Film industry mourns iconic actor Kim Ji-mi
The Korean film community on Wednesday mourned the death of veteran actor Kim Ji-mi, one of the brightest stars of the nation's cinematic golden age in the 1960s, remembered by colleagues as a "once-in-a-century performer" and "heroine" of Korean cinema. Lee Jang-ho, who directed Kim in her final starring role in "Myongja, Akiko, Sonia" (1992), described her as "a true and chosen actor." "It is the will of God, and there's nothing we can do," Lee told Yonhap News Agency by phone. "But she was an actor who appears once in a hundred years. She was a heroine -- a woman with more guts than most men." Born in 1940 in Daedeok, South Chungcheong Province, Kim made her screen debut in director Kim Ki-young's 1957 film "The Twilight Train." Over a career spanning four decades, she appeared in more than 700 films, working with renowned directors, such as Kim Soo-yong in "The Earth" (1974) and Im Kwon-taek in "Gilsotteum" (1985). Director Jung Ji-young, active in the 1980s, remembered Kim as one of the most iconic figures of her era. "She enjoyed a prime every bit as glorious as Shin Sung-il's and rWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times
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