Jang Sun-woo

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

This is a Korean name; the family name is Jang.

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

Contents 1 Filmography 2 Notes 3 See also 4 External links 5 Bibliography

[edit] Filmography

• Seoul Jesus (1986)
• Age of Success (1988)
• Lovers in Woomuk-Baemi (1989)
• Road to the Racetracks (1991)
• Hwa-om-kyung (1993)
• To You, from Me (1994)
• Cinema on the Road (1995)
• A Petal (1996)
• Timeless, Bottomless Bad Movie (1997)
• Lies (1999)
• Resurrection of the Little Match Girl (2002)

[edit] Notes

[edit] See also

• Cinema of Korea
• List of Korean film directors

[edit] External links

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

[edit] 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 (in English). Durham and London: Duke University Press, pp.162-202. ISBN 0-8223-3267-1. 
• Min, Eung-jun (2003). "4. Auteur Criticism: The Case of Sunwoo Jang's Taste of Heaven", Korean Film; History, Resistance, and Democratic Imagination (in English). Westport, Connecticut and London: Praeger Publishers, p.87-111. ISBN 0-275-95811-6.