Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Known Credits
18
Gender
Male
Birthday
1934-09-29
Deathday
2017-09-07 (82 years old)
Place of Birth
Seoul, Korea
Also Known As
- 김기덕
- Kim Ki-duk
- Ki-duk Kim
- Kim Kee-duk
Kim Kee-duk
Biography
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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