Direction: Kim Ki-duk
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Kim Ki-duk. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
Titles found: 26
Bin-jip (3-Iron)
2004 · Movie · 95 min. · South Korea
Direction Kim Ki-duk
Cast Lee Seung-yeon · Hee Jae · Kwon Hyuk-ho · Joo Jin-mo
Synopsis A young drifter enters strangers' houses - and lives - while owners are away. He spends a night or a day squatting in, repaying their unwitting hospitality by doing laundry or small repairs. His life changes when he runs into...
7.7
31K votes
7.7
31K votes
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
2003 · Movie · 103 min. · South Korea
Direction Kim Ki-duk
Cast Oh Yeong-su · Kim Ki-duk · Kim Jung-yeong · Seo Jae-gyeong
Synopsis A wise old monk (Oh Young-soo) is master to a young student, and remains so throughout the changing seasons of the younger monks life. In springtime the young monk is a 5-year-old boy, in summer he is a teenager, in...
7.6
20K votes
7.6
20K votes
The Bow
2005 · Movie · 90 min. · South Korea
Direction Kim Ki-duk
Cast Jeon Seong-hwan · Han Yeo-reum · Jeon Kuk-Hwan · Jo Seok-Hyeon
Synopsis An old man who is in his 60s, lives with a 16 year old girl in the boat on the sea. He plans to marry her when she turns 17 while isolating her from the outside world. However people come...
7.0
5K votes
7.0
5K votes
Time
2006 · Movie · 97 min. · South Korea
Direction Kim Ki-duk
Cast Ha Jung-woo · Park Ji-yeon · Kiki Sugino · Kim Sung-min
Synopsis To save her relationship, a woman puts herself through extensive plastic surgery.
7.0
4K votes
7.0
4K votes
Address Unknown
2001 · Movie · 117 min. · South Korea
Direction Kim Ki-duk
Cast Yang Dong-kun · Min-jung Ban · Kim Yeong-min · Bang Eun-jin
Synopsis Romances end in blood and the frail hopes of individuals are torn apart in a vile karmic continuity of colonialism, civil war and occupation. After surviving Japanese colonization, Korea became the first war zone of the Cold War. The legacy...
6.9
979 votes
6.9
979 votes
The Isle
2000 · Movie · 86 min. · South Korea
Direction Kim Ki-duk
Cast Jung Suh · Yoo-Seok Kim · Sung-Hee Park · Jang Hang-sun
Synopsis Working at a fishing resort in an idyllic location, but surrounded by various facets of human unpleasantness, a young mute woman falls in love with a man on the run from the law for committing murder.
6.8
6K votes
6.8
6K votes
Breath
2007 · Movie · 84 min. · South Korea
Direction Kim Ki-duk
Cast Chang Chen · Ha Jung-woo · Park Ji-a · Kim Ki-duk
Synopsis A love story involving a convicted prisoner who slowly falls for a woman who decorates his prison cell.
6.7
3K votes
6.7
3K votes
The Net
2016 · Movie · 112 min. · South Korea
Direction Kim Ki-duk
Cast Ryu Seung-beom · Lee Won-gun · Kim Young-min · Choi Guy-hwa
Synopsis A North Korean fisherman inadvertently drift into South Korean waters, altering The course of his life forever.
6.6
142 votes
6.6
142 votes
Pieta
2012 · Movie · 104 min. · South Korea
Direction Kim Ki-duk
Cast Lee Jung-jin · Jo Min-Su · Woo Gi-hong · Kang Eun-jin
Synopsis Working for loan sharks, a cruel man (Lee Jung-Jin) gets money from debtors one way or the other. One day, a woman (Jo Min-Su) appears in front of him, apologizing for throwing him away and insisting that she is his...
6.6
2K votes
6.6
2K votes
Samaria (Samaritan Girl)
2004 · Movie · 95 min. · South Korea
Direction Kim Ki-duk
Cast Han Yeo-reum · Eol Lee · Kwak Ji-min · Kwon Hyun-Min
Synopsis Two school girls discover prostitution as a lucrative source of income on the side. But of course it has to go wrong one day. The father of one of the girls, a detective, turns in to a vengeful machine.
6.6
5K votes
6.6
5K votes
The Coast Guard
2002 · Movie · 91 min. · South Korea
Direction Kim Ki-duk
Cast Jang Dong-gun · Kim Jeong-hak · Park Ji-a · Yoo Hae-jin
Synopsis When an overzealous Korean Coast Guard soldier kills a local civilian at night when the civilian is in a restricted area, the officials give him a seven-day pass and he begins his descent into madness.
6.5
587 votes
6.5
587 votes
Birdcage Inn
1998 · Movie · 105 min. · South Korea
Direction Kim Ki-duk
Cast Lee Ji-eun · Hae-eun Lee · Ahn Jae-Mo · Hyeong-gi Jeong
Synopsis Prostitute Jin-a leaves Seoul when the red-light district is slated for urban renewal and heads east to Pohang. Taking up residence in a boarding house run by a small family, Jin-a is very happy continuing to sell her body. As...
6.5
283 votes
6.5
283 votes
Bad Guy
2001 · Movie · 100 min. · South Korea
Direction Kim Ki-duk
Cast Cho Jae-yun · Seo Won · Kim Yun-tae · Choi Duek-mun
Synopsis A criminal who runs a brothel becomes obsessed with a beautiful college student. When she rejects him he sets her up by introducing her to a loan shark and when she can’t pay, she is forced into working in the...
6.3
1K votes
6.3
1K votes
Crocodile
1996 · Movie · 102 min. · South Korea
Direction Kim Ki-duk
Cast Cho Jae-yun · Woo Yun-kyeong · Jeon Mu-son · Ahn Jae-hong
Synopsis Violent thug Crocodile lives under a bridge by the Han River in Seoul together with a peddling boy and a homeless old man. Crocodile saves a beautiful young woman Hyun-Jung from suicide by drowning, but only to use her for...
6.1
290 votes
6.1
290 votes
Moebius
2013 · Movie · 90 min. · South Korea
Direction Kim Ki-duk
Cast Cho Jae-yun · Seo Yeong-ju · Lee Eun-woo
Synopsis Consumed with hatred against her husband for his long time infidelity, the wife wants to take revenge against him but ends up inflicting a fatal wound to the son, and then disappears overwhelmed with guilt. For the son, who has...
6.1
671 votes
6.1
671 votes
Arirang
2011 · Documentary · 100 min. · South Korea
Direction Kim Ki-duk
Cast Kim Ki-duk
Synopsis Arirang is about Kim Ki-duk playing 3 roles in 1. Through Arirang I climb over one hill in life. Through Arirang I understand human beings, thank the nature, and accept my life as it is now. We are now... in...
6.1
288 votes
6.1
288 votes
Dream
2008 · Movie · 95 min. · South Korea
Direction Kim Ki-duk
Cast Jô Odagiri · Lee Na-yeong · Chang Mi-hie · Kim Tae-Hyeon
Synopsis Jin wakes up from a nightmare of a traffic accident on the way to his ex-girlfriend’s home. The dream drives him to the very spot and stumbles upon an aftermath of an accident which unfolded in the same way as...
5.8
1K votes
5.8
1K votes
Human, Space, Time and Human
2018 · Movie · 122 min. · South Korea
Direction Kim Ki-duk
Cast Mina Fujii · Jang Keun-suk · Ahn Sung-Kee · Lee Sung-jae
Synopsis A group of very different people set sail on an old warship. The passengers include a senator with his son, a newly-wed couple, a mysterious old man, a group of sex workers and a gang of violent criminals. Korean director...
5.6
80 votes
5.6
80 votes
Real Fiction
2000 · Movie · 86 min. · South Korea
Direction Kim Ki-duk
Cast Joo Jin-mo · Shim Yi-Young · Son Min-seok · Lee Je-rak
Synopsis An unstable artist (Jin-mo Ju) is sent over the edge during a walk in the park when a woman with a video camera (Jin-ah Kim) begins following him. Flying into a murderous rage, the artist begins running loose through the...
5.5
287 votes
5.5
287 votes
Wild Animals
1997 · Movie · 105 min. · South Korea
Direction Kim Ki-duk
Cast Cho Jae-yun · Dong-jik Jang · Ryun Jang · Richard Bohringer
Synopsis Kim Ki-Duk's second film is the story of two illegal immigrants in Paris, a North-Korean former soldier and a South-Korean street painter, as they both struggle for survival in the French metropolis. Eventually, they develop a strong friendship whilst their...
5.5
268 votes
5.5
268 votes