HUR Jin-ho’s debut feature, <Christmas in August>(1998), was remade into a Japanese movie, and another film of his, <April Snow>(2005) which starred [BAE Yong-joon] and [SON Ye-jin], was a box office hit in Japan. HUR worked in the directing team of [PARK Kwang-su] and took part in writing the screenplay of <A Single Spark>(1995). After making <One Fine Spring Day>(2001), which carried on the director’s resounding storytelling technique and display...More

HUR Jin-ho’s debut feature, <Christmas in August>(1998), was remade into a Japanese movie, and another film of his, <April Snow>(2005) which starred [BAE Yong-joon] and [SON Ye-jin], was a box office hit in Japan. HUR worked in the directing team of [PARK Kwang-su] and took part in writing the screenplay of <A Single Spark>(1995). After making <One Fine Spring Day>(2001), which carried on the director’s resounding storytelling technique and display of controlled emotion that was the salient aspects of the director’s debut film, HUR found a niche in Chungmooro as a capable director of melodramas. His talent in making movies that are sad but do not demand tears and clean cut but not too dry to be devoid of emotional depth also shone in his subsequent works. He had worked with many star actors, including [HAN Seok-kyu], [SHIM Eun-Ha], [LEE Young-ae], [YOO Ji-tae], [HWANG Jung-min], [LIM Soo-jung], which was the envy of any contemporary directors and took the most satisfying level of acting performances from them to the effect of maximum synergy in his melodrama films. Considered as one of the Korean directors with the biggest drawing power in Japan, he is now getting love calls from China after his recent film, <A Good Rain Knows>(2009), which cast [JUNG Woo-sung] and a Chinese actress, [Gao Yuanyuan]. HUR stayed in the Chinese region to adapt the <Dangerous Liaisons>, bringing JANG Dong-gun, ZHANG Ziyi and Cecilia CHEUNG along with him. Stepping away from the camera, HUR became the director of the Jecheon International Music and Film Festival in 2013. In 2016 he returned to the director’s chair to make the Colonial Era drama <The Last Princess>, reuniting with his <April Snow> star SON Ye-jin.Less