Min Kyu-dong

Min Kyu-dong (born September 12, 1970) is a South Korean film director, screenwriter and producer. He made his feature directorial debut in horror film Memento Mori (1999), followed by romantic comedies All for Love (2005) and All About My Wife (2012), queer films Antique (2008) and In My End Is My Beginning (2013), melodrama The Last Blossom (2011), and period drama The Treacherous (2015).

Works

5.0

The Old Woman with the Knife

Hornclaw, a legendary assassin in her 60s, specialises in eliminating the scum of the earth. She has learned to accept loss but finds new meaning in her mundane yet bloody life when she meets Bullfight, a promising young killer who wants to work with her.

Release Date:2025-02-16

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:1

My Affection is Alive

A girl meets a talking stone and goes on a short picnic with it.

Release Date:2023-12-02

Department:Directing

Job:Assistant Director

6.6

The Prayer

Yeon Jeong In is the legal guardian of her mother, who is lying unconscious in a hospital bed for the past ten years. She feels exhausted from all of it and only has a care giving robot to rely on for support. Meanwhile, the care giving robot, Ho Joong, is conflicted over whom to save.

Release Date:2021-11-25

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:5

6.6

New Year Blues

Four different couples have a romantic week over New Year's Eve. Both coming out of failed marriages, Ji-ho and Hyo-young are not open to the possibility of new love, while Jin-ah heads to the other side of globe and encounters Jae-hun.

Release Date:2021-02-10

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:31

SF8
7.1

SF8

SF8 revolves around people who dream of a perfect society, and it tackles the conflict between technology and human. It encapsulates a variety of topics such as artificial intelligence, virtual reality, robots, games, fantasy, horror elements, superpowers, disasters, and more.

Release Date:2020-08-14

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:8

8.7

Herstory

A true story of a six-year-long legal conflict of 10 comfort women and 13 attorneys against 200 Fukuoka supporters association.

Release Date:2018-06-27

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:16

Movie Room
8.4

Movie Room

Movie meets humanities! This talk show/variety show for movie enthusiasts features interesting discussions by a writer and two movie directors where film and humanities intertwine.

Release Date:2018-05-04

Character:Self

Episode Count:47

Vote Count:5

6.1

Horror Stories 3

Three horror stories, with each set in the past, present and future.

Release Date:2016-06-02

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:12

6.0

The Treacherous

The story of Joseon's tyrant king Yeonsan who exploits the populace for his own carnal pleasures, his seemingly loyal retainer who controls him and all court dealings, and a woman who seeks vengeance.

Release Date:2015-05-21

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:73

5.5

Horror Stories 2

In an insurance company, Yoon, who is an outsider, has a power to see people’s past and read their minds. Mr. Park, Yoon’s boss, assumes that she has some kind of special power, decides to test her ability. At very late night when everyone has gone home, Mr. Park brings Yoon to a storage room where there are full of case reports. Among them, Mr. Park picks three doubtful cases. He asks Yoon to tell him what exactly happened. Yoon, who senses some dark aura wandering around him, tells the story of each case. Every time Yoon finishes each case, the dark aura gets darker and bigger and Yoon tries to warn Mr. Park about it. Would Mr. Park able to escape from the dark aura?

Release Date:2013-06-05

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:23

4.8

In My End Is My Beginning

When Jung-ha loses her husband in an accident, Naru, her husband's secret lover, comes to her. Naru begs Jung-ha that she will do anything if only she will let her stay at her house. Jung-ha denies her at first, but eventually their strange arrangement of living together begins.

Release Date:2013-04-04

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:13

5.8

Horror Stories

A teenager is abducted and forced to tell the scariest tales she knows, leading to this anthology of four stories: a brother and sister are under siege while home alone; a killer escapes police custody mid-flight; step-sisters take plastic surgery to nightmarishly macabre extremes; a paramedic and mother standoff over her infected young daughter.

Release Date:2012-07-25

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:31

6.7

All About My Wife

A man asks a womanizer to seduce his wife in order to catalyze a divorce.

Release Date:2012-05-17

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:47

7.8

The Last Blossom

Middle aged housewife Kim In-Hee's mother-in-law has Alzheimer's disease, her physician husband is always tired and indifferent to her needs and her children has become wayward. For her family, Kim In-Hee has devoted her life as a daughter-in-law, wife and mother. Kim In-Hee then learns that she has terminal cancer and is dying. The mother accepts her fate and sets up the most beautiful goodbye to her family.

Release Date:2011-04-20

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:5

4.9

Five Senses of Eros

In this anthology film centered around the theme of "Eros," five seperate stories are presented by five top Korean directors. The main characters from each segment are connected with each other in one way or another.

Release Date:2009-07-09

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:19

6.2

Antique

Jin-hyeok opens a cake shop in an old antique shop, hiring Seon-woo, Korea's best pastry chef, who fell in love with him in high school. Also there, are Su-young, crushing on Seon-woo, ex-boxer Ki-beom, and Seon-woo's French ex-boyfriend.

Release Date:2008-11-13

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:58

Memento Mori: 'Making Of'

Behind-the-scenes production on the 1999 South Korean drama-horror 'Memento Mori.'

Release Date:2007-10-23

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Self

6.5

All for Love

A romantic comedy which portrays the most beautiful period in the lives of different couples who have just fallen in love.

Release Date:2005-10-07

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:15

Digital Short Film Omnibus Project Twentidentity, Vol. 2

In order to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Korean Film Academy, 20 of the academy's former students (who are respected director's today) were invited to shoot an omnibus movie consisting of 20 short films. Overall this work was very well received by the critiques at the 17th Tokyo International Film Festival. The films include Twenty, Secrets and Lies, Looking for Sex, Race, A Runners High, Neighborhood, My Baby, It's different On Mobile Queen, At 2 O'clock and Sink & Rise.

Release Date:2003-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

6.2

Memento Mori

The ghost of a lesbian high-school girl takes revenge on the people who used to bully her. And another young girl finds her old diary detailing her love and rejection when she was alive.

Release Date:1999-12-24

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:113

Pale Blue Dot

A man dedicates himself to zen meditation to save the world. After meeting a prophet rabbit named Galileo, he sets on a journey for further enlightenment.

Release Date:1999-05-22

Department:Directing

Job:Director

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