Hur Jin-ho

Hur Jin-ho (Korean: 허진호; born August 8, 1963) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter.

Career

Hur Jin-ho graduated from Yonsei University with a degree in philosophy and went on to study filmmaking at the Korean Academy of Film Arts. His first steps as a film director did not go unnoticed as his first short, For Go-chul, was selected for the Vancouver International Film Festival. He later co-wrote the script of A Single Spark and Kilimanjaro. Many of his feature films, Christmas in August (shown at the Critics' Week in Cannes in 1998), One Fine Spring Day (2001), April Snow (2005), Happiness (2007) and A Good Rain Knows (2009) are variations on Hur's favorite theme: love. Film critic Kim Ji-mi says in Korean Film Observatory magazine (No. 23), Hur "shows the outstanding talent of being able to grasp the sensitive moments of the beginning and ending of a love between a man and a woman" (p. 22).

Filmography

• 1993: For Go-chul (short film) - director
• 1993: To the Starry Island - assistant director
• 1995: A Single Spark - screenplay, assistant director
• 1998: Christmas in August - director, screenplay
• 1998: City of the Rising Sun - actor
• 2001: One Fine Spring Day - director, screenplay
• 2001: Kilimanjaro - screenplay
• 2004: Alone Together (short film from omnibus Twentidentity) - director
• 2004: My New Boyfriend (short film) - director
• 2005: April Snow - director, screenplay
• 2007: Happiness - director, screenplay
• 2009: I'm Right Here (short film from omnibus Five Senses of Eros) - director
• 2009: A Good Rain Knows - director, screenplay, producer
• 2012: Dangerous Liaisons - director
• 2016: The Last Princess - director
• 2019: Astronomy (working title) - director

Theater

• 2010: A Nap - director