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
- 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 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
- Daughter of the Flames ... (Director)
- Jagko ... (Director)
- Crying in a Butterfly's Embrace ... (Director)
- The Village of Mist ... (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
- Genealogy ... (Director)
- Divine Bow ... (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
- The Life of Ok-rye ... (Director)
- Japanese Invasion in the Year of Imjin and Gye Wol-hyang ... (Director)
1976
- Commando on the Nakdong River ... (Director)
- Bare Feet in the Snow ... (Director)
- My Hometown ... (Director)
- Wife ... (Director)
1975
- Yeonhwa ... (Director)
- Yeonhwa 2 ... (Director)
- Why Did I Do That? ... (Director)
- Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow ... (Director)
1974
- The Testimony ... (Director)
- Wives on Parade ... (Director)
- I Won't Cry ... (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
- A Bout in 30 Years ... (Director)
- Don't Torture Me Anymore ... (Director)
- Snowing on Grudge Street ... (Director)
- Revenge of the Sword ... (Director)
- The Two Revengeful Hunchbacks ... (Director)
1970
- A Sword Under the Moon ... (Director)
- A Woman Pursued ... (Director)
- A Crape-Myrtle with Morning Dew ... (Director)
- Rain Outside the Porthole ... (Director)
- A Man Who Arrived by Night Train ... (Original Story)
- Woman with Long Eyelashes ... (Director)
- One-eyed Park ... (Director)
- A Mysterious Sword ... (Director)
1969
- Escaping Shanghai ... (Director)
- Eagle of Wild Field ... (Director)
- The Night of Full Moon ... (Director)
- Rainy Gomoryeong Hill ... (Director)
- A Precious Sword, A Knife of Thunder ... (Director)
- Three Generations of Men ... (Director)
- Sorry to Give You Trouble ... (Director)
1968
- Lady in Dream ... (Director)
- A Man Like the Wind ... (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
- I Am a King ... (Director)
- Battlefield and a Female Teacher ... (Director)
- Ok-i Makes a Judge Cry ... (Director)
- Nilliri ... (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 Power for Ten Years ... (Director)
- The Heartbreaking Story ... (Director)
- The Regular Tardy Student ... (Director)
- The Result of the Ambition ... (Director)
1963
- Sinmungo ... (Director)
- Man Is Not Popular ... (Director)
- For My Husband ... (Director)
1962
- Farewell to the Duman River ... (Director)
- Fighting Lions ... (Writer)
- The War and an Old Man ... (Director)