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KIM Kee-duk is a South Korean film director and professor. Best-known outside of Korea for his 1967 giant-monster film, Yonggary, KIM Kee-duk directed 66 movies in total from his directorial debut in 1961 until his retirement from the film industry in 1977. Along with KIM Soo-yong and LEE Man-hee, KIM was one of the leading young directors of the Korean cinematic wave of the 1960s. The most distinctive and successful genre of this period was the melodrama.


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Awards and Invitation

<The North and South> Florence Korea Film Fest (2024) - CINEMA ANNI SESSANTA
<The Barefooted Young> Seoul International Food Film Festival (2023) - Korean Classics Revisited: 1960s - Modernity, Between Makgeolli & Whisky
<Best Singer> Jecheon International Music & Film Festival : JIMFF (2022)
<Best Singer> Jecheon International Music & Film Festival : JIMFF (2022)
<The Barefooted Young> San Sebastian International Film Festival (2021) - Retrospective - Flowers in Hell. The Golden Age of Korean Cinema
<The Barefooted Young> Busan International Film Festival : BIFF (2017) - Korean Cinema Retrospective
<The North and South> The Blue Dragon Awards (1965) - Best Actor
<The North and South> The Blue Dragon Awards (1965) - Best Screenplay

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