Im Kwon-Taek, South Korea's best-known

filmmaker whose works are considered intellectually stimulating and

visually daring, was to be honored at the Berlin film festival with an

Honorary Golden Bear.(Photo: Xinhua/AFP) BEIJING, Feb. 13-- Im Kwon-Taek, South Korea's best-known filmmaker whose works are considered intellectually stimulating and visually daring, was to be honored at the Berlin film festival with an Honorary Golden Bear.

Im, the maker of some 100 films during his more than four-decade career, is receiving the award for the multi-faceted and influential works which frequently cover the Korean war in the 1950s and its division, organizers said.

They cited the 68-year-old, who has had seven of his films shown over the years at the festival for his use of"remarkable visual beauty, technical innovation, and intellectual depth."

"Although his films vary in style, they all bear his unmistakable stamp: they are forceful and charged cinematographically, as well as reticent, stylised and musical," the Berlinale said in a statement.

After handing out the honorary award later Saturday, the Berlin film festival will screen"Chunhyang dyeon"(international title"Chunhyang"), set in the 17th century and based on a popular Korean folktale about the conflicted love story between a young prince and an educated daughter of a courtesan.

Im, who started out making B-movies in the 1960s before graduating to more challenging fare, won the Best Director prize at the Cannes film festival in 2002 for"Chihwaseon"("Painted Fire).

Twenty of his films are screening in a special retrospective during the Berlin film festival, which runs through February 20.

(Source: CRIENGLISH.com/Agencies)