Director
Hur Jin-ho
Born August 8, 1963 in Jeonju, North Jeolla, South Korea17 films
Born in 1963 in Jeonju, South Korea, Jin-ho Hur graduated from the Korean Academy of Film Arts. His first steps as a film director did not go unnoticed as his first short, 'For Kochal", was selected for The Vancouver International Film Festival. He later co-wrote the script of "A Single Spark" and "Kilimanjaro". All his feature films,"Christmas in August" (shown at the Crtics'Week in Cannes in 1998), "One Fine Spring Day (2001), "April Snow" (2005), "Once Again in Hengback" (2007) and Good Rain Knows" (2009) are variations on Jin-ho Hur's favorite theme: love.
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First watchChristmas in August19987.7It's a sweltering summer, but Jung-won, a terminally ill, thirty-something photographer, is already in the winter of his life when he begins a tentative romance with a young traffic cop…View filmEssential films
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Filmography
17 films as director- TBAThe DesignersDirector
- 2026The Assassin(s)Director
- 2024A Normal FamilyDirector
- 2019Forbidden DreamDirector
- 2019The PresentDirector
- 2017Two Lights: ReluminoDirector
- 2016The Last PrincessDirector
- 2012Dangerous LiaisonsDirector
- 2009Season of Good RainDirector
- 2009Five Senses of ErosDirector
- 2007HappinessDirector
- 2005April SnowDirector
- 2004My new boyfriendDirector
- 2003Digital Short Film Omnibus Project Twentidentity, Vol. 1Director
- 2001One Fine Spring DayDirector
- 1998Christmas in AugustDirector
- 1993For Go-chulDirector