Hur Jin-ho

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

Career

Heo 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: Forbidden Dream - director

2019: The Present - short film, director

2021: The Dinner - director

2021: Lost (TV series) - director

2023: A Normal Family - director

Theater

2010: A Nap - director

Awards and nominations

See also

List of Korean film directors

Cinema of Korea

Notes

References

External links

Hur Jin-ho at the Korean Movie Database

허진호 (Jin-ho Hur) at Cine21

허진호 at Naver

1963 births

Living people

People from Jeonju

South Korean film directors

South Korean screenwriters

Yonsei University alumni

Best Director Paeksang Arts Award (film) winners