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Kim Ki-young
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Kim Ki-young (October 10, 1919 – February 5, 1998) was a South Korean film director, known for his intensely psychosexual and melodramatic horror films, often focusing on the psychology of their female characters. Kim was born in Seoul during the colonial period, raised in Pyongyang, where he became interested in theater and cinema. In Korea after the end of World War II, he studied dentistry while becoming involved in the theater. During the Korean War, he made propaganda films for the United States Information Service. In 1955, he used discarded movie equipments to produce his first two films. With the success of these two films Kim formed his own production company and produced popular me…
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Kim Ki-young (October 10, 1919 – February 5, 1998) was a South Korean film director, known for his intensely psychosexual and melodramatic horror films, often focusing on the psychology of their female characters. Kim was born in Seoul during the colonial period, raised in Pyongyang, where he became interested in theater and cinema. In Korea after the end of World War II, he studied dentistry while becoming involved in the theater. During the Korean War, he made propaganda films for the United States Information Service. In 1955, he used discarded movie equipments to produce his first two films. With the success of these two films Kim formed his own production company and produced popular melodramas for the rest of the decade.
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Be a Wicked Woman
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Beasts of Prey
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Hunting of Fools
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Free Woman
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Woman of Fire '82
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Ban Geum-ryun
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The Deaf Worker
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Water Lady
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A Woman After a Killer Butterfly
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Soil
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Ieoh Island
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Love Of Blood Relations
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Promises
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Transgression
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Insect Woman
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Woman of Fire
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Elegy of Ren
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No Poster
Lady Hong
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Woman
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No Poster
A Soldier Speaks after Death
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Asphalt
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Goryeojang
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The Sea Knows
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The Housemaid
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A Sad Pastorale
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A Defiance of Teenager
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No Poster
The First Snow
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The Twilight Train
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A Woman's War
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Touch-Me-Not
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Yangsan Province
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Boxes of Death
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I Am a Truck
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