Kim Tae-yong
{{Short description|South Korean filmmaker (born 1969)}}
{{other people}}
{{family name hatnote|Kim||lang=Korean}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Kim Tae-yong
| image = Kim Tae-Yong.jpg
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1969|12|09}}
| birth_place = Seoul, South Korea
| occupation = Film director, screenwriter
| education = Yonsei University - Politics and Diplomacy
Korean Academy of Film Arts - Filmmaking
| years_active = 1998–present
| spouse = {{marriage|Tang Wei|July 12, 2014}}
| children = 1
| module = {{Infobox Korean name|child=yes
| hangul = 김태용
| hanja = {{linktext|金|泰|勇}}
| rr = Gim Tae-yong
| mr = Kim T'aeyong
}}
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Kim Tae-yong ({{Korean|hangul=김태용}}; born December 9, 1969) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. After his feature directorial debut Memento Mori (1999), he helmed the critically-acclaimed Family Ties (2006), and the English-language remake Late Autumn (2010).
Career
Tae-yong graduated from Yonsei University in 1994 with a major in politics and diplomacy, and first became involved in Korean cinema through a friend, who was an assistant director of an independent production. Inspired by the vibrant atmosphere that came with working on a set, Kim then enrolled at the Korean Academy of Film Arts (KAFA) in 1996. He met and became friends with fellow director Min Kyu-dong while at KAFA, where he and his classmates would work on short films as a part of the crew and doing lighting. In 1999, Kim and Min received the offer to direct Memento Mori as a sequel to the horror film Whispering Corridors (1998), and so began Kim’s foray into commercial cinema.
In some ways, Memento Mori might be considered the most influential Korean horror film of the 2000s. Although it was not a box-office hit, the film is frequently cited by young filmmakers and cinema fans as a modern-day classic. At the time of its release and in the intervening years, most critics tended to focus their attention on the other of Memento Mori's co-directors, Min Kyu-dong, however the release of Family Ties in spring 2006 established Kim as a highly regarded filmmaker in his own right. His intimate portrayal of a totally unconventional but non-dysfunctional family garnered multiple domestic and international awards.{{cite web|last=Paquet|first=Darcy|title=An Interview with Kim Tae-yong|url=http://www.koreanfilm.org/kimty.html|access-date=2012-11-19|work=Koreanfilm.org|date=23 May 2007}}{{cite web|title=TORONTO '06 DISCOVERY INTERVIEW: Kim Tae-yong: "I am curious to see the reaction of a foreign audience"|url=http://www.indiewire.com/article/toronto_06_discovery_interview_kim_tae-yong_i_am_curious_to_see_the_reactio|work=IndieWire|access-date=2012-11-27|date=9 September 2006}}
Kim's third feature film Late Autumn was a remake of Lee Man-hee's 1966 classic Manchu set in Seattle.{{cite web|last=Huh|first=Nam-woong|title="For a sense of Asian Cinema"|url=http://www.koreanfilm.or.kr/jsp/films/interview.jsp?blbdComCd=601017&seq=2&mode=VIEW|access-date=2012-11-19|work=Korean Film Council|date=10 February 2011}}{{cite web|last=Beck|first=Una|title=INTERVIEW: Director Kim Tae-yong - Part 1|url=http://www.asiae.co.kr/news/view.htm?idxno=2011022512061793060|access-date=2012-11-19|work=10Asia|date=25 February 2011}}{{cite web|last=Beck|first=Una|title=INTERVIEW: Director Kim Tae-yong - Part 2|url=http://www.asiae.co.kr/news/view.htm?idxno=2011022511464844097|access-date=2012-11-19|work=10Asia|date=25 February 2011}} It was also critically acclaimed and became the highest-grossing Korean film in China.{{cite web|last=Hwang|first=Hei-rim|title=Late Autumn becomes the all-time highest grossing Korean film in China|url=http://koreanfilm.or.kr/webzine/sub/news.jsp?mode=A_VIEW&wbSeq=106|access-date=2012-11-19|work=Korean Cinema Today|date=13 April 2012}}
Kim then joined the restoration project and re-directed Crossroads of Youth (1934) by "performing" Korea’s oldest known silent film with live narration (by the byeonsa) and musical accompaniment.{{cite web|last=Kwon |first=Mee-yoo |title=Korea's oldest silent film revived |url=https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/art/2012/06/135_112010.html |access-date=2012-11-19 |work=The Korea Times |date=30 May 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120814113135/http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/art/2012/06/135_112010.html |archive-date=14 August 2012 }}{{cite web|last=Lee|first=Claire|title=Silent film narrator returns to modern stage|access-date=2012-11-19|work=The Korea Herald|url=http://view.koreaherald.com/kh/view.php?ud=20120312001131|date=12 March 2012}}
Apart from his feature films, Kim has been active in a variety of creative endeavors, from hosting a cinema-themed TV show on EBS to directing plays, shooting documentaries and making cameo appearances (both times as a film director) in the films All for Love (2005) by Min Kyu-dong and Family Matters (2006) by Nam Seon-ho.
Personal life
Kim married Chinese actress Tang Wei on July 12, 2014, in the front yard of the home of film legend Ingmar Bergman on the remote Swedish island of Fårö.{{Cite web|url=http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20160828000292|title = Actress Tang Wei gives birth to daughter|date = 28 August 2016}}{{cite web|title=Tang Wei and Korean director get hitched in Sweden|url=http://www.koreatimesus.com/?p=15144|website=The Korea Times|access-date=2014-07-26|date=24 July 2014}}{{cite web|last1=Chen|first1=Angela|title=Lust, Caution actress Tang marries in Sweden|url=https://news.yahoo.com/lust-caution-actress-tang-marries-sweden-135750175.html|website=Associated Press|access-date=2014-07-26|date=25 July 2014}}{{cite web|last1=Ock|first1=Hyun-ju|title=Director Kim Tae-yong, Tang Wei elope in Sweden|url=http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20140725000523|website=The Korea Herald|access-date=2014-07-26|date=25 July 2014}}{{cite web|title=Lust, Caution star Tang Wei weds at Ingmar Bergman's house|url=http://www.straitstimes.com/lifestyle/movies/story/lust-caution-star-tang-wei-weds-ingmar-bergmans-house-20140725|website=The Straits Times|access-date=2014-07-26|date=25 July 2014}} A formal wedding ceremony was later held in Hong Kong, with only immediate family members as guests.{{cite web|title=Chinese actress, Korean director had formal wedding in Hong Kong: agency|url=http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/full/2014/08/19/44/1200000000AEN20140819008800315F.html|website=Yonhap|access-date=2014-08-19|date=19 August 2014}}{{cite web|title=Tang Wei and Kim Tae-yong marry|url=http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20140819001006|website=The Korea Herald|access-date=2014-08-19|date=19 August 2014}}{{cite web|title=Tang Wei's Wedding Pictures Revealed|url=http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2014/08/20/2014082001795.html|website=The Chosun Ilbo|access-date=2014-08-20|date=20 August 2014}} The couple first met in 2009 when he directed her in the film Late Autumn, and began dating in October 2013 after Tang shot a commercial in Korea.{{cite web|last=Kwaak|first=Jeyup S.|title=Tang Wei to Marry Korean Director Kim|url=https://blogs.wsj.com/korearealtime/2014/07/02/tang-wei-to-marry-korean-director-kim/|website=The Wall Street Journal|access-date=2014-07-03|date=2 July 2014}}{{cite web|last1=Ahn|first1=Sung-mi|title=Tang Wei to tie knot with Korean filmmaker this fall|url=http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20140702001203|website=The Korea Herald|access-date=2014-07-03|date=2 July 2014}}{{cite web|last1=Jin|first1=Eun-soo|title=Tang Wei, Kim Tae-yong to tie the knot|url=http://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/Article.aspx?aid=2991459|website=Korea JoongAng Daily|access-date=2014-07-03|date=3 July 2014}}{{cite web|last1=Conran|first1=Pierce|title=KIM Tae-yong and TANG Wei to Tie the Knot|url=http://www.koreanfilm.or.kr/jsp/news/news.jsp?mode=VIEW&seq=3087|website=Korean Film Council|access-date=2014-07-04|date=3 July 2014}}
Filmography
= Feature film =
=Short film=
=Documentary film=
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|+Film credits ! rowspan="2" style="width:33px;" |Year ! colspan="2" |Title ! colspan="3" |Credited as ! rowspan="2" class="unsortable" |Notes |
English
!Korean ! width="65" class="unsortable" |Director ! width="65" class="unsortable" |Screenplay ! width="65" class="unsortable" |Producer |
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2006
|On the Road, Two |온 더 로드, 투 | {{yes}} | {{no}} | {{yes}} |rockumentary on Yoon Do Hyun Band's European tour{{Cite web |title=온 더 로드, 투 |url=https://movie.daum.net/moviedb/main?movieId=41355 |access-date=2023-05-11 |website=다음영화 |language=ko}} |
2016
|2016 Film Pansori, Chunhyang |2016 필름 판소리, 춘향뎐 | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{no}} |
2018
|Kokdu: A Story of Guardian Angels |꼭두 이야기 | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | {{no}} |Korean traditional music performance documentary{{Cite web |title=꼭두 이야기 |url=https://movie.daum.net/moviedb/main?movieId=124864 |access-date=2023-05-11 |website=다음영화 |language=ko}} |
=Actor=
- Family Matters (2006) cameo
- All for Love (2005) cameo
- Camellia Project: Three Queer Stories at Bogil Island (2005) cameo
- 2006 film 《Are you all right?》 - cameo (director Jang role)
- 2007 Short Film 155 Miles cameo
- 2013 Naver TV web drama 《The Woman Who Happened》 - cameo
Television
- Cinema Paradiso (EBS, 1994) host
Theater
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! Korean ! width="65" class="unsortable" |Director ! width="65" class="unsortable" |Screenplay ! width="65" class="unsortable" |Producer |
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2004
| Fascination | 매혹 | {{yes}} | {{no}} | {{no}} | |
Awards and nominations
See also
Notes
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References
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External links
- [http://www.koreanfilm.or.kr/jsp/films/index/peopleView.jsp?peopleCd=10006116 Kim Tae-yong] at Korean Film Biz Zone
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{{Blue Dragon Film Award Best Director}}
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Category:South Korean film directors
Category:South Korean screenwriters