Kim Yoo-jin | |
|---|---|
| Born | South Korea |
| Occupation | Film director |
| Years active | 1986-present |
| Korean name | |
| Hangul | 김유진 |
| Hanja | 金裕珍 |
| Revised Romanization | Gim Yujin |
| McCune–Reischauer | Kim Yujin |
Kim Yoo-jin (Korean: 김유진) is a South Koreanfilm director. His films includeA Promise (1998),Wild Card (2003) andThe Divine Weapon (2008).
Kim Yoo-jin said he began his filmmaking career to "voice social opinion," notably inOnly Because You Are a Woman (1990), whereWon Mi-kyung played a raped housewife who faces doubt andvictim blaming from her family, neighbors and inside the courtroom.[1] But most of Kim's films have been commercial fare, with a string of box office hits from the 1980s through the 2000s. He won Best Director at the 14thBlue Dragon Film Awards forLove Is Oh Yeah! (1993), which starredShin Hyun-joon andKim Hye-sun. In 1995, he directedMy Dear Keumhong in whichKim Kap-soo and Kim Soo-chul played the painter Koo Bon-woong and the poetYi Sang, friends who both fall for the same concubine. Kim then castPark Shin-yang andJeon Do-yeon inA Promise, a melodrama about the romance between a gangster and a doctor; it drew critical acclaim for its actors and became the top-grossing Korean film of 1998.[2] In 2003,Jung Jin-young andYang Dong-geun played detectives determined to find a young killer and his gang in Kim's gritty cop dramaWild Card.[3]
Kim took on a more ambitious project for his eighth feature film, which had a ₩10 billion budget and took nearly six years to produce:periodaction blockbusterThe Divine Weapon.[4][5][6] StarringJung Jae-young,Ahn Sung-ki andHan Eun-jung, theKorean titleSingijeon refers to a multi-launchfire arrow rocket system, a sophisticated military weapon that was secretly developed in theJoseon era duringKing Sejong's reign to fight off foreign invasion.[7]The Divine Weapon was the seventh top-grossing Korean film of 2008 with 3.75 million admissions and won Best Film at the46th Grand Bell Awards in 2009, while Kim was nominated for Best Director at the29th Blue Dragon Film Awards and the45th Baeksang Arts Awards.[8][9][10]
