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Years active
  
1995-present

Name
  
Lee Sung-gang

McCune–Reischauer
  
I Songgang


Hangul
  
이성강

Role
  
Film director

Lee Sung-gang LEE Sunggang

Born
  
October 25, 1962 (age 61) (
1962-10-25
)
South Korea

Education
  
Yonsei University - Psychology

Occupation
  
Film director, screenwriter

Movies
  
Yobi - the Five Tailed Fox, My Beautiful Girl - Mari, Texture of Skin, O‑nu‑ri, Ashes in the thicket

Similar People
  
Joo‑ryeong Kim, Ryu Deok‑hwan, Kong Hyeong‑Jin, Jang Hang‑sun, Lee Chang‑dong

Revised Romanization
  
I Seong-gang

Kai - Teaser


Lee Sung-gang (born October 25, 1962) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. He is recognized for the lyricism in his animated films, the best known of which are My Beautiful Girl, Mari (2002) and Yobi, the Five Tailed Fox (2007).

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Career

Lee Sung-gang graduated with a Psychology degree from Yonsei University in 1991. He started his career as an animator in 1995 by directing numerous animated short films such as Soul, Lovers, Umbrella, and Ashes in the Thicket. He debuted as a feature-length animation director with My Beautiful Girl, Mari in 2002. For his sophomore effort, he directed the live-action feature film Texture of Skin in 2005 (which received a theater release in 2007). He returned to animation in 2007, with Yobi, the Five Tailed Fox.

Lee was awarded the 26th Annecy International Animated Film Festival (Grand Prix, Best Feature Film) in 2002, Animafest Zagreb (Special Award) in 2004, and Chicago International Children's Film Festival (Certificate of Excellence Prize) in 2005.

Filmography

  • Aksim (2014) (director)
  • A Monster in the Reservoir (2012) (director, writer, cinematographer, editor, producer)
  • The House (2010) (producer)
  • A Day of Water Giant (2008) (director)
  • Yobi, the Five Tailed Fox (2007) (director, writer)
  • If You Were Me: Anima Vision "Bicycle Trip" (2005) (director, writer, editor)
  • Texture of Skin (2005) (director, writer)
  • O-nu-ri (2004) (director, writer)
  • My Beautiful Girl, Mari (2002) (director, writer)
  • Room of Sound (2000)
  • Record of April 23 (2000) (director, writer)
  • Ashes in the Thicket (1999) (director, writer)
  • Ocean (1998) (director, editor, sound)
  • Umbrella (1997) (director, writer, sound)
  • 낫 (1997) (director)
  • Thief (1997) (director)
  • Lovers (1996) (director, writer, sound)
  • Soul (1995) (director, writer)
  • Torso (1995) (director)
  • Du Gaeui Bang (Room for Two) (1995) (director, writer)

    • References

    Lee Sung-gang Wikipedia
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