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Im Kwon-taek

Im Kwon-taek

Im Kwon-taek

1936-05-02

Jangseong, South Jeolla, South Korea

Age: 89

DIRECTING

Biography

Im Kwon-taek (born May 2, 1936) is one of South Korea's most renowned film directors. In an active and prolific career, his films have won many domestic and international film festival awards as well as considerable box-office success, and helped bring international attention to the Korean film industry. As of spring 2015, he has directed 102 films.

Best known for:

Painted Fire

Chunhyang

Sopyonje

Rough Play

Mandala

The Surrogate Womb

General's Son

Beyond the Years

Revivre

Come Come Come Upward

Low Life

Downfall

Jagko

The Taebaek Mountains

General's Son 2

Gilsodom

Festival

The Village of Mist

Fly High, Run Far

General's Son 3

Hanji

Farewell to the Duman River

Ticket

Adada

Hand in Hand

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Filmography:

Bonanza (1961)
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Assistant Director
Farewell to the Duman River (1962)
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Director
The War and an Old Man (1962)
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Director
For My Husband (1963)
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Director
Man Is Not Popular (1963)
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Director
Sinmungo (1963)
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Director
The Power for Ten Years (1964)
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Director, Adaptation
Her Majesty Yeonghwa (1964)
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Director

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The Result of the Ambition (1964)
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Director
The Teacher with Ten Daughters (1964)
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Director
The Regular Tardy Student (1964)
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Director
The Heartbreaking Story (1964)
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Director
Fading in the Rain (1965)
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Director
The King and the Servant Boy (1965)
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Director
I Am a King (1966)
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Director
Battlefield and a Female Teacher (1966)
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Director

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Ok-i Makes a Judge Cry (1966)
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Director
Nilliri (1966)
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Director
A Swordsman (1967)
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Director
Nostalgia (1967)
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Director
A Red-and-blue Gauze Lantern (1967)
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Director
Femme Fatale, Jang Hee Bin (1968)
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Director
A Man Like the Wind (1968)
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Director
Returned Left-handed Man (1968)
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Director
Lady in Dream (1968)
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Director
Eagle of Wild Field (1969)
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Director
Three Generations of Men (1969)
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Director
The Night of Full Moon (1969)
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Director
A Precious Sword, A Knife of Thunder (1969)
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Director
Sorry to Give You Trouble (1969)
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Director
Rainy Gomoryeong Hill (1969)
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Director
Escaping Shanghai (1969)
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Director
A Woman Pursued (1970)
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Director
Woman with Long Eyelashes (1970)
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Director
A Sword Under the Moon (1970)
WORK AS:
Director, Writer
One-eyed Park (1970)
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Director
A Crape-Myrtle with Morning Dew (1970)
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Director
Rain Outside the Porthole (1970)
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Director
A Man Who Arrived by Night Train (1970)
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Original Story, Director
A Mysterious Sword (1970)
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Director, Writer
A Bout in 30 Years (1971)
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Director
Snowing on Grudge Street (1971)
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Director
Don't Torture Me Anymore (1971)
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Director
Revenge of the Sword (1971)
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Director
The Two Revengeful Hunchbacks (1971)
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Director
Cruel history of Myeong Dong (1972)
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Director
A Second Mother (1972)
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Director
Seize the Precious Sword (1972)
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Director
Whirl of Betrayals on Myeongdong (1972)
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Director
One Who Comes Back and the Other Who Has To Leave (1972)
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Director
Weeds (1973)
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Producer, Director
Five Hostesses for the Resistance (1973)
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Director
The Big Chase (1973)
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Director
Wives on Parade (1974)
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Director
The Testimony (1974)
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Director
I Won't Cry (1974)
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Director
Yeonhwa (1975)
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Director
Yeonhwa 2 (1975)
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Director
Why Did I Do That? (1975)
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Director
My Hometown (1976)
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Director
Wife (1976)
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Director
Commando on the Nakdong River (1976)
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Director
Japanese Invasion in the Year of Imjin and Gye Wol-hyang (1977)
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Director
The Life of Ok-rye (1977)
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Director
Near Yet Far Away (1978)
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Director
The Evergreen Tree (1978)
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Director
Genealogy (1979)
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Director
The Little Adventurer (1979)
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Director
Tomorrow and Tomorrow (1979)
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Director
Divine Bow (1979)
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Director
Jagko (1980)
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Director
The Hidden Hero (1980)
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Director
Mrs. Speculator (1980)
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Director
Mandala (1981)
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Director
Abenko Green Beret (1982)
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Director
High School Tears (1982)
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Director
Polluted Ones (1982)
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Director
Daughter of the Flames (1983)
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Director
The Village of Mist (1983)
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Director
Crying in a Butterfly's Embrace (1983)
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Director
Ticket (1986)
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Director
Gilsodom (1986)
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Director
You Can't Stop a Flowing River (1986)
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Director
The Surrogate Womb (1987)
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Director
Adada (1987)
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Director
The Diary of King Yonsan (1988)
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Director, Editor
Come Come Come Upward (1989)
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Director
Hand in Hand (1989)
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Director
General's Son (1990)
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Director
Fly High, Run Far (1991)
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Director
General's Son 2 (1991)
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Director
General's Son 3 (1992)
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Director
Sopyonje (1993)
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Director
The Taebaek Mountains (1994)
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Director
Festival (1996)
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Director
Downfall (1997)
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Writer, Director
Chunhyang (2000)
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Director
Painted Fire (2002)
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Director, Writer
Low Life (2004)
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Writer, Director
Beyond the Years (2007)
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Director, Writer
Hanji (2011)
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Director, Screenplay
Jury (2013)
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Audience
Rough Play (2013)
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Jeonju Festival VIP
Revivre (2014)
WORK AS:
Director