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Im Kwon-taek is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter and Editor Sud coréen born on 2 may 1936
Im Kwon-taek (임권택) est un réalisateur et scénariste de cinéma coréen né à Jangseong en Corée le 2 mai 1936. Principal représentant des films coréens de style classique, il a cent films à son actif. Il a remporté tous les prix existant en Corée du Sud. Son film La Chanteuse de pansori (서편제, Seopyeonje) a remporté à ce jour à lui seul 27 prix coréens et 3 prix internationaux.
Il grandit à Gwangju et passe une partie de son enfance dans la rue après la guerre de Corée, puis part à Busan pour chercher du travail. Après quelques petits boulots, il se rend à Séoul en 1956 et travaille dans une usine de recyclage de bottes de l'armée américaine qui décide de se reconvertir dans l'industrie du cinéma. Im Kwon-Taek devient coursier et le réalisateur Chung Chang-hwa lui propose ensuite un poste d'assistant de production. Il gravit rapidement les échelons et travaille comme assistant réalisateur avant de devenir lui-même réalisateur.
Carrière
Il réalise son premier long métrage : Adieu fleuve Duman en 1962, et enchaîne ensuite plus de 50 films de série B jusqu'à la fin des années 1970 à partir desquelles il change de registre en proposant des films plus sérieux comme L'Arbre généalogique en 1979.
Il est depuis son film Mandala (1981) considéré comme l'un des plus grands réalisateurs coréens; Pierre Rissient déclare à son sujet : « En 1977, je passe par Séoul, mais je n'arrive pas à voir de film d'Im Kwon-taek. Sur place, on me dit que c'est un tâcheron, que son œuvre n'a aucun intérêt. Cinq ans plus tard, grâce à l'attaché audiovisuel français, je vois enfin Mandala, que je trouve très intéressant : le voyage physique et initiatique de deux moines bouddhistes. Un cinéaste capable d'un tel film n'a pas pu réaliser que des navets ! ».
Son succès international n'a fait que s'amplifier avec la Chanteuse de pansori (premier de ses films à sortir en France en 1995) suivi du Chant de la fidèle Chunhyang (2000). Sa consécration en Occident est sans aucun doute son prix de la mise en scène au Festival de Cannes pour son film Ivre de femmes et de peinture (2002).
Hommages
Im Kwon-Taek (médaillé par l'UNESCO pour son œuvre) est aujourd'hui considéré comme l'ambassadeur du cinéma coréen dans le monde.
Une rétrospective de 25 films lui est consacrée au Festival des trois continents de Nantes en 2015 puis une autre à la Cinémathèque française durant l'hiver 2015-2016 où sont présentés 74 de ses films.
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Im Kwon-taek
Im Kwon-taek (임권택) est un réalisateur et scénariste de cinéma coréen né à Jangseong en Corée le 2 mai 1936. Principal représentant des films coréens de style classique, il a cent films à son actif. Il a remporté tous les prix existant en Corée du Sud. Son film La Chanteuse de pansori (서편제, Seopyeonje) a remporté à ce jour à lui seul 27 prix coréens et 3 prix internationaux.
Biography
FormationIl grandit à Gwangju et passe une partie de son enfance dans la rue après la guerre de Corée, puis part à Busan pour chercher du travail. Après quelques petits boulots, il se rend à Séoul en 1956 et travaille dans une usine de recyclage de bottes de l'armée américaine qui décide de se reconvertir dans l'industrie du cinéma. Im Kwon-Taek devient coursier et le réalisateur Chung Chang-hwa lui propose ensuite un poste d'assistant de production. Il gravit rapidement les échelons et travaille comme assistant réalisateur avant de devenir lui-même réalisateur.
Carrière
Il réalise son premier long métrage : Adieu fleuve Duman en 1962, et enchaîne ensuite plus de 50 films de série B jusqu'à la fin des années 1970 à partir desquelles il change de registre en proposant des films plus sérieux comme L'Arbre généalogique en 1979.
Il est depuis son film Mandala (1981) considéré comme l'un des plus grands réalisateurs coréens; Pierre Rissient déclare à son sujet : « En 1977, je passe par Séoul, mais je n'arrive pas à voir de film d'Im Kwon-taek. Sur place, on me dit que c'est un tâcheron, que son œuvre n'a aucun intérêt. Cinq ans plus tard, grâce à l'attaché audiovisuel français, je vois enfin Mandala, que je trouve très intéressant : le voyage physique et initiatique de deux moines bouddhistes. Un cinéaste capable d'un tel film n'a pas pu réaliser que des navets ! ».
Son succès international n'a fait que s'amplifier avec la Chanteuse de pansori (premier de ses films à sortir en France en 1995) suivi du Chant de la fidèle Chunhyang (2000). Sa consécration en Occident est sans aucun doute son prix de la mise en scène au Festival de Cannes pour son film Ivre de femmes et de peinture (2002).
Hommages
Im Kwon-Taek (médaillé par l'UNESCO pour son œuvre) est aujourd'hui considéré comme l'ambassadeur du cinéma coréen dans le monde.
Une rétrospective de 25 films lui est consacrée au Festival des trois continents de Nantes en 2015 puis une autre à la Cinémathèque française durant l'hiver 2015-2016 où sont présentés 74 de ses films.
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Filmography of Im Kwon-taek (30 films)
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Rough Play (2013)
, 1h53Directed by Shin Yeon-shick
Genres Drama, Action
Themes Films about television
Actors Lee Joon, Yang Dong-geun, Seo Young-hee, Kang Shin-hyo, Kim Hyung-jun, Gi Ju-bong
Roles Jeonju Festival VIP (uncredited)
Rating56%
Young is a nameless actor who dreams of becoming a big movie star. Then one day, he makes his breakthrough with a film and becomes a star overnight. He discovers a new hidden world of fame, power, and pleasure, but inevitably all things have a dark side, which puts everyone around him in danger.
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Revivre (2014)
, 1h29Directed by Im Kwon-taek
Origin Coree du sud
Genres Drama
Actors Ahn Sung-ki, Kim Q-ri, Yeon Woo-jin, Kim Ho-jung, Kim Gyu-ri, Joo Hyun
Rating65%
Mr. Oh is in his mid-fifties and is a successful marketing executive (sangmoo or managing director) at a major cosmetics company. He struggles to juggle corporate life and preparing for a new ad campaign, while tirelessly caring for his ailing wife, whose health has steadily and painfully deteriorated in the last four years due to brain cancer. During this difficult time, Oh also becomes aware of his growing feelings for Choo Eun-joo, the much younger, alluring new addition to his marketing team. When his wife finally succumbs to her disease, Oh becomes conflicted over his profound grief and newfound passion.
Hanji (2011)
, 1h58Directed by Im Kwon-taek
Genres Drama
Actors Park Joong-hoon, Kang Soo-yeon, Ye Ji-won, Jang Hang-sun, Kwon Hyun-sang, Jin Kyung
Rating58%
Pil-yong is a middling civil servant who is gripped by guilt every time he sees his wife Hyo-kyung, who is half-paralyzed from a stroke induced by his affair with another woman. But he finds newfound purpose in life when he is assigned to revive Jeonju's hanji industry. Hanji is Korean traditional paper made from mulberry trees; it is known in Asia for its beauty, flexibility and high quality, can reportedly last a thousand years, and is used for writing and creating 2D images similar to painting as well as 3D objects such as chamber pots and tea service. What begins as a desperate attempt to be promoted at work turns into a consuming passion as Pil-yong discovers the beauty of the craft, and he joins other devotees (such as documentary filmmaker Ji-won) to reenact traditional methods of hanji-making under the moonlight.
Beyond the Years (2007)
, 1h46Directed by Im Kwon-taek
Genres Drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about disabilities, La cécité
Actors Jo Jae-hyeon, Ryoo Seung-ryong
Rating65%
Dong-ho and Song-hwa are separately adopted by Yu-bong (Im Jin-ta), a nomadic singer, and grow up as siblings. Dong-ho falls in love with Song-hwa, but he suffers from the fact that he has to call her sister and constantly fight with Yu-bong’s obsession to make her a great singer. Eventually, Dong-ho leaves home. However, with his unchanging affection for Song-hwa, he keeps following traces of his love while refining his drumming skills in order to match well with her singing. This is the heart-touching love story of Song-hwa, who devotes her life and love to her talent for Pansori (a traditional Korean form of narrative song), and Dong-ho, who has devoted his life to loving her.
Low Life (2004)
, 1h39Directed by Im Kwon-taek
Origin Coree du sud
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Actors Jo Seung-woo, Kim Gyu-ri, Kim Q-ri, Kim Nam-gil, Moon Jung-hee
Rating59%
The life of gangster, Choi Tae-woong is followed through the tumultuous events of the second half of the 20th century in Korea.
Painted Fire (2002)
, 1h57Directed by Im Kwon-taek
Origin Coree du sud
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Themes Peinture
Actors Choi Min-sik, Yoo Ho-jeong, Ahn Sung-ki, Kim Yeo-jin, Son Ye-jin, Yun Jin-seo
Rating70%
It begins with the Korean artist being suspicious of a Japanese art-lover who values his work. The story then goes back to his man's early years. Beginning as a vagabond with a talent for drawing, he has a talent for imitating other people's art, but is urged to go on and develop a style of his own. This process is painful and he often behaves very badly, getting drunk and being hostile to those who care about him and try to help him.
Chunhyang (2000)
, 2hDirected by Im Kwon-taek
Origin Coree du sud
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musiques du monde, Musical films
Actors Jo Seung-woo, Park Chul-min
Rating70%
The film is told through pansori, a traditional Korean form of storytelling that seeks to narrate through song. It is based on Chunhyangga, a traditional Korean legend and is set in 18th century Korea.
Downfall (1997)
, 1h45Directed by Im Kwon-taek
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution
Actors Shin Eun-kyung, Park Sang-myun, Yoon Yoo-sun, Jung In-gi
Rating63%
Festival (1996)
, 1h48Directed by Im Kwon-taek
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Ahn Sung-ki
Rating71%
A famous writer, Lee Joon-seop, returns to his hometown to attend his mother's funeral. Lee's illegitimate niece, who has been ostracized from the family, has also returned home for the funeral. While the funeral ceremonies take place, various old family conflicts reassert themselves. During the action of the story, a parallel children's story written by Lee is read by the illegitimate niece. The story describes a grandmother who gives her life force to her growing granddaughter, resulting in the grandmother becoming gradually younger until she reverts into an infant and finally leaves for the next world.
The Taebaek Mountains (1994)
, 2h48Directed by Im Kwon-taek
Origin Coree du sud
Genres Drama, War
Actors Ahn Sung-ki, Bang Eun-jin, Kim Kap-soo, Kim Myung-gon, Shin Hyun-joon, Ahn Suk-hwan
Rating68%
The film originates from the great river story Taebaegsanmaek consisting of 10 volumes and is written by Cho Jeongrae. The story tries to describe and reveal a few generations-lasting conflicts between the haves (proprietors) and have-nots (peasants), which develop into right wings and left wings respectively. While revealing why and how the conflicts come about, the story depicts every corner of real life—romantic, shamanic, and Confucian aspects of the contemporaries. It provides a further insight into the politically controversial ideological issue on which the viewpoint is virtually hardened among over 40's in South Korea. This ideological issue survives even in the digital age to have a substantial effect on presidential elections. The author dares to show what the ideological conflict derives from and tries to describe it in detail and with artistic skill of commanding Korean colloquial language supplying its readers the true taste of Korean dialect expressions especially in its southern part Jeolla province.
Sopyonje (1993)
, 1h52Directed by Im Kwon-taek
Origin Coree du sud
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about music and musicians, Musiques du monde, Musical films, Films about disabilities, La cécité
Actors Kim Myung-gon, Kim Kyu-chul, Choi Jong-won
Rating75%
In a jumak (a tavern) on a small pass called Soritjae of Boseong County, South Jeolla Province, during the early 1960s, Dong-ho who is in his 30s, recalls his past as he is listening to a rendition of "pansori" sung by the jumak owner. Dong-ho and his sister were raised by the pansori singer Yu-bong, who treats them sternly and with a strict training regimen in his attempts to make serious artists of them as Yu-bong feels that a truly great pansori artist must suffer. Eventually Dong-ho runs away but his sister stays behind. Some critics have stated that this movie glorifies the father's patriarchal power as he seeks to limit his daughter's sexuality.
General's Son 3 (1992)
, 1h50Directed by Im Kwon-taek
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Actors Oh Yeon-soo, Shin Hyun-joon, Dokgo Young-jae, Shin Seong-il, Kim Seung-woo, Jang Gwang
Rating55%
The concluding film in Im's General's Son trilogy, the film tells the story of Kim Du-han, a gangster and later politician, during the Japanese occupation of Korea.
Fly High, Run Far (1991)
, 2h26Directed by Im Kwon-taek
Origin Coree du sud
Genres Drama, Historical
Actors Lee Deok-hwa, Lee Hye-young, Kim Myung-gon, Lee Ki-young
Rating72%
A film about Choe Si-hyeong, a leader of the Donghak Peasant Revolution of late 19th-century Korea.
General's Son 2 (1991)
, 1h43Directed by Im Kwon-taek
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Actors Jeong Doo-hong, Shin Hyun-joon, Jang Gwang
Rating60%
The second in Im's General's Son trilogy, the film tells the story of Kim Du-han, a gangster and later politician, during the Japanese occupation of Korea.
General's Son (1990)
, 1h48Directed by Im Kwon-taek
Origin Coree du sud
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Actors Shin Hyun-joon, Bang Eun-jin, Bang Eun-hee, Hwang Jeong-min, Jeong Doo-hong, Kim Seung-woo
Rating63%
Kim Du-han lost his mother at the age of eight, and he survives on the streets as a singing beggar. His natural-born fighting skills places him on the mean streets of Jongno with the kisaeng house Wumigwan at the center. He is soon recognized for his incredible strength and ability. He finds out through Shin Ma-jeok, the head of a student gang, that he is the son of General Kim Jwa-jin who fought against the Japanese army. Meanwhile, the Yakuzas expand their sphere of influence and try to take over the Jongno streets but Du-han protects the Korean vendors of Jongno and wins their respect. When the head of Wumigwan, Kim Gi-hwan is arrested, Du-han becomes the leader of the Jongno gang.