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		</div><p>South Korean director Kim Ki-duk, who won the top award at the Venice Film Festival in 2012 but later faced allegations of trying to force an actress into shooting off-script sexual scenes, has died at the age of 59.</p>
<p>The Baltic News Service cited Latvia-based Russian documentary filmmaker Vitaly Mansky, president of an international documentary film festival in Riga, as saying Kim died after falling ill there with Covid-19.</p>
<p>Kim’s death was indirectly confirmed by the Foreign Ministry in Seoul, which said a “South Korean male in his 50s died while being treated for Covid-19 at a hospital in Latvia during the early hours of December 11 local time”.</p>
<p>It declined to identify the director due to privacy concerns.</p>
<p>Kim travelled to Latvia on November 20 to buy a house in Jurmala, a seaside resort near the capital Riga, and to apply for a residence permit, the Lithuanian public broadcaster said.</p>
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<p>He won the top prize at the Venice Film Festival with his 2012 film Pieta, a brutal mother-and-son tale of revenge and redemption. He also won prizes for best director at festivals in Venice and Berlin, and another at the 2011 Cannes festival for his movie Arirang.</p>
<p>While his movies often won critical acclaim, many moviegoers, especially women, considered them disturbing because of excessive violence and depictions of rape and castration.</p>
<p>A year after the Venice success, he faced the allegations at home, which he vaguely denied, saying there had been a misunderstanding.</p>
<p>The actress dropped out and the movie, Moebius, a dark and violent story about an estranged family, was finished with a different actress.</p>
<p>Kim’s career in South Korea effectively ended in 2017-18 after three actresses made new accusations on investigative news show PD’s Notebook, which was broadcast on Korean public broadcaster MBC.</p>
<p>The South Korean Foreign Ministry said its embassy in Riga was contacting the man’s family and offering help in arranging a funeral.</p>
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