Biography
Lee Chang-dong (born July 4, 1954) is a South Korean film director, screenwriter and novelist. He won the 2008 Special Director's Prize at the Asian Film Awards and has been nominated for the Golden Lion and Palme d'Or. Lee served as the minister of Culture and Tourism in the South Korean Government from 2003 to 2004. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lee Chang-dong, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Walking in the Movies
2024
as Self
KIM Dong-ho is the founder of the Busan International Film Festival and one of the key figures in the rise of Korean cinema. Starting his career as a ...

Heartbeat
2022
Director, Writer
Caught up in anxiety, eight-year-old Chul in school tells his teacher that he is going to the bathroom but runs straight home.

Lee Chang-dong: The Art of Irony
2022
as Self
A portrait of the South Korean screenwriter, director and producer Lee Chang-Dong through his work, this documentary provides a thematic analysis of h...

Birthday
2019
Executive Producer
Returning from eight years abroad at work and in prison, Jeong-il struggles to reconnect with his wife and their young daughter, Ye-sol, whom he barel...

Burning
2018
Screenplay, Executive Producer, Director
Deliveryman Jong-su is out on a job when he runs into Hae-mi, a girl who once lived in his neighborhood. She asks if he'd mind looking after her cat w...

A Single Rider
2017
Thanks
Promising fund manager Jae-hoon is at the brink of losing everything when his company goes bankrupt. Overwhelmed by despair, he takes an impulsive tri...

The World of Us
2016
Producer
A bullied girl becomes friends with a new kid during a break, but when classes start up again, their new friendship is nearly ruined when the bullying...

A Girl at My Door
2014
Producer
Sent from Seoul to serve in a remote coastal village, a policewoman gets involved in the life of a mysterious teenage girl who is abused by both her f...

Hwayi: A Monster Boy
2013
Executive Producer
After being kidnapped as a small child and raised by the five men who abducted him, a teenage boy is now forced to join their life in crime.

Ari Ari the Korean Cinema
2012
as Himself
Director Chung Ji-Young criticizes the thought that older directors have difficulties in making certain movies. Actress Yoon Jin-Seo agonizes over her...

Tony Rayns, the Not-So-Distant Observer
2012
as Himself
Prominent film critic Tony Rayns has long been a supporter of Korean cinema. This film illustrates Rayns’ affection for Korean cinema through intervie...

Through Korean Cinema
2010
as Self
Discover the roots of Korean cinema. A cinema who surprised by the success recorded in the major international festivals. Interviews to five famous Ko...

Poetry
2010
Director, Writer
A sexagenarian South Korean woman enrolls in a poetry class as she grapples with her faltering memory and her grandson's appalling wrongdoing.

A Brand New Life
2009
Producer, Writer
Young Jin-hee is taken by her father to an orphanage near Seoul. He leaves her there never to return, and she struggles to come to grips with her fate...

Never Forever
2007
Producer
When an American woman begins a dangerous relationship with an attractive immigrant worker, in order to save her marriage, she finds her true self.

Secret Sunshine
2007
Director, Writer, Executive Producer
Shin-ae moves to her recently late husband’s hometown. Despite her efforts to settle in this unfamiliar and too-normal place, she finds that she can’t...
The Nine Lives of Korean Cinema
2006
as Himself
South Korean cinema is in the throes of a creative explosion where mavericks are encouraged and masters are venerated. But from where has this phenome...

Oasis
2002
Director, Writer
A young man released from prison visits the widow of the man he killed drunk-driving and becomes infatuated with his cerebral palsy-stricken daughter.

Peppermint Candy
2000
Director, Writer
In the spring of 1999, a group of old friends gather to celebrate their 20 year reunion. Among the group is Yeong-ho, a cold, unhappy man, whose demea...

Green Fish
1997
Director, Writer
Returning home and finding his town drastically changed, a former soldier falls in with gangsters.

A Single Spark
1995
Writer
Activist and law school graduate Kim is being persecuted by the mid-’70s Park regime for trying to write a book about Jeon Tae-il, a union activist wh...

To the Starry Island
1993
Writer, Assistant Director
Two men have returned to their hometown (the titular island) from Seoul to bury the father of one of them, but the islanders vehemently refuse their r...
Possible Love
N/A
Director, Writer