Jang Jin (born February 24, 1971) is a South Korean film director,
theatre director, playwright, screenwriter, film producer, actor and
TV personality.Considered one of the most distinctive voices to emerge
from the 1990s Korean cinema renaissance, Jang's unique filmmaking
style mixes unconventional storylines, quirky characters, dry and
subversive humor, comic twists, sharp puns, stagy presentation, a keen
observation of society, and humanism. Jang’s films do not sell
millions of tickets but he has nurtured a faithful fan base that
appreciates his "Jang Jin-ish" style.Jang Jin dreamed of becoming a
musician in middle school, but his ambition changed when he saw his
first theater play in his freshman year of high school. As a high
school student, he acted in more than 40 plays, receiving good reviews
and a few awards for his performances. After majoring in theater
studies at Seoul Institute of the Arts, he joined the writing team for
the SBS variety show Good Friends in the mid 1990s. He created his own
portion Hollywood Message, which he wrote and edited by himself, where
he would take famous scenes from some of the most popular Hollywood
films showing in theaters, and make parodies, add silly popups, mix
scenes from different films together to form a bizarre, unique collage
of images. Because of his contribution, ratings for the show surged to
unexpected heights.In January 1995, Jang entered newspaper daily The
Chosun Ilbo's annual literary contest with Cheonho-dong Crossroad, his
first full-fledged script. Using three characters which would feature
in most of his theater plays and early films (Hwa-yi, Dal-soo and
Deok-bae), his new and creative brand of storytelling won over the
judges, who awarded him the top prize. He wrote his first stage play
Heotang ("labor in vain") at the age of 21 while serving his military
duty, and his followup Clumsy People, not only granted him much
praise, but was also a big success, and allowed actress Song Chae-hwan
to win the Best Actress Award at the Seoul Theater Festival. At the
same time, he was helping adapt Song Jae-hee's original into what
became A Hot Roof, a feminist comedy where a group of women from all
walks of life protest their position in society from the roof of a
building, while their husbands and the rest of the city try to cope
with all that in the midst of one of the hottest summers Korea had
ever seen.
theatre director, playwright, screenwriter, film producer, actor and
TV personality.Considered one of the most distinctive voices to emerge
from the 1990s Korean cinema renaissance, Jang's unique filmmaking
style mixes unconventional storylines, quirky characters, dry and
subversive humor, comic twists, sharp puns, stagy presentation, a keen
observation of society, and humanism. Jang’s films do not sell
millions of tickets but he has nurtured a faithful fan base that
appreciates his "Jang Jin-ish" style.Jang Jin dreamed of becoming a
musician in middle school, but his ambition changed when he saw his
first theater play in his freshman year of high school. As a high
school student, he acted in more than 40 plays, receiving good reviews
and a few awards for his performances. After majoring in theater
studies at Seoul Institute of the Arts, he joined the writing team for
the SBS variety show Good Friends in the mid 1990s. He created his own
portion Hollywood Message, which he wrote and edited by himself, where
he would take famous scenes from some of the most popular Hollywood
films showing in theaters, and make parodies, add silly popups, mix
scenes from different films together to form a bizarre, unique collage
of images. Because of his contribution, ratings for the show surged to
unexpected heights.In January 1995, Jang entered newspaper daily The
Chosun Ilbo's annual literary contest with Cheonho-dong Crossroad, his
first full-fledged script. Using three characters which would feature
in most of his theater plays and early films (Hwa-yi, Dal-soo and
Deok-bae), his new and creative brand of storytelling won over the
judges, who awarded him the top prize. He wrote his first stage play
Heotang ("labor in vain") at the age of 21 while serving his military
duty, and his followup Clumsy People, not only granted him much
praise, but was also a big success, and allowed actress Song Chae-hwan
to win the Best Actress Award at the Seoul Theater Festival. At the
same time, he was helping adapt Song Jae-hee's original into what
became A Hot Roof, a feminist comedy where a group of women from all
walks of life protest their position in society from the roof of a
building, while their husbands and the rest of the city try to cope
with all that in the midst of one of the hottest summers Korea had
ever seen.
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