Jang Sun-woo

Jang Sun-woo
Hangul	장선우
Hanja	張善宇
Revised Romanization	Jang Seon-u
McCune–Reischauer	Chang Sŏnu

Jang Sun-woo (born 20 March 1952) is a South Korean film director.

Life

Jang attended Seoul National University and received a bachelor's degree in anthropology.

Before his directorial debut, Jang made a name for himself by writing film criticism and scripts. His first film, Seoul Jesus (1986), based on one of his scripts, was noted for its "sarcasm and pronounced realism."^[1] His 1993 film Hwa-Om-Kyung won the Alfred Bauer Prize at the 44th Berlin International Film Festival.^[2]

Filmography

• Seoul Jesus (1986)
• The Age of Success (1988)
• The Lovers of Woomook-baemi (1989)
• Road to the Racetracks (1991)
• Hwa-Om-Kyung (1993)
• To You from Me (1994)
• Cinema on the Road (1995)
• A Petal (1996)
• Bad Movie (1997)
• Lies (1999)
• Resurrection of the Little Match Girl (2002)

See also

• Cinema of Korea
• List of Korean film directors

References

1. Min, Eung-jun; Joo Jin-sook; Kwak Han-ju (2003). "3. Korean National Cinema in the 1980s: Enlightenment, Political Struggle, Social Realism, and Defeatism". Korean Film; History, Resistance, and Democratic Imagination. Westport, Connecticut and London: Praeger Publishers. p. 67. ISBN 0-275-95811-6.
2. "Berlinale: 1994 Prize Winners". berlinale.de. Retrieved 2011-06-15.

External links

• Sun-Woo Jang at the Internet Movie Database
• (Korean) Detailed information about Jang Sun-woo at the KMDb

Bibliography

• Kim, Kyung-hyun (2004). "6. New Korean Cinema Auteurs: Jang Sun-woo's Three 'F' Words: Familism, Fetishism, and Fascism". The Remasculinization of Korean Cinema. Durham and London: Duke University Press. pp. 162–202. ISBN 0-8223-3267-1.
• Min, Eung-jun; Joo Jin-sook; Kwak Han-ju (2003). "4. Auteur Criticism: The Case of Sunwoo Jang's Taste of Heaven". Korean Film; History, Resistance, and Democratic Imagination. Westport, Connecticut and London: Praeger Publishers. pp. 87–111. ISBN 0-275-95811-6.