Direction: Kim Ki-duk

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Kim Ki-duk. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


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

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