Sol Kyung-gu

Sol Kyung-gu (born 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 are part of 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)
• Venus and Mars (2007)
• Public Enemy Returns (2008)
• Haeundae (2009)

Awards

• 2000, 2002 : The Best Actor of this year in Blue Dragon Film Festival^[1]

See also

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

References

External links

• Sol Kyung-gu at the Internet Movie Database