Lee Il-hyung

In this Korean name, the family name is Lee.
Lee Il-hyung
Born
South Korea
Occupation(s)Film director,
screenwriter
Korean name
Hangul
이일형
Hanja
李日亨
Revised RomanizationI Ilhyeong
McCune–ReischauerI Irhyŏng

Lee Il-hyung (Korean: 이일형) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. Prior to directing his first feature film A Violent Prosecutor (2016), Lee is an assistant director on films, such as The Moonlight of Seoul (2008), My Way (2011) and Kundo: Age of the Rampant (2014), and commercial films.[1]

In 2016, he finally had his own opportunity to direct when he teamed up with the production company Sanai Pictures to make the thriller A Violent Prosecutor, which becomes the highest-grossing South Korean film of 2016, with a US$66.6 million worldwide gross.[2][3]

  1. ^ "LEE Il-hyung". Korean Film Biz Zone. Retrieved 2016-08-05.
  2. ^ "South Korea Yearly Box Office". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2016-08-05.
  3. ^ "A Violent Prosecutor draws record Lunar New Year's crowd". The Korea Times. 11 February 2016. Retrieved 2016-08-05.