Yoon Sam-yook
Yoon Sam-yook was a South Korean film director and screenwriter. Yoon won Best Screenplay at the 1981, 1985 and 1994 Korean Association of Film Critics Awards for films, The Hut, The King's Poison and I Will Survive.
In 2016, he was awarded Lifetime Achievement Award at the 53rd Grand Bell Awards.
Yoon Sam-yook died on 2 July 2020, aged 83.
Selected filmography
As director
- The Sparrow and the Scarecrow
- Does the American Moon Rise Over Itaewon?
- I Will Survive
- ''Piracy''
As screenwriter
- Me, Myself and I
- The Executioner
- Flame
- Yalkae, a Joker in High School
- The Last Witness
- The Hut
- Suddenly at Midnight
- The Sparrow and the Scarecrow
- The King's Poison
- The Fool
- Mulberry
- Watcha Want?
- Milky Way in Blue Sky
- Those With Wings
- Closer, Further Closer
- The Fool 2
- Slaves
- Adada
- Prince Yeonsan
- Gorgeous Transformation
- The Heat of the Green Season
- The Secret Diary
- Miri, Mari, Wuri, Duri
- Reality
- Karma
- The Wolf's Curiosity Stole Pigeons
- Mulberry 2
- Korean Connection
- General's Son
- Does the American Moon Rise Over Itaewon?
- The Emperor of Romance
- I Will Survive
- Thief and a Poet
- ''Piracy''
Awards
- 1973 10th Blue Dragon Film Awards: Best Screenplay
- 1981 2nd Korean Association of Film Critics Awards: Best Screenplay
- 1985 5th Korean Association of Film Critics Awards: Best Screenplay
- 1994 14th Korean Association of Film Critics Awards: Best Screenplay
- 2016 53rd Grand Bell Awards: Lifetime Achievement Award