Min Kyu-dong

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Korean spelling
Hangeul 민규동
Revised
Romanization 		Min Gyu-dong
McCune-
Reischauer 		Min Kyutong

Min Kyu-dong (born September 12, 1970 in Incheon , South Korea ) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter .

Life

Min Kyu-dong studied economics at Seoul National University and then attended the Korean Academy of Film Arts . In 1999 he and his fellow student Kim Tae-yong released the film Memento Mori , the second part of the Whispering Corridors series. The film is one of the most important horror films of Korean New Cinema and is considered a modern classic.

In 2000 he married director Hong Ji-young . Both met in 1994. They then went to France together to study.

After he continued at the University of Paris VIII , the specialist film studies, he published the romance All for Love . Similar to Short Cuts by Robert Altman and Actually… Love by Richard Curtis , the film features a cast of actors with different storylines that become a narrative. The Korean original title can be translated as The most beautiful week of my life . The film was a hit at the box office.

In 2008, Min devoted himself to the subject of homosexuality again with the adaptation of the manga Seiyō Kottō Yōgashiten (after Memento Mori ). Antique received an invitation to the Berlinale . He continued the topic, coupled with BDSM , in the episode film Five Senses of Eros . A Director's Cut Full Movie - length appeared in 2013 on the film festival Busan International .

In 2012 he released All About My Wife, a remake of the Argentinian film Un Novio Para Mi Mujer .

In 2020 he produced the episode film - sci-fi project SF8 with seven other directors.

Filmography

  • 1999: Memento Mori - Memory of Death ( 여고 괴담 두번째 이야기 )
  • 2005: All for Love
  • 2008: Antique
  • 2009: Five Senses of Eros ( 오감도 O Gamdo )
  • 2011: The Last Blossom
  • 2012: All About My Wife ( 내 아내 의 모든 것 )
  • 2012: Horror Stories
  • 2013: Horror Stories 2
  • 2013: In My End Is My Beginning ( 끝 과 시작 )
  • 2015: The Treacherous ( 간신 Gansin )
  • 2016: Horror Stories 3
  • 2018: Herstory ( 허 스토리 )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Darcy Paquet : An Interview with Kim Tae-yong. In: koreanfilm.org. March 2007, accessed on July 2, 2020 .
Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Min is the family name here, Kyu-dong is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Min, Kyu-dong
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 민규동 (Hangeul); Min, Gyu-dong (revised Romanization); Min, Kyutong (McCune-Reischauer)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South Korean film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Incheon , South Korea