Kim Kwang-sik
| Kim Kwang-sik | |
|---|---|
| Born |
March 6, 1972 South Korea |
| Occupation | Film director, screenwriter |
| Years active | 1997-present |
| Korean name | |
| Hangul | 김광식 |
| Revised Romanization | Gim Gwang-sik |
| McCune–Reischauer | Kim Kwang-sik |
Kim Kwang-sik (born March 6, 1972) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. He directed the romantic comedy My Dear Desperado (2010) and the crime thriller Tabloid Truth (2014).
Kim Kwang-sik first began working as a screenwriter in 1997, on the television drama Snail starring Lee Jung-jae and Lee Mi-sook. He then wrote the screenplays for Inner Circle (1999), Last Statement (2002), and road movie Off Road (2007), as well as being the co-writer of the 2009 period drama series The Return of Iljimae starring Jung Il-woo. Kim was also the first assistant director on Lee Chang-dong's award-winning Oasis (2002).
For his 2010 directorial debut, Kim cast veteran actor Park Joong-hoon opposite ingenue Jung Yu-mi in My Dear Desperado. Titled "My Gangster Lover" in Korean, the film is about a recent college graduate from a rural town who's having trouble finding a job in Seoul, so she moves into a cheap basement apartment, which happens to be next door to a middle-aged, third-rate gangster. Critics called My Dear Desperado a "likeably offbeat" character-driven romance and "one of the discoveries of Korean cinema in 2010," praising it for Kim's "enjoyably unaffected" direction and "fluid handling" of his own script, the strong acting and chemistry between its two leads, the smooth transition from comedy to pathos, and a casual realism of setting and style that's evocative of ordinary, real people (despite fitting within the conventions of a romantic comedy). With minimal marketing and no major stars, the film struggled to attract attention upon its theatrical release. But it gradually built up positive word of mouth, and managed to sell close to a modest 700,000 tickets, enough to ensure the filmmakers a healthy profit (it was produced by Yoon Je-kyoon). Kim won Best New Director at the Blue Dragon Film Awards, and received New Director and Screenplay nominations from the Grand Bell Awards and Korean Film Awards.
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