Kim Kee-duk

Birthday: 9/29/1934
Deathday: 9/7/2017
Place of birth: Seoul, Korea
Fame for: Directing
Also known as: 김기덕, Kim Ki-duk, Ki-duk Kim, Kim Kee-duk

Biography

KIM Ki-duk is a South Korean film director and professor. Best-known outside of Korea for his 1967 giant-monster film, Yonggary, KIM Ki-duk directed 66 movies in total from his directorial debut in 1961 until his retirement from the film industry in 1977. Along with KIM Soo-yong and LEE Man-hee, KIM was one of the leading young directors of the Korean cinematic wave of the 1960s. The most distinctive and successful genre of this period was the melodrama.