Yim Pil-sung Movies, TV Shows, and Filmography
Yim Pil-sung
Directing
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 Vary International Film Festival. Mobile (starring Park Hae-il, Yoon Jin-seo, and Yoon Je-moon) was included in the 2003 omnibus Show Me.
Filmography Movies
Acting
Rewind, Pause, Then, Play
Around the 1990s, as video media became popular, a personal movie watching culture had been formed. The video culture of various layers, such as watching movies of various countries, by genre, and repeatedly, has influenced film making and its community directly and indirectly. Film directors, film researcher, broadcast producer, cameraman, Blu-ray producer, and video art curators who have directly experienced this culture talk about the meaning and value of video culture of the times.
Behind the Camera
An odd director leaves for Hollywood to shoot a film via Skype and cellphones. 14 actors and actresses are devastated after being dumped by the director. Now, the 14 actors and actress prepare for the counterattack.
Playboy Bong
Director Yim Pil-Sung travels to Bali to shoot erotic horror movie "Beach of Madness". While shooting the film, Yim Pil-Sung becomes disappointed with the boring erotic scenes. He decides to bring in brilliant erotic film director Bong Man-Dae to add spice to the film. Bong Man-Dae's appearance on the shooting set in Bali makes the staff and cast nervous.All actresses are not happy with the situation at all. Bong Man-Dae demands more nudity for the erotic scenes, which goes beyond what the actresses signed up for. The actresses decide to oppose his decision.
The Host
A teenage girl is captured by a giant mutated squid-like creature that appears from Seoul's Han River after toxic waste was dumped in it, prompting her family into a frantic search for her.
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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!
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!
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.
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.
Sunday Seoul
"Sunday Seoul" is a film with three nonsensical episodes: THE WEREWOLF: A high school student Do-yeon who is the victim of bullying in school, is the main character of the first episode. He is not good at studying or at fighting. One day, an unexpected change happens to his body. THE VISITOR: On a pitch-black stormy night, a woman is visited by a stranger seeking shelter. The stranger eventually, is revealed as a serial killer on the run. THE YOUNG ADVENTURER: Seeking revenge for his father, a son embarks on a journey in which he encounters a young girl by chance and starts to learn martial arts.
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.
Dear Jinri
"Dear Jinri" explores the daily concerns and thoughts of actress and singer Sulli, whose real name is Choi Jinri, where she talks about her childhood, career and more in this interview she gave in 2019.
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.
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.
The Tomb of Fog
A detective investigates a hotel murder case.
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