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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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Ki-duk

What members say | Filmography

Kim Ki-Duk - what members say

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

Address Unknown review by drunkenmaster from Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales

A Normal Life? 21 February 2007
...Another piece of class cinema from Kim Ki-Duk. Harrowing, and at times hard to watch, but always compelling. Adult entertainment with some cruel moments of pathos. It is ... Read customer review

Kim Ki-Duk - filmography

The Bow on DVD (2005)
Starring: Yeo-Reum Han, Yeo-reum Han, Si-Jeok Seo
Director: Kim Ki-Duk, Ki-Duk Kim, Ki-duk Kim
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On a fishing boat out at sea, a 60 year old man has raised a young girl since she was just a baby. Living a sheltered life, they earn a living by renting the boat out to local fisherman and spend their time performing divination ceremonies. As the girl approaches her seventeenth birthday, the age ..read more »

57% from 1,150 member

Samaritan Girl on DVD (2004)
Starring: Lee Uhi, Kwak Ji-Min, Seo Min-Jung
Director: Kim Ki-Duk
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To fulfil their dreams of traveling to Europe, two teenage girls Yeo-jin and Jae-young start a prostitution business. Yeo-jin handles the business side, while Jae-young "entertains" the customers. When Jae-young is accidentally killed during a police raid, Yeo-jin locates their clients in an act of ..read more »

54% from 1,027 member

Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter ... and S... on DVD (2004)
Starring: Yeong-su Oh, Ki-duk Kim, Kim Ki-Duk
Director: Kim Ki-Duk, Ki-duk Kim, Ki-Duk Kim
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In the midst of the Korean wilderness, a Buddhist master patiently raises a young boy to grow up in wisdom and compassion, trough experience and endless exercises. Once the pupil discovers his sexual lust, he seems lost to contemplative life and follows his first love, but soon fails to adapt to ..read more »

74% from 7,600 members

3 Iron on DVD (2004)
Starring: Seung-Yeon Lee, Hyun-Kyoon Lee, Hyuk-Ko Kwon
Director: Kim Ki-Duk, Ki-Duk Kim
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A transient young man breaks into empty homes to partake of the vacationing residents' lives for a few days.

68% from 3,798 members

The Coastguard on DVD (2003)
Starring: Jang Dong-Gun
Director: Kim Ki-Duk
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Driven by the belief that killing a spy is the highest honour, Private Kang waits eagerly for a chance to prove his worth as a soldier. One night, he mistakenly kills an innocent civilian. As he loses his grip on reality, tension and paranoia escalate and further tragedy soon seems inevitable...

44% from 987 members

Address Unknown on DVD (2001)
Starring: Young-Min Kim, Dong-Kun Yang, Min-Jung Ban
Director: Kim Ki-Duk, Ki-Duk Kim
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A middle-aged woman tries in vain to track down the American soldier who fathered her child but one after the other her letters are returned with the words address unknown stamped across them. Her son, already a subject of social scorn falls in love with a high school girl who has found herself ..read more »

57% from 521 members

Bad Guy on DVD (2001)
Starring: Jae-hyeon Jo, Won Seo
Director: Kim Ki-Duk, Ki-Duk Kim
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While strutting through Downtown Seoul, Hang-gi, a local gangland pimp, spots young Sun-hwa, a pretty, middle-class college student, waiting on a park bench. He sits next to her, creating a disparate scene of two classes in soft harmony, until she sneers at his advances and rushes into the arms of ..read more »

53% from 1,876 member

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

42% from 421 members

The Isle on DVD (2000)
Starring: Jung Suh, Yoo-Seok Kim, Sung-Hee Park
Director: Kim Ki-Duk, Ki-Duk Kim
Certificate:
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The eerily beautiful photography and melodic musical score of THE ISLE stand in odd contrast to the brutal horror story it tells. On the serene surface of a secluded bay float a series of candy-coloured fishing houses, rented to men who seek an escape. The owner and operator of the village is a ..read more »

52% from 3,245 members

Kim Ki-Duk facts

5 most recent films

The Bow - 3.0 stars
Samaritan Girl - 3.0 stars
Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter ... and Spring - 3.5 stars
3 Iron - 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
Dae-han Ji - 2 times - show films
Yeong-su Oh - 2 times - show films
Min Choi - 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