Kim Ki-duk, the man.
1st South Korean director on winning Golden Lion in Venice. Kim Ki-duk have been one of the most acclaimed directors from South Korea in the past two decades, as well as the most controversial. He've won more than 30 awards around the world, but yet in his homeland, South Korea, a nation which was untruthfully blessed by the American dream, nobody really accepts him. His speech does focus on the most annoying and taboo aspects of its society, and that have triggered a wave of contempt agains his work. Prostitution, half-race children, US semi-colonisation, erased culture and "westernisation" are constant issues in all his movies; from the dream of two teenagers desiring unforgettable holidays in Europe, to the lady who desperately wants to change her face, all his work have applied for the lost of identity of Koreans, and in most of cases, whit his -well condemn by its society- "extremism" and "non-delicacy" at the time of shooting. Which to m