Lee Il-hyung

In this Korean name, the family name is Lee.

Lee Il-hyung (Korean: 이일형) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. Prior to directing his first feature film A Violent Prosecutor (2016), Lee is an assistant director on films, such as The Moonlight of Seoul (2008), My Way (2011) and Kundo: Age of the Rampant (2014), and commercial films.^[1]

Lee Il-hyung
Born	South Korea
Occupation(s)	Film director, screenwriter
Korean name
Hangul	이일형
Hanja	李日亨
RR	I Ilhyeong
MR	I Irhyŏng

In 2016, he finally had his own opportunity to direct when he teamed up with the production company Sanai Pictures to make the thriller A Violent Prosecutor, which becomes the second highest-grossing South Korean film of 2016, with a US$66.6 million worldwide gross.^[2][3]

Filmography

• The Moonlight of Seoul (2008) – assistant director, script editor
• My Way (2011) – assistant director
• Kundo: Age of the Rampant (2014) – assistant director, script editor
• A Violent Prosecutor (2016) – director, screenwriter
• Remember (2022) – director
• Karma (2025) – director, screenwriter