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In an active and prolific career, his films have won many domestic and international film festival awards, as well as considerable box-office success, and helped bring international attention to the Korean film industry. After the Korean War, he moved to Busan in search of work. He then moved to Seoul in , where Jeong Chang-hwa, director of Five Fingers of Death , offered him room and board for work as a production assistant.

Jeong recommended him for directing in.

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Im's directorial premiere was with the film, Farewell to the Duman River Dumanganga jal itgeola. Before , he was known primarily as a commercial filmmaker who could efficiently direct as many as eight genre pictures a year, helping to fulfill the quota for domestic pictures set by the government [1]. His desire to make more artistically satisfying films began to show itself with his film Jokbo Genealogy or The Family Tree , but the turning point of his career came with the film Mandala.

From this point his films have been regarded as art-house cinema, and have been regularly shown at international film festivals, and have won numerous awards. Im has continued to explore themes from Korea's past while also focusing on the Korean cultural identity in modern times. Among Im's most notable recent films are Sopyonje and Chunhyang , both of which concentrate on the traditional Korean musical art of pansori.

The latter film was also based on a traditional Korean legend. Apart from being a critical success, Sopyonje was also a success at the box office, becoming the first domestic film to draw over a million viewers in Seoul alone. Im Kwon-taek's status, brought on by the critical success of his films, overlapped with a period of the film movement called "New Korean Cinema" or "Korean New Wave".

Along with other directors, such as Park Gwang-su and Jang Sun-woo, Im is recognized as one of the founding figures of the movement, which gained international critical recognition and acclaim for Korean Cinema. A documentary on Im, Cloud, Encore by well-known film critic-turned-director Jung Sung-il, made its world premiere at the 23rd Busan International Film Festival in [4] [5].