Lee Il-hyung | |
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Born | |
Occupation(s) | Film director, screenwriter |
Korean name | |
Hangul | 이일형 |
Revised Romanization | Lee Il-hyeong |
McCune–Reischauer | Lee Il-hyŏng |
Lee Il-hyung is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. Prior to directing his first feature film A Violent Prosecutor (2016), Lee is an assistant director on films, such as The Moonlight of Seoul (2008), My Way (2011) and Kundo: Age of the Rampant (2014), and commercial films. [1]
In 2016, he finally had his own opportunity to direct when he teamed up with the production company Sanai Pictures to make the thriller A Violent Prosecutor, which becomes the highest-grossing South Korean film of 2016, with a US$66.6 million worldwide gross. [2] [3]
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