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Kim Kee-duk

Director

Kim Kee-duk

Directing
1967 · 1 film
Lived
29 September 1934 — d. 2017
From
Seoul, Korea

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.

Career Signature

How Kim Kee-duk’s filmography reads.

Five of Perfery’s 75 vibes, averaged across every film they directed.