Im Sangsoo

Born in 1962 in Seoul, Im Sangsoo majored in Sociology at Yonsei University. Im’s father was a leading film critic in the 1980s and in 1989 Im went on to study film for one year at the Korean film Academy. That same year he worked as assistant director for Park Jongwon’s KURO ARIRAN (1989). He then worked as assistant director to the great Korean director Im Kwontaek (Cannes best director CHIHWASEON) for THE GENERAL’S SON I & II.

Im made his feature-debut as writer-director in 1998 with GIRLS NIGHT OUT, the story of 3 single women and their active sex lives. His next film, TEARS, which he also wrote, told the hard story of misfit and wayward Korean youth. His third feature, A GOOD LAWYER’S WIFE, is a powerful award-winning drama about a cheating lawyer, his frustrated wife, their precocious adopted son and eccentric parents-in-law. It premiered in Competition in Venice 2003. THE PRESIDENT’S LAST BANG is Im’s fourth feature film.

THE PRESIDENT’S LAST BANG (2005) writer & director
A GOOD LAWYER’S WIFE (2003) writer & director
Venice Competition
Toronto
Pusan
Sundance
Best Actress and Cinematography - Stockholm
Best Director - Flanders
Critics Award - Bergen Best Film

DEAUVILLE TEARS (2001) writer & director

GIRLS NIGHT OUT (1998) writer & director