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Not who you're looking for? Others named Kim Ki-duk: South Korean film director (1960–2020)
Kim Ki-duk was a South Korean film director and professor. Best known outside of Korea for his 1967 monster film Yongary, Monster from the Deep, Kim Ki-duk directed 66 movies in total from his directorial debut in 1961 until his retirement from the film industry in 1977. Along with Kim Soo-yong and Lee Man-hee, Kim was one of the leading young directors of the Korean cinematic wave of the 1960s. The most distinctive and successful genre of this period was the melodrama. He is not related to Kim Ki-duk, the South Korean director of 3-Iron.