For almost 50 years, master director Im Kwon-taek has chronicled the tremendous events of Korea's twentieth century through the detached lens of the camera. This comprehensive volume of essays, interviews and biographical information from renowned film critic Chung Sung-ill delves deeply into the man behind the epics "Sopyonje," "The Taebaek Mountain," and "Chihwaseon." The publication of the Im Kwon-taek volume in 2007 could not be more timely, with the release of his 100th film, "Beyond Years," scheduled for April 2007. Im was born in 1934 in Jangseong, Jeolla Province, and lived through Japanese colonial occupation, the polarization of the political factions that led to the Korean War, decades of dictatorship, the dawn of democracy, and a rapidly changing society forgetting its past. This volume is a brilliant orchestration of the historical backdrop for Im's works with insight into the film director's psychology and personal experience. ContentsPreface His Thoughts I: Eyewitness to History (1962-1992) His Thoughts II: Returning to His Roots (1993-Present) Interviews Biography Synopsis Filmography Endnotes References About the Author Index

The stories that IM Sang-soo tries to tell deal with the lives of modern Koreans. He feels that the responsibility placed upon him as a storyteller is the history of "here and now" untold by older Korean directors of the same period. IM is practically the only director now making films that take a long look at the lives of contemporary Koreans without losing their historical sense. The major interest of this book is in examining the way in which his films observe the lives of modern Koreans. He does not view experimentation in style and form as important, but he realized early on that the stories he sought to tell often demanded unconventional form, and he has worked on polishing the formal beauty within his films to a dazzling degree.

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This is a further publication of Korean Film Council's Film Directors: YU Hyun-mok. The volume is a title in a series of comprehensive analyses on the most representative film directors of Korea. Each volume features critical commentary on films, an extensive interview, a biography, and a complete filmography. One of the four "masters" of Korean cinema, Yu Hyun-mok played a crucial role in creating a new history of "post-war" cinema free from the generation influenced by Japanese colonial rule. As a filmmaker who believed that the keys to film art are montage and camerawork, he produced notable films in four different decades. In keeping with the previous editions in the series, this edition also contains comprehensive analysis of the director, interviews and biographical information from a renowned film critic Kim Kyoung-wook.