Nationality South Korean McCune–Reischauer Kim Chihun Occupation Film director Name Kim Ji-hoon | Hangul 김지훈 Role Film director Revised Romanization Gim Ji-hun | |
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Born 1971 (age 44–45) Daegu, South Korea Nominations Blue Dragon Film Award for Best Director Movies The Tower, Sector 7, May 18, As One, The King of Jokgu Similar People Kim Sang‑kyung, Ahn Sung‑ki, Park Chul‑min, Sol Kyung‑gu, Lee Han‑wi | ||
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Kim Ji-hoon (born 1971), also spelled Kim Ji-hun, is a South Korean film director.
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Life and career
Kim Ji-hoon was born in Daegu. After graduating from Hanyang University's Theater and Film Art Department, he worked as an assistant director on a number of films. He made his feature directorial debut in 2004 with the film Mokpo, Gangster's Paradise, starring Cha In-pyo and Cho Jae-hyun. His 2007 film May 18, about the Gwangju Massacre of 1980 and which starred Kim Sang-kyung, Lee Yo-won and Lee Joon-gi, earned him the Best Director award at the 2008 Korea Movie Star Awards. He went on to direct Sector 7, a 2011 action/horror film about a sea monster which attacked oil platforms, with an ensemble cast led by Ha Ji-won and Ahn Sung-ki. Distributor CJ E&M Pictures stated that Sector 7 was the highest-grossing South Korean film in China, but it was not well received by South Korean audiences, nor by critics, who panned its "flat" main characters and low-quality computer-generated imagery.
Kim's next work after that was The Tower, a disaster film about a fire in a high-rise apartment building, starring Sol Kyung-gu, Kim Sang-kyung and Son Ye-jin. In response to the criticisms of Sector 7, Kim spent nearly two years working with the post-production team on CGI; the film was finally released in December 2012. Kim stated that he got the idea for The Tower from a variety of boyhood experiences, including his first visit to Seoul where he saw the 63 Building and wondered what it would be like to get trapped inside, and a later incident where he got stuck in an elevator, which he described as "the moment when I first felt dread".