Screenplay: Kim Ki-duk

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Kim Ki-duk. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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

Plot 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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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,...

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

Plot 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...

6.3

1K votes

6.3

1K votes

Rough Cut

2008 · Movie · 112 min. · South Korea

Direction Jang Hoon

Cast So Ji-Sub · Kang Ji-hwan · Hong Soo-hyun · Jang Hee-jin

Plot Gang-pae is #2 gangster in his organization who longs to become an actor. Su-ta is a superstar actor who takes on the role of a gangster in an action movie...

6.2

205 votes

6.2

205 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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

6.1

671 votes

6.1

671 votes

Arirang

2011 · Documentary · 100 min. · South Korea

Direction Kim Ki-duk

Cast Kim Ki-duk

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

5.8

1K votes

5.8

1K votes

Poongsan

2011 · Movie · 121 min. · South Korea

Direction Juhn Jai-Hong

Cast Yoon Kye-sang · Kim Gyu-ri · Kim Jong-soo · Han Gi-Joong

Plot Part love story, part postwar tragedy, with a dose of comedy thrown in, the low-budget film “Poongsan” depicts the sad reality of the division between the two Koreas.

5.8

108 votes

5.8

108 votes

Beautiful

2008 · Movie · 88 min. · South Korea

Direction Juhn Jai-Hong

Cast Choi Moo-sung · Min-soo Kim · Cha Su-yeon · Lee Chun-hee

Plot Eun-young is a woman cursed with great beauty. Wherever she goes, she gets unwanted admiration from men and jealousy from women. One day, one of her stalking admirer invades her...

5.7

128 votes

5.7

128 votes