Kim Ji-hoon (director)

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Kim Ji-hoon
Born1971 (age 5253)
Nationality South Korean
Occupation Film director
Korean name
Hangul
김지훈
Revised Romanization Gim Ji-hun
McCune–Reischauer Kim Chihun

Kim Ji-hoon (born 1971), also spelled Kim Ji-hun, is a South Korean film director. [1] [2]

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Life and career

Kim Ji-hoon was born in Daegu. After graduating from Hanyang University's Theater and Film Art Department, he worked as an assistant director on a number of films. [3] [4] He made his feature directorial debut in 2004 with the film Mokpo, Gangster's Paradise , starring Cha In-pyo and Cho Jae-hyun. [1] His 2007 film May 18 , about the Gwangju Massacre of 1980 and which starred Kim Sang-kyung, Lee Yo-won and Lee Joon-gi, earned him the Best Director award at the 2008 Korea Movie Star Awards. [5] He went on to direct Sector 7 , a 2011 action/horror film about a sea monster which attacked oil platforms, with an ensemble cast led by Ha Ji-won and Ahn Sung-ki. Distributor CJ E&M Pictures stated that Sector 7 was the highest-grossing South Korean film in China, but it was not well received by South Korean audiences, nor by critics, who panned its "flat" main characters and low-quality computer-generated imagery. [6]

Kim's next work after that was The Tower , a disaster film about a fire in a high-rise apartment building, starring Sol Kyung-gu, Kim Sang-kyung and Son Ye-jin. In response to the criticisms of Sector 7, Kim spent nearly two years working with the post-production team on CGI; the film was finally released in December 2012. Kim stated that he got the idea for The Tower from a variety of boyhood experiences, including his first visit to Seoul where he saw the 63 Building and wondered what it would be like to get trapped inside, and a later incident where he got stuck in an elevator, which he described as "the moment when I first felt dread". [6]

His most recent work, of I Want to Know Your Parents, has been postponed indefinitely following the sexual assault scandal of actor Oh Dal-su, with no release date set to date. [7]

Filmography

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