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This study investigates the controversial motion pictures written and directed by the independent filmmaker Kim Ki-duk, one of the most acclaimed Korean auteurs in the English-speaking world. Propelled by underdog protagonists who can only communicate through shared corporeal pain and extreme violence, Kim's graphic films have been classified by Western audiences as belonging to sensationalist East Asian "extreme" cinema, and Kim has been labelled a "psychopath" and "misogynist" in South Korea. Drawing upon both Korean-language and English-language sources, Hye Seung Chung challenges these misunderstandings, recuperating Kim's oeuvre as a therapeutic, yet brutal cinema of Nietzschean ressentiment (political anger and resentment deriving from subordination and oppression).

K9125.80 --- K9790 --- Korea: Genealogy and biography -- biography -- modern period, postwar period (1945- ) --- Korea: Performing and media arts -- cinema --- Kim, Ki-dŏk, --- Kim, Ki-duk, --- Kim, Ki Dak, --- Gim, Gideok, --- Kim, Kiduk, --- 김 기덕, --- 김기덕, --- 金 基徳, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Motion picture producers and directors. --- Directors, Motion picture --- Film directors --- Film producers --- Filmmakers --- Motion picture directors --- Moviemakers --- Moving-picture producers and directors --- Producers, Motion picture --- Persons --- Ki-duk, Kim,