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Be a Wicked Woman
1990
4.0
Kim Ki-young
Directing
Birth date
October 10, 1919
Birth place
Seoul, South Korea
Death date
February 5, 1998
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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1984
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Water Lady
1979
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A Woman After a Killer Butterfly
1978
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Ieoh Island
1977
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Promises
1975
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Transgression
1974
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Insect Woman
1972
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Woman of Fire
1971
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Elegy of Ren
1969
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Goryeojang
1963
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The Sea Knows
1961
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The Housemaid
1960
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Yangsan Province
1955
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Boxes of Death
1955
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