Kim Ji-hoon (director)

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.{{cite web|title=Greenhouse|url=http://www.indiestory.com/eng/film/film_view.asp?film_idx=33|website=IndieStory|access-date=2014-06-01|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304053104/http://www.indiestory.com/eng/film/film_view.asp?film_idx=33|url-status=live}}{{cite web|title=KIM Ji-hoon|url=http://www.koreanfilm.or.kr/jsp/films/index/peopleView.jsp?peopleCd=10005886|website=Korean Film Biz Zone|access-date=2014-06-01}} He made his feature directorial debut in 2004 with the film Mokpo, Gangster's Paradise, starring Cha In-pyo and Cho Jae-hyun. 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.{{cite news|url=http://sports.chosun.com/news/ntype.htm?id=201101040100028860001659&servicedate=20110104|script-title=ko:영화인을 꿈꾸는 고교생, '7광구' 김지훈 감독 특강에 초대합니다|trans-title=A high school student dreaming of film: Sector 7 director Kim Ji-hoon invited to special lecture|work=Sports Chosun|date=2011-01-04|access-date=2013-11-28}}; quote: "김지훈 감독은 2007년 730만 관객을 동원한 '화려한 휴가'로 제1회 대한민국영화연기대상 감독상, ... 제27회 한국영화평론가협의회 최우수예술가상 등을 수상했다." 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.{{cite news|url=http://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/article.aspx?aid=2964275|last=Park|first=Eun-jee|title=The Tower stands tall as a classic disaster film with a human side|work=JoongAng Ilbo|date=2012-12-21|access-date=2013-11-28|archive-date=3 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203032412/http://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/article.aspx?aid=2964275|url-status=live}}

Kim's next work after that was The Tower, a disaster film about a fire in a high-rise apartment building, starring Sul 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".

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.{{cite web |script-title=ko:[이슈IS] 오달수 주연작 전편 무기한 개봉 연기.."대책 없다" |url=http://news.jtbc.joins.com/article/article.aspx?news_id=NB11645804 |publisher=JTBC |access-date=5 June 2018 |language=ko |date=5 June 2018 |archive-date=16 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211016232902/https://news.jtbc.joins.com/article/article.aspx?news_id=NB11645804 |url-status=live }}

• The Aquarium (short film, 1996) - director
• Egoism (short film, 1996) - director
• Greenhouse (short film, 1997) - director, screenplay, editor, sound
• Whispering Corridors (1998) - assistant director
• Full Moon Full Sun (short film, 1999) - actor
• Rush (1999) - assistant director
• The Secret (2000) - assistant director
• Mokpo, Gangster's Paradise (2004) - director, screenplay
• May 18 (2007) - director
• Sector 7 (2011) - director, screenplay
• The Tower (2012) - director, script editor
• Sinkhole (2021) - director
• I Want to Know Your Parents (2022) - director

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