Biography
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). Fo...
Complete Filmography

Hidden Face
2024
Director, Adaptation
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 de...

Secret Zoo
2020
Writer
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 lik...

Obsessed
2014
Director, Screenplay
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, t...

The Servant
2010
Screenplay, Director
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.

Forbidden Quest
2006
Director, Screenplay
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.

Untold Scandal
2003
Screenplay
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 Ch...

Road Movie
2002
Adaptation
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. Togethe...

The Foul King
2000
Writer
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 ...

Rainbow Trout
1999
Writer
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 begi...

An Affair
1998
Writer
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 ...

Ivan the Mercenary
1997
Screenplay
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, Ji...

The Rules of a Gangster
1996
Adaptation
Sung-chul (Park Joong-hoon), a Korean gangster, flees to Japan after killing a subordinate. On the flight, He-gu (Park Sang-min), an aspiring bartende...

The Pirates
1994
Screenplay
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...

Marriage Story 2
1994
Writer
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 smug...

The Girl for Love and The One for Marriage
1993
Writer