Kim Seong-hun (director)

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Korean spelling
Hangeul 김성훈
Revised
Romanization 		Gim Seong-hun
McCune-
Reischauer 		Kim Sanghun

Kim Seong-hun (born February 20, 1971 in Gangneung , South Korea ) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter .

Life

Kim Seong-hun started his career as an assistant director for the romantic comedy Oh! Happy Day (2003) and He Was Cool (2004).

In 2016 he made his first own film. In How the Lack of Love Affects Two Men , a widower and his son fight for the love of a new neighbor. However, the film was only moderately successful at the box office and received few good reviews. It was eight years before he was able to fund his next film. Kim said he had the will to try again.

He was inspired by Pedro Almodóvars Volver (2006) and started his new script in 2008, which he continued to work on until 2013 when filming finally started. He was able to win Lee Sun-kyun and Cho Jin-woong for the leading roles . In a mixture of black comedy and thriller , a corrupt police officer tries to hide the body of a victim, but is then blackmailed by a mysterious character. Kim's film, A Hard Day , finally celebrated its world premiere at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival and was very popular.

In 2016 he released Tunnel, a disaster thriller starring Ha Jung-woo and Bae Doona . With over 7 million viewers in South Korea, it is his most commercially successful film to date.

Finally, he was hired by Netflix as a director for the zombie series Kingdom , in which a crown prince finds himself in an intrigue and his country is ravaged by a plague.

Filmography

Movies

  • 2006: How the Lack of Love Affects Two Men ( 애정 결핍 이 두 남자 에게 미치는 영향 )
  • 2014: A Hard Day ( 끝까지 간다 Kkeutkkaji Ganda )
  • 2016: Tunnel ( 터널 )

Web series

Awards

2014

  • Grand Bell Award : Best Director for A Hard Day
  • Busan Film Critics Award: Best Screenplay for A Hard Day
  • Blue Dragon Award : Best Screenplay for A Hard Day
  • Korean Film Producers Association Award: Best Director for A Hard Day

2015

  • KOFRA Film Award: Best Director for A Hard Day
  • Chunsa Film Art Award: Best Director (Grand Prix) for A Hard Day
  • Baeksang Arts Award: Best Director for A Hard Day

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b KIM Seong-hun. In: Korean Film Biz Zone. KOFIC, accessed January 27, 2019 .
  2. ^ Second Time Lucky for Obscure Korean Film Director. In: Chosun Ilbo . May 21, 2014, accessed January 27, 2019 .
  3. ↑ In Ju-ri: 'A Hard Day' director's last chance for success. In: Korea JoongAng Daily . June 7, 2014, accessed January 27, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Andrew Heskins: Kim Seong-hun interview: "Maybe We Should change it to 'Hard Days'." In: easternkicks.com. October 16, 2014, accessed January 27, 2019 .
Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Kim is the family name here, Seong-hun is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Kim, Seong-hun
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 김성훈 (Hangeul); Gim, Seong-hun (revised Romanization); Kim, Sŏnghun (McCune-Reischauer)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South Korean film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH 20th February 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Gangneung , South Korea