Im Kwon-taek
Born in Jangseong, South Jeolla, South Korea — May 02 1936
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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.
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Im Kwon-taek's Credits
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Ari Ari the Korean Cinema
Self
Hanji
Directing
Chunhyang
Directing
Revivre
Directing
Mr. Kim Goes to the Cinema
Self
Rough Play
Jeonju Festival VIP
The Surrogate Womb
Directing
General's Son
Directing
Low Life
Writing
For My Husband
Directing
Painted Fire
Directing
Sopyonje
Directing
Festival
Directing
Mandala
Directing
The Testimony
Directing
Cruel history of Myeong Dong
Directing
General's Son 3
Directing
Femme Fatale, Jang Hee Bin
Directing
Gilsodom
Directing
The Teacher with Ten Daughters
Directing
The Taebaek Mountains
Directing
Fly High, Run Far
Directing
Beyond the Years
Directing
Escaping Shanghai
Directing
General's Son 2
Directing
Yeonhwa
Directing
Ok-i Makes a Judge Cry
Directing
Farewell to the Duman River
Directing
Don't Torture Me Anymore
Directing
A Sword Under the Moon
Directing
Nostalgia
Directing
Walking in the Movies
Self
The Hidden Hero
Directing
Why Did I Do That?
Directing
Jury
Audience
Rainy Gomoryeong Hill
Directing
The Result of the Ambition
Directing
The Nine Lives of Korean Cinema
Self
The Life of Ok-rye
Directing
Bonanza
Directing
Returned Left-handed Man
Directing
The Village of Mist
Directing
Wives on Parade
Directing
The Power for Ten Years
Directing
Downfall
Writing
The Night of Full Moon
Directing
Nilliri
Directing
Snowing on Grudge Street
Directing
One-eyed Park
Directing
Fighting Lions
Writing
A Woman Pursued
Directing
The War and an Old Man
Directing
A Red-and-blue Gauze Lantern
Directing
Come, Come, Come Upward
Directing
I Am a King
Directing
The Heartbreaking Story
Directing
Sinmungo
Directing
Rain Outside the Porthole
Directing
The Evergreen Tree
Directing
Sorry to Give You Trouble
Directing
Abenko Green Beret
Directing
Jagko
Directing
Five Hostesses for the Resistance
Directing
Seize the Precious Sword
Directing
One Who Comes Back and the Other Who Has To Leave
Directing
The Big Chase
Directing
Woman with Long Eyelashes
Directing
Fading in the Rain
Directing
Weeds
Production
A Man Like the Wind
Directing
Revenge of the Sword
Directing
Divine Bow
Directing
Yeonhwa 2
Directing
The Regular Tardy Student
Directing
A Crape-Myrtle with Morning Dew
Directing
Adada
Directing
The Two Revengeful Hunchbacks
Directing
Whirl of Betrayals on Myeongdong
Directing
Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Directing
Horizon
Directing
I Won't Cry
Directing
A Swordsman
Directing
Mrs. Speculator
Directing
Her Majesty Yeonghwa
Directing
Lady in Dream
Directing
The King and the Servant Boy
Directing
A Man Who Arrived by Night Train
Writing
Eagle of Wild Field
Directing
Genealogy
Directing
Ticket
Directing
A Second Mother
Directing
A Precious Sword, A Knife of Thunder
Directing
Three Generations of Men
Directing
Man Is Not Popular
Directing
Battlefield and a Female Teacher
Directing
Crying in a Butterfly's Embrace
Directing
Wife
Directing
High School Tears
Directing
A Mysterious Sword
Directing
My Hometown
Directing
The Cinema on the Road
Self
The Diary of King Yonsan
Directing
Commando on the Nakdong River
Directing
Gravity of the Tea
Self
Bare Feet in the Snow
Directing
The Little Adventurer
Directing
Cloud, Encore
Self
Polluted Ones
Directing
Daughter of the Flames
Directing
Hand in Hand
Directing
Bhiksuni
Self
Japanese Invasion in the Year of Imjin and Gye Wol-hyang
Directing
You Can't Stop a Flowing River
Directing
Through Korean Cinema
Self
A Warrior's Fighting Spirit
Directing
A Bout in 30 Years
Directing
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Directing
Near Yet Far Away
Directing