LIM is a director who signaled the emergence of a new kind of sensibility in Korean film. Through her debut film Three Friends, she brought the issue of 'individuality' and 'dailiness' into the embrace of Korean film. LIM's film gives attention to the life of the individual itself while simultaneously rousing awareness of reality. In this book you can trace LIM's changes and her footsteps in her search. Rather than analyzed forms of her works through a novel viewpoint or methodology, just follow how LIM has moved forward step-by-step through her search and experiments through a pathway that leads to LIM Soon-rye, who has built her own aesthetic world within contemporary Korean cinema.

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.

List of LEE Myung-Se Films -M (2008) -Duelist Normal Edition, 'Hyeongsa' (2005) -Gagman (1988)

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