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LEE Chang-dong

Executive Producer,Director ,,Screenwriter

LEE Chang-dong made only five feature films in his directing career, but they were more than enough to earn him the status of a representative auteurist director of Korea.
He was a high school teacher before becoming a novelist, from which he made a transition to being a screenwriter and an assistant director to [PARK Kwang-su] before debuting as a director with <Green Fish>(1996). His subsequent movies, <A Peppermint Candy>(1999) and <Oasis>(2002), b... expand

LEE Chang-dong made only five feature films in his directing career, but they were more than enough to earn him the status of a representative auteurist director of Korea.
He was a high school teacher before becoming a novelist, from which he made a transition to being a screenwriter and an assistant director to [PARK Kwang-su] before debuting as a director with <Green Fish>(1996). His subsequent movies, <A Peppermint Candy>(1999) and <Oasis>(2002), brought him international attention as a writer and provided an opportunity to discover an outstanding personality actor, [SUL Kyoung-gu]. LEE’s appointment to the position of Minister of Culture earned him the nickname of “Korean André Malraux” in the overseas media. Two movies he made after resigning from the minister position were both screened in competition at the Cannes Film Festival. LEE’s films have insights into the daily routine so deep as to be even termed as obsessive and so realistic as to deliver the pains of his characters with such intensity to the audience. He also produced the first official Korea-France joint movie, <A Brand New Life>(2009), of the French filmmaker [Ounie Lecomte]. LEE’s latest film, <Poetry>(2010), was recently released in France to warm applause.
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Gender : Male
Company : PINEHOUSE FILM Co., Ltd

Nationality : South Korea
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