LEE Jung-gook's debut film was <Song of Resurrection> (1991), a film about the Gwangju Uprising, which was directly produced at a low budget. The second film <Two Women's Story> (1994) is a melodrama about the lives of Korean women in the 1950s, which won the Grand Bell Award for Best Work, Screenplay, and New Director Award, and was invited at the Cairo International Film Festival. Also, in 1997, the classic melodrama <Letter> (1997), which served as both t...More

LEE Jung-gook's debut film was <Song of Resurrection> (1991), a film about the Gwangju Uprising, which was directly produced at a low budget. The second film <Two Women's Story> (1994) is a melodrama about the lives of Korean women in the 1950s, which won the Grand Bell Award for Best Work, Screenplay, and New Director Award, and was invited at the Cairo International Film Festival. Also, in 1997, the classic melodrama <Letter> (1997), which served as both the script and the director, was recorded as one of Korea's best box office hits that year and was remade in Thailand and elsewhere. Since then, he has directed a melodrama <Walking> (2000), a melodrama about music men's stories, and a masterpiece <Blue> (2002), a story of a Korean Navy's maritime disaster relief team. After that, he trained for the younger generation at university, mainly directing independent feature films. <In the Name of the Son> is a commercial film comeback after 19 years.Less