Kim Kee-duk (김기덕)

Director, Editor · Born 1934-09-29 in Seoul · Died 2017-09-07 · 5 films on KFRAMED, 1961–1967

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.

Director

• Yongary, Monster from the Deep (1967)
• North and South (1965)
• The Barefooted Young (1964)
• Private Tutor (1963)
• Five Marines (1961)

Editor

• Yongary, Monster from the Deep (1967)
• Five Marines (1961)