Jang Jae-hyun

Jang Jae-hyun (born 1981) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. After graduating from Sungkyunkwan University's Department of Film, he graduated from the Department of Film at Hanyejong Film Institute. Jang served as an assistant director on the blockbuster period drama Masquerade (2012) before breaking out with the short 12th Assistant Deacon (2014) which won Best Film in The Extreme Nightmare section at the 13th Mise-en-scène Short Film Festival, and Best Director Award (Korean Competition For Shorts) at the 15th Jeonju International Film Festival in 2014. Based on the award-winning short, he made his first feature film The Priests (2015) - a supernatural mystery thriller, which was a hit with more than 5.4 million admissions. Jang said "I got a weird feeling when I saw a priest waiting anxiously for someone on the other side of a fast food restaurant window. The Priests started then."[1][2][3][4]

This is a Korean name; the family name is Jang.
Jang Jae-hyun
Born1981 (age 38–39)
South Korea
Alma materSungkyunkwan University
Korea National University of Arts
OccupationFilm director,
screenwriter
Korean name
Hangul
Revised RomanizationJang Jae-hyeon
McCune–ReischauerChang Chaehyŏn

Black priests and Savha were the two works that have been made with a decent degree of perfection. Regarding Jang Jae-hyun as the most savvy director of occult and exorcism materials in Korea. This genre is as narrow and can be difficult to find a creator who understands it properly. Jang Jae-hyun who has stuck to this genre for both films is able to meet the fans' preferences. He has become one of the best candidates to take the picture for exorcism, demons and religion itself.[5]

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Filmography

Awards

References
  1. "JANG Jae-hyun". Korean Film Biz Zone. Retrieved 2016-01-08.
  2. Conran, Pierce (10 November 2015). "The Priests". Korean Film Biz Zone. Retrieved 2016-01-08.
  3. "Kang Dong-won and Kim Yoon-seok's The Priests". Hancinema. 27 October 2015. Retrieved 2016-01-08.
  4. Conran, Pierce (8 December 2015). "THE PRIESTS Tops November Releases". Korean Film Biz Zone. Retrieved 2016-01-08.
  5. "장재현 - 나무위키". namu.wiki. Retrieved 2020-05-01.
  6. Conran, Pierce (11 August 2016). "NA Hong-jin Nabs Best Director from Director's Cut Awards". Korean Film Biz Zone. Retrieved 2016-10-16.



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