KIM Yoo-jin has a track record of box office hit movies ranging from the 1980s through the 2000s. Even though he has publicly said he started his filmmaking career to “voice social opinion,” most of his works stayed within the boundary of Chungmooro’s commercialism. <Only Because You Are a Woman>(1990) addressed the social reality that was oppressive toward women by depicting a story of a female rape victim who faces adversity in the court only because she is a w...More

KIM Yoo-jin has a track record of box office hit movies ranging from the 1980s through the 2000s. Even though he has publicly said he started his filmmaking career to “voice social opinion,” most of his works stayed within the boundary of Chungmooro’s commercialism. <Only Because You Are a Woman>(1990) addressed the social reality that was oppressive toward women by depicting a story of a female rape victim who faces adversity in the court only because she is a woman. <A Promise>(1998), which starred [PARK Shin-yang] and [JEON Do-youn], who would become Korea’s representative actress, received rave receptions from a wide range of audience by pulling off a melodrama in the form of a gangster movie. His latest film success was < The Divine Weapon>(2008), a history flick about a secret weapon developed in the Chosun Dynasty era that was used to fight off foreign invasion. Less