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Filmmaker · South Korea

Im Kwon-taek

Im Kwon-taek was born in Jangseong, in Jeolla, on 8 December 1934 (in 1936 according to Britannica). He looked for work in Busan after the war, then reached Seoul in 1956 and became a production assistant to Jeong Chang-hwa. He made his first film in 1962 and about fifty genre films in ten years, before turning to Korean history and culture. He passed a hundred films, received the award for best director at Cannes in 2002, the first Korean to win it, and the Legion of Honour in 2007.

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