South Korean auteaur Kim Ki-duk has been accused of assaulting an actress during the filming of his 2013 drama film Moebius. A local daily newspaper Dong-A Ilbo reported on August 3 that the actress has sued the filmmaker for being violent on set.
During filming of his 2013 drama Moebius, the Golden Lion-winning director has been accused of slapping the 41-year-old actress, whose identity has not been revealed. She alleges that Kim Ki-duk also forced her to take part in a violent sex scene that was not initially included in the script.
Following the incident, the actress left the cast and was replaced by Lee Eun-woo, who played the role of a distressed mother in the controversial drama.
The filmmaker’s production house, A Kim Ki-duk Film, qouted Kim in a statement denying the accusations, “On our first day on set, we were shooting the film’s very first scene where the husband and the wife were having a fierce fight, beating each other. I would have either slapped the actress from her partner’s subjective POV, as I was filming the scene myself, or I would have slapped my own face, showing her how far I wanted her to go.”
“In either case, I had nothing personal against the actress,” Kim added.
Kim has been widely acclaimed for such films as Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter … and Spring, 3-Iron, Samaritan Girl and Pieta, the latter of which won the Venice Golden Lion in 2012.
Thursday, June 04, 2026
