Kim Dae-woo

Personal Info

Known For Writer

Gender Male

Birthday 1962-01-01 (63 years old)

Place of Birth Seoul, South Korea

Also Known As Daeu Kim, Dae-woo Kim, Kim Dae-woo, 김대우, 金大佑

Kim Dae-woo

Biography

Kim Dae-woo is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. Kim started his filmmaking career by winning the 1991 Korean Film Council Screenplay Contest. He was an accomplished screenwriter with a number of hit scripts, including The Girl for Love and The One for Marriage (1993), An Affair (1998), Rainbow Trout (1999), and Untold Scandal (2003). Making a switch to directing, he debuted with the hit period drama film Forbidden Quest (2006), followed by The Servant (2010) and Obsessed (2014). Forbidden Quest won the Best New Director at the 42nd Baeksang Arts Awards, and Best New Director and Best Screenplay at the 26th Korean Association of Film Critics Awards in 2006.

Known For

Writer

2024
Hidden Face

as Adaptation

2020
Secret Zoo

as Writer

2014
Obsessed

as Screenplay

2010
The Servant

as Screenplay

2006
Forbidden Quest

as Screenplay

2003
Untold Scandal

as Screenplay

2002
Road Movie

as Adaptation

2000
The Foul King

as Writer

1999
Rainbow Trout

as Writer

1998
An Affair

as Writer

1997
Ivan the Mercenary

as Screenplay

1996
1994
1994
The Pirates

as Screenplay

Director

2024
Hidden Face

as Director

2014
Obsessed

as Director

2010
The Servant

as Director

2006
Forbidden Quest

as Director