Jang Jae-hyun

Jang Jae-hyun (Korean: 장재현; born 1981) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. He gained recognition through the blockbuster films The Priests (2015), Svaha: The Sixth Finger (2019) and Exhuma (2024).

Education

After graduating from Sungkyunkwan University's Department of Film, he graduated from the Department of Film at Korea National University of Arts.

Career

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."

Filmography

Feature films

Short films

Awards and nominations

References

External links

• Jang Jae-hyun at the Korean Movie Database
• Jang Jae-hyun at IMDb
• Jang Jae-hyun at HanCinema

1. Exhuma
2. Ahn Jae-hyun
3. House of the Disappeared
4. Jang Hyuk
5. Kim Soo-hyun
6. 60th Baeksang Arts Awards
7. Svaha: The Sixth Finger
8. Good Partner
9. Jang Hyun-sung
10. Jang Ok-jung, Living by Love
11. Lee Jae-wook
12. The Priests (film)
13. Jang Seung-jo
14. Lee Do-hyun
15. Lee Jung-jae
16. Bong Jae-hyun
17. Jang Ki-yong
18. Cho Jae-hyun
19. Jo Hyun-jae
20. Jang Do-yeon