Shin Yeon-shick (born 1976) is a South Korean

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and

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. He directed '' The Fair Love'' (2010), '' The Russian Novel'' (2013), '' Rough Play'' (2013), ''Romans 8:37'' (2017), and ''

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'' (2022), as well as wrote the screenplays for '' Dongju: The Portrait of a Poet'' (2016) and ''

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'' (2023).

Career

Born in

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in 1976, Shin Yeon-shick dropped out of his Spanish Studies major at university to pursue a career in filmmaking. He made his directorial debut in 2003 with ''Piano Lesson'', made on a micro-budget of . In 2005, Shin wrote and directed the

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indie ''A Great Actor'', which had its international premiere at the

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. His next film was '' The Fair Love'' (2010), a nuanced, lyrical inter-generational romance starring

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and

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. But despite its well-known actors and positive reviews, the film was a box office failure with mainstream audiences. Shin continued making low-budget experimental films. '' The Russian Novel'', an ambitious

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drama about a depressed author (played by Kang Shin-hyo) who wakes up from a 27-year coma to find himself a literary sensation for a novel he didn't write, drew even more critical acclaim. The Director's Guild of Korea named Shin as Best Director at the

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in 2012, and he also won Best Screenplay from the

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and the

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. In 2013, he directed '' Rough Play'' (titled "An Actor Is an Actor" in

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) from a screenplay by

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about the dark underbelly of the Korean film industry through a young actor's quick rise and fall, and cast

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star

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in the leading role. Shin was determined to reshape Kim's symbolism-heavy script into a more narrative-driven, commercial film, and during post-production he rewrote and reshot 50% of the film. This was followed by ''The Avian Kind'', in which a man goes on a road trip to search for his missing wife, and finally finds her 15 years later, only she's transformed into a bird. It made its world premiere at the

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as part of the 2014 Jeonju Digital Project, and received a theatrical release in 2015. Shin then shared screenwriting credit with Kim Sung-ho for '' How to Steal a Dog'' (2014). His upcoming project ''Like a French Film'' is an omnibus composed of four

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s titled ''A Time to Leave'', ''A Lady Selling Beer'', ''A Remaining Time'' and ''Like a French Film'', starring Shin Min-cheol and Kim Dasom.

Filmography

Feature films

Television series

Awards

References

External links

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