Kim Ki-young
KIM Ki-young (1919-1998, South Korea) is one of the most eccentric figures in Korean Cinema. His career, lasting nearly four decades, contains the most grotesque and melodramatic films that are often compared to the work of Alfred Hitchcock and Nicholas Ray. His love for cinema originated in Japan, where he lived a little while after studying. Back in Korea he initiated a theatre group in 1946 (The Little Orchid) and his own production company in 1956. The Housemaid (1960) can be seen as his breakthrough.
Filmography
Ju-geom-eui Sang-ja/The Box of Death (1955), Yang-san-do/Yangsan Province (1955), Bong-seon-hwa/A Touch-Me-Not (1956), Yeo-seong-jeon-seon/A Woman's Front (1957), Hwang-hon-yeol-cha/The Twilight Train (1957), Cho-seol/The First Snow (1958), Sib-dae-eui Ban-hang/A Defiance of Teenagers (1959), Seul-peun Mok-ga/A Sad Pastoral Song (1960), Ha-nyeo/The Housemaid (1960), Hyeon-hae-tan-eun Al-go It-da/Hyeon-hae-tan Knows (1961), Go-ryeo-jang/Goryeojang (1963), A-seu-pal-teu/Asphalt (1964), Byeong-sa-neun Juk-eo-seo Mal-han-da/A Soldier Speaks after Death (1966), Yeo/Woman (1968), Mi-nyeo Hong-nang-ja/Lady Hong the Beauty (1969), Len-eui Ae-ga/The Sad Song of Len (1969), Hwa-nyeo/Woman of Fire (1971), Chung-nyeo/The Insect Woman (1972), Pa-gye/Transgression (1974), Yuk-che-eui Yak-sok/Promise of the Flesh (1975), Hyeol-yuk-ae/Love of Blood Relations (1976), Heulk/Earth (1978), Sal-in-na-bi-leul Jjot-neun Yeo-ja/A Woman After a Killer Butterfly (1978), Su-nyeo/Woman of Water (1979), Neu-mi/Neumi (1979), Ban-geum-ryeon/Ban Geumryeon (1981), Hwa-nyeo '82/The Woman of Fire '82 (1982), Ja-yu-cheo-nyeo/Free Maiden (1982), Ba-bo-sa-nyang/Hunting of Idiots (1984), Yuk-sik-dong-mul/Carnivore (1984), Juk-eo-do Gyeong-heom/An Experience to Die for (1990)
Kim Ki-young op IFFR
The Housemaid
108'
Zuid-Korea
IFFR 2009