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Lee Chang-dong (Korean: 이창동; Hanja: 李滄東; born July 4, 1954) is a South Korean film director, screenwriter, and novelist. He has directed six feature films : Green Fish (1997), Peppermint Candy (1999), Oasis (2002), Secret Sunshine (2007), Poetry (2010), and Burning (2018).
Lee Chang-dong. Writer: Burning. Lee Chang-Dong was born in 1954 in Daegu, which some consider the most right-wing city in South Korea. Lee is a former high-school teacher and an acclaimed novelist. He turned to cinema when he was over 40 years old.
Lee Chang-dong. Writer: Burning. Lee Chang-Dong was born in 1954 in Daegu, which some consider the most right-wing city in South Korea. Lee is a former high-school teacher and an acclaimed novelist. He turned to cinema when he was over 40 years old.
Jul 16, 2022 · From aimless youths and victimized women to religious dogmas and South Korea’s oppressive past, nothing is off the table for Lee Chang-dong. Whether you’re looking to get started or you’ve already binged his work, up next is an in-depth retrospective on all six of his films, ranked from good to best.
Apr 3, 2024 · Lee Chang-dong’s films are being given a retrospective at New York’s Metrograph throughout the month of April: all six of his glorious feature films (“Green Fish,” “Peppermint Candy,” “Oasis,” “Secret Sunshine,” “Poetry,” and “Burning”) and two (“A Brand New Life” and “A Girl at My Door”) for which he wrote ...
Feb 6, 2019 · While Lee was in town last week for a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art—an occasion that marked his first visit to New York in eight years—I took the opportunity to chat with him about his love of cinema and literature and what keeps him going as a storyteller.
Dec 10, 2018 · The celebrated South Korean auteur Lee Chang-dong discusses the meaning behind his metaphysical thriller Burning's enigmas, the Oscars' "strange" neglect of Korean filmmaking and...
Oct 18, 2022 · Film writer and director Lee Chang-dong (“Burning,” “Oasis,” “Peppermint Candy”), one of Korea’s best-known auteur filmmakers who has contributed to putting Korean cinema firmly on the global...
Apr 10, 2024 · Lee Chang-dong set Cannes ablaze in 2018 with the uneasily beautiful “Burning,” a loose Haruki Murakami adaptation about the folie à troix between an alienated delivery man (Ah-in Yoo), the wily...
Apr 8, 2024 · Director Lee Chang-dong’s films are uniquely Korean, and throughout his career, his work has served as cultural beacons for the future of Korean cinema. “Peppermint Candy” (1999) put a spotlight on auteurism in South Korea, revealing an individual’s scars left by the tumultuous modern history of Korea’s democracy.
