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Filmmaker · South Korea

Yi Du-yong

Died in 2024

Yi Du-yong was born in Seoul on 24 December 1942. His first film was released in 1970, and he directed more than sixty, in every genre. In the seventies he launched a Korean-style action cinema, before turning in the early eighties to historical drama, which made him known abroad: the Berlinale Forum describes him as the first Korean director invited to Venice and Cannes. He received the Grand Bell for best direction for this film, and in 1990 the critics' prize. He died in Seoul on 19 January 2024, of lung cancer.

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