Known for Art
Filmography
10 films


No Other Choice
2025 · 2h 19m
country: South Korea
After being laid off and humiliated by a ruthless job market, a veteran paper mill manager descends into violence in a desperate bid to reclaim his dignity.


The King's Letters
2019 · 1h 50m
country: South Korea
In the 15th century, despite so many accomplishments he has made for the people, King Sejong, his biggest goal is still remaining; the invention of original letters that can be read and written by all the people. But courtiers who want to dominate the knowledge and the power, are against his will and discourage his belief. Frustrated King Sejong hears about a bonze Sinmi a phonogram expert, and secretly brings him in the palace.


Another Child
2019 · 1h 36m
country: China
Teenage girls suffer from conflicts from their parents' affairs. A baby from the affair is born, and the two families have to accept reality.


Room No. 7
2017 · 1h 40m
country: South Korea
Doo-sik tries to evade bankruptcy by selling his DVD screening business. But crisis arises when he discovers a corpse in room number seven and a stash of drugs that belongs to his employee.


The Handmaiden
2016 · 2h 25m
country: South Korea
1930s Korea, in the period of Japanese occupation, a new girl, Sook-hee, is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress, Hideko, who lives a secluded life on a large countryside estate with her domineering Uncle Kouzuki. But the maid has a secret. She is a pickpocket recruited by a swindler posing as a Japanese Count to help him seduce the Lady to steal her fortune.


Assassination
2015 · 2h 20m
country: South Korea
In Japanese-occupied Korea, three freedom fighters are assigned a mission to assassinate a genocidal military leader and his top collaborator. But the plan goes completely awry amidst double-crossings, counter-assassinations, and a shocking revelation about one of the assassins' past.


My Dictator
2014 · 2h 8m
country: South Korea
Sung-geun is an untalented actor who makes a living playing minor roles. He happens to land on the role as Kim Il-sung, the former leader of North Korea, for the rehearsal of the South-North Korea Summit. Sung-geun becomes passionately immersed in his role, motivated by his son who looks up to him. However, the summit is not realized, and Sung-geun ends up lost in the delusion that he really is Kim Il-sung.


Apostle
2014
country: South Korea
In a small North Korean village near the border of China, there are believers who get together in an underground church, away from the eyes of the persecuting government. When the missionary from China, their only support route, is cut off, things begin to get very tense. Chulho, who had been arrested along with his wife, returns. After losing his wife in the interrogations, Chulho had been released and unseen for 2 years before coming back to his home, claiming that he had been commanded by God to lead the believers across the border and into South Korea. The brothers wonder if Chulho is trustworthy, and whether it is the right thing to do to leave their homeland.


New World
2013 · 2h 14m
country: South Korea
An undercover cop has his loyalties tested when the boss of the corporate gang he's spent years infiltrating dies.