Ki-duk Kim

Kim Ki-duk (b. 1960, Bonghwa, South Korea) came to film direction relatively late, after turning 30. But only in the mid-1990s did he begin to make a name for himself as a controversial creator of unusual stories combining dark melancholy and brutality with erotic extremes. He became the best-known South Korean director thanks in part to his intense professional commitment: he regularly shot one film per year and his pictures have been shown to success at the… (lisää)