Ji-woon Kim
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[edit] Profile
- Name: Ji-woon Kim
- Hangul: 김지운
- Birthdate: July 6, 1964
- Birthplace: South Korea
- University: Seoul Institute of the Arts
- Major: Drama
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[edit] Bio
Kim Jee-woon, born July 6, 1964, entered Seoul Institute of the Arts, but left school and worked in the theatre scene. He began his career as a stage actor, then stage director, and finally has become one of the most popular and acclaimed figures among modern Korean directors/screenwriters. His second screenplay, The Quiet Family (1998), won him the Best Screenplay prize in a local contest, and Kim went on to make his directorial debut with this screenplay. The film was invited to many film festivals. Kim’s films, from The Quiet Family (1998) to last year’s A Bittersweet Life, have been hailed by critics and audiences alike for his unique style and storytelling. His second feature, The Foul King (2000), drew more than 2 million spectators, while his astounding horror film of true visual elegance, A Tale of Two Sisters (2003), reached 3.5 million viewers nation-wide. It went on to be remade by Dreamworks in the US.
[edit] Notes on The Good, The Bad, and The Weird
The broad plains of Manchuria offer a seemingly boundless landscape of earth and sky, long ruled by wild men and their horses. It became a battle field for great powers in 1930s. And it also became a land of exile for Koreans wandering there. Do-won, the bounty hunter, Chang-yi, the cold-blooded hitman and Tae-gu, the train bandit, are players in an epic story staged against Manchuria’s striking, exotic landscape.
I would like to express the overflowing emotion filling the endless landscape with a matter of life and death, but I also want to do it in a rather humorous way. On yet another level, I want to show the audience the faces of Koreans of that era who had been abandoned by their homeland and by the insurmountable tide of history.
Personally, this film also represents a genre that I have envisioned during my previous filmmaking endeavors. With this never-before-seen genre of the “Oriental Western”, I want to create cinematic excitement and the sensation of wild action staged on a vast and exotic landscape.
[edit] Filmography
[edit] Director
- The Good, the Bad, and the Weird (2008)
- A Bittersweet Life (2005
- A Tale of Two Sisters (2003)
- Three - segment "Memories" (2002)
- Coming Out
- The Foul King (2000)
- The Quiet Family (1998)
[edit] Writer
- The Good, the Bad, and the Weird (2008)
- A Bittersweet Life (2005
- A Tale of Two Sisters (2003)
- Three - segment "Memories" (2002)
- Coming Out
- The Foul King (2000)
- The Quiet Family (1998)
