E J-yong is known to be one of the representative stylists in the Korean film industry, who boasts a diverse array of works in his filmography that freely cross over the boundary between controlled and beautiful visuals and chic presentation of original ideas. He won awards at many major short film festivals such as Clermont-ferrand International Short Film Festival with <Homo Videocus>(1990), which he co-directed with [Daniel BYUN] during his years at [Korean Academy o...More

E J-yong is known to be one of the representative stylists in the Korean film industry, who boasts a diverse array of works in his filmography that freely cross over the boundary between controlled and beautiful visuals and chic presentation of original ideas. He won awards at many major short film festivals such as Clermont-ferrand International Short Film Festival with <Homo Videocus>(1990), which he co-directed with [Daniel BYUN] during his years at [Korean Academy of Film Arts]. His feature debut, <An Affair>(1998), was a unique melodrama that introduced minimalism in visual, lines, and emotions, which was unheard of until then. Modern melodrama, adaptation of a French classic novel as a Chosun Dynasty story, a story of high school student filed with cartoon-like imagination. The subject matters and themes of E J-yong’s films run from one extreme to another. Nevertheless, his films are all beautiful, chic, and sensuous. Almost all of his films have been shown at many international film festivals to rave reviews. <The Actresses>(2009), a new form of film that blurred the boundary of fiction and nonfiction that he worked on with six of Korea’s representative actresses, such as [YOUN Yuh-jung], [LEE Mi-sook], [KO Hyun-jung], and [CHOI Ji-woo], was also screened the Panorama section of the Berlin Film Festival. E J-yong returns with <Behind the Camera>, capturing a director’s unprecedented attempt to direct a film entirely from an off-set location. <Behind the Camera> reveals the true behind-the-scenes nature of actors who find themselves without a director to guide them on set, as well as the chaotic and unforeseeable circumstances that arise as a result. E subsequently returned to fiction filmmaking, bringing his honed talents to the well-reviewed commercial melodrama <My Brilliant Life> in 2014. Featuring top stars GANG Dong-won and SONG Hye-kyo, the film details the struggles of a young couple whose son suffers from progeria, a rare disease causing him to age quickly. Switching up styles once again, E teamed up for the third time with YOUN Yuh-jung for <The Bacchus Lady>. The film, which debuted once again at the Berlin International Film Festival, featured YOUN as an elderly prostitute in central Seoul who strikes up relationships with a young Korean-Filipino boy, a transexual and an amputee.Less