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 S...
Complete Filmography
The Housemaid
2010
Original Story
Eun-yi is hired as a maid in a mansion owned by a wealthy businessman. He quickly starts seducing his employee who seemingly has little choice but to ...
Be a Wicked Woman
1990
Director, Writer
Two housewives, wounded by their husbands' betrayals, meet by chance. They decide to carry out "exchange murders" and work towards the perfect alibis....
Beasts of Prey
1985
Director, Writer
A social drama about a man with an inferiority complex to his wife. When he seeks consolation in an extramarital affair, his mistress and wife conspir...
Hunting of Fools
1984
Writer, Director
Seok-ho is unable to overcome his fear that he will not graduate from college for only a limited number of the class will get their diplomas. Seok-ho ...
Free Woman
1982
Director
A Korean woman raised in Spain with European values towards life and romance finds living in her ancestral land stifling and it eats away at her vital...
Woman of Fire '82
1982
Director, Writer
Intrigue and murder on a small poultry farm outside of Seoul when a young maid starts working on the farm and is seduced by the local farm hand.
Ban Geum-ryeon
1981
Director
Seo Mun-kyung, a merchant in ancient China where polygamy is legal, monopolizes the salt sales business. The magistrate of the province collapse famil...
The Deaf Worker
1980
Adaptation, Producer, Director
A deaf woman boarding with an elderly laborer suffers many hardships upon the latter's death. The old man's son offers to care for her, but she feels ...
Water Lady
1979
Director, Writer
Jin-seok returns from the Vietnam war, injured and marries Sun-ok. But financial difficulties cause them to argue. One day, Sun-ok brings bamboo trees...
A Woman After a Killer Butterfly
1978
Director
A melodrama about a man who survives an attempted double suicide with a stranger while picnicking with friends. He goes on a cave expedition for a fam...
Soil
1978
Director
While working on a case with farmers, lawyer Heo Seung comes to believe that the rural development movement is the only lasting way to preserve the id...
Ieoh Island
1977
Director
A company hopes to open a spa hotel named after Ieodo, a mythical island inhabited by the souls of drowned sailors. During a study trip to the propose...
Love Of Blood Relations
1976
Director
North Korean agents are sent to Seoul to disrupt the visit of important international dignitaries.
Promises
1975
Director
Mild-mannered and modest Sook-young looks like your usual middle-aged woman, but happens to be a man-killing murderess. On a train trip to Mokpo, she ...
Transgression
1974
Director, Writer
Chim-Ae, an orphan, is saved by an old monk of Seo San Temple, Mu Bul Dang while he is wandering in war fires. Then he enters the priesthood and train...
Insect Woman
1972
Director, Writer
A schoolgirl goes from braids to bouffant when her mother makes her a bar hostess/prostitute. She cures impotence for Professor Lee and becomes his co...
Woman of Fire
1971
Director, Writer
The lives of a composer and his wife, who live on a chicken farm, are thrown into turmoil when a femme fatale joins their household.
Elegy of Ren
1969
Director
Simon, a painter, regains the use of his hands thanks to therapy administered by Ren. Later, when Simon is kidnapped by communists and forced to paint...
Lady Hong
1969
Director
A man is haunted by the ghost of his murdered girlfriend who tries to tempt him into the underworld. He is also visited by the girls dead mother who i...
Woman
1968
Writer, Director
A man meets a woman on his hiking trip to Mountain Seorak, but she suffers from incurable diseases. He becomes infatuated with her hair. When he tells...
A Soldier Speaks after Death
1966
Director, Writer, Editor
Asphalt
1964
Director, Editor
In the process of arresting a smuggler, the criminal's wife is killed. Twenty years later, the smuggler is released from prison and vows to murder the...
Goryeojang
1963
Director, Writer, Producer
Prior to the adoption of Confucianism, it was the tradition to abandon one's parents on a mountainside if they were over 70 years of age. In the ancie...
The Sea Knows
1961
Adaptation, Producer, Director
A Korean man, forced into service in the Japanese army during WWII, marries his Japanese girlfriend despite everyone's objections. Later, he becomes t...
The Housemaid
1960
Screenplay, Director, Producer
A piano composer's family moves into a new house; when his pregnant wife collapses from working to support the family, he hires a housemaid to help wi...
A Sad Pastorale
1960
Director, Editor
Defiance of a teenager
1959
Director
The First Snow
1958
Director, Editor
Twilight Train
1957
Director, Editor
The rivalry between two families prevents budding love from being realized in the younger generation.
A Woman's War
1957
Director, Editor
A housemaid becomes pregnant by her employer's husband and she flees to the countryside to raise her daughter on her own.
Touch-Me-Not
1956
Director, Producer, Editor
A historical melodrama about a love triangle within a group of bandits.
Yangsan Province
1955
Screenplay, Editor, Director
The film is a historical melodrama about a high government official who wants to marry a woman who is engaged to marry another man.
Boxes of Death
1955
Director
A village youth gets trapped inside a communist hideout with his home made timebomb and must escape before it goes off.
I Am a Truck
1953
Director
Worldy renowned for his masterpiece The Housemaid (1960), Kim Ki-young debuts with his first short film I Am a Truck (1953), which was sponsored by UN...