Kim Ki-young
Born: 1919-10-10 in Seoul, South Korea
Died: 1998-02-05
Known For: Directing
Biography
Kim Ki-young (October 10, 1919 – February 5, 1998) was a South Korean film director, known for his intensely psychosexual and melodramatic horror films, often focusing on the psychology of their female characters. Kim was born in Seoul during the colonial period, raised in Pyongyang, where he became interested in theater and cinema. In Korea after the end of World War II, he studied dentistry while becoming involved in the theater. During the Korean War, he made propaganda films for the United States Information Service. In 1955, he used discarded movie equipments to produce his first two films. With the success of these two films Kim formed his own production company and produced popular melodramas for the rest of the decade.
Filmography
2021
- Be a Wicked Woman ... (Director)
2010
- The Housemaid ... (Original Story)
1993
- Boccaccio '93 ... (Director)
1985
- Beasts of Prey ... (Director)
1984
- Hunting of Fools ... (Writer)
1982
- Woman of Fire '82 ... (Director)
- Free Woman ... (Director)
1981
- Ban Geum-ryeon ... (Director)
1980
- The Deaf Worker ... (Adaptation)
1979
- Water Lady ... (Director)
1978
- A Woman After a Killer Butterfly ... (Director)
- Soil ... (Director)
1977
- Io Island ... (Director)
1976
- Love Of Blood Relations ... (Director)
1975
- Promises ... (Director)
1974
- Transgression ... (Director)
1972
- Insect Woman ... (Director)
1971
- Woman of Fire ... (Director)
1969
- Elegy of Ren ... (Director)
- Lady Hong ... (Director)
1968
- Woman ... (Writer)
1966
- A Soldier Speaks after Death ... (Director)
1964
- Asphalt ... (Director)
1963
- Goryeojang ... (Director)
1961
- The Sea Knows ... (Adaptation)
1960
- The Housemaid ... (Screenplay)
- A Sad Pastorale ... (Director)
1959
- Defiance of a teenager ... (Director)
1958
- The First Snow ... (Director)
1957
- Twilight Train ... (Director)
- A Woman's War ... (Director)
1956
- Touch-Me-Not ... (Director)
1955
- Yangsan Province ... (Screenplay)
- Boxes of Death ... (Director)
1953
- I Am a Truck ... (Director)