
December 20, 1960 · 65 years old
Kim Ki-duk (December 20, 1960 – December 11, 2020) was a prolific South Korean writer-director of idiosyncratic, allegorical, and often extreme and transgressive arthouse dramas, best known for "The Isle" (2000), "Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter... and Spring" (2003), "Samaritan Girl" (2004), "3-Iron…

In the midst of the Korean wilderness, a Buddhist master patiently raises a boy while teaching wisdom and compassion through experience and endless exercises.

A transient young man breaks into empty homes to partake of the vacationing residents' lives for a few days.

A loan shark is forced to reconsider his violent lifestyle after the arrival of a mysterious woman claiming to be his long-lost mother.

Working at a fishing resort in an idyllic location, but surrounded by various facets of human unpleasantness, a young mute woman falls in love with a man on the run from the law for committing murder.

Jae-Young is an amateur prostitute who sleeps with men while her best friend Yeo-Jin "manages" her, fixing dates, taking care of the money and making sure the coast is clear. When Jae-Young falls in love with one of those man she ...

To save her relationship, a woman puts herself through extensive plastic surgery.

On a fishing boat at sea, a 60-year old man has been raising a girl since she was a baby. It is agreed that they will get married on her 17th birthday, and she is 16 now. They live a quiet and secluded life, renting the boat to da...

An unfeeling gangster seeks to ruin the life of a young girl who rejected him. He forces her into prostitution and spies on her regularly, then he soon begins to fall for her.

A father driven into desire, a son coveting that of his father's and the sorrowful maternity that hovers them into tragedy.

A love story involving a convicted prisoner who "slowly falls for a woman who decorates his prison cell".

A North Korean fisherman breaks his boat engine by accident and drifts down to South Korea. After enduring brutal investigations in the South, he eventually gets sent back to North Korea.

In the aftermath of a car crash, a man discovers his dreams are tied to a stranger's sleepwalking.

Romances end in blood and the frail hopes of individuals are torn apart in a vile karmic continuity of colonialism, civil war and occupation. After surviving Japanese colonization, Korea became the first war zone of the Cold War. ...

A member of Coast Guard Platoon 23, Private Kang monitors a high-infiltration stretch of beach lined with barbed-wire fencing. Driven by the belief that killing a spy is the highest honor, he waits for a chance to prove his worth.

A gangster who wants to be an actor; an actor more gangster than anything. Here their paths and lives begin to cross.

Streetwise Jin-a moves into a boarding house run by a small, close-knit family. But her unacceptable behavior threatens to destroy them all.

A woman forms a twisted bond with a homeless violent thug who prevented her suicide.

The film follows a South Korean artist as he systematically seeks out, and then guns down his real or imagined enemies.

Documentary on director Kim Ki-Duk looking back at his film career.

One on One: After a high school student is murdered, the seven suspects are hunted down by members of a terrorist organization.