Im Kwon-taek
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Im Kwon-taek (born May 2, 1936) is one of South Korea's most well-known film directors.
His films have received numerous domestic and international film festival awards as well as significant box-office success, and have helped bring international attention to Korea's film industry.
He has produced 102 films as of spring 2015.
Early life
Im Kwon-taek was born in Jangseong, Jeollanam-do, and grew up in Gwangju. In search of work after the Korean War, he moved to Busan. In 1956, he travelled to Seoul, where Jeong Chang-hwa, the producer of Five Fingers of Death (1972), gave him bed and board for work as a production assistant. In 1961, Jeong was recommended for directing.
Personal life
Chae Ryeong (ko) starred in several of his films, and he married him. Im Dong-joon and Im Dong-jae (the former uses the stage name Kwon Hyun-sang) are both active in the film industry.
Career
The debut of Im's directorial debut was in 1962's film Farewell to the Duman River (Dumanganga jal itgeola).
He was known as primarily a commercial filmmaker who could produce up to eight genre pictures per year, helping to maintain the government's quota for domestic pictures [1]. He began wanting to make more artistically satisfying films with his 1978 film Jokbo (Genealogy or The Family Tree), but his career's turning point came with Mandala, 1981. His films have been widely distributed at international film festivals, and have received numerous accolades since being identified as art-house cinema.
Im continuing to explore topics from Korea's past while also focusing on contemporary Korea's cultural identity. Sopyonje (1993) and Chunhyang (2000), two of Im's most recent films, all of which focus on the traditional Korean musical art of pansori. The latter film was also based on a traditional Korean legend. Sopyonje was also a success at the box office, becoming Seoul's first domestic film to pull over a million viewers alone. Chihwaseon (2002) was also a critical success, winning him Korea's first Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival. At the Berlin Film Festival in 2005, Im Kwon-taek was given an Honorary Golden Bear award.
Im Kwon-taek's fame, as a result of his films' critical success, coincided with a period of the film movement called "New Korean Cinema" or "Korean New Wave." Immortalizing the movement, as well as other artists, such as Park Gwang-su and Jang Sun-woo, is acknowledged as one of the movement's founding figures, earning international critical recognition and acclaim for Korean cinema.
Im film Beyond the Years, an informal sequel to Sopyonje, was released in April 2007. The French government declared that it would make Im a Knight of the French Legion of Honor in November 2007.
On the Dongseo University Centum City Campus in Busan, a museum dedicated to Im opened in 2013.
In 2018, Jung Sung-il's documentary Im, Cloud, Encore (2018) will be the world premiere at the 23rd Busan International Film Festival.