Considered the standard-bearer of new Korean cinema in the 1980s, JANG started his movie career as the assistant director to [KIM Soo-yong]. His feature debut, <Into the Heat of Night>(1985), grabbed three awards such as the Golden Bell Award for Best New Director. Through his best works, <America, America>(1988), <All That Falls Has Wings>(1989), <Silver Stallion>(1991), and others, he was steadfast in his critical views on the infiltration of the Ame...More

Considered the standard-bearer of new Korean cinema in the 1980s, JANG started his movie career as the assistant director to [KIM Soo-yong]. His feature debut, <Into the Heat of Night>(1985), grabbed three awards such as the Golden Bell Award for Best New Director. Through his best works, <America, America>(1988), <All That Falls Has Wings>(1989), <Silver Stallion>(1991), and others, he was steadfast in his critical views on the infiltration of the American culture that was threatening Korea’s traditional culture. The director also had a knack for reinterpreting best-selling novels in his own way and adapting them onto the big screen. Films considered to be his best works, such as <All That Falls Has Wings>, <Silver Stallion>, and <I Wish for What is Forbidden to Me>(1994) and his later works, <Paradise Lost>(1998) and < The Crescent Moon>(2002), were all based on best-selling novels.Less