Yim Pil-sung
| Yim Pil-sung | |
|---|---|
| Born |
May 13, 1972 Seoul, South Korea |
| Occupation |
Film director, screenwriter, actor |
| Years active | 1996–present |
| Korean name | |
| Hangul | 임필성 |
| Revised Romanization | Im Pil-seong |
| McCune–Reischauer | Im Pilsŏng |
Yim Pil-sung (born May 13, 1972) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. He wrote and directed Antarctic Journal (2005), Hansel and Gretel (2007), and Scarlet Innocence (2014).
Yim Pil-sung began directing short films in 1997, with Souvenir as his first. Brushing (1998), about an overweight teenage boy who is left home alone with his senile grandfather, was invited to the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival.Baby (1999) screened at the Venice Film Festival and Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.Mobile (starring Park Hae-il, Yoon Jin-seo, and Yoon Je-moon) was included in the 2003 omnibus Show Me.
In 2005, he made his feature film debut with Antarctic Journal, a tale of six South Korean explorers on an expedition to reach one of the remotest points in the South Pole, until mysterious deaths begin to occur as the human psyche preys on itself amidst the icy, barren landscape. The big-budget film starred Song Kang-ho and Yoo Ji-tae, and was shot in New Zealand. It won the Best Feature Film award in the Orient Express-Casa Asia section of the 38th Sitges Film Festival.
Yim then played a small supporting role in Bong Joon-ho's monster movie The Host (2006), as a white-collar worker who betrays his college friend. He had agreed to appear in the film in exchange for Bong co-writing the screenplay to Antarctic Journal.
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