Yonhap News Agency (YNA) just released a news, confirming that South Korean director Kim Kidd died in the hospital on December 11 this year due to the deterioration of Covid-19.
In addition, Kinkid’s death was also confirmed by his translator Darya Krutova.
Kim Ki Deok was born on December 20, 1960. He is one of the well-known Korean film directors and has won many film festival awards. However, the scale of his works and his private life were once criticized.
Kim Ki-duk studied fine art in Paris in the early 1990s and then returned to Korea to work as a screenwriter.
In 1996, his directorial debut "Diary of a Crocodile Hidden Corpse" was well received by the Korean critics and has since emerged.
In 1999, with the erotic film "Drifting Desire Room", he was shortlisted for the Venice Film Festival competition.
In 2001, with the action film "Unknown Recipient", he was once again shortlisted for the Venice Film Festival competition.
In 2002, with the erotic film "Bad Boy", he was nominated again for Berlin Film Festival , but only won the Art Award and Actor Award.
In the same year, he persuaded idol star Zhang Dongjian to star in his low-cost movie "Coastline".
In 2003, Kim Kidd launched " Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter and Spring ", which was selected as one of the top ten best films in South Korea that year, and represented South Korea in the 2004 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.
In February 2004, Kim Kidd made his third trip to the Berlin Film Festival with "The Samaritan Girl".
won the "Best Director Silver Lion Award" in September of the same year for the romance film "Empty Room".
In 2005, the film "Bow" was filmed, telling a love story between a sixtieth man and a 17-year-old girl.
In 2007, Kim Kidd shot the film "Breath" with prisons and death row prisoners as the subject. Zhang Zhen played the security chief of the training center. This was a film tailored for Zhang Zhen by Kim Kidd. The film was actually set in a prison and chose death row. The life that is about to end and the budding of first-born love are used as a perspective to tell a story about love and dignity.
On May 13, 2011, he shot the documentary "Arirang", which was shortlisted for the 64th Cannes International Film Festival "A Concern". Because this film is Kim Kidd’s first work since he was isolated from social phobia in 2008. The film has no specific story. The screenwriter, director, actors, post-production, and theme song singing were all completed by Kim Kidd alone, plus a lot of self-examination. Answer and monologue, the whole film is like a self-exclusive interview with Kim Kidd.
On September 9, 2012, Kim Kidd directed the 18th film "Holy Death", which won the "Young Critics Award", two awards in the informal section and the Golden Lion Award for Best Picture at the 69th Venice International Film Festival.
In June 2013, directed the thriller "Mobius", which tells the story between a woman who accidentally caused a fatal injury to her son and a man who made atonement. The film was nominated for the 70th Venice Film Festival. Incest scenes of sexual intercourse were rated as restricted for screening in South Korea.
In 2014, directed the thriller crime film "One-on-One", which tells the story of a girl who was killed and seven citizens punished the high-ranking government and military officials who led to the girl’s murder. At the same time, it won the best of the 71st Venice Film Festival Film award.
In March 2015, invited by the Beijing International Film Festival Organizing Committee to serve as a jury member of the "Tiantan Award". On September 23, Kim Kidd signed a contract with the Chinese film company Jiashi Nianhua to launch his first high-cost large-scale production film "A God".
In 2016, filming the movie "Net" tells the story of a North Korean fisherman drifting to South Korea due to unavoidable reasons.
editor: Zhou Minxian
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