Kim Ki-young
Personal Info
Known For Director
Gender Male
Birthday 1919-10-10
Deathday 1998-02-05 (78 years old)
Place of Birth Seoul, South Korea
Also Known As Ki-young Kim, 김기영, Kim Gi-yeong, 金绮泳
Kim Ki-young
Biography
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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