Yim Pil-sung

Director

May 13, 1972 (54 years)

Seoul, South Korea

Biography

Yim Pil-sung (born May 13, 1972) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. He wrote and directed Antarctic Journal (2005), Hansel and Gretel (2007), and Scarlet Innocence (2014). Yim Pil-sung began directing short films in 1997, with Souvenir as his first. Brushing (1998), about an overweight teenage boy who is left home alone with his senile grandfather, was invited to the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival. Baby (1999) screened at the Venice Film Festival and Karlovy V…

Filmography

6.1

Scarlet Innocence

A university professor gradually succumbing to blindness is entranced by an obsessive love, in this modern-day adaptation of a classic Korean fairy tale.

6.6

Persona

An exploration of different personas in an eclectic collection of four works by critically acclaimed Korean directors.

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Mad Concrete Dreams

A debt-ridden building owner agrees to stage a fake kidnapping to save his family and property, only for the plan to spiral into a real abduction and a dangerously escalating situation.

6.2

Doomsday Book

In 'A Brave New World', a virus brings the city to ruins and zombies flood the streets of Seoul. In 'The Heavenly Creature', a robot reaches enlightenment while working at a temple, but its creators deem this phenomenon a threat to mankind. In the final segment, 'Happy Birthday', a young girl logs onto a strange website and places an order for a new billiard ball for her father. Soon afterwards a meteor heads toward Earth and people flee to underground bomb shelters.

6.7

Hansel & Gretel

When Eun-soo gets lost in a country road, he meets a mysterious girl and is led to her fairytale ike house in the middle of the forest. There, Eun-soo is trapped with the girl and her siblings who never age. Eun-soo finally discovers a way out which is written on a fairy tale book. But the book tells a story of none other than himself!

6.1

Antarctic Journal

Arctic cold and paranoia take their toll as Korean explorers are beset by the same strange occurrences that preceded the disappearance of a British team in 1922.

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A Brave New World

A geek is left home alone and his negligence causes the spread of a deadly contamination that infects the entire local population and turns them into flesh-eating zombies.

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Happy Birthday

A young girl throws an 8 pool ball down a portal to outer space, where it becomes much larger and starts charging towards the Earth to destroy everything.

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The Nest

A boy adopted by a married couple who lives with her cute daughter comes. The boy's unpleasant behavior continues, and the woman who wants a happy family gradually falls into a nightmare.

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Brushing

A boy alienated within his own family, is left with his grandfather who has Alzheimer's disease and who hates him fiercely. He has a very strange night which will make him grow up.

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Catacomb

A space where time has stopped, a man staring blankly at the sky beyond a small hole punctured like torture of hope. There's only one thing he can hope for here.

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Baby

Yoon-jae, 17 years old, secretly goes out with his tutor, Soo-jeong, a charming college student. He seems more audacious about love and sex than most of his friends.

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