🎬 Director
Im Kwon-taek
🎂 Born 2 May 1936 (age 90)📍 Jangseong, South Jeolla, South Korea
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Popularity Score
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Acting Credits
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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.
Known For
Directed Films(102)
★ 6.6
Chunhyang
2000
Director
★ 7.0
Chihwaseon
2002
Director
★ 5.3
Downfall
1997
Director
★ 5.7
General's Son
1990
Director
★ 7.1
The Surrogate Womb
1987
Director
★ 5.9
Revivre
2014
Director
★ 7.8
Sopyonje
1993
Director
★ 5.9
Low Life
2004
Director
★ 6.5
Mandala
1981
Director
★ 6.8
The Taebaek Mountains
1994
Director
★ 9.5
Femme Fatale, Jang Hee Bin
1968
Director
★ 6.3
Beyond the Years
2007
Director
★ 6.6
General's Son 3
1992
Director
★ 6.2
Farewell to the Duman River
1962
Director
★ 7.4
Festival
1996
Director
★ 5.7
General's Son 2
1991
Director
★ 7.0
Come, Come, Come Upward
1989
Director
★ 9.0
Her Majesty Yeonghwa
1964
Director
★ 8.0
Yeonhwa 2
1975
Director
★ 5.8
Wives on Parade
1974
Director
★ 8.0
Yeonhwa
1975
Director
★ 8.5
The Teacher with Ten Daughters
1964
Director
★ 10.0
Cruel history of Myeong Dong
1972
Director
★ 4.0
The Testimony
1974
Director
★ 9.0
A Swordsman
1967
Director
★ 5.8
The Evergreen Tree
1978
Director
★ 7.0
I Won't Cry
1974
Director
★ 10.0
A Second Mother
1972
Director
★ 6.6
Fly High, Run Far
1991
Director
For My Husband
1963
Director
★ 6.9
The Village of Mist
1983
Director
★ 4.0
Abenko Green Beret
1982
Director
★ 6.2
Hanji
2011
Director
★ 6.0
Genealogy
1979
Director
★ 6.5
Adada
1987
Director
★ 6.9
Gilsodom
1986
Director
★ 7.0
A Crape-Myrtle with Morning Dew
1970
Director
★ 5.2
I Am a King
1966
Director
★ 7.0
Seize the Precious Sword
1972
Director
★ 7.0
Woman with Long Eyelashes
1970
Director
★ 7.2
Jagko
1983
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Three Generations of Men
1969
Director
★ 7.0
A Man Like the Wind
1968
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Crying in a Butterfly's Embrace
1983
Director
★ 7.0
Sinmungo
1963
Director
Bhiksuni
2017
Director
★ 7.0
Lady in Dream
1968
Director
The Night of Full Moon
1969
Director
★ 6.0
Mrs. Speculator
1980
Director
★ 10.0
The Life of Ok-rye
1977
Director
★ 10.0
Revenge of the Sword
1971
Director
★ 10.0
The Regular Tardy Student
1964
Director
Snowing on Grudge Street
1971
Director
★ 9.0
Rain Outside the Porthole
1970
Director
★ 10.0
Eagle of Wild Field
1969
Director
Five Hostesses for the Resistance
1973
Director
★ 8.0
Tomorrow and Tomorrow
1979
Director
★ 7.0
Whirl of Betrayals on Myeongdong
1972
Director
★ 8.0
Why Did I Do That?
1975
Director
★ 8.0
A Woman Pursued
1970
Director
★ 9.0
The Heartbreaking Story
1964
Director
★ 8.0
High School Tears
1982
Director
★ 6.5
A Bout in 30 Years
1971
Director
★ 7.0
My Hometown
1976
Director
★ 8.0
The Power for Ten Years
1964
Director
★ 8.0
The Diary of King Yonsan
1988
Director
★ 9.0
A Red-and-blue Gauze Lantern
1967
Director
★ 8.0
Don't Torture Me Anymore
1971
Director
★ 7.0
Nilliri
1966
Director
★ 9.0
One-eyed Park
1970
Director
★ 10.0
Man Is Not Popular
1963
Director
★ 6.2
Weeds
1973
Director
★ 8.0
One Who Comes Back and the Other Who Has To Leave
1972
Director
★ 9.0
The War and an Old Man
1962
Director
★ 9.0
Returned Left-handed Man
1968
Director
★ 10.0
Japanese Invasion in the Year of Imjin and Gye Wol-hyang
1977
Director
★ 9.0
Battlefield and a Female Teacher
1966
Director
★ 6.3
The Hidden Hero
1980
Director
★ 8.0
Nostalgia
1967
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Sorry to Give You Trouble
1969
Director
★ 7.0
The King and the Servant Boy
1965
Director
★ 8.0
The Result of the Ambition
1964
Director
★ 9.0
Ok-i Makes a Judge Cry
1966
Director
You Can't Stop a Flowing River
1984
Director
★ 7.0
Escaping Shanghai
1969
Director
★ 9.0
Rainy Gomoryeong Hill
1969
Director
★ 9.0
A Sword Under the Moon
1970
Director
★ 8.0
The Big Chase
1973
Director
★ 9.0
Fading in the Rain
1965
Director
★ 9.0
Commando on the Nakdong River
1976
Director
★ 5.8
Ticket
1986
Director
★ 5.5
Polluted Ones
1982
Director
★ 7.0
A Precious Sword, A Knife of Thunder
1969
Director
★ 8.0
The Two Revengeful Hunchbacks
1971
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★ 9.0
A Mysterious Sword
1970
Director
Divine Bow
1979
Director
★ 8.0
The Little Adventurer
1979
Director
★ 10.0
Wife
1976
Director
★ 7.0
A Man Who Arrived by Night Train
1970
Director
★ 7.0
Daughter of the Flames
1983
Director
★ 6.0
Hand in Hand
1989
Director
★ 7.0
Near Yet Far Away
1978
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