The Most Famous
FILM DIRECTORS from North Korea
This page contains a list of the greatest North Korean Film Directors. The pantheon dataset contains 2,041 Film Directors, 1 of which were born in North Korea. This makes North Korea the birth place of the 72nd most number of Film Directors behind Lebanon, and Syria.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary North Korean Film Directors of all time. This list of famous North Korean Film Directors is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Shin Sang-ok (1926 - 2006)
With an HPI of 64.06, Shin Sang-ok is the most famous North Korean Film Director. His biography has been translated into 25 different languages on wikipedia.
Shin Sang-ok (Korean: 신상옥; Hanja: 申相玉; 1925 or 1926 – April 11, 2006) was a South Korean filmmaker with more than 100 producer and 70 director credits to his name. While renowned internationally for directing Pulgasari (1985), Shin is best known in South Korea for his efforts during the 1950s and 60s, many of them collaborations with his wife Choi Eun-hee, when he was known as "The Prince of South Korean Cinema". He posthumously received the Gold Crown Cultural Medal, the country's top honor for an artist. In 1978, Shin and Choi were kidnapped by order of Kim Jong-il to produce critically-acclaimed films. The two remained in captivity for 8 years until 1986, when they escaped and sought asylum in the United States. Shin continued to produce and direct films in the United States, now under the pseudonym "Simon Sheen". He eventually returned to South Korea for his final years.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as North Korean film directors born between 1926 and 1926. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased North Korean film directors include Shin Sang-ok.
