Im Kwon-taek
Known for: Directing
Born: May 2, 1936
Place of birth: Jangseong, South Jeolla, South Korea
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.
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Filmography
118 movies · 1 TV show, newest first
10.0
Mr. Kim Goes to the Cinema
2026
10.0
Walking in the Movies
2024
7.0
Cloud, Encore
2019
7.0
Gravity of the Tea
2019
9.4
Movie Room
2018
NR
Bhiksuni
2017
5.9
Revivre
2014
6.9
Rough Play
2013
6.3
Jury
2013
5.5
Ari Ari the Korean Cinema
2012
6.2
Hanji
2011
NR
Through Korean Cinema
2010
6.3
Beyond the Years
20076.0
The Nine Lives of Korean Cinema
2005
5.9
Low Life
2004
7.0
Chihwaseon
2002
6.6
Chunhyang
2000
5.3
Downfall
1997
7.4
Festival
1996
5.6
The Cinema on the Road
1995
6.9
The Taebaek Mountains
1994
7.8
Sopyonje
1993
6.6
General's Son 3
1992
6.6
Fly High, Run Far
1991
5.7
General's Son 2
1991
5.8
General's Son
1990
7.0
Come, Come, Come Upward
1989
6.0
Hand in Hand
1989
8.0
The Diary of King Yonsan
1988
7.1
The Surrogate Womb
1987
6.5
Adada
1987
5.8
Ticket
1986
6.9
Gilsodom
1986
NR
You Can't Stop a Flowing River
1984
7.0
Daughter of the Flames
1983
7.2
Jagko
1983
NR
Crying in a Butterfly's Embrace
1983
6.8
The Village of Mist
1983
5.5
Polluted Ones
1982
4.0
Abenko Green Beret
1982
8.0
High School Tears
1982
6.5
Mandala
1981
6.3
The Hidden Hero
1980
6.0
Mrs. Speculator
1980
NR
Divine Bow
1979
8.0
The Little Adventurer
1979
6.0
Genealogy
1979
8.0
Tomorrow and Tomorrow
1979NR
A Warrior's Fighting Spirit
1979
7.0
Near Yet Far Away
1978
5.8
The Evergreen Tree
1978
10.0
Japanese Invasion in the Year of Imjin and Gye Wol-hyang
1977
10.0
The Life of Ok-rye
1977
10.0
Wife
1976
9.0
Commando on the Nakdong River
19768.0
Bare Feet in the Snow
1976
7.0
My Hometown
19767.0
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
1975
8.0
Why Did I Do That?
1975
8.0
Yeonhwa
1975
8.0
Yeonhwa 2
1975
7.0
I Won't Cry
1974
5.8
Wives on Parade
1974
4.0
The Testimony
1974
6.2
Weeds
1973
8.0
The Big Chase
1973
NR
Five Hostesses for the Resistance
1973
7.0
Seize the Precious Sword
1972
8.0
One Who Comes Back and the Other Who Has To Leave
1972
10.0
Cruel history of Myeong Dong
1972
7.0
Whirl of Betrayals on Myeongdong
1972
10.0
A Second Mother
1972
10.0
Revenge of the Sword
1971
8.0
Don't Torture Me Anymore
1971
8.0
The Two Revengeful Hunchbacks
1971
6.5
A Bout in 30 Years
1971
NR
Snowing on Grudge Street
1971
7.0
Woman with Long Eyelashes
1970
9.0
Rain Outside the Porthole
1970
9.0
A Mysterious Sword
1970
7.0
A Man Who Arrived by Night Train
1970
8.0
A Woman Pursued
1970
7.0
A Crape-Myrtle with Morning Dew
1970
9.0
One-eyed Park
1970
9.0
A Sword Under the Moon
1970
NR
Three Generations of Men
1969
NR
Sorry to Give You Trouble
1969
9.0
Rainy Gomoryeong Hill
1969
7.0
A Precious Sword, A Knife of Thunder
1969
NR
The Night of Full Moon
1969
7.0
Escaping Shanghai
1969
10.0
Eagle of Wild Field
1969
9.0
Returned Left-handed Man
1968
7.0
Lady in Dream
1968
7.0
A Man Like the Wind
1968
9.5
Femme Fatale, Jang Hee Bin
1968
8.0
Nostalgia
1967
9.0
A Swordsman
1967
9.0
A Red-and-blue Gauze Lantern
1967
7.0
Nilliri
1966
5.2
I Am a King
1966
9.0
Ok-i Makes a Judge Cry
1966
9.0
Battlefield and a Female Teacher
1966
7.0
The King and the Servant Boy
1965
9.0
Fading in the Rain
1965
9.0
Her Majesty Yeonghwa
1964
8.0
The Power for Ten Years
1964
10.0
The Regular Tardy Student
1964
8.5
The Teacher with Ten Daughters
1964
8.0
The Result of the Ambition
1964
9.0
The Heartbreaking Story
1964
7.0
Sinmungo
1963
NR
For My Husband
1963
10.0
Man Is Not Popular
1963NR
Fighting Lions
1962
9.0
The War and an Old Man
1962
6.2
Farewell to the Duman River
1962
5.5
Bonanza
1961NR
Horizon
1961