- Jang Sun-woo
Infobox Korean name
hangul=장선우
hanja=張善宇
rr=Jang Seon-u
mr=Chang Sŏnu|Jang Sun-woo (born
20 March ,1952 ) is aSouth Korea nfilm 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." [cite book |last=Min|first=Eung-jun|coathors=Joo Jin-sook and Kwak Han-ju|title=Korean Film; History, Resistance, and Democratic Imagination|year=2003|publisher=Praeger Publishers|location=Westport, Connecticut and London|language=English|isbn=0-275-95811-6|pages=p.67|chapter=3. Korean National Cinema in the 1980s: Enlightenment, Political Struggle, Social Realism, and Defeatism]Filmography
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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)Notes
ee also
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Cinema of Korea
*List of Korean film directors External links
*imdb name|id=0417541|name=Sun-Woo Jang
*ko icon [http://www.kmdb.or.kr/actor/mm_basic.asp?person_id=00001772&keyword=%C0%E5%BC%B1%BF%EC Detailed information about Jang Sun-woo] at the KMDbBibliography
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