Sol Kyung-gu

Infobox Korean name
hangul=설경구
hanja=薛景求
rr=Seol Gyeong-gu
mr=Sŏl Kyŏnggu

Sol Kyung-gu (b. May 1, 1968) is a Grand Bell Award, Golden Space Needle Award, and Bratislava International Film Festival Best Actor winning South Korean actor. He studied film and theater at Hanyang University and upon graduation took part in mostly theatrical productions. After transitioning into film, Sol is best known for his roles in the popular "Public Enemy" and "Silmido".

Films with Lee Chang-dong

He displayed his marvelous acting skills in Palme d'Or nominated and Silver Lion winning director Lee Chang-dong's "Peppermint Candy", in which he is a suicidal man devastated by the two-decades of historical change his country undergoes and as a mildly mentally-retarded outcast with sociopathic inclinations in "Oasis", two groundbreaking films that started the Korean New Wave film movement.

Filmography

*"A Petal" (1996)
*"Girls' Night Out" (1998)
*"Phantom" (1999)
*"The Bird That Stops in Air" (1999)
*"Rainbow Trout" (1999)
*"Peppermint Candy" (2000)
*"The Legend of Gingko" (2000)
*"I Wish I Had a Wife" (2001)
*"Public Enemy" (2002)
*"Oasis" (2002)
*"Jail Breakers" (2002)
*"Silmido" (2003)
*"Rikidozan" (2004)
*"Another Public Enemy" (2005)
*"Cruel Winter Blues" (2006)
*"Lost In Love" (2006)
*"Voice Of A Murderer" (2007)
*"Ssawoom (Quarrel)" (2007)
*"Public Enemy Returns" (2008)

Awards

*2000, 2002 : The Best Actor of this year in Blue Dragon Flim Festival [http://sports.chosun.com/news/ntype2.htm?ut=1&name=/news/entertainment/200711/20071122/7bv19001.htm kor]

ee also

*List of South Korean actors
*Cinema of Korea
*Contemporary culture of South Korea

References

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