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    Lee Chang-dong

    South Korean film director, screenwriter and novelist

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  1. Lee Chang-dong was born in Daegu, Korea. He graduated in 1981 with a degree in Korean Literature from Kyungpook National University in Daegu, where he spent much of his time in the theater, writing and directing plays. He went on to teach high school Korean and established himself as a novelist with his first novel Chonri in 1983.

  2. 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. His debut film "Green Fish" (1997) brought immediate success and critical acclaim.

    • January 1, 1
    • Writer, Producer, Director
    • Daegu, South Korea
    • Lee Chang-dong
  3. 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 ...

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  5. Apr 3, 2024 · Lee Chang-dong began his career in the arts as a novelist and “novelistic” in all the richness and implication of that term is how I find myself thinking of his films. Asked to write a script for Park Kwang-su’s “To the Starry Island” (1993), an opportunity Lee parlayed into a first Assistant Director role, he made his directorial ...

  6. Lee Chang-dong is a Korean filmmaker who turned to cinema when he was over 40 years old. He is known for his films "Green Fish" (1997), "Peppermint Candy" (2000) and "Oasis" (2002), which explore themes of social, cultural and economic issues in Korea. He also served as the Minister of Culture in the liberal government of Roh Moo-Hyun.

    • April 1, 1954
  7. Dec 10, 2018 · Seoul-based auteur Lee Chang-dong made a much anticipated return to the Cannes Film Festival in May with the world premiere of Burning, his sixth feature and first film in eight years.. The ...

  8. Apr 5, 2024 · This month, Metrograph is running “Novel Encounters: The Films of Lee Chang-dong,” a retrospective of the filmmaker’s career to date. The program includes four films in new 4K restorations from Film Movement: Green Fish, Peppermint Candy, Oasis, and Poetry. Lee’s debut, Green Fish, particularly benefits from restoration, considering it was previously quite hard to find

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