LEE Min-yong made his big screen debut with <A Hot Roof>(1995), for which he swept the best new director award category in major film festivals that year in Korea. Set at a middle-class apartment building in 40-degree-temperature hot summer days, the movie conveyed the voices and lives of various female characters through a story of domestic violence and a murder and was praised for fusing feminism and women’s lives in the realm of commercial film. His subsequent fil...More

LEE Min-yong made his big screen debut with <A Hot Roof>(1995), for which he swept the best new director award category in major film festivals that year in Korea. Set at a middle-class apartment building in 40-degree-temperature hot summer days, the movie conveyed the voices and lives of various female characters through a story of domestic violence and a murder and was praised for fusing feminism and women’s lives in the realm of commercial film. His subsequent film, <Inch’Alla>(1997), starring two of the biggest pop idols of the time, [LEE Young-ae] and [CHOI Min-soo] and using the desert of Sahara as its background to depict a love story of a man and a woman of the divided Koreas, was a box office flop. The director made a comeback with <Season in the Sun> in 2003.
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