Known for Sound
Born
November 7, 1961 (age 64)
Filmography
123 films


A Portrait of Photography
2026 · 1h 39m
country: South Korea
Japanese photojournalist Kuwabara Shisei boards a flight to Korea. Since his first visit in 1964 as a 27-year-old, Shisei has spent six decades documenting the turbulence of Korea's modern history: Cheonggyecheon, military camp towns, the Vietnam War deployment, and democracy movements. Now elderly, he returns, believing this might be his final journey. He carries a mission: to revisit the places and people that defined his life’s work. The film follows the photographer’s footsteps back into the heart of these historical sites.


Heartbeat
2022 · 28m
country: Switzerland
Caught up in anxiety, eight-year-old Chul in school tells his teacher that he is going to the bathroom but runs straight home.


Cloud, Encore
2019 · 2h 46m
country: South Korea
At 6:00 in the morning on the 1st day of January in 2013 80-year-old film-maker IM Kwon-taek started shooting his 102nd film, after his unintentional 5 years’ break. I visited the shooting scene with my camera and had stayed there until the end of that year. I’ve always wanted to record IM’s shooting scene, as I believed that there we could find his secret manual which reflects the master’s large experience. I’ve been through heavy snow to witness funeral scene. I’ve also been to the west coast to follow funeral cortege in the film. It was an experience to put the life in the frame alongside with the death. When the next spring came, the shooting finally ended.


Gravity of the Tea
2019 · 2h 10m
country: South Korea
IM Kwon-taek is a Korean film-maker. He was born in 1934 when his country was under Japanese occupation. When Korean War was over his parents became North Korean partisan, and he ran away from home. He’s made 101 films since he made his debut in 1962 with Farewell Doman River. He tasted the glory at Cannes Int’l Film Festival with Chiwhasun. However making the 102nd film seems harder than ever to this 80-year-old director. His 2 projects have been suspended. He still can’t find chance to make his 102nd film, but spends daily routine free from film-making. This is a recording of years that the film-maker spends without making a film.


The First Shot
2019 · 1h 41m
country: South Korea
Jo Dal-hwan plays Lee Ho-yeon, a salesman from a pharmaceutical company who is very people-shy.


Judgment Night
2019 · 1h 23m
country: South Korea
Former sports announcer Ji-hee gets fired from the broadcasting station and starts her own YouTube channel with the dream of getting back on her feet. One day, a wanted killer calls her to interview her. Ji-hee and her friends see this as the chance of a lifetime. They solve the killer’s riddles to get to the promised location, but a sudden attack leaves them unconscious… When they come to, the killer standing in front of them is a friend from Ji-hee’s elementary school, and they begin their twenty questions. The killer corners Ji-hee with truth and lies… Will Ji-hee’s objective of surprising the world with an exclusive interview work?


Café Noir
2010 · 3h 18m
country: South Korea
The story begins with a man left by his girlfriend on Christmas Eve and unfolds across the city of Seoul.


Poetry
2010 · 2h 19m
country: South Korea
A South Korean woman in her sixties enrolls in a poetry class as she grapples with her faltering memory and her grandson's appalling wrongdoing.


Lady Vengeance
2005 · 1h 55m
country: South Korea
Released after being wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for 13 years, a woman begins executing her elaborate plan of retribution.