KIM Young-bin’s works are largely hard-boiled action movies with male characters. His debut film, <Kim’s War>(1992) starred [YU In-chon], who later became [Minister of Culture, Sports & Tourism]. The film is based on a true story of a Korean Japanese who wages a crime spree of killing and kidnapping after years of enduring yakuza’s violence and the Japanese police’s discrimination against him for being an ethnic minority. <Kim’s War> exemplifies the...More

KIM Young-bin’s works are largely hard-boiled action movies with male characters. His debut film, <Kim’s War>(1992) starred [YU In-chon], who later became [Minister of Culture, Sports & Tourism]. The film is based on a true story of a Korean Japanese who wages a crime spree of killing and kidnapping after years of enduring yakuza’s violence and the Japanese police’s discrimination against him for being an ethnic minority. <Kim’s War> exemplifies the director’s later movies that portray male characters that have no choice but to resort to violence to express their anger against oppression and discrimination. His training years under [IM Kwon-taek], who raised the quality of Korean action movies by a notch through <The General’s Son>, served KIM well with seamless flow of action scenes in <Kim’s War> and <The Terrorist>(1995). KIM Young-bin has proved to be a talented movie administrator as well by serving as the executive director of [Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival] recently.Less