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Highest-ranked title
Kim Ki-duk has 13 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2010s. 2 rank in the Top 10%, led by 3-Iron.
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Time
2006 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 31%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Pieta
2012 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 37%Tubi · Free w/ ads

The Isle
2000 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 42%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Moebius
2013 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 61%The Roku Channel · Free w/ ads

Bad Guy
2002 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 65%Tubi · Free w/ ads

A drifter lives in people's houses while they are away and repays them by doing chores for them. His life changes when he meets a beautiful woman who wants to escape her unhappy marriage.
Dir. Kim Ki-duk · With Lee Seung-yun, Jae Hee, Kwon Hyuk-ho

as Adult Monk · Director · Writer
Prime Video · Rent
An isolated lake, where an old monk lives in a small floating temple. The monk has a young boy living with him, learning to become a monk. We watch as seasons and years pass by.
Dir. Kim Ki-duk · With Oh Young-soo, Kim Ki-duk, Kim Young-min

A poor North Korean fisherman finds himself an accidental defector, and is groomed to be a spy by an ambitious South Korean military officer.
Dir. Kim Ki-duk · With Ryoo Seung-bum, Lee Won-keun, Kim Young-min

Consumed by jealousy, a woman takes an extreme step and undergoes surgery for a new face. Although her lover of 2 years misses her, he falls in love with the new face, not knowing it's the same woman.
Dir. Kim Ki-duk · With Sung Hyun-ah, Ha Jung-woo, Park Ji-yeon

A loan shark is forced to reconsider his violent lifestyle after the arrival of a mysterious woman claiming to be his long-lost mother.
Dir. Kim Ki-duk · With Cho Min-soo, Lee Jung-jin, Woo Ki-hong

Mute Hee-Jin is working as a clerk in a fishing resort in the Korean wilderness; selling baits, food and occasionally her body to the fishing tourists. One day she falls in love with Hyun-Shik, who is on the run from the police, and rescues him with a fish hook when he tries to commit suicide.
Dir. Kim Ki-duk · With Kim Yu-seok, Suh Jung, Seo Won

Jae-Young is an amateur prostitute who sleeps with men while her best friend Yeo-Jin "manages" her, fixing dates, taking care of the money, and making sure the coast is clear. When Jae-Young falls in love with one of those men, she suppresses her feelings towards him in respect of her friend who's jealous.
Dir. Kim Ki-duk · With Han Yeo-reum, Kwak Ji-min, Lee Eol

On a fishing boat at sea, a 60-year old man has been raising a girl since she was a child. It is agreed that they will get married on her 17th birthday. They live a quiet and secluded life, renting the boat to day fishermen and practicing strange divination rites. Their life changes when a teenage student comes aboard.
Dir. Kim Ki-duk · With Han Yeo-reum, Jeon Seong-hwan, Seo Ji-seok

A condemned prisoner slowly falls in love with the married female artist who decorates his prison cell. Jin is a convicted killer awaiting execution on Death Row; Yeon is a lonely artist locked in a loveless marriage.
Dir. Kim Ki-duk · With Chang Chen, Ha Jung-woo, Park Ji-a

A wife, overwhelmed with hatred for her husband, inflicts an unspeakable wound on their son, as the family heads towards horrific destruction.
Dir. Kim Ki-duk · With Cho Jae-hyun, Lee Na-ra, Seo Young-joo

A pimp enforcer takes revenge on a woman who rejected his advances by tricking her into prostitution, but complications arise.
Dir. Kim Ki-duk · With Cho Jae-hyun, Seo Won, Kim Yun-tae
A member of Coast Guard Platoon 23, Private Kang monitors a high-infiltration stretch of beach lined with barbed-wire fencing. Driven by the belief that killing a spy is the highest honor, he waits for a chance to prove his worth.
Dir. Kim Ki-duk · With Jang Dong-gun, Kim Jung-hak, Park Ji-a
Romances end in blood and the frail hopes of individuals are torn apart in a vile karmic continuity of colonialism, civil war and occupation. After surviving Japanese colonization, Korea became the first war zone of the Cold War. The legacy of war remains today in this divided country.
Dir. Kim Ki-duk · With Yang Dong-geun, Ban Min-jeong, Kim Young-min