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Kim Dae-woo

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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.

01-01-1962

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Dae-woo Kim, Kim Dae-woo, 김대우, 金大佑

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Seoul, South Korea

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19 Works

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Hidden Face

Hidden Face

Su-yeon, a cellist in an orchestra led by her fiancé and conductor Sung-jin, disappears one day, leaving behind only a video recording. Sung-jin is devastated over the loss of Su-yeon, but feels a strong attraction to Mi-ju, a cellist who fills in for his fiancée. Then one rainy night, Sung-jin and Mi-ju get swept away by their mutual desires for each other and commit an unforgivable act at Su-yeon’s house. Meanwhile, Su-yeon, who is thought to have gone missing, remains trapped in a secret room inside her house, and watches the naked truth unravel before her.
3.6

Year:

2024

Hidden Face

Hidden Face

Su-yeon, a cellist in an orchestra led by her fiancé and conductor Sung-jin, disappears one day, leaving behind only a video recording. Sung-jin is devastated over the loss of Su-yeon, but feels a strong attraction to Mi-ju, a cellist who fills in for his fiancée. Then one rainy night, Sung-jin and Mi-ju get swept away by their mutual desires for each other and commit an unforgivable act at Su-yeon’s house. Meanwhile, Su-yeon, who is thought to have gone missing, remains trapped in a secret room inside her house, and watches the naked truth unravel before her.
3.6

Year:

2024

Secret Zoo

Secret Zoo

A lawyer is given the mission of revitalising a bankrupt zoo that has no animals. When he and a group of zookeepers come up with the idea to dress like animals and his fake polar bear goes viral, the zoo becomes a hit, before his law firm’s real intentions are revealed.
6.2

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2020

Obsessed

Obsessed

A secret, passionate affair happens in the summer of 1969 between Colonel Jin Pyeong, trapped in a loveless marriage with Soo Jin, and Jong Ga Heun, the Chinese-Korean wife of Captain Kyung Woo Jin.
6.7

Year:

2014

Obsessed

Obsessed

A secret, passionate affair happens in the summer of 1969 between Colonel Jin Pyeong, trapped in a loveless marriage with Soo Jin, and Jong Ga Heun, the Chinese-Korean wife of Captain Kyung Woo Jin.
6.7

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2014

The Servant

The Servant

A servant falls in love with a girl whom his master also desires. Although the girl loves the servant, she also longs to improve her station in life.
5.8

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2010

The Servant

The Servant

A servant falls in love with a girl whom his master also desires. Although the girl loves the servant, she also longs to improve her station in life.
5.8

Year:

2010

Forbidden Quest

Forbidden Quest

A noble, high-class scholar starts to write erotic novels in 18th century of Chosun dynasty and falls in love with a king's woman.
5.5

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2006

Forbidden Quest

Forbidden Quest

A noble, high-class scholar starts to write erotic novels in 18th century of Chosun dynasty and falls in love with a king's woman.
5.5

Year:

2006

Untold Scandal

Untold Scandal

In late 1700s Korea, Lady Cho challenges the playboy Lord Jo-won into seducing and sleeping with her husband's coming young, virgin concubine. Lady Cho agrees to sleep with him if he succeeds.
6.5

Year:

2003

Road Movie

Road Movie

Suk-won, a trader who loses all of his money and his wife in a market downturn is left homeless until Dae-shik, a homeless loner, rescues him. Together the two travel across the country and Dae-shik falls in love with Suk-won. Joining them in their journey is Il-joo, a wacky hooker who falls in love with Dae-shik.
6.2

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2002

The Foul King

The Foul King

A timid and extravagant bank clerk, Dae-ho is considered inefficient at his workplace. As he tries to be recognized by his superior, his efforts only cause more bad situations. But he has an explosive energy that nobody knows about. One day, after yet another day of suffering at work, he goes to a wrestling gym to persuade its owner to become his bank’s client. And, by accident, he starts to learn how to wrestle. From then, he starts to live a new life. And his personality starts to change…
6.8

Year:

2000

Rainbow Trout

Rainbow Trout

A group of city dwellers make a trip of three days and two nights into the isolated countryside to visit a friend in the hills. Their true nature begins to reveal itself: love hidden but never forgotten, primitive desires suppressed in the city, nasty pride that triumphs only over the weak and a strong will for survival that sacrifices even love and friendship.
8.0

Year:

1999

An Affair

An Affair

Seo-hyun is an ordinary housewife in her late thirties with a ten-year-old son and a successful architect husband. For her, life is a series of banal routines. Her sheltered life is suddenly threatened with the appearance of Woo-in, her much younger sister's attractive new fiancé.
6.3

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1998

Ivan the Mercenary

Ivan the Mercenary

A Korean mercenary, Ivan, begins to protect a Korean girl named Jihye, who goes to the Tchaikovsky Academy of Music. The two fall in love. One day, Jihye gets kidnapped by the Russian mafia.
5.0

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1997

The Pirates

The Pirates

The people of Galmae Village, who lost their livelihood to outside fishmongers, are risking their lives to survive on a single fishing boat, but their lives are becoming more miserable due to the power struggles of organized crime hired by the fishmongers. Woo-man, who is from this village, drops out of college and comes down to Yeosu to become a member of the Citizens' Party along with his senior Hong-Baek.
0.0

Year:

1994

Marriage Story 2

Marriage Story 2

Sun-ju and Jin-woo plan a romantic second honeymoon to celebrate their anniversary. Sun-ju accidently comes into possession of a doll filled with smuggled microfilm. She becomes the target of foreign agents who follow the couple throughout their tour of Australia.
0.0

Year:

1994