Director

Kim Kee-duk

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Directed movies: 12Directed series: 0All crew credits: 15

TMDB ID: 1286104

IMDb ID: nm0453580

Known for: Directing

Born: September 29, 1934

Died: September 7, 2017

Age: 82

Place of birth: Seoul, Korea

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1956 - 1975

Years active: 20

Average TMDB rating: 4.8

Wikidata: Q493100

Also known as

김기덕 • Kim Ki-duk • Ki-duk Kim • Kim Kee-duk

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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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