Kim Kkob-bi

Kim Kkob-bi (39)

1985-11-24 | Bucheon, South Korea

She has positive energy that allows her to smile her way out of any troubles in the world. She made her name as an actress starring as a daughter of an womanizing editor in Jealousy ls My Middle Name. Rather than being a shining star, KIM has developed her acting career by winning awards for her roles in independent movies. She broadened her acting spectrum by portraying young Jung-hye in This Charming Girl, a razor-wielding high school girl in The City of Violence, a young girl named Sodan in Midnight Ballad for Ghost Theater, whose fresh smile brightened up gloomy ghosts in a run-down theater. KIM showed off her acting potential in Breathless directed by YANG Ik-june. The movie has received Rotterdam Tiger Award, the best film awards, best actor and actress awards from international film festivals. She portrayed a girl who warmed up to a creepy violent thug with deep inner suffering. She played a lesbian girl Ashamed selected to the Panorama section in Berlin Film Festival 2011. She starred as a girl who met a new world during her travel with a Japanese woman in Magic & Loss directed by a Malaysian director LIM Kahwai. KIM next appeared in the indies The Sunshine Boys and the well-regarded Pluto, which both debuted at the Busan International Film Festival in 2012. KIM returned to Japan for a trio of films in 2013/14, A Pale Woman, It’s a Beautiful Day and A Record of Sweet Murder. In 2014, KIM also appeared in a supporting role in the period action film Kundo: Age of the Rampant and was also the lead in the indie film The Liar, which debuted at the Busan International Film Festival.

On Movies

  • Do You Like Camping?
  • On July 7
  • Maggie
  • You, Your, Yours
  • The March for the Lost
  • TSUMUGU
  • The Liar
  • In the Room
  • A Record of Sweet Murder
  • Kundo: Age of the Rampant
  • A Dangerous Woman
  • Greatful Dead
  • Rough Play
  • Pluto
  • It's a Beautiful Day
  • Sunshine Boys
  • A Pale Woman
  • The King of Pigs
  • The House
  • Ashamed
  • Magic and Loss
  • Be with Me
  • Breathless
  • Midnight Ballad for Ghost Theater
  • The City of Violence
  • Family Ties
  • Blossom Again
  • This Charming Girl
  • Jealousy Is My Middle Name

Movies as Director

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