Kim Ji-hoon (born 1971), also spelled Kim Ji-hun, is a South Korean
film director.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".His most recent
work, of I Want to Know Your Parents, has been postponed indefinitely
following the sexual assault scandal of actor Oh Dal-su, with no
release date set to date.
film director.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".His most recent
work, of I Want to Know Your Parents, has been postponed indefinitely
following the sexual assault scandal of actor Oh Dal-su, with no
release date set to date.
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