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
2025
- Mr. Kim Goes to the Cinema as Self
2024
- Walking in the Movies as Self
2019
- Gravity of the Tea as Self
- Cloud, Encore 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 Himself
2011
- Hanji ... (Director)
2010
- Through Korean Cinema as Self
2007
- Beyond the Years ... (Director)
2005
- The Nine Lives of Korean Cinema as Himself
2004
- Low Life ... (Writer)
2002
- Painted Fire ... (Director)
2000
- Chunhyang ... (Director)
1997
- Downfall ... (Writer)
1996
- Festival ... (Director)
1995
- The Cinema on the Road as Himself
1994
- The Taebaek Mountains ... (Director)
1993
- Sopyonje ... (Director)
1992
- General's Son 3 ... (Director)
1991
- General's Son 2 ... (Director)
- Fly High, Run Far ... (Director)
1990
- General's Son ... (Director)
1989
- Come Come Come Upward ... (Director)
- Hand in Hand ... (Director)
1988
- The Diary of King Yonsan ... (Director)
1987
- Adada ... (Director)
- The Surrogate Womb ... (Director)
1986
- Gilsodom ... (Director)
- Ticket ... (Director)
- You Can't Stop a Flowing River ... (Director)
1983
- The Village of Mist ... (Director)
- Daughter of the Flames ... (Director)
- Crying in a Butterfly's Embrace ... (Director)
1982
- High School Tears ... (Director)
- Polluted Ones ... (Director)
- Abenko Green Beret ... (Director)
1981
- Mandala ... (Director)
1980
- Mrs. Speculator ... (Director)
- Jagko ... (Director)
- The Hidden Hero ... (Director)
1979
- Genealogy ... (Director)
- The Little Adventurer ... (Director)
- Tomorrow and Tomorrow ... (Director)
- Divine Bow ... (Director)
- A Warrior's Fighting Spirit ... (Director)
1978
- The Evergreen Tree ... (Director)
- Near Yet Far Away ... (Director)
1977
- The Life of Ok-rye ... (Director)
- Japanese Invasion in the Year of Imjin and Gye Wol-hyang ... (Director)
1976
- My Hometown ... (Director)
- Wife ... (Director)
- Commando on the Nakdong River ... (Director)
- Bare Feet in the Snow ... (Director)
1975
- Yeonhwa ... (Director)
- Why Did I Do That? ... (Director)
- Yeonhwa 2 ... (Director)
- Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow ... (Director)
1974
- The Testimony ... (Director)
- I Won't Cry ... (Director)
- Wives on Parade ... (Director)
1973
- Five Hostesses for the Resistance ... (Director)
- Weeds ... (Producer)
- The Big Chase ... (Director)
1972
- Seize the Precious Sword ... (Director)
- Cruel history of Myeong Dong ... (Director)
- Whirl of Betrayals on Myeongdong ... (Director)
- A Second Mother ... (Director)
- One Who Comes Back and the Other Who Has To Leave ... (Director)
1971
- Snowing on Grudge Street ... (Director)
- Don't Torture Me Anymore ... (Director)
- A Bout in 30 Years ... (Director)
- The Two Revengeful Hunchbacks ... (Director)
- Revenge of the Sword ... (Director)
1970
- A Woman Pursued ... (Director)
- A Sword Under the Moon ... (Director)
- Rain Outside the Porthole ... (Director)
- A Crape-Myrtle with Morning Dew ... (Director)
- Woman with Long Eyelashes ... (Director)
- One-eyed Park ... (Director)
- A Man Who Arrived by Night Train ... (Original Story)
- A Mysterious Sword ... (Director)
1969
- The Night of Full Moon ... (Director)
- Three Generations of Men ... (Director)
- Eagle of Wild Field ... (Director)
- Rainy Gomoryeong Hill ... (Director)
- Sorry to Give You Trouble ... (Director)
- Escaping Shanghai ... (Director)
- A Precious Sword, A Knife of Thunder ... (Director)
1968
- A Man Like the Wind ... (Director)
- Lady in Dream ... (Director)
- Femme Fatale, Jang Hee Bin ... (Director)
- Returned Left-handed Man ... (Director)
1967
- Nostalgia ... (Director)
- A Red-and-blue Gauze Lantern ... (Director)
- A Swordsman ... (Director)
1966
- Nilliri ... (Director)
- Ok-i Makes a Judge Cry ... (Director)
- Battlefield and a Female Teacher ... (Director)
- I Am a King ... (Director)
1965
- The King and the Servant Boy ... (Director)
- Fading in the Rain ... (Director)
1964
- The Heartbreaking Story ... (Director)
- The Teacher with Ten Daughters ... (Director)
- Her Majesty Yeonghwa ... (Director)
- The Power for Ten Years ... (Director)
- The Result of the Ambition ... (Director)
- The Regular Tardy Student ... (Director)
1963
- Sinmungo ... (Director)
- For My Husband ... (Director)
- Man Is Not Popular ... (Director)
1962
- Farewell to the Duman River ... (Director)
- Fighting Lions ... (Writer)
- The War and an Old Man ... (Director)