Kim Ki-duk
24 titles · korean new wave
Near-wordless parables of cruelty and penance. Kim's films run on sparse dialogue, isolated settings — a floating fish farm, a shuttered temple, an empty house — and a recurring pattern of degradation followed by something offered as grace.
Signature
- Protagonists who barely speak or do not speak at all.
- Enclosed, symbolic locations standing in for a moral world.
- Bodily suffering treated as spiritual transaction.
- Seasonal and cyclical structure.
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
Pieta
The Isle
Bad Guy
Samaritan Girl
Moebius
Time
The Bow
The Net
Breath
Address Unknown
The Coast Guard
Dream
Birdcage Inn
Crocodile
One on One
Human, Space, Time and Human
Real Fiction
Wild Animals
Amen
Call of God
Dissolve
Stop
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