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The Korea Herald reported that Kim Ki-duk died on Friday in a Latvian hospital after being infected with the coronavirus. He was 80 years old.
According to the Russian news agency Sputnik, citing Latvia’s Delphi News, Kim visited Latvia in the middle of last month. He was interested in staying there permanently. But he was found missing at some events. It was later learned that he was hospitalized with coronavirus.
Delphi News has confirmed the news of Kim’s death at the hospital, citing Latvian documentary producer Vitali Manski.
Kim Ki-duk was born on December 20, 1980, in Bonghoa, South Korea. After a difficult childhood, he moved to Paris in the early 1990s. While studying fine arts there, his artistic language began to take shape.
After returning to South Korea, Kim Ki-duk won the Korean Film Council Award in 1995 for his work as a screenwriter. His first film, ‘Crocodile’, was released the following year.
In the following years, the Korean production company made a total of 25 films. His 2000 film, The Isle, caught the attention of critics at the Toronto Film Festival. ‘Real Fiction’ was screened at the Moscow International Film Festival the same year.
Later, films like Spring Summer Fall Winter … and Spring, Three Irons, Samaritan Girl, The Bow and the Dream introduced the world of cinema to the distinctive artistic language of Kim Ki-duk.
Kim won the Best Director award at the Berlin International Film Festival for the film Samaritan Girl in 2004 and the Venice Film Festival for the Three Iron films the same year.
Sometimes this director has to face bad times. He couldn’t make movies for almost two years. Later, Arirang made a documentary about himself at the time. In 2011, Arirang won a special award at the Cannes Film Festival.
In 2012, Kim Pieta became the first South Korean film to win the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival.
But like many Korean films, Kim’s films also feature scenes of cruelty to animals, drawing criticism from the outside world. Kim herself has expressed regret about it.
In 2016, Kim Ki-duk was no longer seen in public in South Korea after an actress was accused of sexual harassment. The case against him was dismissed the following year.
After that, Kim Ki-duk spent some time in Kazakhstan. There he also made a movie.
Zion Young-jun, director of the Busan International Film Festival, said in a tweet on Friday that he learned of Kim Ki-duk’s death from a Kazakh filmmaker.
“She is fine. It was a great loss to the Korean film industry.”
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