Yoon Jong-bin (; born December 20, 1979) is a South Korean

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Career

Yoon Jong-bin's Chung-Ang University graduation

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film was '' The Unforgiven'', which portrayed masculine codes in the Korean military with honesty and sensitivity. And despite its rough edges due to technical limitations and a low budget, the film was a smash hit at the 2005

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and won several awards, including the NETPAC. It went on to travel to a number of festivals, winning awards and international critical acclaim. His sophomore effort ''

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'' (also known as ''The Moonlight of Seoul'') showed another side of men -- male hosts who serve female clients in discreet salons tucked into the affluent fashion districts of southern Seoul. In his third film '' Nameless Gangster: Rules of the Time'', Yoon tackled corruption among prosecutors and customs officers and their collusion with the mob in 1980–1990s

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. Unlike his first two films, Yoon's gangster saga was popular at the box office and became one of the biggest domestic hits of 2012. Yoon further explored the themes of injustice and violence in his fourth film '' Kundo: Age of the Rampant'', a tale of 19th-century

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bandits who waged war against the nobility and corrupt government officials. When asked where he drew his inspiration from, Yoon answered, "I tapped into movies that I used to love as a child. Rather than making an intellectual film, I wanted to get hearts racing." By not giving the protagonist "hero-like characteristics," Yoon said he wanted to say through the film that "it is not the special or talented people, but very ordinary people who can change the world, especially when gathered en masse." Yoon has worked with close friend and fellow Chung-Ang University alumnus

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in all four of his features.

Filmography

Feature films

Television

Awards and nominations

Notes

References

External links

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