Im Kwon-taek

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Directing

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

• Mr. Kim Goes to the Cinema (2026)
• Walking in the Movies (2024)
• Cloud, Encore (2019)
• Gravity of the Tea (2019)
• Bhiksuni (2017)
• Revivre (2014)
• Rough Play (2013)
• Jury (2013)
• Ari Ari the Korean Cinema (2012)
• Hanji (2011)
• Through Korean Cinema (2010)
• Beyond the Years (2007)
• The Nine Lives of Korean Cinema (2005)
• Low Life (2004)
• Chihwaseon (2002)
• Chunhyang (2000)
• Downfall (1997)
• Festival (1996)
• The Cinema on the Road (1995)
• The Taebaek Mountains (1994)
• Sopyonje (1993)
• General's Son 3 (1992)
• Fly High, Run Far (1991)
• General's Son 2 (1991)
• General's Son (1990)
• Come, Come, Come Upward (1989)
• Hand in Hand (1989)
• The Diary of King Yonsan (1988)
• The Surrogate Womb (1987)
• Adada (1987)
• Ticket (1986)
• Gilsodom (1986)
• You Can't Stop a Flowing River (1984)
• Daughter of the Flames (1983)
• Jagko (1983)
• Crying in a Butterfly's Embrace (1983)
• The Village of Mist (1983)
• Polluted Ones (1982)
• Abenko Green Beret (1982)
• High School Tears (1982)
• Mandala (1981)
• The Hidden Hero (1980)
• Mrs. Speculator (1980)
• Divine Bow (1979)
• The Little Adventurer (1979)
• Genealogy (1979)
• Tomorrow and Tomorrow (1979)
• A Warrior's Fighting Spirit (1979)
• Near Yet Far Away (1978)
• The Evergreen Tree (1978)
• Japanese Invasion in the Year of Imjin and Gye Wol-hyang (1977)
• The Life of Ok-rye (1977)
• Wife (1976)
• Commando on the Nakdong River (1976)
• Bare Feet in the Snow (1976)
• My Hometown (1976)
• Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1975)
• Why Did I Do That? (1975)
• Yeonhwa (1975)
• Yeonhwa 2 (1975)
• I Won't Cry (1974)
• Wives on Parade (1974)
• The Testimony (1974)
• Weeds (1973)
• The Big Chase (1973)
• Five Hostesses for the Resistance (1973)
• Seize the Precious Sword (1972)
• One Who Comes Back and the Other Who Has To Leave (1972)
• Cruel history of Myeong Dong (1972)
• Whirl of Betrayals on Myeongdong (1972)
• A Second Mother (1972)
• Revenge of the Sword (1971)
• Don't Torture Me Anymore (1971)
• The Two Revengeful Hunchbacks (1971)
• A Bout in 30 Years (1971)
• Snowing on Grudge Street (1971)
• Woman with Long Eyelashes (1970)
• Rain Outside the Porthole (1970)
• A Mysterious Sword (1970)
• A Man Who Arrived by Night Train (1970)
• A Woman Pursued (1970)
• A Crape-Myrtle with Morning Dew (1970)
• One-eyed Park (1970)
• A Sword Under the Moon (1970)
• Three Generations of Men (1969)
• Sorry to Give You Trouble (1969)
• Rainy Gomoryeong Hill (1969)
• A Precious Sword, A Knife of Thunder (1969)
• The Night of Full Moon (1969)
• Escaping Shanghai (1969)
• Eagle of Wild Field (1969)
• Returned Left-handed Man (1968)
• Lady in Dream (1968)
• A Man Like the Wind (1968)
• Femme Fatale, Jang Hee Bin (1968)
• Nostalgia (1967)
• A Swordsman (1967)
• A Red-and-blue Gauze Lantern (1967)
• Nilliri (1966)
• I Am a King (1966)
• Ok-i Makes a Judge Cry (1966)
• Battlefield and a Female Teacher (1966)
• The King and the Servant Boy (1965)
• Fading in the Rain (1965)
• Her Majesty Yeonghwa (1964)
• The Power for Ten Years (1964)
• The Regular Tardy Student (1964)
• The Teacher with Ten Daughters (1964)
• The Result of the Ambition (1964)
• The Heartbreaking Story (1964)
• Sinmungo (1963)
• For My Husband (1963)
• Man Is Not Popular (1963)
• Fighting Lions (1962)
• The War and an Old Man (1962)
• Farewell to the Duman River (1962)
• Bonanza (1961)
• Horizon (1961)