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Kim Ki-duk gained international fame with the 2001 film The Isle, which won awards at the Berlin, Venice and Cannes film festivals.
Renowned South Korean filmmaker Kim Ki-duk died of complications from COVID-19
in Latvia on Friday.
A report in The Herald of Korea cited Russian reports indicating that the director died in the hospital in COVID-19 complications. The news was later confirmed to various Korean media outlets by the director’s family.
According to the report, sources said that Kim came to Latvia in the middle of last month and lived there with the help of figures from the Latvian film industry. The director was recently hospitalized due to symptoms of coronavirus , but the treatment was unsuccessful.
The director who debuted with Crocodile in 1996, he gained international fame with the 2001 film The island, which screened at the Toronto International Film Festival and has won awards at the Berlin International Film Festival, the Venice Film Festival, and the Cannes Film Festival. His last film was 2019 Dissolve.
In a conversation with Variety, Edith Sepp, executive director of the Estonian Film Institute, said that Kim had approached the organization to present a new film called Rain, snow, clouds and fog which was a co-production between Kora and Estonia. Since he was delayed with the application, the director intended to apply again in January 2021.
Recent years saw the director surrounded by controversy when in 2017/18 he was at the center of a #MeToo scandal after an actress he had been working with brought a sexual assault case against him, the report added.
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