Im Kwon-taek
Born: 1936-05-02 in Jangseong, South Jeolla, South Korea
Known For: 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.
Filmography
2026
- Mr. Kim Goes to the Cinema as Self
2024
- Walking in the Movies as Self
2019
- Cloud, Encore as Self
- Gravity of the Tea as Self
2018
- Movie Room as Self
2017
- Bhiksuni as Self
2014
- Revivre ... (Director)
2013
- Rough Play as Jeonju Festival VIP
- Jury as Audience
2012
- Ari Ari the Korean Cinema as Self
2011
- Hanji ... (Director)
2010
- Through Korean Cinema as Self
2007
- Beyond the Years ... (Director)
2005
- The Nine Lives of Korean Cinema as Self
2004
- Low Life ... (Director)
2002
- Chihwaseon ... (Director)
2000
- Chunhyang ... (Director)
1997
- Downfall ... (Writer)
1996
- Festival ... (Director)
1995
- The Cinema on the Road as Self
1994
- The Taebaek Mountains ... (Director)
1993
- Sopyonje ... (Director)
1992
- General's Son 3 ... (Director)
1991
- Fly High, Run Far ... (Director)
- General's Son 2 ... (Director)
1990
- General's Son ... (Director)
1989
- Come, Come, Come Upward ... (Director)
- Hand in Hand ... (Director)
1988
- The Diary of King Yonsan ... (Director)
1987
- The Surrogate Womb ... (Director)
- Adada ... (Director)
1984
- You Can't Stop a Flowing River ... (Director)
1983
- Jagko ... (Director)
- Crying in a Butterfly's Embrace ... (Director)
- The Village of Mist ... (Director)
- Daughter of the Flames ... (Director)
1982
- Abenko Green Beret ... (Director)
- High School Tears ... (Director)
- Polluted Ones ... (Director)
1981
- Mandala ... (Director)
1980
- The Hidden Hero ... (Director)
- Mrs. Speculator ... (Director)
1979
- Genealogy ... (Director)
- Tomorrow and Tomorrow ... (Director)
- The Little Adventurer ... (Director)
- Divine Bow ... (Director)
- A Warrior's Fighting Spirit ... (Director)
1978
- The Evergreen Tree ... (Director)
- Near Yet Far Away ... (Director)
1977
- Japanese Invasion in the Year of Imjin and Gye Wol-hyang ... (Director)
- The Life of Ok-rye ... (Director)
1976
- My Hometown ... (Director)
- Wife ... (Director)
- Commando on the Nakdong River ... (Director)
- Bare Feet in the Snow ... (Director)
1975
- Yeonhwa 2 ... (Director)
- Yeonhwa ... (Director)
- Why Did I Do That? ... (Director)
- Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow ... (Director)
1974
- I Won't Cry ... (Director)
- Wives on Parade ... (Director)
- The Testimony ... (Director)
1973
- Five Hostesses for the Resistance ... (Director)
- Weeds ... (Producer)
- The Big Chase ... (Director)
1972
- Cruel history of Myeong Dong ... (Director)
- One Who Comes Back and the Other Who Has To Leave ... (Director)
- Seize the Precious Sword ... (Director)
- A Second Mother ... (Director)
- Whirl of Betrayals on Myeongdong ... (Director)
1971
- A Bout in 30 Years ... (Director)
- Don't Torture Me Anymore ... (Director)
- Snowing on Grudge Street ... (Director)
- The Two Revengeful Hunchbacks ... (Director)
- Revenge of the Sword ... (Director)
1970
- A Woman Pursued ... (Director)
- A Man Who Arrived by Night Train ... (Director)
- Woman with Long Eyelashes ... (Director)
- One-eyed Park ... (Director)
- Rain Outside the Porthole ... (Director)
- A Sword Under the Moon ... (Director)
- A Crape-Myrtle with Morning Dew ... (Director)
- A Mysterious Sword ... (Director)
1969
- Eagle of Wild Field ... (Director)
- Three Generations of Men ... (Director)
- Escaping Shanghai ... (Director)
- The Night of Full Moon ... (Director)
- Rainy Gomoryeong Hill ... (Director)
- Sorry to Give You Trouble ... (Director)
- A Precious Sword, A Knife of Thunder ... (Director)
1968
- Femme Fatale, Jang Hee Bin ... (Director)
- A Man Like the Wind ... (Director)
- Returned Left-handed Man ... (Director)
- Lady in Dream ... (Director)
1967
- Nostalgia ... (Director)
- A Swordsman ... (Director)
- A Red-and-blue Gauze Lantern ... (Director)
1966
- Battlefield and a Female Teacher ... (Director)
- I Am a King ... (Director)
- Nilliri ... (Director)
- Ok-i Makes a Judge Cry ... (Director)
1965
- The King and the Servant Boy ... (Director)
- Fading in the Rain ... (Director)
1964
- The Teacher with Ten Daughters ... (Director)
- Her Majesty Yeonghwa ... (Director)
- The Heartbreaking Story ... (Director)
- The Result of the Ambition ... (Director)
- The Power for Ten Years ... (Director)
- The Regular Tardy Student ... (Director)
1963
- For My Husband ... (Director)
- Man Is Not Popular ... (Director)
- Sinmungo ... (Director)
1962
- Farewell to the Duman River ... (Director)
- The War and an Old Man ... (Director)
- Fighting Lions ... (Writer)