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Kim Ki-young
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.
As director
Be a Wicked Woman
Beasts of Prey
Hunting of Fools
Woman of Fire '82
Free Woman
Ban Geum-ryeon
The Deaf Worker
Water Lady
A Woman After a Killer Butterfly
Soil
Ieoh Island
Love Of Blood Relations
Promises
Transgression
Insect Woman
Woman of Fire
Lady Hong
Elegy of Ren
Woman
A Soldier Speaks after Death
Asphalt
Goryeojang
The Sea Knows
The Housemaid
A Sad Pastorale
Defiance of a Teenager
The First Snow
A Woman's War
Twilight Train
Touch-Me-Not