Jang Jae-hyun (; born 1981) is a South Korean

film director A film director or filmmaker is a person who controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfillment of that Goal, vision. The director has a key role ...

and

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. He gained recognition through the blockbuster films ''

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'' (2015), '' Svaha: The Sixth Finger'' (2019), and ''

Exhuma ''Exhuma'' () is a 2024 South Korean horror film written and directed by Jang Jae-hyun, and starring Choi Min-sik, Kim Go-eun, Yoo Hae-jin and Lee Do-hyun. The film includes mystery and occult elements, and follows the process of excavating an ...

'' (2024).

Education

After graduating from Sungkyunkwan University's Department of Film, he graduated from the Department of Film at

Korea National University of Arts Korea National University of Arts () is a national university in Seoul, South Korea. Korea National University of Arts was established in 1993 by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism as the only national university of arts with an aim to ...

Career

Jang served as an assistant director on the blockbuster period drama ''

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'' (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 The Mise-en-scène Short Film Festival (MSFF) is a Korean short film festival, intended to support upcoming young filmmakers. Since its launch in 2002, it is held every June in Seoul, South Korea. Official Program Sections The Mise-en-scène Sh ...

, 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 ''

'' (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."

Filmography

Feature films

Short films

Awards and nominations

References

External links

* * * 1981 births Living people South Korean film directors South Korean screenwriters Sungkyunkwan University alumni Korea National University of Arts alumni {{SouthKorea-film-director-stub