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 ... (Screenplay)
2010
- Through Korean Cinema as Self
2007
- Beyond the Years ... (Writer)
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
- 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
- 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
- Polluted Ones ... (Director)
- Abenko Green Beret ... (Director)
- High School Tears ... (Director)
1981
- Mandala ... (Director)
1980
- The Hidden Hero ... (Director)
- Mrs. Speculator ... (Director)
1979
- Divine Bow ... (Director)
- Genealogy ... (Director)
- Tomorrow and Tomorrow ... (Director)
- The Little Adventurer ... (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)
- The Testimony ... (Director)
- Wives on Parade ... (Director)
1973
- Weeds ... (Producer)
- Five Hostesses for the Resistance ... (Director)
- The Big Chase ... (Director)
1972
- Seize the Precious Sword ... (Director)
- Cruel history of Myeong Dong ... (Director)
- Whirl of Betrayals on Myeongdong ... (Director)
- One Who Comes Back and the Other Who Has To Leave ... (Director)
- A Second Mother ... (Director)
1971
- A Bout in 30 Years ... (Director)
- Snowing on Grudge Street ... (Director)
- Don't Torture Me Anymore ... (Director)
- The Two Revengeful Hunchbacks ... (Director)
- Revenge of the Sword ... (Director)
1970
- A Crape-Myrtle with Morning Dew ... (Director)
- A Woman Pursued ... (Director)
- Rain Outside the Porthole ... (Director)
- Woman with Long Eyelashes ... (Director)
- A Sword Under the Moon ... (Director)
- A Man Who Arrived by Night Train ... (Original Story)
- One-eyed Park ... (Director)
- A Mysterious Sword ... (Director)
1969
- Sorry to Give You Trouble ... (Director)
- Rainy Gomoryeong Hill ... (Director)
- Eagle of Wild Field ... (Director)
- The Night of Full Moon ... (Director)
- Escaping Shanghai ... (Director)
- Three Generations of Men ... (Director)
- A Precious Sword, A Knife of Thunder ... (Director)
1968
- Lady in Dream ... (Director)
- A Man Like the Wind ... (Director)
- Femme Fatale, Jang Hee Bin ... (Director)
- Returned Left-handed Man ... (Director)
1967
- A Swordsman ... (Director)
- Nostalgia ... (Director)
- A Red-and-blue Gauze Lantern ... (Director)
1966
- I Am a King ... (Director)
- Ok-i Makes a Judge Cry ... (Director)
- Nilliri ... (Director)
- Battlefield and a Female Teacher ... (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 Regular Tardy Student ... (Director)
- The Result of the Ambition ... (Director)
1963
- For My Husband ... (Director)
- Man Is Not Popular ... (Director)
- Sinmungo ... (Director)
1962
- Farewell to the Duman River ... (Director)
- Fighting Lions ... (Writer)
- The War and an Old Man ... (Director)