Lee Chang-dong

Lee Chang-dong

1954-04-01 Daegu, South Korea 23 Credits

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.

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Walking in the Movies

Walking in the Movies

2024

as Self

10.0
Acting

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

Heartbeat

2022

Director, Writer

Directing Writing

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

Lee Chang-dong: The Art of Irony

2022

as Self

7.5
Acting

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

Birthday

2019

Executive Producer

8.1
Producing

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

Burning

2018

Screenplay, Executive Producer, Director

7.4
Writing Producing Directing

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

A Single Rider

2017

Thanks

7.3

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

The World of Us

2016

Producer

7.4
Producing

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

A Girl at My Door

2014

Producer

6.9
Producing

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

Hwayi: A Monster Boy

2013

Executive Producer

7.4
Producing

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

Ari Ari the Korean Cinema

2012

as Himself

5.2
Acting

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

Tony Rayns, the Not-So-Distant Observer

2012

as Himself

8.0
Acting

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

Through Korean Cinema

2010

as Self

Acting

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

Poetry

2010

Director, Writer

7.6
Directing Writing

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

A Brand New Life

2009

Producer, Writer

7.3
Producing Writing

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

Never Forever

2007

Producer

6.6
Producing

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

Secret Sunshine

2007

Director, Writer, Executive Producer

7.2
Directing Writing Producing

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

6.0
Acting

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

Oasis

2002

Director, Writer

7.8
Directing Writing

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

Peppermint Candy

2000

Director, Writer

7.5
Directing Writing

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

Green Fish

1997

Director, Writer

6.9
Directing Writing

Returning home and finding his town drastically changed, a former soldier falls in with gangsters.

A Single Spark

A Single Spark

1995

Writer

7.2
Writing

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

To the Starry Island

1993

Writer, Assistant Director

6.8
Writing Directing

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

Directing Writing