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name: "Kim Woo-hyung"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/kim-woo-hyung"
fi1m_id: "kim-woo-hyung"
imdb_id: "nm0453730"
tmdb_id: 552077
wikidata_id: "Q104424941"
roles: ["Cinematographer"]
born: "1 October 1969"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 77
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-17T19:41:57.235970+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Kim Woo-hyung

## Identity

Kim Woo-hyung

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/kim-woo-hyung
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** kim-woo-hyung
- **IMDb ID:** nm0453730
- **TMDB ID:** 552077
- **Wikidata ID:** Q104424941
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q104424941, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0453730/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/552077

Cinematographer. Born 1 October 1969 in Gwangju, South Korea.

## Details

- **Work:** Cinematographer
- **Born:** 1 October 1969, Gwangju, South Korea
- **Active:** 2018–present
- **Also known as:** 김우형, Kim Wu-hyeong, Woo Hyung Kim
- **Frequently works with:** [Park Chan-wook](https://film.one/person/park-chan-wook.md)
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 76 (1), 2020s 78 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q104424941, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0453730/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/552077

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*No Other Choice*](https://film.one/film/no-other-choice.md) (78)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Kim Woo-hyung is a South Korean cinematographer. He studied cinematography at the London Film School.

His credits include *A Good Lawyer’s Wife* (2003), *The Front Line* (2011), *Assassination* (2015), *1987: When the Day Comes* (2017) and *No Other Choice* (2025). He served as director of photography on the BBC miniseries *The Little Drummer Girl* (2018), for which he won the BAFTA Television Craft Award for Photography and Lighting: Fiction. He has collaborated several times with director Park Chan-wook.

*Sources: aputure.com, imdb.com, britishcinematographer.co.uk, de.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *No Other Choice* (2025), Fi1m 78, Director of Photography, Cinematography — [page](https://film.one/film/no-other-choice.md)
- *The Little Drummer Girl* (2018), Fi1m 76, Cinematography, Director of Photography — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-little-drummer-girl.md)

## Complete filmography (34)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *No Other Choice* (2025), Director of Photography — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/no-other-choice.md)
- *The King of Kings* (2025), Director of Photography, Producer
- *The Little Drummer Girl* (2018), series, Director of Photography — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-little-drummer-girl.md)
- *1987: When the Day Comes* (2017), Director of Photography
- *The King* (2017), Director of Photography
- *The Vampire Lives Next Door to Us* (2015), Director of Photography
- *Assassination* (2015), Director of Photography
- *Cart* (2014), Director of Photography
- *Mad Sad Bad* (2014), Director of Photography
- *Picnic* (2014), Director of Photography
- *One Perfect Day* (2013), Director of Photography
- *An Ethics Lesson* (2013), Director of Photography
- *The Taste of Money* (2012), Director of Photography
- *Endless Joke* (2011), Director of Photography
- *The Front Line* (2011), Director of Photography
- *Late Autumn* (2011), Director of Photography
- *The Warrior's Way* (2010), Director of Photography
- *Cyrano Agency* (2010), Director of Photography
- *No Mercy* (2010), Director of Photography
- *Paju* (2009), Director of Photography
- *The End* (2009), Director of Photography
- *Let the Blue River Run* (2009), Director of Photography
- *Voice of a Murderer* (2007), Director of Photography
- *The Old Garden* (2007), Director of Photography
- *The President's Last Bang* (2005), Director of Photography
- *So Cute* (2004), Director of Photography
- *Hypnotized* (2004), Director of Photography
- *A Good Lawyer's Wife* (2003), Director of Photography
- *Resurrection of the Little Match Girl* (2002), Director of Photography
- *The Jang Sun-woo Variations* (2001), Director of Photography
- *Lies* (2000), Director of Photography
- *Happy End* (1999), Director of Photography
- *Heavy* (1998), Director of Photography
- *Timeless Bottomless Bad Movie* (1997), Director of Photography

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