Kim Ki-young

Biography

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.

Directed

1. The Housemaid (1960) — Director
2. Ieoh Island (1977) — Director
3. Woman of Fire (1971) — Director
4. A Woman After a Killer Butterfly (1978) — Director
5. Goryeojang (1963) — Director
6. Insect Woman (1972) — Director
7. Promises (1975) — Director
8. Beasts of Prey (1985) — Director
9. Boxes of Death (1955) — Director
10. Woman of Fire '82 (1982) — Director
11. Yangsan Province (1955) — Director
12. Elegy of Ren (1969) — Director
13. Be a Wicked Woman (2021) — Director
14. Water Lady (1979) — Director
15. Hunting of Fools (1984) — Director
16. Transgression (1974) — Director
17. The Sea Knows (1961) — Director
18. Love Of Blood Relations (1976) — Director
19. Lady Hong (1969) — Director
20. Soil (1978) — Director
21. A Woman's War (1957) — Director
22. Twilight Train (1957) — Director
23. Touch-Me-Not (1956) — Director
24. Asphalt (1964) — Director
25. Free Woman (1982) — Director
26. Woman (1968) — Director
27. I Am a Truck (1953) — Director
28. The Deaf Worker (1980) — Director
29. Ban Geum-ryeon (1981) — Director
30. A Soldier Speaks after Death (1966) — Director
31. The First Snow (1958) — Director
32. Defiance of a Teenager (1959) — Director
33. A Sad Pastorale (1960) — Director