Director
Kim Ki-young
107 years · Seoul, South Korea · 30 films
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.
Best known for
Filmography 30
Be a Wicked Woman
2021 · Director, Writer
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Beasts of Prey
1985 · Director, Writer
Hunting of Fools
1984 · Writer, Director
Free Woman
1982 · Director
Woman of Fire '82
1982 · Director, Writer
Ban Geum-ryun
1981 · Director
The Deaf Worker
1980 · Producer, Director
Water Lady
1979 · Director, Writer
A Woman After a Killer Butterfly
1978 · Director
Soil
1978 · Director
Ieoh Island
1977 · Director
Love Of Blood Relations
1976 · Director
Promises
1975 · Director
Transgression
1974 · Director, Writer
Insect Woman
1972 · Director, Writer
Woman of Fire
1971 · Director, Writer
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Elegy of Ren
1969 · Director
Woman
1968 · Writer, Director
Asphalt
1964 · Director, Editor
Goryeojang
1963 · Director, Writer
The Sea Knows
1961 · Producer, Director
The Housemaid
1960 · Screenplay, Director
A Sad Pastorale
1960 · Director, Editor
A Defiance of Teenager
1959 · Director