Years active 1964–1996 McCune–Reischauer Kim Ho-son Hangul 김호선 Name Kim Ho-sun | Hanja 金鎬善 Role Film director Revised Romanization Gim Ho-seon | |
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Born 9 March 1941 (age 83) ( 1941-03-09 ) South Hamgyong Province Occupation Film director, producer, screenwriter Awards Grand Bell Award for Best Director, PaekSang Arts Award for Best Film Director Nominations Blue Dragon Film Award for Best Director Movies Yeong‑ja's Heydays, Winter Woman, Henequen, Death Song, Seoul Rainbow Similar People Song Jae‑ho, Chang Mi‑hee, Shin Seong‑il, Hah Myung‑joong, Do Kum‑bong | ||
Kim Ho-sun (Hangul: 김호선; born 9 March 1941) is a South Korean film director, producer, and screenwriter who has enjoyed both critical and box office success.
Biography
Kim Ho-sun was born 9 March 1941 in South Hamgyong Province, now part of North Korea. He dropped out of Kyung Hee University and made his directorial debut in 1974 with Hwannyeo.
A member of the so-called "Visual Age" of Korean directors, Kim made some of the bestselling Korean films of the 1970s. The local Korean cinema industry in the 1970s had to face the challenges of foreign imports, increased television ownership, and the stifling censorship of the military dictatorship of Park Chung-hee.
Kim began his directing career making what are known as "hostess films," one of the few genres that the censors allowed some latitude to, these were melodramas that portrayed the lives of bargirls and their milieu. Kim showed that despite the formulaic restrictions the censors placed on filmmaking, locally made films could still be individual and sell well, and in doing so inspired his fellow filmmakers. In terms of tickets sold, Winter Woman that he directed in 1977 was the bestselling domestic film of the 1970s, and would hold the record until General's Son in 1990.
Since 2007, Kim has been a senior advisor to the Korea Film Directors' Society (KFDS).