Im Kwon-taek

Personal Info

Stage Name 임권택

Known For Directing

Known Credits 118

Gender Male

Birthday May 2, 1936 (88 years old)

Place of Birth Jangseong, South Jeolla, South Korea

Also Known As

임권택
Kwon-taek Im

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Im Kwon-taek

Biography

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.

Known For

Directing

2017

… Director

2014

… Director

2011

… Director

2007

… Director

2004

… Director

2002

… Director

2000

… Director

1997

… Director

1996

… Director

1994

… Director

1993

… Director

1992

… Director

1991		Fly High, Run Far … Director
1991		General's Son 2 … Director

1990

… Director

1989		Come Come Come Upward … Director
1989		Hand in Hand … Director

1988

… Director

1987		The Surrogate Womb … Director
1987		Adada … Director

1986		Ticket … Director
1986		You Can't Stop a Flowing River … Director
1986		Gilsodom … Director

1983		Daughter of the Flames … Director
1983		Jagko … Director
1983		Crying in a Butterfly's Embrace … Director
1983		The Village of Mist … Director

1982		Polluted Ones … Director
1982		Abenko Green Beret … Director
1982		High School Tears … Director

1981

… Director

1980		The Hidden Hero … Director
1980		Mrs. Speculator … Director

1979		Divine Bow … Director
1979		Genealogy … Director
1979		The Little Adventurer … Director
1979		Tomorrow and Tomorrow … Director
1979		A Warrior's Fighting Spirit … Director

1978		Near Yet Far Away … Director
1978		The Evergreen Tree … Director

1977		Japanese Invasion in the Year of Imjin and Gye Wol-hyang … Director
1977		The Life of Ok-rye … Director

1976		Wife … Director
1976		Commando on the Nakdong River … Director
1976		Bare Feet in the Snow … Director
1976		My Hometown … Director

1975		Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow … Director
1975		Why Did I Do That? … Director
1975		Yeonhwa 2 … Director
1975		Yeonhwa … Director

1974		I Won't Cry … Director
1974		Wives on Parade … Director
1974		The Testimony … Director

1973		Weeds … Director
1973		The Big Chase … Director
1973		Five Hostesses for the Resistance … Director

1972		Seize the Precious Sword … Director
1972		One Who Comes Back and the Other Who Has To Leave … Director
1972		Cruel history of Myeong Dong … Director
1972		Whirl of Betrayals on Myeongdong … Director
1972		A Second Mother … Director

1971		Revenge of the Sword … Director
1971		Don't Torture Me Anymore … Director
1971		The Two Revengeful Hunchbacks … Director
1971		A Bout in 30 Years … Director
1971		Snowing on Grudge Street … Director

1970		Woman with Long Eyelashes … Director
1970		Rain Outside the Porthole … Director
1970		A Mysterious Sword … Director
1970		A Man Who Arrived by Night Train … Director
1970		A Woman Pursued … Director
1970		A Crape-Myrtle with Morning Dew … Director
1970		One-eyed Park … Director
1970		A Sword Under the Moon … Director

1969		Three Generations of Men … Director
1969		Sorry to Give You Trouble … Director
1969		Rainy Gomoryeong Hill … Director
1969		A Precious Sword, A Knife of Thunder … Director
1969		The Night of Full Moon … Director
1969		Escaping Shanghai … Director
1969		Eagle of Wild Field … Director

1968		Returned Left-handed Man … Director
1968		Lady in Dream … Director
1968		A Man Like the Wind … Director
1968		Femme Fatale, Jang Hee Bin … Director

1967		Nostalgia … Director
1967		A Swordsman … Director
1967		A Red-and-blue Gauze Lantern … Director

1966		Nilliri … Director
1966		I Am a King … Director
1966		Ok-i Makes a Judge Cry … Director
1966		Battlefield and a Female Teacher … Director

1965		The King and the Servant Boy … Director
1965		Fading in the Rain … Director

1964		Her Majesty Yeonghwa … Director
1964		The Power for Ten Years … Director
1964		The Regular Tardy Student … Director
1964		The Teacher with Ten Daughters … Director
1964		The Result of the Ambition … Director
1964		The Heartbreaking Story … Director

1963		Sinmungo … Director
1963		For My Husband … Director
1963		Man Is Not Popular … Director

1962		The War and an Old Man … Director
1962		Farewell to the Duman River … Director

1961		Bonanza … Assistant Director
1961		Horizon … Assistant Director

Acting

2024

as Self

2019		Cloud, Encore as Self
2019		Gravity of the Tea as Self

2018

(1 episode) as Self

2017

as Self

2013		Rough Play as Jeonju Festival VIP (uncredited)
2013		Jury as Audience

2012

as Himself

2010

as Self

2006

as Himself

1995

as Himself

Writing

2011

… Screenplay

2007

… Writer

2004

… Writer

2002

… Writer

1997

… Writer

1970		A Mysterious Sword … Writer
1970		A Man Who Arrived by Night Train … Original Story
1970		A Sword Under the Moon … Writer

1964

… Adaptation

1962

… Writer

Editing

1988

… Editor

Production

1973

… Producer

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Im Kwon-taek

Biography

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Editing

Production

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