Contemplation and Blood

      Kim Ki-Duk is a South Korean filmmaker. He was born in 1960. At the age of 20 years he enlisted in the navy. Five years later he entered in a Buddhist temple and began to dedicate for painting.

He began to work in cinema at the late age of 33 years when he won a script competition. After this, he started a great career filming a new movie every year. He has participated in many important film festivals like Venice or Cannes.

Maybe his most known film is “Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring” about a Buddhist monk and his apprentice. The long name of the film is because every season represent a part of life of the apprentice who started has a boy.

I really love how Kim Ki-Duk mixes different things, characters and atmospheres in his work. Quiet and contemplatives scenes with an extremely violence are mixed in a unique way. Other incredible thing is the use of the dialog in his films, like in 3-Iron, where the main characters never speak and we only hear the voices of second characters a few times.