Jang Jae-hyun (born 1981) is a South Korean

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and

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Education and career

After graduating from Sungkyunkwan University's Department of Film, he graduated from the Department of Film at Hanyejong Film Institute. Jang served as an assistant director on the blockbuster period drama ''

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'' (2012) before breaking out with the

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''12th Assistant Deacon'' (2014) which won Best Film in The Extreme Nightmare section at the 13th

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, and Best Director Award (Korean Competition For Shorts) at the 15th Jeonju International Film Festival in 2014. Based on the award-winning short, he made his first feature film ''

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'' (2015) - a supernatural mystery thriller, which was a hit with more than 5.4 million admissions. Jang said "I got a weird feeling when I saw a priest waiting anxiously for someone on the other side of a fast food restaurant window. ''The Priests'' started then."

Filmography

* ''Maley from India'' (

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, 2009) -

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* ''Bus'' (

, 2010) - director * ''Themselves'' (2011) -

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* '' S.I.U.'' (2011) - assistant director * ''

'' (2012) - assistant director, actor * ''12th Assistant Deacon'' (

, 2014) - director, screenwriter * ''

'' (2015) - director, screenwriter * ''

House of the Disappeared ''House of the Disappeared'' () is a 2017 South Korean Mystery film, mystery thriller film directed by Lim Dae-woong and written by Jang Jae-hyun. The film stars Yunjin Kim, Kim Yun-jin, Ok Taec-yeon, and Jo Jae-yoon. It is a Film remake, remake ...

'' (2017) - screenwriter * '' Svaha: The Sixth Finger'' (2019) - director, screenwriter

Awards

* 2014 15th

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: Best Director Award (''12th Assistant Deacon'') * 2016 16th

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: Best New Director (''

'')

References

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* * * 1981 births Living people South Korean film directors South Korean screenwriters Sungkyunkwan University alumni Korea National University of Arts alumni {{SouthKorea-film-director-stub