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Kim Kee-duk

Profession
Directing
Born
September 29, 1934 · Seoul, Korea
Died
September 7, 2017

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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Filmography