Director: Kang Yi-kwan

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Birthday: 1972-01-02
Biography: Born in Seoul. KANG has dealt with in-depth stories of family and society in his films. His feature debut SA-KWA in 2005, an upbeat film of a woman’s conflict, parting, and choice for relationship and marriage, was invited to numerous international film festivals, winning the 30th Toronto International Film Festival FIPRESCI Award and the 53rd San Sebastian International Film Festival Mont Blanc Award for New Screenwriters, etc. KANG directed IF YOU WERE ME 5: TWO TEETH in 2011 when he was offered to create a film regarding the rights of North Korean defectors by the National Human Rights Commission of Korea. After the film, he was offered again to direct a film on human rights of criminal offenders which resulted in JUVENILE OFFENDER.

Known for

Wonderland

In a virtual world called "Wonderland", a place where people can reunite with a person they may not meet again by simulating them through artificial intelligence, a woman in her 20s requests to meet her lover who is in a coma, and a man in his 40s requests to meet his wife who passed away.
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Wonderland
Wonderland

2024

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Memento Mori

The ghost of a lesbian high-school girl takes revenge on the people who used to bully her. And another young girl finds her old diary detailing her love and rejection when she was alive.
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Memento Mori

1999

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Juvenile Offender

16-year-old juvenile offender Ji-gu reunites with his young mom who he thought was dead, and the two try to make up for their time lost.
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Juvenile Offender

2012

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If You Were Me 5

Funded by the National Human Rights Commission of Korea. If You Were Me 5 takes a close look at the violent nature hidden behind our eyes. 5 directors- Kang Yi Kwan, Boo Ji Young, Yoon Sung Hyun, Kim Dae Seung and Sin Dong Il disclose how closely ordinary events of society connect with our eyes. There is a hidden sexual violence beyond our eyes and the power of a controlled society works through the power beyond the eyes. Not only the violence of the eye itself, also limited the ability of individuals to see, the matter of the eye intervenes in various relationships between the individual and groups. The film demonstrates how sharp the eye has become in a society with developing technology.
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If You Were Me 5

2011

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Let Us Meet Now

In this Korean omnibus film, three stories and relationships between the North and South are explored - stories about a hopeless romance, an unknown future and an expected and coincidental comfort.
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Let Us Meet Now

2019

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