Kim Han-min (born November 5, 1969) is a South Korean

film director A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, pr ...

and

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. He directed the feature films ''

Paradise Murdered ''Paradise Murdered'' (; lit. "Homicide Case on Paradise") is a 2007 South Korean film starring Park Hae-il and Park Sol-mi, and is the directorial debut of filmmaker Kim Han-min. Plot Off the southern coast of the Korean Peninsula, an island of ...

'' (2007), '' Handphone'' (2009), '' War of the Arrows'' (2011), and '' The Admiral: Roaring Currents'' (2014).

Career

After graduating from

Dongguk University Dongguk University (Korean: 동국대학교, Hanja: 東國大學校) is a private, coeducational university in South Korea, fundamentally based on Buddhism. Established in 1906 as Myeongjin School (명진학교; 明進學校) by Buddhist pioneers ...

's Graduate School of Film Arts, Kim Han-min gained accolades for two of his

short film A short film is any motion picture that is short enough in running time not to be considered a feature film. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences defines a short film as "an original motion picture that has a running time of 40 minutes ...

s - ''Sunflower Blues'' which screened at the

Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival The Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (), or BiFan, is an international film festival held annually in July in Bucheon, South Korea. Prior to 2015, it was known as the Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival or PiFan. Inaugurat ...

as well as the New York Independent Film Festival; and ''Three Hungry Brothers'' which received awards at the Mise-en-scene Genre Film Festival, the Asiana International Short Film Festival, and the Seoul Digital Film Festival. In 2007 he made his feature directorial debut with the mystery-thriller ''

'' starring

Park Hae-il Park Hae-il (born 26 January 1977) is a South Korean actor. He began his acting career in theater, but soon gained the film industry's attention in 2003 with '' Jealousy Is My Middle Name'' and '' Memories of Murder''. Park's film career took of ...

Park Sol-mi Park Sol-mi (born Park Hye-jeong on January 3, 1978) is a South Korean actress. Acting career Park had a minor role in the 1996 series '' Papa'', then made her official debut in MBC's amateur talent contest in 1998.Sung Ji-ru Sung Ji-ru (born October 16, 1968) is a South Korean actor. Filmography Film Television series Awards and nominations References External links * * * 1968 births Living people People from Gongju 20th-century Sout ...

. A fictionalized account of a murder that took place on a secluded island in the 1980s involving rational and irrational horrors, the film sold over 2 million tickets nationwide. In his second feature, Kim shifted his setting to the big city, with

blackmail Blackmail is an act of coercion using the threat of revealing or publicizing either substantially true or false information about a person or people unless certain demands are met. It is often damaging information, and it may be revealed to fa ...

thriller '' Handphone'' (2009) revolving around every urbanite's essential hardware, the cell phone. Starring

Uhm Tae-woong Uhm Tae-woong (born April 5, 1974) is a South Korean actor. He made his acting debut in 1998, but initially struggled to emerge from under the shadow of his older sister, popular singer-actress Uhm Jung-hwa. After several years of small roles an ...

and

Park Yong-woo Park Yong-woo (; born March 16, 1971) is a South Korean actor. Early life Park Yong-woo's father was an engineering professor and his mother was a music teacher. As a child he was shy and expressed himself poorly. Instead, he nurtured his imag ...

, it fell short of both the commercial and critical successes of his first film. Set during the second Manchu invasion of 1636, Kim's third film '' War of the Arrows'' (2011) combined well-choreographed combat sequences and special effects, fast pacing, a tense plot and the thrill of the chase to tell the story of a master archer and his quest to rescue his sister from

Qing Dynasty The Qing dynasty ( ), officially the Great Qing,, was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty of China and the last orthodox dynasty in Chinese history. It emerged from the Later Jin dynasty founded by the Jianzhou Jurchens, a Tungusic-speak ...

soldiers. The period action film unexpectedly drew an audience of 7.46 million, making it the highest grossing Korean film of 2011. It also won recognition at the

Grand Bell Awards The Grand Bell Awards (), also known as the Daejong Film Awards, is an awards ceremony presented annually by The Motion Pictures Association of Korea for excellence in film in South Korea. The Grand Bell Awards retains prestige as the oldest co ...

and the

Blue Dragon Film Awards The Blue Dragon Film Awards () is an annual awards ceremony that is presented by '' Sports Chosun'' (a sister brand of the ''Chosun Ilbo'') for excellence in film in South Korea. The Blue Dragon Film Awards considers only blockbusters and popu ...

, notably for its lead actors Park Hae-il, Ryu Seung-ryong and

Moon Chae-won Moon Chae-won (; born November 13, 1986) is a South Korean actress. Moon first attracted attention in 2008 in her supporting role as a gisaeng in '' Painter of the Wind''. She was next cast in ''Brilliant Legacy'', one of the top-rated Korean d ...

. Kim's follow-up in 2014 was another period epic, ''Battle of Myeongryang, Whirlwind Sea'' (released internationally as '' The Admiral: Roaring Currents''), which depicted the legendary sea battle between 12 vessels of the Korean navy led by the most admired military figure in Korea, General

Yi Sun-sin Admiral Yi Sun-sin (April 28, 1545 – December 16, 1598) was a Korean admiral and military general famed for his victories against the Japanese navy during the Imjin war in the Joseon Dynasty. Over the course of his career, Admiral Yi foug ...

(played by Choi Min-sik), and 330 invading Japanese ships, which are eventually defeated. Given the disparity in numbers, the battle is regarded as one of Yi's most remarkable victories. It became the all-time most successful film in South Korean box office history, the first ever to reach 15 million admissions and the first local film to gross more than . To commemorate Yi's 407th birth anniversary in 2015, Kim and Jung Se-kyu co-directed ''Roaring Currents: The Road of the Admiral'', a documentary

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to ''The Admiral: Roaring Currents'' in which cast members of the 2014 film retraced the 450-kilometer path that the admiral walked in preparation for the Battle of Myeongnyang, based on the war diary that Yi wrote. Beginning with 2014 film, '' The Admiral: Roaring Currents'', Kim created ''

Yi Sun-sin trilogy ''Yi Sun-sin trilogy'' is a South Korean period war action film series directed by Kim Han-min based on three major naval battles led by Admiral Yi Sun-sin. The first film '' The Admiral: Roaring Currents'' (2014) is based on Battle of Myeongn ...

'', based on three major naval battles led by Admiral Yi Sun-sin. The second film '' Hansan: Rising Dragon'', based on Battle of Hansan Island which took place 5 years before Battle of Myeongnyang depicted in ''The Admiral'', was released in 2022.

portrayed Admiral Yi in the film.

Filmography

Feature films

Film

* '' Hansan Redux'' (2022) – Kwon Yul

Short films

*''A Painter Story'' (

, 1995) – director *''Beyond...'' (

, 1995) – director *''Sympathy'' (

, 1997) – director *''Rush'' (

, 1998) – director *''Sunflower Blues'' (

, 1999) – director,

editor Editing is the process of selecting and preparing written, photographic, visual, audible, or cinematic material used by a person or an entity to convey a message or information. The editing process can involve correction, condensation, or ...

*''Three Hungry Brothers'' (

, 2003) – director, screenwriter, editor *''A Wintering'' (2007) –

actor An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), lit ...

Awards

*2007 28th

: Best New Director; Best Screenplay (''

'') *2014 51st

: Best Planning ('' The Admiral: Roaring Currents'') *2014

35th Military units *35th Fighter Wing, an air combat unit of the United States Air Force *35th Infantry Division (United States), a formation of the National Guard since World War I *35th Infantry Regiment (United States), a regiment created on 1 July 1 ...

: Best Director ('' The Admiral: Roaring Currents'') *2022 31st Buil Film Awards: Best Director ('' Hansan: Rising Dragon'')

References

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kim, Han-min South Korean film directors South Korean screenwriters Dongguk University alumni Living people 1969 births