Kim Ji Mi
- Name: Kim Ji Mi
- Native name: 김지미
- Also Known as: Kim Ji Mee
- Nationality: South Korean
- Gender: Female
- Born: July 15, 1940
- Died: December 7, 2025
She dropped out of Deokseong Girls' High School after 3 years as she was cast to debut in Kim Ki Young's film, "Twilight Train" in 1957. She worked throughout the 1990s, leaving behind nearly 700 works, and swept all major awards during her illustrious career.
In 1985, she founded Jimi Film and also ventured into production. After establishing the company, she produced seven films and devoted herself to the development of the Korean film industry.
On December 10, 2025, the Federation of Korean Film Artists and the Korean Film Actors Association reported that she passed away three days earlier in Los Angeles due to hypovolemic shock at the age of 85. She was cremated in the United Stated and no separate funeral was held in South Korea.
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Movie
| Title | Rating |
|---|---|
Myong Ja Akiko Sonia
Korean Movie, 1992,
Myeong Ja / Akiko / Sonya
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
I Give You Everything
Korean Movie, 1989,
Da Young
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
In the Name of Memory
Korean Movie, 1989,
Chairman Son
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
|
6.1
|
|
Gilsotteum
Korean Movie, 1986,
Min Hwa Yeong
(Main Role)
|
7.6
|
Bhiksuni
Korean Movie, 1984,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
The Woman of Fire '82
Korean Movie, 1982,
Jung Soon
(Main Role)
|
7.1
|
Eul Hwa
Korean Movie, 1979,
Ok Sun
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
Promise of the Flesh
Korean Movie, 1975,
Sook Young
(Main Role)
|
5.3
|
Weeds
Korean Movie, 1973,
Bun Rye Yeok
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
A Judge's Wife
Korean Movie, 1972,
Ji Won
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
My Love of the South and the North
Korean Movie, 1972,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
Life Is a Lonely Road
Korean Movie, 1972,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
Please Be Happy, My Daughters
Korean Movie, 1972,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
|
0.0
|
|
The Wedding Ring
Korean Movie, 1972,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
Gangsters of Myongdong
Korean Movie, 1972,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
Na
Korean Movie, 1972,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
A Stepmother's Heartache
Korean Movie, 1972,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
Beautiful Korea
Korean Movie, 1972,
(Support Role)
|
0.0
|
Cell Mates
Korean Movie, 1972,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
Quit Your Life
Korean Movie, 1971,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
The 30 Year Showdown
Korean Movie, 1971,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
Lion of Tokyo and Tiger of Myeongdong
Korean Movie, 1970,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
Eight Daughters In Law
Korean Movie, 1970,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
Tears of an Angel
Korean Movie, 1970,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
Sad Palace Court
Korean Movie, 1970,
Empress Cheonchu
(Main Role)
|
5.6
|
A Night Sky in Tokyo
Korean Movie, 1970,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
When We Share Pain Together
Korean Movie, 1970,
Jeonghwa
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
Emperor Tae Jo Wang Geon
Korean Movie, 1970,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
I Will Bear No More
Korean Movie, 1970,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
Heartless on Harbor
Korean Movie, 1970,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
First Experience
Korean Movie, 1970,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
Wound
Korean Movie, 1969,
Soo Mi
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained
Korean Movie, 1969,
Cha
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
Going Well
Korean Movie, 1969,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
Until That Day
Korean Movie, 1969,
Bong Eun Yoo
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
Let Me Go
Korean Movie, 1969,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
Thy Name Is Woman
Korean Movie, 1969,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
The Tragic History of Joseon Women
Korean Movie, 1969,
Court Lady Lee
(Main Role)
|
8.0
|
Lost Love
Korean Movie, 1969,
Heo Nan Shil
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
Tableland
Korean Movie, 1969,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
Confessions of a Woman
Korean Movie, 1969,
(Support Role)
|
0.0
|
Sunspot In The Third Zone
Korean Movie, 1969,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
Woman Captain
Korean Movie, 1969,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
The Sisters
Korean Movie, 1969,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
Rejected First Love
Korean Movie, 1969,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
Destiny of My Lord
Korean Movie, 1969,
Wol Hyang
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
Barber of Jangmaru Village
Korean Movie, 1969,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
Rock of Crown Prince
Korean Movie, 1969,
Min Deul Re
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
Woman
Korean Movie, 1968,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
A Child of Winds and Cloud
Korean Movie, 1968,
(Support Role)
|
0.0
|
Vega
Korean Movie, 1968,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
Dark Flower
Korean Movie, 1968,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
Lady in Dream
Korean Movie, 1968,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
Emile Bell
Korean Movie, 1968,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
Journey into the Heart
Korean Movie, 1968,
Song Mi Jeong
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
Sweetheart
Korean Movie, 1968,
Yu Ri
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
Daewongun
Korean Movie, 1968,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
Affections
Korean Movie, 1968,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
The Third Zone
Korean Movie, 1968,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
Three-Thousand Miles of Legend
Korean Movie, 1968,
(Support Role)
|
0.0
|
Chorus Of Trees
Korean Movie, 1968,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
Eight Celebrated Kisaengs
Korean Movie, 1968,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
Ogre
Korean Movie, 1968,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
The King of a Rock Cave
Korean Movie, 1968,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
When the Buckwheat Flowers Blossom
Korean Movie, 1967,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
Children In The Firing Range
Korean Movie, 1967,
Oh Ji Yeong
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
Why a Cuckoo Cries
Korean Movie, 1967,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
A Heavenly Peach Flower
Korean Movie, 1967,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
Seoul Is Full
Korean Movie, 1967,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
Stepmother
Korean Movie, 1967,
(Support Role)
|
0.0
|
Angry Calf
Korean Movie, 1967,
(Support Role)
|
0.0
|
I Am Not Lonely
Korean Movie, 1967,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
A Grief
Korean Movie, 1967,
Ma Yi Ra
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
The Body's Destination
Korean Movie, 1967,
Me Ri
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
The White Crow
Korean Movie, 1967,
(Main Role)
|
5.0
|
The Freezing Point
Korean Movie, 1967,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
A Deviation
Korean Movie, 1967,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
History of the Three States
Korean Movie, 1967,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
How's Your Wife
Korean Movie, 1966,
Jeong Sook
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
Villain Days
Korean Movie, 1966,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
A Black Scarf
Korean Movie, 1966,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
The Golden Eye
Korean Movie, 1966,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
What Misunderstanding Left Behind
Korean Movie, 1966,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
A Student Boarder
Korean Movie, 1966,
(Main Role)
|
4.8
|
Arirang
Korean Movie, 1966,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
The Loser and the Winner
Korean Movie, 1966,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
Many Stones
Korean Movie, 1966,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
The Last Empress
Korean Movie, 1966,
Last Empress Sun Jeong
(Main Role)
|
7.2
|
Bitter Daedong River
Korean Movie, 1966,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
Obokmun
Korean Movie, 1966,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
The Third Doom
Korean Movie, 1965,
Yoon Ok
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
The Night Street of the Vagabond
Korean Movie, 1965,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
Missing You to Death
Korean Movie, 1965,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
Blood Soaked Mountain Guwo
Korean Movie, 1965,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
The Nobleman At Jeongdong
Korean Movie, 1965,
(Support Role)
|
0.0
|
You've Got to Live
Korean Movie, 1965,
Jeong Ran
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
Lee Seong Gye King Tae Jo
Korean Movie, 1965,
Princess Jeong
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
Three Mothers
Korean Movie, 1965,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
Last Passion
Korean Movie, 1965,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
I Will Not Regret
Korean Movie, 1965,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
Border Line
Korean Movie, 1964,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
The Chaser
Korean Movie, 1964,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
The Intimidator
Korean Movie, 1964,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
A Nighttime When it Rains on Acacia Tree
Korean Movie, 1964,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
The Sorrowful Separation
Korean Movie, 1964,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
Kitchen Maid
Korean Movie, 1964,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
The Heartbreaking Love of Mother
Korean Movie, 1964,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
The Loneliest Man in Seoul
Korean Movie, 1963,
Jin Ok
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
Blood Relation
Korean Movie, 1963,
Ok Hui
(Support Role)
|
5.0
|
150 Mile's Nakdong River
Korean Movie, 1963,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
Love and Good bye
Korean Movie, 1963,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
Gaya's House
Korean Movie, 1963,
(Support Role)
|
0.0
|
Jimmy Is Not Sad
Korean Movie, 1963,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
The Fiancee
Korean Movie, 1963,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
The Only Son
Korean Movie, 1963,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
Prince Sun and Princess Moon
Korean Movie, 1963,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
The Beggar Prince
Korean Movie, 1963,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
Stars on the Earth
Korean Movie, 1963,
Siberian Yukiko
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
Busan Port where I Cried and Lost
Korean Movie, 1963,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
Virgin in the Bar
Korean Movie, 1963,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
Golden Grass of Yesterday
Korean Movie, 1963,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
Lee Chadon
Korean Movie, 1962,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
A Log Bridge
Korean Movie, 1962,
Kim Gyeong Ae
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
View From An Alley
Korean Movie, 1962,
(Main Role)
|
8.0
|
Between the Sky and the Earth
Korean Movie, 1962,
Min Eun Kyung
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
Yang Kwi Bi
Korean Movie, 1962,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
The Country Left Behind
Korean Movie, 1962,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
Want To Go Somewhere
Korean Movie, 1962,
(Support Role)
|
0.0
|
The Best Bride and a Plain Young Man
Korean Movie, 1962,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
Son Ogong
Korean Movie, 1962,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
Wonsullang
Korean Movie, 1961,
Jin Dal Rae
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
Five Marines
Korean Movie, 1961,
Soon Yi
(Support Role)
|
6.7
|
Jang Hee Bin
Korean Movie, 1961,
Ok Ran / Jang Hui Bin
(Main Role)
|
8.1
|
On the Eve of Liberation
Korean Movie, 1961,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
The Love Story of Chun Hyang
Korean Movie, 1961,
Sung Chun Hyang
(Main Role)
|
7.6
|
Half Brothers
Korean Movie, 1961,
(Support Role)
|
0.0
|
Emile Bell
Korean Movie, 1961,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
Station Busan for Separation
Korean Movie, 1961,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
Sad Like A River
Korean Movie, 1960,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
A Stormy Hill
Korean Movie, 1960,
Kim Hye Jin
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
The Milky Way in the Sky
Korean Movie, 1960,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
A Murder Without Passion
Korean Movie, 1960,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
As You Like It
Korean Movie, 1960,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
A Grief of a Rebel
Korean Movie, 1960,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
The Moral of Youth
Korean Movie, 1960,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
Female Power
Korean Movie, 1960,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
I Won't Cry
Korean Movie, 1960,
Kim In Hye
(Support Role)
|
0.0
|
Even The Way Is Far Away
Korean Movie, 1960,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
Song In My Heart
Korean Movie, 1960,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
Katyusha
Korean Movie, 1960,
Ok Nyeo
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
A Revival
Korean Movie, 1960,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
Independence Association and Young Lee Seung Man
Korean Movie, 1959,
Eom Sang
(Support Role)
|
0.0
|
Prince Daewon And Queen Min
Korean Movie, 1959,
(Support Role)
|
0.0
|
Inn
Korean Movie, 1959,
(Support Role)
|
0.0
|
You Don't Know of My Heart
Korean Movie, 1959,
Seol Hee
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
A Street Of Sun
Korean Movie, 1959,
(Support Role)
|
0.0
|
Way of the Body
Korean Movie, 1959,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
There Is No Tragedy
Korean Movie, 1959,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
Three O'clock on a Rainy Day
Korean Movie, 1959,
Su Mi
(Main Role)
|
7.0
|
Sorrow of Twilight
Korean Movie, 1959,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
Stars Over the Window
Korean Movie, 1959,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
Twilight Train
Korean Movie, 1957,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
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