Hur Jin-ho

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.

Works

City of the Rising Sun

Do-chul is a boxer who never wins a game. While trying to make some money, he gets involved with Hong-ki, a small-time crook. They somehow make friends and hang around together, but their views toward life and the world are almost opposite.

Release Date1999-01-09

Charactersd Hairshop director

Vote Count20

Movie Room

Movie meets humanities! This talk show/variety show for movie enthusiasts features interesting discussions by a writer and two movie directors where film and humanities intertwine.

Release Date2018-05-04

Charactersd Self

Episode Count1

Vote Count5

Ari Ari the Korean Cinema

Director Chung Ji-Young criticizes the thought that older directors have difficulties in making certain movies. Actress Yoon Jin-Seo agonizes over her identity as an actress. In 2009, before the movie "Unbowed" was made, they met and planned a documentary about Korean movies, including the processes a Korean movie goes through and difficulites. "Ari Ari the Korean Cinema" is a documentary with interviews of Korean directors, actors and actresses.

Release Date2012-12-06

Charactersd Self

Vote Count6

Love In The Big City

A young gay man and his spirited roommate help each other navigate love, mortality and sexuality in the bustling city of Seoul.

Release Date2024-10-21

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count8

Vote Count44

Lost

A forty year old woman who feels like she has not accomplished anything in life and a twenty-seven year old man who's frightened of himself.

Release Date2021-09-04

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count16

Vote Count20

April Snow

A man and a woman are brought together after their spouses, who were having an affair, are hospitalized after a car crash.

Release Date2005-09-07

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count52

Whale Star: The Gyeongseong Mermaid

Set in 1926 under Japanese colonial rule, a young maid risks her life to save a wounded independence activist, only to be drawn into the dangerous world of resistance after losing her voice and traveling to Gyeongseong in search of justice. Amid espionage, betrayal, and awakening ideals, their lives and love become entwined with Korea’s fight for independence.

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count12

Dangerous Liaisons

Dangerous Liaisons is a Chinese film by Hur Jin-ho based on the novel with the same title by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos.

Release Date2012-09-27

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count44

The Last Princess

Under the oppressive Japanese colonial rule, Deok-hye, the last Princess of the declining Joseon Dynasty, is forced to move to Japan. She spends her days missing home, while struggling to maintain dignity as a princess. After a series of failed tries, Deok-hye makes her final attempt to return home with help of her childhood sweetheart, Jang-han.

Release Date2016-08-03

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count68

One Fine Spring Day

A recording engineer falls for a radio announcer after they work together to capture sounds of the natural world.

Release Date2001-09-28

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count52

Five Senses of Eros

In this anthology film centered around the theme of "Eros," five seperate stories are presented by five top Korean directors. The main characters from each segment are connected with each other in one way or another.

Release Date2009-07-09

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count25

Christmas in August

It'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 who doesn't know about his condition. Is their relationship doomed before it even begins?

Release Date1998-01-24

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count95

Forbidden Dream

A true historical drama about King Sejong, the greatest ruler in Joseon history who sought to enhance national prosperity and military power through astronomy, and Jang Yeong-sil, the most remarkable scientist.

Release Date2019-12-26

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count21

The Assassin(s)

On August 15, 1974, an attempt was made on the life of Korean president Park Chung-hee — one of the most consequential days in the country’s history.

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

A Normal Family

Jae-wan, a successful lawyer, takes on the case of a rich executive's son, who has purposely run over and killed a man and left his daughter seriously injured. It's Jae-wan's job to defend a murderer, just another rung on his career's golden-stepped ladder. His younger brother, on the contrary, is a scrupulous and upstanding paediatrician, who always puts the health of his patients over profit and money, often contravening the rules of the private clinic where he works. The brothers meet once a month with their wives for fine dining in expensive restaurants, but when an unexpected situation involving their teenage kids arises, their consciences are questioned and their usual dinner conversation takes an unexpected turn.

Release Date2024-10-16

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count144

Happiness

Young, a careless person, suffers from terminal illness and gets admitted in a hospital for treatment. There, he falls in love with another patient. After recovering, will he get back to his former life?

Release Date2007-10-03

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count31

A Single Spark

Activist and law school graduate Kim is being persecuted by the mid-’70s Park regime for trying to write a book about Jeon Tae-il, a union activist who immolated himself at age 22 to protest government hypocrisy.

Release Date1995-11-18

DepartmentDirecting

JobAssistant Director

Vote Count17

Two Lights: Relumino

A sweet, mellow romance about a a woman with a visual impairment and the man who grows to love her after they meet in a photography club.

Release Date2017-12-21

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count21

My new boyfriend

11 days since the breakup with her loving boyfriend. A woman is in tears, suffering from misery. Her life turned into a mess after the shocking breakup. She finally made up her mind to let him go after finding a haggard woman in the mirror. From the Internet, she finds advice on how to mend a broken heart. She decides to calmly follow the suggested methods such as “Have a haircut,” “Bask in the sun,” “Erase the traces of your love.” Then she stumbles upon a matchbox packed with memories of Young-jae. She follows the traces of the matchbox to a cafe in Baek-ma station and tries erasing the remnants of her love.

Release Date2004-10-10

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Season of Good Rain

A traveling architect meets an old friend from his student years; the pair realize their connection has always been a romantic one.

Release Date2009-10-08

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count28

Digital Short Film Omnibus Project Twentidentity, Vol. 1

In order to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Korean Film Academy, 20 of the academy's former students (who are respected director's today) were invited to shoot an omnibus movie consisting of 20 short films. Overall this work was very well received by the critiques at the 17th Tokyo International Film Festival. Films include Under a Big Tree, Sutda, Twenty Millimeter Thick, Innocence, *?!#@$ Up Shoes, Twenty Questions, The Twenty's Law, To the 21st, Pass Me and Alone Together.

Release Date2003-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

The Present

The partnership between Ha-neul and Bo-ra start wavering in the midst of launching their startup when their firefighting thermal imaging camera project fails followed by a notice to move out of their studio due to outstanding monthly rent. As things go from bad to worse, a strange man suddenly appears in the middle of their studio, insisting that the place is his factory.

Release Date2019-10-17

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count3

The Designers

"The Designers" is the story of a group of assassins who create a plan to kill someone when their clients require it.

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

For Go-chul

Goh Jun-chul grew up with second-handed things from a young age. As an adult, he makes his living selling used cars. Having never had anything new, he is proud of his innocent girlfriend. But he starts to understand there are more important things in life than whether things are new or used. This realization helps Jun-chul to regain both love and hope.

Release Date1993-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

The Art of Love

At an early age, Jang-ha learned from the death of his grandmother that once people pass away, you cannot meet them again. This coming-of-age film examines the memories of life and death Jang-ha collects as he grows up.

Release Date1996-05-21