Kim Tae-yong

Directing

Kim Tae-yong

Born

1969-12-09 (56)

Place of birth

Seoul, South Korea

Known for

Directing

Credits

35 titles

Known for

The Cravings poster
6.5

Thirtysomething career woman Jae-yeong attempts to juggle her job and personal relationships, all the while never failing to eat well.

The Cravings

2013

Memento Mori poster
6.3

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.

Memento Mori

1999

Late Autumn poster
6.7

Anna learns in prison that her mother has passed away in Seattle. Prison officials grants Anna a three day furlough to attend her mother's funeral. Anna embarks on a long trip to Seattle. Hoon is a Korean immigrant who works as a gigolo. Hoon is now on the run from a wealthy client's furious husband. These two seemingly lost souls are about to share three memorable days together.

Late Autumn

2011

Wonderland poster
7.0

In a world where an AI programme allows people to communicate with their deceased loved ones, a flight attendant and a mother question the meaning of reality and humanity.

Wonderland

2024

Mr. Kim Goes to the Cinema poster
7.5

After the COVID-19 pandemic, Busan International Film Festival founder Kim Dong-ho, at eighty-five, picks up a camcorder for the first time and decides to make a documentary. His lens turns toward cinemas struggling through the crisis, as beloved theaters vanish amid dwindling audiences. Seeking to reconnect with old friends, "Mr. Kim" — now nearing ninety — travels the world to talk with filmmakers and cinephiles. Through these encounters, he reflects on cinema’s past and future, finding wisdom and resilience in a time of transformation. His journey becomes a meditation on change, memory, and the enduring spirit of film.

Mr. Kim Goes to the Cinema

2026

All for Love poster
6.5

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

All for Love

2005

Film credits

2000s · 5 titles

All for Love poster
6.5

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

All for Love

2005

Two Or Three Things I Know About Kim Ki-young poster
NR

A documentary consisting of twenty-two Korean directors' interviews about Kim Ki-young and respect for his work and the influence

Two Or Three Things I Know About Kim Ki-young

2007

Camellia Project poster
6.2

An omnibus of short films about gay men’s relationships and partings. Kim Chuja is a fantasy musical about two men who were lovers in the past and meet by chance. Floating Island is a quiet, sad love story about a man who wants to leave and a man who wants to hold him back. In La Traviata, a woman comes to Bogil Island to meet her dead husband’s lover. She’s angry when she sees him happy. She sees the red camellia flowers and she comes to terms with her husband’s homosexuality while recovering from the hurt.

Camellia Project

2005

Family Matters poster
6.0

Min-kyung, once a promising young dancer, is now running a small, shabby dance school in town. Her life gets even harder since her entire family is notoriously troublesome. Her father Won-jo is a dotard, her husband Sang-hoon, who aspires to become a film director but can't get himself to finish a screenplay, is jobless, and her son is reckless, calling his dad, ' Uncle '. However, she manages quite well despite their endless troubles until one day, she finds out that her husband has been cheating on her.

Family Matters

2006

Memento Mori: 'Making Of' poster
NR

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

Memento Mori: 'Making Of'

2007

Series credits

Behind the camera

Memento Mori poster
6.3

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.

Memento Mori

1999

Memento Mori poster
6.3

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.

Memento Mori

1999

Late Autumn poster
6.7

Anna learns in prison that her mother has passed away in Seattle. Prison officials grants Anna a three day furlough to attend her mother's funeral. Anna embarks on a long trip to Seattle. Hoon is a Korean immigrant who works as a gigolo. Hoon is now on the run from a wealthy client's furious husband. These two seemingly lost souls are about to share three memorable days together.

Late Autumn

2011

Late Autumn poster
6.7

Anna learns in prison that her mother has passed away in Seattle. Prison officials grants Anna a three day furlough to attend her mother's funeral. Anna embarks on a long trip to Seattle. Hoon is a Korean immigrant who works as a gigolo. Hoon is now on the run from a wealthy client's furious husband. These two seemingly lost souls are about to share three memorable days together.

Late Autumn

2011

Wonderland poster
7.0

In a world where an AI programme allows people to communicate with their deceased loved ones, a flight attendant and a mother question the meaning of reality and humanity.

Wonderland

2024

Wonderland poster
7.0

In a world where an AI programme allows people to communicate with their deceased loved ones, a flight attendant and a mother question the meaning of reality and humanity.

Wonderland

2024

Family Ties poster
6.3

A story of three families living different but similar lives. They always fight and quarrel, but love is the common denominator for their relationship, making people think about what families are for.

Family Ties

2006

Family Ties poster
6.3

A story of three families living different but similar lives. They always fight and quarrel, but love is the common denominator for their relationship, making people think about what families are for.

Family Ties

2006

Mad Sad Bad poster
7.7

Ryoo Seungwan, Han Jiseung, Kim Taeyong got together to make a 3D omnibus film. It's a 3D vision of terrible realities never far from popular culture today. The stages of its episodes are different with one another. Tragedies and fantasies unfold in the city, the woods, and the future. The 3D technique is used in scenes where the characters have fancies to get over suffering in reality. It's interesting to watch 3D scenes directed by representative directors of Korea, and it's noteworthy in terms of industry that this try displays the possibilities and realities of 3D film in Korea, as well. It's the new vision of KAFA's project, KAFA+

Mad Sad Bad

2014

No artwork available
6.0

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. Films include Under a Big Tree, Sutda, Twenty Millimeter Thick, Innocence, *?!#@$ Up Shoes, Twenty Questions, The Twenty's Law, To the 21st, Pass Me and Alone Together.

Digital Short Film Omnibus Project Twentidentity, Vol. 1

2003

Beautiful 2012 poster
5.2

A collection of shorts by four East Asian directors: Ann Hui on a male-to-female sex change, Kim Tae-yong on an emotional imposture, Gu Changwei on pregnancy in China and Tsai Ming-Liang on time and the city of Hong Kong.

Beautiful 2012

2012

If You Were Me 4 poster
5.0

Includes shorts: Girl on the Run, The Theory & Practice of Teenage Dream, Relay, U and Me and Blue Birds on the Desk.

If You Were Me 4

2009

You Are More Than Beautiful poster
5.4

What is beauty? Truth created from whith lie.

You Are More Than Beautiful

2013

You Are More Than Beautiful poster
5.4

What is beauty? Truth created from whith lie.

You Are More Than Beautiful

2013

Picnic poster
NR

Soo-min lives with her mom and her autistic six-year-old brother in a small village by the sea. Even though she is a child herself, she has to take care of her little brother. Her only joy in life is reading comic books under the blanket. One day, Soo-min’s brother ruins her favorite comic book so she makes a big decision. She decides to go on a picnic with her brother where she leaves him in a Buddhist temple and walks away.

Picnic

2014

Kokdu: A Story of Guardian Angels poster
NR

After losing their grandmother’s precious shoes, Su-min and her younger brother Dong-min accidentally fall into the netherworld where they encounter a mischievous band of kokdu, the mysterious guardians of the afterlife.

Kokdu: A Story of Guardian Angels

2018

Kokdu: A Story of Guardian Angels poster
NR

After losing their grandmother’s precious shoes, Su-min and her younger brother Dong-min accidentally fall into the netherworld where they encounter a mischievous band of kokdu, the mysterious guardians of the afterlife.

Kokdu: A Story of Guardian Angels

2018

Pale Blue Dot poster
NR

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.

Pale Blue Dot

1999

Pale Blue Dot poster
NR

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.

Pale Blue Dot

1999

Pass Me poster
NR

A man gets hit by a ball. At that precise moment, at the clicking sound of a camera shutter, the whole world comes to a halt. The film is a fantasy tale of our everyday life that gets filled with little moments coming and going, leaving their marks in this lonely world.

Pass Me

2003

Pass Me poster
NR

A man gets hit by a ball. At that precise moment, at the clicking sound of a camera shutter, the whole world comes to a halt. The film is a fantasy tale of our everyday life that gets filled with little moments coming and going, leaving their marks in this lonely world.

Pass Me

2003

Memento Mori: 'Making Of' poster
NR

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

Memento Mori: 'Making Of'

2007

On the Road, Two poster
6.0

This music documentary follows the path of Yoon Do-hyun Band on its daring adventure of a tour of Europe. During the month-long tour of Europe, sharing a bus with an unknown British rock band, the band members are faced with the challenge of performing for 2 hours in front of an audience of 20. Such experience brings them back to where everything started. What they were faced with was not a new audience but perhaps their own forgotten selves.

On the Road, Two

2006

Girl on the Run poster
NR

This is a road movie about a girl who always dreams and never gives up. She lives in a small town near the 'Saemangeum' tidal flat that has been drained and filled. At the same time Cha-Eun's track team is disbanded. Her coach recomends that she moves to the city where there's a school with a track team, but her father refuses to send her to the city. Her Filipino stepmom plans a trip to Seoul w

Girl on the Run

2009

Where Mermaids Go poster
NR

Eugene , daughter of a female diver mother, looking for her missing mother in Jeju sea, Mother turns into a bear and returns. The story is about a mother who turns into a bear and returns her to the mountains for good living.

Where Mermaids Go

2015

Where Mermaids Go poster
NR

Eugene , daughter of a female diver mother, looking for her missing mother in Jeju sea, Mother turns into a bear and returns. The story is about a mother who turns into a bear and returns her to the mountains for good living.

Where Mermaids Go

2015

Kokdu: Where the Stars Are poster
NR

11-year-old Jacob embarks on a mystical journey with his grandmother, Soon-hee, to guide her spirit to peace. As Soon-hee's fading mind leads her to relive her past, Jacob creates wooden guardians called "Kokdu" to help navigate the spirit world. Together, they face trials and confront the dark forces that threaten her soul, ultimately finding a path to light. Through love, memory, and unexpected allies, Jacob discovers the power of connection across time.

Kokdu: Where the Stars Are

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Kokdu: Where the Stars Are poster
NR

11-year-old Jacob embarks on a mystical journey with his grandmother, Soon-hee, to guide her spirit to peace. As Soon-hee's fading mind leads her to relive her past, Jacob creates wooden guardians called "Kokdu" to help navigate the spirit world. Together, they face trials and confront the dark forces that threaten her soul, ultimately finding a path to light. Through love, memory, and unexpected allies, Jacob discovers the power of connection across time.

Kokdu: Where the Stars Are

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