki-Duk, Ki-Duk Kim
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Tae-suk is homeless and lives like a phantom. His daily routine involves temporarily staying in houses and apartments he knows to be vacant. He never steals from nor damages his unknowing hosts' homes; rather, he is like a kind ghost, sleeping in other people's beds, eating a little food out of ..read more »

68% from 3,968 members

Samaritan Girl on DVD (2004)
Starring: Kwak Ji-Min, Lee Uhi, Seo Min-Jung
Director: Kim Ki-Duk
Certificate:
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South Korean horror. In order to achieve their dream of travelling to Europe, two teenage girls start up their own prostitution business so they can save up the money they need. When one of the girls is killed in a police raid, the other undergoes a lengthy period of penance, and travels with the ..read more »

55% from 1,158 member

Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter ... and S... on DVD (2004)
Starring: Min Choi, Ki-duk Kim, Yeong-su Oh
Director: Kim Ki-Duk, Ki-duk Kim, Ki-Duk Kim
Certificate:
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Meditative coming-of-age drama by Korean director Kim Ki-duk. The film, which is divided into five sections to reperesent the stages of a man's life, is set entirely on and around a remote mountain lake where a tiny Buddhist monastery floats on a raft amidst the breathtakingly beautiful landscape. ..read more »

74% from 8,067 members

The Coastguard on DVD (2003)
Starring: Jang Dong-Gun
Director: Kim Ki-Duk
Certificate:
Korean drama from dierctor Kim Ki-duk. Patrolling the militarised zone that separates North and South Korea, Private Kang (Jang Dong-kun) begins to grow more paranoid and starts obsessing about the possibility of spies infiltrating his coast guard area. Believing that killing a spy would ..read more »

44% from 1,020 member

Bad Guy on DVD (2001)
Starring: Won Seo, Jae-hyeon Jo
Director: Kim Ki-Duk, Ki-Duk Kim
Certificate:
Controversial film by Korean director Kim Ki-duk about the twisted relationship between a college student-turned-prostitute and her mute gangland pimp. When Han-ki (Jo Jae-Hyeon), the silent but brutally violent leader of a gang in Seoul's red light district, glimpses a pretty young student, Sun-..read more »

53% from 1,960 member

Address Unknown on DVD (2001)
Starring: Young-min Kim, Dong-Kun Yang, Min-Jung Ban
Director: Kim Ki-Duk, Ki-Duk Kim
Certificate:
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 »

57% from 553 members

The Isle on DVD (2000)
Starring: Jung Suh, Sung-Hee Park, Yoo-Seok Kim
Director: Kim Ki-Duk, Ki-Duk Kim
Certificate:
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Hyunshik, an ex-cop in deep emotional pain and obviously on the lam, arrives at the end of the road, emotionally and literally, where he finds an isolated lake dotted with floating huts-a hotel of sorts-painted, ironically, in the cheery pastels of the 1950s. The hotel serves as a retreat for ..read more »

52% from 3,429 members

Real Fiction on DVD (2000)
Starring: Jin-mo Ju, Min-seok Son, Jin-ah Kim
Director: Kim Ki-Duk, Ki-Duk Kim
Certificate:
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 »

43% from 444 members

Kim Ki-Duk facts

5 most recent films

The Bow - 3.0 stars
3 Iron - 3.5 stars
Samaritan Girl - 3.0 stars
Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter ... and Spring - 3.5 stars
The Coastguard - 2.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter ... and Spring - 3.5 stars
3 Iron - 3.5 stars
The Bow - 3.0 stars
Address Unknown - 3.0 stars
Samaritan Girl - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Real Fiction - 2.0 stars
The Coastguard - 2.0 stars
The Isle - 2.5 stars
Bad Guy - 2.5 stars
Samaritan Girl - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Young-min Kim - 3 times - show films
Yeong-su Oh - 2 times - show films
Min Choi - 2 times - show films
Ki-duk Kim - 2 times - show films
Ki-Duk Kim - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Ki-Duk Kim - 8 times - show films
Kim Ki-Duk - 5 times - show films
Ki-duk Kim - 3 times - show films

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