Career
His films include, Wild Card (2003) and Kim Yoo-jin said he began his filmmaking career to "voice social opinion," notably in, where Won Mi-kyung played a raped housewife who faces doubt and victim blaming from her family, neighbors and inside the courtroom. But most of Kim"s films have been commercial fare, with a string of box office hits from the 1980s through the 2000s.
, which starred Shin Hyun-joon and Kim Hye-sun.
Kim then cast Park Shin-yang and Jeon Do-yeon in A Promise, a melodrama about the romance between a gangster and a doctor. lieutenant drew critical acclaim for its actors and became the top-grossing Korean film of 1998.
In 2003, Jung Jin-young and Yang Dong-geun played detectives determined to find a young killer and his gang in Kim"s gritty cop drama Wild Card. Kim took on a more ambitious project for his eighth feature film, which had a ₩10 billion budget and took nearly six years to produce: period action blockbuster The Divine Weapon.
Starring Jung Jae-young, Ahn Sung-ki and Han Eun-jung, the Korean title Singijeon refers to a multi-launch fire arrow rocket system, a sophisticted military weapon that was secretly developed in the Joseon era during King Sejong"s reign to fight off foreign invasion.