Im Kwon-taek
South Korean film director
0.73body-of-work score · ranked #1191 of 2631 directors · 3 films in our library
A director's score is the sum of their films' composite canon scores — methodology.
- Born
- May 2, 1936 · Jangseong County
- Nationality
- South Korea
- Work
- film director, screenwriter
Films in our library, ranked
Ranked by composite canon score across 20+ authoritative lists, awards and polls — our ordering, with every placement citing its evidence on the film's page.
- 10.291 citation
- 2Chunhyang춘향뎐
2000 · South Korea · musical, romance, drama
Sarris's annual top 10 2000 #9 · Rosenbaum's Essential Cinema
0.262 citations - 30.181 citation
Complete filmography
All 97 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.
- 1962Farewell to the Duman River
- 1962The War and an Old Man
- 1963For My Husband
- 1963The Prince's Revolt
- 1964Queen Yongwha's Avenger
- 1964The Power for Ten Years
- 1964The Result of the Ambition
- 1965
- 1965The King and the Servant Boy
- 1966A Triangle in Noble Families
- 1966I Am a King
- 1966Miss Ok and the Divided Court
- 1967A Red-and-blue Gauze Lantern
- 1967A Wife Retrieved
- 1968A Man Called the Wind
- 1968Femme Fatale, Jang Hee-bin
- 1968Return from the Sea
- 1968The Waking Woman
- 1969Hwangyaui doksori, Eagle of Wild Field
- 1969Rainy Gomoryeong Hill
- 1969Sorry to Give You Trouble
- 1969The Night of Full Moon
- 1969Three Generations of Men
- 1970A Crape-Myrtle with Morning Dew
- 1970A Sword Under the Moon
- 1970A Woman Pursued
- 1970Rain Outside the Porthole
- 1970Woman with Long Eyelashes
- 1971A Bout in 30 Years
- 1971Don't Torture Me Anymore
- 1971Revenge Of The Sword
- 1971Snow Falls on the Bloody Street
- 1972A Stepmother's Heartache
- 1972Arrivals and Departures
- 1972Seize the Precious Sword
- 1972Whirl of Betrayals on Myeongdong
- 1973Obaekhwa
- 1973Pursuit of the Bandits
- 1973Weeds
- 1974I won't cry
- 1974Life is but an empty dream
- 1974Wives on Parade
- 1975Why Did I Do That?
- 1975Yeonhwa
- 1975Yeonhwa 2
- 1975Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
- 1976A Byegone Romance
- 1976Does the Nak-Dong River Flow?
- 1976Overcome by Misfortunes
- 1976Wife
- 1977Madame Kye in the Imjin War
- 1977The Life of Ok-rye
- 1978Evergreen Tree
- 1978Near Yet Far Away
- 1979Divine Bow
- 1979Mother's Face Above Those Waves
- 1979The Genealogy
- 1979Tomorrow After Tomorrow
- 1980Mrs. Speculator
- 1980Pursuit of Death
- 1980The Hidden Hero
- 1981Mandala
- 1982Abengo Airborne Corps
- 1982Tears of the Idol
- 1982The Polluted One
- 1983Daughter of Fire
- 1983In the Bosom of a Butterfly
- 1983Village in the Mist
- 1984You Can't Stop a Flowing River
- 1985Ticket
- 1986Gilsoddeum
- 1987Adada
- 1987Diary of King Yeonsan
- 1987The Surrogate Woman
- 1989Come Come Come Upward
- 1990General's Son
- 1991Fly High Run Far
- 1991General's Son II
- 1992General's Son III
- 1993Seopyeonje
- 1994The Taebaek Mountains
- 1996Festival
- 1997Downfall
- 2000Chunhyang
- 2002Chi-hwa-seon
- 2004Low Life
- 2007Beyond the Years
- 2011Hanji
- 2014Revivre
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