Kim Ki-young
Directing · Born 1919-10-10 · Seoul, South Korea
Kim Ki-young (October 10, 1919 – February 5, 1998) was a South Korean film director, known for his intensely psychosexual and melodramatic horror films, often focusing on the psychology of their female characters. Kim was born in Seoul during the colonial period, raised in Pyongyang, where he became interested in theater and cinema. In Korea after the end of World War II, he studied dentistry while becoming involved in the theater. During the Korean War, he made propaganda films for the United States Information Service. In 1955, he used discarded movie equipments to produce his first two films. With the success of these two films Kim formed his own production company and produced popular melodramas for the rest of the decade.
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Be a Wicked Woman 2021
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Boccaccio '93 1993
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Beasts of Prey 1985
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Hunting of Fools 1984
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Free Woman 1982
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Woman of Fire '82 1982
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Ban Geum-ryeon 1981
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The Deaf Worker 1980
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Water Lady 1979
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A Woman After a Killer Butterfly 1978
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Soil 1978
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Ieoh Island 1977
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Love Of Blood Relations 1976
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Promises 1975
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Transgression 1974
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Insect Woman 1972
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Woman of Fire 1971
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Elegy of Ren 1969
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Lady Hong 1969
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Woman 1968
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A Soldier Speaks after Death 1966
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Asphalt 1964
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Goryeojang 1963
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The Sea Knows 1961
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The Housemaid 1960
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A Sad Pastorale 1960
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Defiance of a Teenager 1959
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The First Snow 1958
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Twilight Train 1957
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A Woman's War 1957
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Touch-Me-Not 1956
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Yangsan Province 1955
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Boxes of Death 1955
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I Am a Truck 1953
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