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Yonsei University.
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He directed the feature films Paradise Murdered (2007), Handphone (2009), War of the Arrows (2011), and The Admiral: Roaring Currents (2014). In 2007 he made his feature directorial debut with the mystery-thriller Paradise Murdered starring Park Hae-il, Park Sol-mi and Sung Ji-ru. 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 thriller Handphone (2009) revolving around every urbanite"s essential hardware, the cell phone.
Starring Uhm Tae-woong and Park Yong-woo, it fell short of both the commercial and critical successes of his first film. The period action film unexpectedly drew an audience of 7.46 million, making it the highest grossing Korean film of 2011.
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 of Korea, General Yi Sun-sin (played by Choi Minister-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.
lieutenant 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 United States$100 million.
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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 prequel 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.
